High-water mark
463.2344
career-best overall
128.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 463.2344 at Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) — 128.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-04-14
Vegan Destroyers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2023-04-14
latest 2023-04-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 88%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.82)
Road miles
191
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 43 mi
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
463.23 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The comeback
6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6 years, then back at Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023-04-14).
- last seen 2017-04-07
- back 2023-04-14
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Vegan Destroyers has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 142 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Level with Vegan Destroyers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before Vegan Destroyers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Vegan Destroyers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.8456 | 155.3716 | 163.11 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.0116 | 149.6344 | 156.82 | top 77% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2284 | 158.2284 | 158.23 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-04-14 → 2023-04-14
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.2
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.82)
Walk rate
17%
a top-10 call in 1 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Backyard average
463.23
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
16
2–14 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
191
6 mapped stops · furthest 43 mi
Purse competed for
$3,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6 yrs
2017-04-07 → 2023-04-14
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest
- 2015
- First call Fire at the Foothills BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (BACKYARD CONTEST)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.8456 Fire at the Foothills BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (BACKYARD CONTEST)
- 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score463.2344 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score463.2344 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 128.7% | 128.7% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-14 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Chelsea, AL | 15 / 17 (463.2344) | 14 (155.3716) | 17 (149.6344) | 14 (158.2284) | — |
| 2017-04-07 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-04-08 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-17 | Fire at the Foothills BBQ & Chili Cook-Off (BACKYARD CONTEST) Chelsea, AL | — | 3 (170.8456) | 6 (164.0116) | — | — |
| 2015-04-10 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |