The heartbreaker
1.1544
points from the title
Came within 1.1544 points of the Grand Championship at So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) (2022-09-10).
Trailboss
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-09-11
latest 2022-09-10
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.72 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.85)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$2K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
322.57 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 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.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 10 at their very first tracked contest, So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) (2021-09-11).
- 2021-09-11
- 10-team field
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.
Trailboss has 2 rated contests — 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 107 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.
#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Trailboss's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Trailboss on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 165.7372 | 157.7028 | 161.72 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 165.7144 | 155.9888 | 160.85 | top 46% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 38% | 2022-09-10 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2021-09-11 → 2022-09-10
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 161.72 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.85)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
322.57
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
14
11–5 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$1,975
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- First call So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- First overall top-10 So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)165.7372 So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- 2022
- First category win (Pork Ribs) So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- First overall podium So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- First Reserve Championship So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score323.4172 So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
- Most recent contest So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 25% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-10 | So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) Ashland, MO | 2 / 8 (323.4172) | 4 (157.7028) | 1 (165.7144) | — | — |
| 2021-09-11 | So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) Ashland, MO | 5 / 10 (321.7260) | 3 (165.7372) | 8 (155.9888) | — | — |