A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Stone Cold Grillers ahead in 100% of their meetings
Stone Cold Grillers has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Pickanator
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1511
peak 1511 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-08-20
latest 2022-08-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 20%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
320.72
last 3 Backyard vs avg 320.72 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±5.81
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.45 · weakest Chicken (158.27)
Purse competed for
$2K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
320.72 / 360
3 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.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BIG BAD WOLVES in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Pickanator 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 99 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.
#2797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pickanator on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2784 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Pickanator's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2799 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Pickanator's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2792 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Pickanator's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before Pickanator's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 153.7028 | 158.27 | top 32% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 158.8112 | 162.45 | top 23% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 22% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 3 | 6 | 0 | top 20% | 2022-08-20 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2022-08-20 → 2022-08-20
Busiest season
—
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.45 · weakest Chicken (158.27)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Backyard average
320.72
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
73
94–21 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$1,800
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1511
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score325.1544 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score325.1544 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.1544 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2022
- Most recent contest Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 90.3% | 88.6% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 17% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-20 | Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 7 / 41 (324.4912) | 13 (161.1084) | 11 (163.3828) | — | — |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 6 / 38 (325.1544) | 11 (160.0000) | 7 (165.1544) | — | — | |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 11 / 39 (312.5140) | 14 (153.7028) | 9 (158.8112) | — | — |