Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1545
peak 1545 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
4
straight top-10s
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2020-11-20
latest 2022-04-29
Grand champs
2
0 reserve
Category wins
4
7 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 17%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Current form
507.77
last 4 Backyard vs avg 507.77 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±14.83
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 173.29 · weakest Chicken (166.53)
Road miles
111
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 34 mi
Schedule strength
49%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1563)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
2 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
507.77 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 2 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (8 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.
Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork.
- Pork ×1
Giant slayer
40
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 40-team field at Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown.
- 2020-11-20
Signature meat
50%
pork ribs entries won
2 wins from 4 entries
When pork ribs is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 50% of their entries (2 of 4).
- best 175.4172
- average 167.95
- 3 calls
High-water mark
525.1200
career-best overall
145.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 525.1200 at Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown — 145.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2020-11-20
State champions
2
state championships won
They've taken 2 state championships from 4 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 4 state-championship entries
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of COOL HAND QUE in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 40 at their very first tracked contest, Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown (2020-11-20).
- 2020-11-20
- 40-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.
Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers has 4 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 72 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.
#1833 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1545
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#1829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1546
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#1837 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1545
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#1842 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1545
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 5 years before Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#1832 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 70%
- Peak
- 1545
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#1836 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 22%
- Peak
- 1551
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Tallulah Falls School Pit Vipers'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 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 161.0856 | 166.53 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 175.4172 | 147.2800 | 167.95 | top 19% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 180.0000 🔥 | 158.8572 | 173.29 | top 17% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8344 | 166.8344 | 166.83 | top 8% |
“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) | 3 | 1 | top 22% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 1 | top 3% |
The story so far (20 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.4 yrs
2020-11-20 → 2022-04-29
Busiest season
2021
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 173.29 · weakest Chicken (166.53)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
4 of 4 contests
Wins it all
50%
2 Grand Championships · 0 reserve
First title
2020-11-20
Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
507.77
out of 360 · 4 contests · 2 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
143
179–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
111
4 mapped stops · furthest 34 mi
Schedule strength
1563
average field rating faced — tougher than 49% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$20,375
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
2
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1545
peak 1545 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First call Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First overall top-10 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First overall podium Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First Grand Championship Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First state championship Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score525.1200 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- Biggest field won (40 teams) Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- Career-best overall score525.1200 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- 2021
- First perfect 180 (Pork) Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- 2022
- Peak power rating (1545) BBQ Boogie & Blues
- Most recent contest BBQ Boogie & Blues
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +18.5 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown | 2020-11-20 |
| +16.5 | BBQ Boogie & Blues | 2022-04-29 |
| +7.2 | GBC Throwdown | 2021-11-19 |
| +3.1 | Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival | 2021-08-20 |
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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 144.1% | 144.1% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 32% | 138.6% | 137.1% |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 145.9% | 145.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-29 | BBQ Boogie & Blues 🏅 Calhoun, GA | 1 / 37 (518.7884) | 6 (168.5256) | 2 (175.4172) | 1 (174.8456) | 3 (166.8344) |
| 2021-11-19 | GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 7 / 28 (498.7884) | 9 (166.2284) | 1 (173.7028) | 16 (158.8572) | — |
| 2021-08-20 | Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA | 10 / 26 (488.3656) | 12 (161.0856) | 17 (147.2800) | 1 (180.0000) | — |
| 2020-11-20 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 1 / 40 (525.1200) | 6 (170.2628) | 1 (175.4172) | 2 (179.4400) | — |