The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Grandpa Val's BBQ has finished one call ahead of Gypsy Soul BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Gypsy Soul BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1512
peak 1512 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-10-22
latest 2022-04-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (149.67)
Road miles
66
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 33 mi
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
310.23 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Gypsy Soul BBQ 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 112 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.
#2750 of the rated field
- Contests
- 67
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 12%
- Peak
- 1612
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to Gypsy Soul BBQ)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Gypsy Soul BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2756 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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, 6 years before Gypsy Soul BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2759 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Gypsy Soul BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2768 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 2019, 3 years before Gypsy Soul BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Gypsy Soul BBQ'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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 162.8800 | 158.2400 | 160.56 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2512 | 145.0856 | 149.67 | top 39% |
| 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) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.5 yrs
2021-10-22 → 2022-04-22
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NJ
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (149.67)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
310.23
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
85
70–44 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
66
2 mapped stops · furthest 33 mi
Purse competed for
$13,750
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1512
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
- First call Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
- 2022
- Career-best overall score317.1312 New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.8800 New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
- Most recent contest New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 42% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-22 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Blairstown, NJ | 11 / 48 (317.1312) | 10 (162.8800) | 13 (154.2512) | — | — |
| 2021-10-22 | Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Jackson, NJ | 13 / 31 (303.3256) | 7 (158.2400) | 16 (145.0856) | — | — |