The heartbreaker
2.2628
points from the title
Came within 2.2628 points of the Grand Championship at Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-03-25).
United Rental
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2019-03-22
latest 2022-03-25
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 31%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (143.72)
Road miles
10
mi across 6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
307.46 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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.
High-water mark
336.0344
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 336.0344 at Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-03-25
The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-03-25).
- last seen 2019-03-22
- back 2022-03-25
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.
United Rental 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 86 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
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#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with United Rental on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
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#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before United Rental's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before United Rental's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2627 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before United Rental'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 | 1 | 1 | 172.0000 | 155.4856 | 163.74 | top 9% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.0344 | 123.4060 | 143.72 | top 43% |
| 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 7% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 54% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2019-03-22 → 2022-03-25
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (143.72)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 2 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Backyard average
307.46
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
101
62–51 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
10
6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2019-03-22 → 2022-03-25
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Smokin Blues & BBQ
- 2019
- First call Hammond BBQ
- 2022
- First category win (Chicken) Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.0344 Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score336.0344 Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0000 Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Hammond BBQ, Inc. (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 7% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 54% | 77.5% | 77.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-25 | Hammond BBQ, Inc. (BACKYARD ONLY) Hammond, LA | 2 / 28 (336.0344) | 1 (172.0000) | 4 (164.0344) | — | — |
| 2019-03-22 | Hammond BBQ 🏅 Hammond, LA | 26 / 48 (278.8916) | 7 (155.4856) | 34 (123.4060) | — | — |
| 2018-03-23 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-03-24 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-03-25 | Hamond BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-03-27 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | — | — | — | — | — |