The heartbreaker
0.5944
points from the title
Came within 0.5944 points of the Grand Championship at Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest (2022-01-07).
Drunken Brothers BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-01-07
latest 2022-01-07
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 7%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 176.02 · weakest Pork (163.97)
Road miles
34
mi across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
673.07 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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
673.0740
career-best overall
187.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 673.0740 at Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest — 187.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-01-07
The comeback
4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4 years, then back at Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest (2022-01-07).
- last seen 2018-01-26
- back 2022-01-07
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.
Drunken Brothers BBQ 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 90 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Drunken Brothers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Drunken Brothers BBQ's first contest.
⚔ 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 Drunken Brothers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2652 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 14% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 166.2628 | 166.26 | top 14% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 163.9656 | 163.97 | top 14% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.0228 | 176.0228 | 176.02 | top 3% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2022-01-07 → 2022-01-07
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 176.02 · weakest Pork (163.97)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Backyard average
673.07
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
33–3 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
34
4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4 yrs
2018-01-26 → 2022-01-07
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Plant City Pig Jam
- 2022
- First call Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First category win (Brisket) Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall top-10 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall podium Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First Reserve Championship Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.0740 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- Career-best overall score673.0740 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.0228 Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest
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% | 187% | 187% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-07 | Southern Sunshine BBQ Fest 🏅 Lake Wales, FL | 2 / 29 (673.0740) | 4 (166.8228) | 4 (166.2628) | 4 (163.9656) | 1 (176.0228) |
| 2018-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-11-22 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | — | — | — | — | — |