Giant slayer
39
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 39-team field at GBC Summer Showdown.
- Jul 30, 2021
ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS
ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. They have won 2 Grand Championships, most recently at the GBC Throwdown (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1536
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jul 30, 2021
latest Nov 19, 2021
Grand champs
2
0 reserve · wins it all 40% of the time
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running · 2 straight GCs
Avg finish
top 3%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
571
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 163 mi
Purse competed for
$76K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
2 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS, each with one reason worth a look.
ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 75 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,053 of the rated field
- Contests
- 63
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 8%
- Peak
- 1551
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1537
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,045 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1538
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 100% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1536
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,066 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1536
Level with ATLANTA BBQ STORE BOYS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
First title
Jul 30, 2021
GBC Summer Showdown
Opponents faced
90
finished ahead 120 times, behind 0
Longest layoff
1.8 yrs
Oct 4, 2019 → Jul 30, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20218 milestones
- First overall top-10 GBC Summer Showdown
- First overall podium GBC Summer Showdown
- First Grand Championship GBC Summer Showdown
- First state championship GBC Summer Showdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score180 GBC Summer Showdown
- Biggest field won (39 teams) GBC Summer Showdown
- Career-best overall score180 GBC Throwdown
- Most recent contest GBC Throwdown
20191 milestone
- First tracked contest Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% | top 3% | 100% | 100% |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2021 | GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 1 / 28 (180) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 30, 2021 | GBC Summer Showdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 1 / 39 (180) | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 4, 2019 | Swine At the Shrine Porktobertfest 🏅 Savannah, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Gainesville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 24, 2019 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Music Festival 🏅 Evans, GA | — | — | — | — | — |