High-water mark
465.5200
career-best overall
129.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 465.5200 at Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival — 129.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2021-08-20
MESSY Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1497 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-08-20
latest 2021-08-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 157.09 · weakest Pork (151.36)
Road miles
3
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
465.52 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
The comeback
7 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7 years, then back at Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival (2021-08-20).
- last seen 2014-08-22
- back 2021-08-20
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.
MESSY Q 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 121 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.
#3325 of the rated field
- Contests
- 18
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1508
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to MESSY Q)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team MESSY Q has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3323 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before MESSY Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with MESSY Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3343 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before MESSY Q'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0856 | 157.0856 | 157.09 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0744 | 157.0744 | 157.07 | top 50% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3600 | 151.3600 | 151.36 | top 65% |
| 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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-08-20 → 2021-08-20
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 157.09 · weakest Pork (151.36)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Backyard average
465.52
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
44
15–28 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7 yrs
2014-08-22 → 2021-08-20
Power rating
1497
peak 1497 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier)
- 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score465.5200 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score465.5200 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)157.0856 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 129.3% | 129.3% |
| 2014 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-20 | Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA | 15 / 26 (465.5200) | 17 (157.0856) | 13 (157.0744) | 17 (151.3600) | — |
| 2014-08-22 | Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier) Kennesaw, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-23 | Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier) Kennesaw, GA | — | — | — | — | — |