The heartbreaker
3.3944
points from the title
Came within 3.3944 points of the Grand Championship at Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
Golden Idol BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1487
peak 1487 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-08-20
latest 2021-08-20
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.88 · weakest Pork Ribs (154.83)
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
315.71 / 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
337.1656
career-best overall
93.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.1656 at Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 8 at their very first tracked contest, Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 8-team field
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.
Golden Idol 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 134 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.
#3789 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3776 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3772 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Level with Golden Idol BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Golden Idol BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3796 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Golden Idol BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3767 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Golden Idol BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 172.0344 | 149.7256 | 160.88 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1312 | 144.5372 | 154.83 | top 75% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 63% | 2021-08-20 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-08-20 → 2021-08-20
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.88 · weakest Pork Ribs (154.83)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
315.71
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
21
6–18 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$2,950
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1487
peak 1487 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Chicken) Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.1656 Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score337.1656 Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0344 Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2021
- Most recent contest Pig Out in the Park (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 25% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 81.7% | 81.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-20 | Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) Frostburg, MD | 18 / 18 (294.2628) | 17 (149.7256) | 18 (144.5372) | — | — |
| Pig Out in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) Frostburg, MD | 2 / 8 (337.1656) | 1 (172.0344) | 4 (165.1312) | — | — |