The heartbreaker
4.5600
points from the title
Came within 4.5600 points of the Grand Championship at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (2020-10-09).
GEAR JAMMERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1519 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2020-10-09
latest 2021-05-14
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 48%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.14 · weakest Pork (151.36)
Road miles
64
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 32 mi
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
627.23 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
332.56 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 37 at their very first tracked contest, The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (2020-10-09).
- 2020-10-09
- 37-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.
GEAR JAMMERS 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 114 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.
#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Level with GEAR JAMMERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where GEAR JAMMERS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before GEAR JAMMERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2905 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 5 years before GEAR JAMMERS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 165.6800 | 152.5144 | 159.10 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8800 | 163.4060 | 165.14 | top 35% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3600 | 151.3600 | 151.36 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.9544 | 159.95 | top 76% |
“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 5% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2020-10-09 → 2021-05-14
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.14 · weakest Pork (151.36)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
627.23
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
332.56
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
70
46–39 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
64
2 mapped stops · furthest 32 mi
Purse competed for
$26,150
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1508
peak 1519 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall top-10 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall podium The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First Reserve Championship The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score332.5600 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.8800 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2021
- Career-best overall score627.2348 Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF
- Most recent contest Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF
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 90% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 5% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-14 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF 🏅 Waynesboro, GA | 38 / 42 (627.2348) | 40 (152.5144) | 27 (163.4060) | 41 (151.3600) | 32 (159.9544) |
| 2020-10-09 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 2 / 37 (332.5600) | 2 (165.6800) | 2 (166.8800) | — | — |