High-water mark
502.8228
career-best overall
139.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 502.8228 at Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown — 139.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2020-11-20
CHATTER BOX BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1510
peak 1510 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-03-01
latest 2021-03-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 43%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
494.22
last 3 Backyard vs avg 494.22 (-0.00)
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.55
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.71 · weakest Pork (127.84)
Road miles
463
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 227 mi
Schedule strength
60%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1576)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
490.25 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
494.22 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 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 (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.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of CLAUDE'S Q in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
1.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.6 years, then back at Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown (2020-11-20).
- last seen 2019-04-05
- back 2020-11-20
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.
CHATTER BOX BBQ has 4 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 95 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#2829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Level with CHATTER BOX BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before CHATTER BOX BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2821 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#2814 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1527
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 154.7884 | 160.97 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.3200 | 154.8456 | 164.71 | top 39% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 20.0000 | 127.84 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.8228 | 158.82 | top 82% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | 3 | 0 | top 24% |
| KY | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 24% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2019-03-01 → 2021-03-05
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.71 · weakest Pork (127.84)
Walk rate
75%
a top-10 call in 3 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
490.25
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
494.22
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
226
179–130 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
463
4 mapped stops · furthest 227 mi
Schedule strength
1576
average field rating faced — tougher than 60% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,100
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.6 yrs
2019-04-05 → 2020-11-20
Power rating
1510
peak 1510 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First call Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score484.4456 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- 2020
- First overall top-10 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- Career-best overall score502.8228 Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown
- 2021
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.3200 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1510) Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.8 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown | 2020-11-20 |
| +6.9 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2019-03-01 |
| +4.2 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2021-03-05 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.7 | Operation Stand Down KY II Annual Smoke off | 2019-04-05 |
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 | 100% | top 26% | 137.6% | 137.6% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 139.7% | 139.7% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 64% | 134.6% | 101.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-05 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 21 / 81 (495.3828) | 23 (163.9772) | 10 (170.3200) | 28 (161.0856) | — |
| 2020-11-20 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 8 / 40 (502.8228) | 13 (168.5484) | 17 (164.5372) | 7 (169.7372) | — |
| 2019-04-05 | Operation Stand Down KY II Annual Smoke off 🏅 Franklin, KY | 28 / 28 (490.2512) | 27 (156.5828) | 26 (154.8456) | 28 (20.0000) | 23 (158.8228) |
| 2019-03-01 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 17 / 62 (484.4456) | 22 (154.7884) | 6 (169.1200) | 18 (160.5372) | — |