The heartbreaker
1.1540
points from the title
Came within 1.1540 points of the Grand Championship at Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 (2020-08-29).
Goorjus BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2020-08-29
latest 2020-10-30
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
2
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 15%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
326.99
last 4 Backyard vs avg 326.99 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±5.11
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.00)
Road miles
56
mi across 2 mapped stops
Backyard avg
326.99 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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
333.1544
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.1544 at Bare Bones BBQ Comp — 92.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2020-10-30
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Pit Bull Smokers in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 20 at their very first tracked contest, Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 20-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
BSA has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Goorjus BBQ 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 73 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Level with Goorjus BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2280 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 6 years before Goorjus BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 6 years before Goorjus BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2275 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 29% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 173.1544 | 159.3828 | 164.98 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 167.4400 | 155.4172 | 162.00 | top 30% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 1 | top 15% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 15% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2020-08-29 → 2020-10-30
Busiest season
—
2 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WA
1 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.00)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
4 of 4 contests
Wins it all
25%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2020-10-30
Bare Bones BBQ Comp
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
326.99
out of 360 · 4 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
40
62–5 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
56
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score330.2972 Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2020
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3
- First Reserve Championship Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3
- First Grand Championship Bare Bones BBQ Comp
- Career-best overall score333.1544 Bare Bones BBQ Comp
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1544 Bare Bones BBQ Comp
- Most recent contest Bare Bones BBQ Comp
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 18% | 91.7% | 90.3% |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 12% | 92.5% | 91.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-30 | Bare Bones BBQ Comp Perth, | 1 / 10 (333.1544) | 1 (173.1544) | 4 (160.0000) | — | — |
| 2020-08-29 | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 Herron, 6211 | 2 / 14 (324.5372) | 3 (159.3828) | 1 (165.1544) | — | — |
| Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only) Bakersville, WA | 3 / 14 (319.9544) | 3 (164.5372) | 8 (155.4172) | — | — | |
| Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY) Perth Western, 6056 | 3 / 20 (330.2972) | 6 (162.8572) | 3 (167.4400) | — | — |