Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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The heartbreaker
2.2968points from the title
Came within 2.2968 points of the Grand Championship at Beats, Brews, & BBQ (2020-06-12).
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.
Lil Dead Bird-Ryker 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 81 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 6 years before Lil Dead Bird-Ryker's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
“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 (10 numbers that describe this team)
📆On the trail0 yrs2020-06-12 → 2020-06-12
🔥Busiest season20201 contest
📍Cooks most inOK1 of 1 contests
🎪Contests visited10 of them cooked more than once
🎤Walk rate0%a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
🔟Overall top-10 rate100%1 of 1 contests
⚔️Opponents faced6461–2 across every shared overall standing
💰Purse competed for$8,800listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings