High-water mark
666.2744
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.2744 at *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-29
Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1506 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2017-09-29
latest 2019-10-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.44 · weakest Pork (160.28)
Road miles
468
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 468 mi
Purse competed for
$37K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
666.27 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 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 113 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.
#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2985 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2976 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2975 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 171.4400 | 171.44 | top 26% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 160.0000 | 165.13 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 156.5600 | 160.28 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0116 | 158.2172 | 163.11 | top 62% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| AR | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2017-09-29 → 2019-10-18
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 171.44 · weakest Pork (160.28)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
666.27
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
47
11–38 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
468
2 mapped stops · furthest 468 mi
Purse competed for
$36,600
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2017-09-29 → 2019-10-18
Power rating
1506
peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- First call *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- First overall top-10 *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.2744 *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score666.2744 *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.4400 *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash
- 2019
- Most recent contest Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 42% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-18 | Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Roswell, GA | 32 / 32 (482.2172) | — | 32 (160.0000) | 29 (164.0000) | 31 (158.2172) |
| 2017-09-29 | *Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash Bryant, AR | 8 / 19 (666.2744) | 5 (171.4400) | 6 (170.2628) | 16 (156.5600) | 5 (168.0116) |