High-water mark
503.9772
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 503.9772 at Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show — 93.3% of a perfect 540.
- Backyard
- Aug 9, 2019
BONAFIDE BBQ
BONAFIDE BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2019. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 29 at the Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1517
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Aug 9, 2019
latest Aug 9, 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 10%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 173.71 · weakest Chicken (163.42)
Road miles
2
across 6 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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BONAFIDE BBQ has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 79 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,594 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1523
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,603 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careers#2,602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Level with BONAFIDE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,605 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before BONAFIDE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,587 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before BONAFIDE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 163.4172 | 163.42 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7144 | 173.7144 | 173.71 | top 7% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 166.8456 | 166.85 | top 14% |
“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.
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NC
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
39
finished ahead 34 times, behind 4
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Aug 7, 2015 → Aug 12, 2016
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20197 milestones
- First call Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- First overall top-10 Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- First overall podium Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score503.9772 Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- Career-best overall score503.9772 Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7144 Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- Most recent contest Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2019 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show 🏅 Franklin, NC | 3 / 29 (503.9772) | 5 (163.4172) | 2 (173.7144) | 4 (166.8456) | — |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 12, 2016 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Frankllin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |