#3103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLive Your Dreams BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1502
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2017-08-18
latest 2019-04-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.68 · weakest Brisket (135.31)
Road miles
95
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 48 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
600.97 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
324.48 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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.
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.
Live Your Dreams 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 107 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.
#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#3123 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Live Your Dreams BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3097 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3118 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3110 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before Live Your Dreams BBQ'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.6800 | 165.68 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.1772 | 165.43 | top 33% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 134.8000 | 146.80 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.3144 | 135.3144 | 135.31 | top 90% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.7 yrs
2017-08-18 → 2019-04-26
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 2 contests
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 165.68 · weakest Brisket (135.31)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
600.97
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
324.48
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
95
61–38 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
95
2 mapped stops · furthest 48 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.7 yrs
2017-08-18 → 2019-04-26
Power rating
1502
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Big Bad BBQ in Boydton
- Career-best overall score600.9716 Big Bad BBQ in Boydton
- 2019
- First call Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
- First overall top-10 Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score324.4800 Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.6800 Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
- Most recent contest Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-26 | Pickin N Pullin BBQ competition 🏅 Lanexa, VA | 7 / 32 (324.4800) | — | 8 (165.6800) | 13 (158.8000) | — |
| 2017-08-18 | Big Bad BBQ in Boydton Boydton, VA | 27 / 31 (600.9716) | 17 (165.6800) | 13 (165.1772) | 31 (134.8000) | 28 (135.3144) |