#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBlack Gold Barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-03-21
latest 2026-03-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 159.42 · weakest Chicken (127.91)
Road miles
2
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$33K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
287.33 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
Black Gold Barbecue 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 126 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.
#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Black Gold Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Black Gold Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Level with Black Gold Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3266 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Black Gold Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.0688 | 119.7484 | 127.91 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 163.4172 | 155.4172 | 159.42 | top 20% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 42% | 2026-03-20 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-21 → 2026-03-20
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 159.42 · weakest Chicken (127.91)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
287.33
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
67
37–48 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$32,900
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1499
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First call Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First overall top-10 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Career-best overall score299.4860 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)163.4172 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- 2026
- Most recent contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 76.4% | 76.4% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 83.2% | 83.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 17 / 34 (275.1656) | 17 (119.7484) | 11 (155.4172) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 9 / 26 (299.4860) | 12 (136.0688) | 2 (163.4172) | — | — |