High-water mark
667.4060
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.4060 at Smokin on the Water — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-11-03
Grill Sergeant Barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1511
peak 1514 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-04-08
latest 2019-04-06
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
650.10
last 4 Master vs avg 650.10 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
best run (overall)
Consistency
±15.37
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.13)
Road miles
9
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
2%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1503)
Master avg
650.10 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
FASTLANE BBQ CREW ahead in 100% of their meetings
FASTLANE BBQ CREW has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Rib Racks BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
Grill Sergeant Barbecue has 4 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 89 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#2797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Grill Sergeant Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2799 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Grill Sergeant Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2792 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Grill Sergeant Barbecue'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 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 159.4172 | 166.69 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0116 | 155.3944 | 157.13 | top 65% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173.1544 | 154.2056 | 162.56 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 152.5484 | 163.72 | top 48% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 38% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin in the city | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 49% | 2019-04-06 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2017-04-08 → 2019-04-06
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 3 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.13)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
75%
3 of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests
Master average
650.10
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
56
47–32 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
9
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1503
average field rating faced — tougher than 2% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2017-04-08 → 2018-04-21
Power rating
1511
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival
- First call *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival
- First overall top-10 *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.2172 *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival
- 2018
- Career-best overall score667.4060 Smokin on the Water
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.1544 Smokin on the Water
- Peak power rating (1514) Smokin on the Water
- 2019
- Most recent contest Smokin in the city
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.9 | Smokin in the City | 2018-04-21 |
| +5.5 | Smokin on the Water | 2018-11-03 |
| +2.3 | *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival | 2017-04-08 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.2 | Smokin in the city | 2019-04-06 |
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 | 100% | top 63% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 92.7% | 92% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-06 | Smokin in the city Perth WA, 6962 | 12 / 19 (625.6800) | 6 (159.4172) | 11 (155.9888) | 9 (157.7256) | 16 (152.5484) |
| 2018-11-03 | Smokin on the Water Bayswater, | 8 / 23 (667.4060) | 11 (167.4172) | 17 (155.3944) | 3 (173.1544) | 5 (171.4400) |
| 2018-04-21 | Smokin in the City Perth, 6929 | 7 / 20 (657.0856) | 2 (173.1200) | 12 (157.1084) | 7 (165.1428) | 11 (161.7144) |
| 2017-04-08 | *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival Perth, 8008 | 10 / 22 (650.2172) | 8 (166.8228) | 15 (160.0116) | 17 (154.2056) | 7 (169.1772) |