High-water mark
636.8908
career-best overall
176.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 636.8908 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 176.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-01-28
Gary's Last Place Chicken
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1504 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2019-01-25
latest 2025-01-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
469.04
last 4 Backyard vs avg 469.04 (-0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±144.79
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.97 · weakest Chicken (155.23)
Road miles
13
mi across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for
$100K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
469.04 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Barely Sober BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Barely Sober BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Porkganic BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4 years, then back at Lakeland Pig Festival (2019-01-25).
- last seen 2015-01-30
- back 2019-01-25
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.
Gary's Last Place Chicken 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 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.
#3518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1501
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Gary's Last Place Chicken)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Gary's Last Place Chicken has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3532 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
1–3 in 4 shared contests (25% to Gary's Last Place Chicken)
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 10 contests to 6.
⚔ Head-to-head#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Gary's Last Place Chicken did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
No shared contest yet.
Level with Gary's Last Place Chicken on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Gary's Last Place Chicken's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Gary's Last Place Chicken'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5144 | 145.6684 | 155.23 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 149.7144 | 157.97 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 140.0228 | 157.69 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 153.1312 | 156.53 | top 44% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 4 | 19 | 0 | top 65% | 2025-01-24 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6 yrs
2019-01-25 → 2025-01-24
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 157.97 · weakest Chicken (155.23)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 2 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Backyard average
469.04
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
290
166–254 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
13
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1551
average field rating faced — tougher than 39% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$99,960
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4 yrs
2015-01-30 → 2019-01-25
Power rating
1493
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest The Tiger Town Pig Festival
- 2019
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score588.5368 Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2022
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score636.8908 Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1504) Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2025
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.4 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2024-01-26 |
| +5.6 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2022-01-28 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.8 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2025-01-24 |
| -9.7 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2019-01-25 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 108% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 37% | 176.9% | 176.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 163.5% | 163.5% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 43 / 40 (317.6460) | 40 (160.5144) | 45 (157.1316) | 33 (162.2400) | — |
| 2024-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 19 / 61 (333.0744) | 43 (159.9544) | 5 (173.1200) | 39 (158.8112) | 32 (155.9428) |
| 2022-01-28 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 22 / 60 (636.8908) | 29 (154.7884) | 30 (151.9084) | 6 (169.6684) | 16 (160.5256) |
| 2019-01-25 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 48 / 58 (588.5368) | 51 (145.6684) | 46 (149.7144) | 51 (140.0228) | 31 (153.1312) |
| 2015-01-30 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |