#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-headDumpster Fire BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1503
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-10-07
latest 2024-11-15
Best ToY finish
#368
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 166.82 · weakest Chicken (162.24)
Road miles
1,918
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 1918 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
658.73 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
327.93 / 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.
Dumpster Fire 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 109 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.
#3084 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dumpster Fire BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3096 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Dumpster Fire BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Dumpster Fire BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3081 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Dumpster Fire 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1316 | 159.3484 | 162.24 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 162.8000 | 164.52 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 165.0856 | 166.82 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5828 | 164.5828 | 164.58 | top 41% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8.1 yrs
2016-10-07 → 2024-11-15
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 166.82 · weakest Chicken (162.24)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
658.73
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
327.93
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
169
77–91 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,918
2 mapped stops · furthest 1,918 mi
Purse competed for
$10,400
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
8.1 yrs
2016-10-07 → 2024-11-15
Power rating
1503
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Dana Point State BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.7312 Dana Point State BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score658.7312 Dana Point State BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)168.5600 Dana Point State BBQ Championship
- 2024
- Most recent contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 47% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 91.5% | 91.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-15 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cuming, GA | 27 / 58 (327.9316) | 23 (165.1316) | 28 (162.8000) | 15 (165.0856) | — |
| 2016-10-07 | Dana Point State BBQ Championship Dana Point, CA | 40 / 75 (658.7312) | 57 (159.3484) | 27 (166.2400) | 25 (168.5600) | 31 (164.5828) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #368 (60 pts) | #358 (70 pts) | #380 (60 pts) | — | — |