High-water mark
666.7656
career-best overall
92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7656 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 92.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 27, 2017
Grillteam GutGlut e.V.
Grillteam GutGlut e.V. is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 28th of 48 at the 3rd Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival (2018). They finished #1524 in the 2018 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “*Grill Team Gut Glut e.V.”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1486
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 27, 2017
latest Oct 11, 2024 · 7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Best overall
666.7656 / 720
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
172
Consistency
±17.14
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 161.57 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.63)
Road miles
9,344
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 4,633 mi
Schedule strength
82%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1607)
Master avg
638.25 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1524 (120 pts) | #1300 (185 pts) | #1614 (120 pts) | #1509 (140 pts) | #1481 (150 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Grillteam GutGlut e.V., each with one reason worth a look.
Grillteam GutGlut e.V. has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 139 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,827 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Level with Grillteam GutGlut e.V. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
They turned up 6 years after Grillteam GutGlut e.V. did, first appearing in 2023.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Grillteam GutGlut e.V.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Grillteam GutGlut e.V.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Grillteam GutGlut e.V.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 155.3828 | 161.45 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 125.4856 | 156.63 | top 70% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 153.0972 | 161.57 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 146.2400 | 158.60 | top 61% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2 | 68 | 0 | top 78% | Oct 26, 2018 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
3 of 5 contests
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
332
finished ahead 75 times, behind 312
Longest layoff
6 yrs
Oct 26, 2018 → Oct 11, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
20175 milestones
- First tracked contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.7656 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Career-best overall score666.7656 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Brisket)172 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1500) Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.5 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition | May 19, 2018 |
| -4.3 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | Oct 26, 2018 |
| -0.1 | 3rd Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival | Jul 21, 2018 |
| -0.1 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Oct 27, 2017 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 97% | 87% | 87% |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 89.3% | 87.9% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 92.6% | 92.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 2024 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 84 / 87 (626.1144) | 67 (166.2400) | 83 (160.5372) | 84 (153.0972) | 86 (146.2400) |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 87 / 102 (643.3144) | 86 (159.9428) | 52 (169.1200) | 82 (160) | 90 (154.2516) |
| Jul 21, 2018 | 3rd Black Forest Smoke & Wine Festival Bad Bellingen | 28 / 48 (638.7888) | 41 (155.3828) | 26 (158.2972) | 21 (164.5600) | 19 (160.5488) |
| May 19, 2018 | Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition Hoofddorp | 50 / 60 (616.2856) | 12 (169.1428) | 60 (125.4856) | 33 (161.6800) | 26 (159.9772) |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 68 / 95 (666.7656) | 92 (156.5256) | 45 (169.7028) | 52 (168.5372) | 31 (172) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.