High-water mark
347.3828
career-best overall
96.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 347.3828 at The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) — 96.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-05-03
COOK SHAK BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-05-03
latest 2024-10-04
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (172.54)
Road miles
163
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 82 mi
Purse competed for
$49K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
346.23 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 10 at their very first tracked contest, The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-05-03).
- 2024-05-03
- 10-team field
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.
COOK SHAK 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 95 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with COOK SHAK BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before COOK SHAK BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2665 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 8 years before COOK SHAK 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 173.1200 | 173.69 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 170.8228 | 172.54 | top 34% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2024-05-03 → 2024-10-04
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 173.69 · weakest Pork Ribs (172.54)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
346.23
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
124
88–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
163
2 mapped stops · furthest 82 mi
Purse competed for
$49,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score347.3828 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score347.3828 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2628 Poosa Q
- Most recent contest Poosa Q
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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 39% | 96.5% | 96.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-04 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 17 / 59 (345.0856) | 17 (174.2628) | 23 (170.8228) | — | — |
| 2024-05-03 | The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) Mobile, AL | 5 / 10 (347.3828) | 6 (173.1200) | 3 (174.2628) | — | — |