A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Organizer Portal ahead in 100% of their meetings
Organizer Portal has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Naheola Pride
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2015-12-04
latest 2023-12-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
541.22
last 3 Master vs avg 541.22 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±151.22
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 163.70 · weakest Chicken (159.07)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
91%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1630)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
541.22 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
320.48 / 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.
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.
The comeback
5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 5 years, then back at Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (2023-12-01).
- last seen 2018-11-30
- back 2023-12-01
They cook the hard rooms
1630
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 91% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1630 power rating — a tougher draw than 91% of every rated contest in the data.
- 4 rated 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.
Naheola Pride 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 136 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.
#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
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#3972 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Naheola Pride did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Level with Naheola Pride on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
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#3944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Naheola Pride's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3942 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Naheola Pride'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 | 161.0856 | 154.7540 | 159.07 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 159.9772 | 163.70 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 161.6800 | 162.83 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 162.2744 | 163.70 | top 66% |
“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 71% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 84% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Christmas on the River | 2 | 26 | 0 | top 88% | 2018-11-30 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8 yrs
2015-12-04 → 2023-12-01
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 163.70 · weakest Chicken (159.07)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
541.22
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
320.48
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
93
28–101 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1630
average field rating faced — tougher than 91% of rated contests
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5 yrs
2018-11-30 → 2023-12-01
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest * Christmas on the River State Championship BBQ
- Peak power rating (1496) * Christmas on the River State Championship BBQ
- 2016
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.6000 *Christmas on the River
- Career-best overall score649.6000 *Christmas on the River
- 2018
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)167.4284 *Christmas on the River
- 2023
- Most recent contest Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.5 | *Christmas on the River | 2018-11-30 |
| -3.6 | * Christmas on the River State Championship BBQ | 2015-12-04 |
| -3.3 | *Christmas on the River | 2016-12-02 |
| -0.8 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship | 2023-12-01 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 89% | 89% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 45.5% | 45.5% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-01 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 12 / 17 (320.4800) | 14 (160.5028) | 12 (159.9772) | — | — |
| 2018-11-30 | *Christmas on the River Demoplis, AL | 29 / 29 (327.3712) | 26 (159.9428) | 16 (167.4284) | — | — |
| 2016-12-02 | *Christmas on the River Demopolis, AL | 26 / 34 (649.6000) | 27 (161.0856) | 26 (162.2628) | 23 (163.9772) | 27 (162.2744) |
| 2015-12-04 | * Christmas on the River State Championship BBQ 🏅 Demopolis, AL | 27 / 36 (646.6740) | 34 (154.7540) | 19 (165.1200) | 26 (161.6800) | 19 (165.1200) |