High-water mark
457.0968
career-best overall
127.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 457.0968 at Plant City Pig Jam — 127.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-11-18
Love Meat Tender
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1480
peak 1480 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-11-18
latest 2023-11-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 158.26 · weakest Pork (142.28)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$34K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
385.65 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Love Meat Tender 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 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.
#4113 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Love Meat Tender)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Love Meat Tender has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4098 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Love Meat Tender's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#4116 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4089 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Level with Love Meat Tender on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4119 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Love Meat Tender'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 158.2628 | 158.26 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 149.1084 | 152.53 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1312 | 139.4284 | 142.28 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 151.4400 | 157.15 | top 34% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant City Pig Jam | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 80% | 2023-11-17 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2022-11-18 → 2023-11-17
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 158.26 · weakest Pork (142.28)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
385.65
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
69
15–76 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$34,250
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1480
peak 1480 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Plant City Pig Jam
- First call Plant City Pig Jam
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score457.0968 Plant City Pig Jam
- Career-best overall score457.0968 Plant City Pig Jam
- Career-best single call (Brisket)162.8572 Plant City Pig Jam
- 2023
- Most recent contest Plant City Pig Jam
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 72% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 127% | 127% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-17 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 18 / 25 (314.2056) | 16 (158.2628) | 17 (155.9428) | 20 (139.4284) | 11 (151.4400) |
| 2022-11-18 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 22 / 25 (457.0968) | — | 19 (149.1084) | 22 (145.1312) | 6 (162.8572) |