High-water mark
678.1828
career-best overall
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.1828 at Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash — 94.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-06-05
Gridiron Grillers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2015-06-05
latest 2015-06-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 41%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 176.56 · weakest Pork (165.09)
Road miles
565
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 479 mi
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
678.18 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
The comeback
8.4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 8.4 years, then back at Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2023-10-21).
- last seen 2015-06-05
- back 2023-10-21
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.
Gridiron Grillers has 1 rated contest — 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 110 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.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Gridiron Grillers did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Gridiron Grillers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0116 | 176.0116 | 176.01 | top 7% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.2856 | 160.5256 | 165.41 | top 49% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 165.0856 | 165.09 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 176.5600 | 176.56 | top 11% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2015-06-05 → 2015-06-05
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 3 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 176.56 · weakest Pork (165.09)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
678.18
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
26
16–10 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
565
3 mapped stops · furthest 479 mi
Purse competed for
$3,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
8.4 yrs
2015-06-05 → 2023-10-21
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash
- First call Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.1828 Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score678.1828 Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.5600 Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash
- 2023
- Most recent contest Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS)
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 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 41% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-21 | Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS) Birmingham, AL | — | — | 3 (170.2856) | — | — |
| 2015-06-05 | Up In Smoke On The Square Lincoln, IL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-06-05 | Variety Children's Charity BBQ Bash Memphis, TN | 11 / 27 (678.1828) | 2 (176.0116) | 19 (160.5256) | 17 (165.0856) | 3 (176.5600) |