The heartbreaker
0.0228
points from the title
Came within 0.0228 points of the Grand Championship at D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival (2019-02-22).
BARLOW-Q
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1521
peak 1521 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-02-22
latest 2023-10-05
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
331.18
last 3 Backyard vs avg 331.18 (-0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±2.80
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.88 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.30)
Road miles
212
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 212 mi
Schedule strength
51%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1565)
Purse competed for
$91K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
331.18 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 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.
High-water mark
334.7772
career-best overall
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.7772 at Poosa Q — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-10-05
The comeback
4.3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.3 years, then back at Poosa Q (2023-10-05).
- last seen 2019-06-14
- back 2023-10-05
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival (2019-02-22).
- 2019-02-22
- 16-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.
BARLOW-Q has 3 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 80 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.
#2467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Level with BARLOW-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2479 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2464 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 2018, 5 years before BARLOW-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before BARLOW-Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before BARLOW-Q's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 168.5600 | 163.9884 | 165.88 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 159.3828 | 165.30 | top 44% |
| 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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 2 | 0 | top 42% |
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 13% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 13% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 42% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poosa Q | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 42% | 2023-10-05 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.6 yrs
2019-02-22 → 2023-10-05
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.88 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.30)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
331.18
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
218
142–100 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
212
3 mapped stops · furthest 212 mi
Schedule strength
1565
average field rating faced — tougher than 51% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$91,100
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.3 yrs
2019-06-14 → 2023-10-05
Power rating
1521
peak 1521 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First call D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First category win (Chicken) D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First overall top-10 D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First overall podium D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First Reserve Championship D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.9428 D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival
- 2023
- Career-best overall score334.7772 Poosa Q
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.6800 Poosa Q
- Peak power rating (1521) Poosa Q
- Most recent contest Poosa Q
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.9 | D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival | 2019-02-22 |
| +4.6 | Poosa Q | 2023-10-05 |
| +2.2 | Poosa-Q | 2019-06-14 |
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 41% | 93% | 93% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 28% | 91.9% | 91.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-05 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 30 / 73 (334.7772) | 42 (165.0972) | 21 (169.6800) | — | — |
| 2019-06-14 | Poosa-Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 21 / 48 (330.8340) | 21 (163.9884) | 16 (166.8456) | — | — |
| 2019-02-22 | D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival 🏅 Diberville, MS | 2 / 16 (327.9428) | 1 (168.5600) | 11 (159.3828) | — | — |