Giant slayer
81
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 81-team field at Sip & Swine BBQ Festival.
- 2021-03-05
Brady Dopp
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1518
peak 1518 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2021-03-05
latest 2021-10-15
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 15%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Road miles
734
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 688 mi
Purse competed for
$64K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
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.
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 2 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 2 state-championship entries
The comeback
1.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.6 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que (2023-09-27).
- last seen 2022-03-04
- back 2023-09-27
Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 81 at their very first tracked contest, Sip & Swine BBQ Festival (2021-03-05).
- 2021-03-05
- 81-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.
Brady Dopp 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 87 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.
#2526 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Brady Dopp's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
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#2542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Brady Dopp's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2541 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Brady Dopp on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2554 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Brady Dopp's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2530 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Brady Dopp'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 1 | top 1% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.6 yrs
2021-03-05 → 2021-10-15
Busiest season
2021
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
2 of 4 contests
Wins it all
25%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2021-03-05
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Opponents faced
185
172–18 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
734
4 mapped stops · furthest 688 mi
Purse competed for
$63,870
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.6 yrs
2022-03-04 → 2023-09-27
Power rating
1518
peak 1518 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall podium Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First Grand Championship Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First state championship Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Biggest field won (81 teams) Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score178.8572 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- 2023
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
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% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0% | top 15% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-04 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-10-15 | Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Roswell, GA | 10 / 34 (174.2628) | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-03-05 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 1 / 81 (178.8572) | — | — | — | — |