High-water mark
458.0916
career-best overall
127.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 458.0916 at Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) — 127.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-04-14
The Meat Sweats
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1492 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-04-14
latest 2023-09-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.94 · weakest Chicken (150.81)
Road miles
509
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 509 mi
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
384.43 / 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.
The Meat Sweats 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 142 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.
#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Meat Sweats on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3551 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before The Meat Sweats's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before The Meat Sweats's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before The Meat Sweats'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 154.7772 | 146.8344 | 150.81 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 151.9316 | 157.94 | top 66% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 151.3828 | 151.38 | top 100% |
| 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.
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2023-04-14 → 2023-09-08
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 157.94 · weakest Chicken (150.81)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
384.43
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
35
9–25 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
509
2 mapped stops · furthest 509 mi
Purse competed for
$8,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1492
peak 1492 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score458.0916 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score458.0916 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Anchor City Cook-Off
- First overall top-10 Anchor City Cook-Off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)163.9428 Anchor City Cook-Off
- Most recent contest Anchor City Cook-Off
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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 70% | 127.2% | 106.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-08 | Anchor City Cook-Off 🏅 Centralia, MO | 6 / 13 (310.7772) | 6 (146.8344) | 5 (163.9428) | — | — |
| 2023-04-14 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Chelsea, AL | 16 / 17 (458.0916) | 15 (154.7772) | 16 (151.9316) | 17 (151.3828) | — |