Team GMG

Team GMG is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2020 and 2021. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off (2021).

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1531

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

Aug 7, 2020

latest Sep 16, 2021 · 1.1 years on the trail

Grand champs

0 reserve · wins it all 25% of the time

Category wins

3 podiums

Overall top-10s

50% of 4 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 43%

overall standings

Best overall

701.1200 / 720

Master · High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

50%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

179.4400

Chicken · High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off

Consistency

±21.71

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 171.79 · weakest Brisket (165.26)

Road miles

840

across 4 mapped stops · furthest 544 mi

Schedule strength

76%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1598)

Purse competed for

$120K

listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

673.20 / 720

4 Master contests · 1 GC

Storylines (5 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Against the odds

8-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 92 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off (Apr 9, 2021) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 8-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, BOOMERANG BBQ.

High-water mark

701.1200 career-best overall

97.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 701.1200 at High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off — 97.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
Apr 9, 2021

A tough matchup

3–0 behind in the head-to-head

Boom Chicka Cow Cow ahead in 100% of their meetings

Boom Chicka Cow Cow has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

A strong matchup

3–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Chingon BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

Announced themselves early

3rd at their very first contest

Finished 3 of 54 at their very first tracked contest, 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ (Aug 7, 2020).

Aug 7, 2020
54-team field

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	1	1	1	179.4400	159.9772	169.13	top 46%
Pork Ribs	4	2	0	0	172	159.3484	167.11	top 53%
Pork	3	1	0	1	177.1428	166.2628	171.79	top 31%
Brisket	4	2	0	1	173.7028	156.5600	165.26	top 49%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	1	1	top 6%
Large (40+)	3	0	top 55%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
KS	2	0	top 80%
TX	1	1	top 6%
OK	1	0	top 6%

More numbers

Busiest season 2021 3 contests · 1 GC

Contests a season 2 across 2 seasons in the data

Most contests held in KS 2 of 4 contests · 3 states in all

Contests visited 4 a different one every time

First title Apr 9, 2021 High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off

Opponents faced 504 finished ahead 175 times, behind 545

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20216 milestones

Apr 9 First category win (Chicken) High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off
Apr 9 First Grand Championship High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off
Apr 9 Career-best overall score701.1200 High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off
Apr 9 Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off
Apr 9 Peak power rating (1538) High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off
Sep 16 Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST

20205 milestones

Aug 7 First tracked contest 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ
Aug 7 First call 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ
Aug 7 First overall top-10 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ
Aug 7 First overall podium 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ
Aug 7 First overall past 90% of a perfect score687.3712 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+19.2	15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ	Aug 7, 2020
+18.9	High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off	Apr 9, 2021

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-7.6	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST	Sep 16, 2021

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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)
2021	3	1	1	1	33%	top 55%	97.4%	92.8%
2020	1	0	1	0	100%	top 6%	95.5%	95.5%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Sep 16, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS	308 / 467 (649.0628)	339 (159.9772)	240 (166.2628)	207 (166.2628)	345 (156.5600)
Sep 16, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS	173 / 185 (655.2340)	158 (164.5256)	173 (159.3484)	68 (171.9772)	176 (159.3828)
Apr 9, 2021	High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off Lubbock, TX	1 / 18 (701.1200)	1 (179.4400)	9 (170.8344)	2 (177.1428)	2 (173.7028)
Aug 7, 2020	15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ 🏅 Enid, OK	3 / 54 (687.3712)	11 (172.5600)	9 (172)	—	9 (171.4056)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.