How Virginia stacks up (against all 94 regions on file)
The bar is Virginia's standing on that measure: a full bar is the region that leads it, an empty one is the region that trails it. Rate-based measures need a minimum body of results before a region is ranked at all, so a single hot weekend can't buy a place. The median is the middle region, not the average — one huge region would drag an average somewhere no region actually is.
Contests held
222#9 of 94▲ median 37
Teams competing
1,398#12 of 88▲ median 249.5
Contests this season
11#11 of 75▲ median 2.5
Field depth
30 teams#35 of 61▼ median 31 teams
Winning score
690.68#35 of 52▼ median 694.24
Judging severity (lowest average category score = toughest room)
163.66#21 of 45▼ median 163.95
Perfect-180 rate
6.8 /1k#17 of 45▲ median 5.7 /1k
Growth (last three completed seasons against the three before)
93%#4 of 30▲ median 9.5%
State championships
76#5 of 51▲ median 5
In the record book (1 in the KCBS record book)
Where this state or province stands in the all-time KCBS record book, against every other one on file.
#9🗺️ Most contests hosted222 sanctioned contests held · 127 separate contests on the calendar · Mar 24, 2028
Regions like this one
Matched on the shape of the scene — how many contests it runs, how deep the fields get, how the room scores and how often it hands out a 180 — not on the map. Counts are compared on a log scale, because 5 contests to 15 is a different scene while 300 to 310 is the same one.
Field depth over time (average teams per contest, and teams competing that season)
What it took to win (average Master winning score, and 180s scored)
How the room scores (every judged meat, against the sport as a whole)
A lower average means a harder room. “vs sport” is this region's average minus the same meat's average everywhere KCBS is scored.
Virginia marks pork hardest — 0.69 points below the rest of the sport.
Of the 1,187 teams with a recorded finish in Virginia, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.