High-water mark
691.9428
career-best overall
96.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 691.9428 at Atlanta BBQ Festival — 96.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-05-05
HIRED GUNS BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1527
peak 1527 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-08-14
latest 2018-05-05
Best ToY finish
#1281
Master 2015
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 13%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 177.70 · weakest Brisket (165.10)
Road miles
6
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
691.07 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 48 at their very first tracked contest, Atlanta BarB-Que Festival (2015-08-14).
- 2015-08-14
- 48-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.
HIRED GUNS BBQ 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 69 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2277 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
Level with HIRED GUNS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2280 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2287 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after HIRED GUNS BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2286 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 171.9656 | 173.13 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 177.7028 | 177.7028 | 177.70 | top 4% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 171.4172 | 175.14 | top 12% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 161.6800 | 165.10 | top 47% |
“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 19% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 8% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.7 yrs
2015-08-14 → 2018-05-05
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 177.70 · weakest Brisket (165.10)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
691.07
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
66
66–7 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
6
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
2.7 yrs
2015-08-14 → 2018-05-05
Power rating
1527
peak 1527 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- First call Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- First category win (Pork) Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- First overall top-10 Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score690.2056 Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)178.8572 Atlanta BarB-Que Festival
- 2018
- Career-best overall score691.9428 Atlanta BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Atlanta BBQ Festival
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 19% | 96.1% | 96.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 8% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-05 | Atlanta BBQ Festival Atlanta, GA | 5 / 27 (691.9428) | 5 (174.2972) | 1 (177.7028) | 6 (171.4172) | 11 (168.5256) |
| 2015-08-14 | Atlanta BarB-Que Festival Atlanta, GA | 4 / 48 (690.2056) | 9 (171.9656) | 2 (177.7028) | 1 (178.8572) | 26 (161.6800) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1316 (177 pts) | #1363 (177 pts) | #1077 (277 pts) | #1426 (167 pts) | #1578 (122 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1281 (210 pts) | #1645 (145 pts) | #1192 (260 pts) | #1148 (285 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |