A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Hill Billy BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Hill Billy BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
SURVEYOR OF THE BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1457
peak 1457 · rated over 5 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2015-06-12
latest 2019-09-06
Best ToY finish
#1540
Master 2015
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
613.02
last 4 Master vs avg 613.02 (-0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.96
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 157.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.61)
Road miles
224
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 57 mi
Schedule strength
25%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1534)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
613.02 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
316.81 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
The weak link
−6.4
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.37 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 33%.
- Pork Ribs avg 151.61
- Chicken avg 157.98
- 1 calls in 6 entries
The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-06-09).
- last seen 2016-06-17
- back 2019-06-09
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 19 at their very first tracked contest, Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 19-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.
118 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#5204 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5203 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Level with SURVEYOR OF THE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5193 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1458
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5208 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1503 at their best, 46 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#5219 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5200 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1457
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before SURVEYOR OF THE BBQ'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 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.9656 | 149.1088 | 157.98 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 135.9544 | 151.61 | top 76% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.6172 | 149.6228 | 154.68 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 138.7316 | 152.36 | top 78% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 66% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 83% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 50% | 2019-06-09 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.2 yrs
2015-06-12 → 2019-09-06
Busiest season
2019
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
WI
5 of 6 contests
Contests visited
5
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
6 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 157.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (151.61)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 3 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Master average
613.02
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
316.81
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
109
32–107 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
224
5 mapped stops · furthest 57 mi
Schedule strength
1534
average field rating faced — tougher than 25% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$7,050
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2016-06-17 → 2019-06-09
Power rating
1457
peak 1457 · #5201 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.7884 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.9656 Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2015
- Career-best overall score625.1200 3rd Annual Hog & Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival
- Peak power rating (1488) 3rd Annual Hog & Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival
- 2019
- Most recent contest Puckaway Pigfest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.3 | Puckaway Pigfest | 2019-09-06 |
| -11.7 | 3rd Annual Hog & Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival | 2015-06-12 |
| -6.3 | Badger Brews & Que | 2015-07-31 |
| -6.2 | Hog and Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival | 2016-06-17 |
| -6.2 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-06-09 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 93% | 93% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 83% | 81.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 78% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 87% | 86.8% | 86.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-06 | Puckaway Pigfest 🏅 Montello, WI | 38 / 39 (582.0116) | 32 (156.5484) | 38 (135.9544) | 30 (150.7772) | 38 (138.7316) |
| 2019-06-09 | Lake Country BBQ Cook-off(BACKYARD ONLY) | 16 / 22 (298.8236) | 19 (149.1088) | 14 (149.7148) | — | — |
| 2016-06-17 | Hog and Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival Oconomowoc, WI | 14 / 18 (623.7832) | 8 (165.7144) | 11 (161.6916) | 17 (149.6228) | 18 (146.7544) |
| 2015-07-31 | Badger Brews & Que Manitowoc, WI | 24 / 30 (621.1772) | 26 (153.7028) | 30 (141.7372) | 9 (164.6172) | 15 (161.1200) |
| 2015-06-12 | 3rd Annual Hog & Steer Barbecue Competition and Festival Oconomowoc, WI | 16 / 17 (625.1200) | 17 (150.8344) | 15 (157.7372) | 17 (153.7028) | 11 (162.8456) |
| Lake Country BBQ Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Okauchee, WI | 5 / 19 (334.7884) | 2 (171.9656) | 9 (162.8228) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #121 (244 pts) | #184 (129 pts) | — | — |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #2010 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2054 (98 pts) | #1782 (138 pts) | #2071 (113 pts) | #2198 (83 pts) | #2241 (78 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1540 (147 pts) | #1685 (137 pts) | #1661 (147 pts) | #1368 (222 pts) | #1306 (217 pts) |