ATOMIC HOG BBQ

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1495

peak 1495 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2015-09-04

latest 2018-09-28

Best ToY finish

#1765

Master 2018

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 65%

overall standings

Best overall

663.8968 / 720

Master · 22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort

Perfect 180s

Current form

645.88

last 4 Master vs avg 645.88 (+0.00)

Walk rate

50%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

173.7372

Chicken · Rockin Apples Festival

Consistency

±13.52

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 167.27 · weakest Brisket (155.81)

Road miles

194

mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 65 mi

Schedule strength

64%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1580)

Master avg

645.88 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

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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.

High-water mark

663.8968 career-best overall

92.2% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 663.8968 at 22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort — 92.2% of a perfect 720.

Master
2017-05-19

A tough matchup

3–0 behind in the head-to-head

HIGH i QUE ahead in 100% of their meetings

HIGH i QUE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

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.

ATOMIC HOG BBQ has 4 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 128 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.

B-Man's BBQ

#3388 of the rated field

1496 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1496

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-08-21

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Overcurrent BBQ

#3424 of the rated field

1495 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1510

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 8 years after ATOMIC HOG BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-05-01

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Colonel Rusty's

#3406 of the rated field

1495 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1495

No shared contest yet.

Level with ATOMIC HOG BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2023-12-01

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Hogzilla BBQ

#3404 of the rated field

1495 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 40%
Peak: 1516

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2023-10-13

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88 Miles Per Hour

#3402 of the rated field

1495 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1495

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2019-09-27

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THEBACKYARDBBQ.CA

#3415 of the rated field

1495 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1495

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2019-08-31

⚔ Head-to-head

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	1	173.7372	161.6916	167.27	top 47%
Pork Ribs	4	1	168.0000	146.2172	157.12	top 63%
Pork	4	0	167.3828	162.8228	165.68	top 51%
Brisket	4	0	158.8000	151.3600	155.81	top 75%

“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)	3	0	top 70%
Large (40+)	1	0	top 51%

The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 3.1 yrs 2015-09-04 → 2018-09-28

Busiest season 2018 1 contest

Contests a season 1 across 4 seasons in the data

Cooks most in MO 4 of 4 contests

Contests visited 4 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 167.27 · weakest Brisket (155.81)

Walk rate 50% a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 4 contests

Master average 645.88 out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 116 53–81 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 194 4 mapped stops · furthest 65 mi

Schedule strength 1580 average field rating faced — tougher than 64% of rated contests

Longest layoff 1.4 yrs 2017-05-19 → 2018-09-28

Power rating 1495 peak 1495 · #null of 6,413 rated

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

2015
Sep 4 First tracked contest Smokin in the Golden Valley
Sep 4 Peak power rating (1498) Smokin in the Golden Valley
2016
Sep 2 First call Rockin Apples Festival
Sep 2 Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7372 Rockin Apples Festival
2017
May 19 First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.8968 22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort
May 19 Career-best overall score663.8968 22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort
2018
Sep 28 Most recent contest *Smoking in the Golden Valley

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+2.7	22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort	2017-05-19

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-4.8	Rockin Apples Festival	2016-09-02
-2.4	Smokin in the Golden Valley	2015-09-04
-0.3	*Smoking in the Golden Valley	2018-09-28

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	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2018	1	100%	top 60%	90.4%	90.4%
2017	1	0%	top 51%	92.2%	92.2%
2016	1	100%	top 83%	89.2%	89.2%
2015	1	0%	top 68%	87%	87%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2018-09-28	*Smoking in the Golden Valley Clinton, MO	15 / 25 (650.6972)	13 (163.3828)	7 (165.6916)	12 (162.8228)	18 (158.8000)
2017-05-19	22nd Annual Platte City BBQ Cook Off at Basswood Resort Platte City, MO	30 / 59 (663.8968)	21 (170.2628)	25 (168.0000)	27 (167.3828)	43 (158.2512)
2016-09-02	Rockin Apples Festival Appleton City, MO	19 / 23 (642.2632)	8 (173.7372)	21 (148.5600)	16 (165.1316)	21 (154.8344)
2015-09-04	Smokin in the Golden Valley Clinton, MO	21 / 31 (626.6516)	20 (161.6916)	28 (146.2172)	13 (167.3828)	20 (151.3600)

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	#1765 (100 pts)	#1780 (110 pts)	#1466 (155 pts)	#1754 (115 pts)	#1873 (85 pts)
2016 ↗	Master	#2160 (78 pts)	#1758 (143 pts)	#2310 (68 pts)	#2159 (93 pts)	#2311 (68 pts)