OLE' MILLS BBQ CO.

OLE' MILLS BBQ CO. is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2019. Their best overall finish is 15th of 15 at the Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake (2019). They finished #783 in the 2020 Master Series Team of the Year standings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1494

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4

Contests

in the data

First seen

May 5, 2017

latest Nov 1, 2019 · 2.5 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#783

Master 2020 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0% of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 66%

overall standings

Best overall

659.9656 / 720

Master · Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

75%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

172.5600

Chicken · Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival

Consistency

±4.29

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 167.12 · weakest Brisket (158.82)

Road miles

419

across 4 mapped stops · furthest 202 mi

Schedule strength

73%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1592)

Purse competed for

$14K

listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 2 state-championship entries

Master avg

653.61 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (3 found in their record)

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

A tough matchup

4–0 behind in the head-to-head

MUTTLEY CREW BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

MUTTLEY CREW BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

A strong matchup

3–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of House of Smoke NC in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

A May team

Top 55% average finish in May

Something about May: average finish in the top 55% across 3 contests, versus top 66% the rest of the year.

3 May contests
top 66% the rest of the year

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2020 ↗	Master	#783 (90 pts)	#825 (90 pts)	#804 (100 pts)	#757 (115 pts)	#794 (95 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#1297 (170 pts)	#1057 (255 pts)	#1032 (275 pts)	#1247 (195 pts)	#1385 (155 pts)
2018 ↗	Master	#1808 (90 pts)	#1819 (100 pts)	#1996 (60 pts)	#1781 (110 pts)	#1425 (165 pts)
2017 ↗	Master	#2212 (60 pts)	#2286 (60 pts)	#2304 (60 pts)	#2260 (60 pts)	#2266 (60 pts)

Overall rank by season

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	1	172.5600	162.8228	167.12	top 53%
Pork Ribs	4	1	169.7372	154.8456	162.56	top 66%
Pork	4	1	166.8572	163.3828	165.12	top 53%
Brisket	4	1	169.7028	147.3828	158.82	top 66%

“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	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	1	top 100%
Medium (20–39)	2	top 54%
Large (40+)	1	top 57%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
NC	3	0	top 55%
SC	1	0	top 100%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival	2	19	0	top 54%	May 17, 2019

More numbers

Busiest season 2019 2 contests

Contests a season 1.3 across 3 seasons in the data

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

Contests visited 3 1 of them more than once

Opponents faced 114 finished ahead 66 times, behind 94

Longest layoff 1 yrs May 5, 2017 → May 18, 2018

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

20193 milestones

May 17 Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5600 Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival
May 17 Peak power rating (1504) Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival
Nov 1 Most recent contest Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake

20183 milestones

May 18 First call Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival
May 18 First overall past 90% of a perfect score659.9656 Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival
May 18 Career-best overall score659.9656 Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival

20171 milestone

May 5 First tracked contest Jiggy With the Piggy

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+3.2	Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival	May 18, 2018
+0.5	Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival	May 17, 2019
+0.4	Jiggy With the Piggy	May 5, 2017

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-10.1	Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake	Nov 1, 2019

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	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	2	100%	top 79%	90.8%	90.7%
2018	1	100%	top 50%	91.7%	91.7%
2017	1	0%	top 57%	90%	90%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Nov 1, 2019	Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake 🏅 Summerville, SC	15 / 15 (653.5540)	15 (162.8228)	13 (164.5256)	10 (166.2512)	14 (159.9544)
May 17, 2019	Kings of Q BBQ Cook-off and Festival 🏅 Ayden, NC	21 / 36 (653.0628)	7 (172.5600)	6 (169.7372)	21 (163.3828)	34 (147.3828)
May 18, 2018	Kings of Q BBQ cook off and Festival Ayden, NC	19 / 38 (659.9656)	17 (168.5600)	36 (154.8456)	15 (166.8572)	7 (169.7028)
May 5, 2017	Jiggy With the Piggy Kannapolis, NC	43 / 75 (647.8744)	36 (164.5372)	48 (161.1200)	37 (163.9772)	42 (158.2400)