Riding a hot streak
5
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 5-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 5
Two Pigs And A Smoker
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1627
peak 1627 · rated over 13 contests ⓘ
Best runs
5
straight top-10s
Contests
15
in the data
First seen
2024-08-17
latest 2026-08-28
Best ToY finish
#38
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
2
6 podiums
Overall top-10s
10
of 15 contests
Avg finish
top 21%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
341.43 ▼
last 5 Backyard vs avg 342.16 (-0.73)
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
5
and counting
Consistency
±6.60
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.26 · weakest Chicken (170.68)
Road miles
2,241
mi across 15 mapped stops · furthest 268 mi
Schedule strength
80%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1604)
Purse competed for
$106K
listed at 13 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 12 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
342.16 / 360
14 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (14 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.
On the rise
+68
rating points in a year
Their power rating has climbed 68 points across 8 contests since 2025-09-13 — from 1559 up to 1627.
- 8 contests since 2025-09-13
- now 1627
Giant slayer
35
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 35-team field at Trekking for CDH.
- 2024-09-14
Happy hunting ground
Top 13%
average finish here
Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 2) is their spot: an average finish in the top 13% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 13%
They almost always walk
80%
of contests with a top-10 call
A call in 12 of 15 contests
A top-10 category call in 80% of their 15 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
High-water mark
351.4172
career-best overall
97.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 351.4172 at Trekking for CDH — 97.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-09-14
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 12 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 12 state-championship entries
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Rollin Smoke BBQ has finished one call ahead of Two Pigs And A Smoker 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A tough matchup
6–0
behind in the head-to-head
WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.
A strong matchup
9–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 90% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of MEAT ME IN ST. LOUIS in 9 of their 10 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 27 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke N for the Kids (2024-08-17).
- 2024-08-17
- 27-team field
They cook the hard rooms
1604
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 80% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1604 power rating — a tougher draw than 80% of every rated contest in the data.
- 13 rated contests
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
HESSHOGS has landed one call behind them 2 times.
The metronome
±1.83%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±1.83% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 95.0% of a perfect score
- 15 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.
28 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#798 of the rated field
- Contests
- 46
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 39%
- Peak
- 1628
3–0 in 3 shared contests (100% to Two Pigs And A Smoker)
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — Two Pigs And A Smoker ahead 3–0 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#801 of the rated field
- Contests
- 24
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1627
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 19 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#806 of the rated field
- Contests
- 19
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 32%
- Peak
- 1627
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Two Pigs And A Smoker's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#805 of the rated field
- Contests
- 20
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 75%
- Peak
- 1627
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 20 contests to 15, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#809 of the rated field
- Contests
- 23
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 65%
- Peak
- 1627
No shared contest yet.
23 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 65% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-head#808 of the rated field
- Contests
- 27
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 56%
- Peak
- 1632
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Two Pigs And A Smoker's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bite Stand | 13 | 7 | 5 | 54% | ⚔ compare |
| Take It Easy BBQ | 11 | 9 | 2 | 82% | ⚔ compare |
| Can Country Outlaw BBQ | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% | ⚔ compare |
| TRIPLE H BBQ | 11 | 6 | 5 | 55% | ⚔ compare |
| JANKY LEG BBQ | 11 | 5 | 6 | 45% | ⚔ compare |
| MEAT ME IN ST. LOUIS | 10 | 9 | 1 | 90% | ⚔ compare |
| Eleven Thirteen Q | 10 | 7 | 2 | 70% | ⚔ compare |
| Mulkey's BBQ | 10 | 6 | 3 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| OnlyCans Competition BBQ | 9 | 6 | 3 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| Rudes BBQ | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Wicked Pig BBQ | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| Rowdy Pig | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| Three Stooges Barbeque | 7 | 7 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| Smokin A's | 7 | 6 | 1 | 86% | ⚔ compare |
| AWESOME RACKS COOKIN CREW | 7 | 5 | 1 | 71% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 15 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 178.8572 | 160.5144 | 170.68 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 178.8572 | 163.3828 | 171.12 | top 25% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 171.4056 | 172.26 | top 11% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| IL | 8 | 1 | top 25% |
| MO | 3 | 0 | top 15% |
| TN | 3 | 0 | top 17% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Medium (20–39) | 10 | 1 | top 22% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 17% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke N for the Kids (Day 2) | 4 | 5 | 0 | top 27% | 2026-08-15 |
| Trekking for CDH | 2 | 1 | 1 | top 27% | 2025-09-13 |
| Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 2) | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 13% | 2026-07-18 |
| Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 14% | 2026-03-20 |
The story so far (19 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2024-08-17 → 2026-08-28
Busiest season
2026
9 contests
Contests a season
5
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
8 of 15 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
8
4 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
15 entries · 1 win · 7 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 172.26 · weakest Chicken (170.68)
Walk rate
80%
a top-10 call in 12 of 15 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
10 of 15 contests
Wins it all
7%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2024-09-14
Trekking for CDH
Best top-10 run
5
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
342.16
out of 360 · 14 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
425
753–203 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2,241
15 mapped stops · furthest 268 mi
Schedule strength
1604
average field rating faced — tougher than 80% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$106,000
listed at 13 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 12 state-championship entries
Power rating
1627
peak 1627 · #803 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Smoke N for the Kids
- First call Smoke N for the Kids
- First overall top-10 Smoke N for the Kids
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.0000 Smoke N for the Kids
- First category win (Chicken) Trekking for CDH
- First overall podium Trekking for CDH
- First Grand Championship Trekking for CDH
- First state championship Trekking for CDH
- Biggest field won (35 teams) Trekking for CDH
- Career-best overall score351.4172 Trekking for CDH
- 2026
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge
- 10th tracked contest 8th Annual KCBS World Invitational: Master Series Invitational and the Backyard Series Invitational (Sunday, May 24, 2026)
- Peak power rating (1627) Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +18.7 | Trekking for CDH | 2024-09-14 |
| +16.6 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship | 2026-03-20 |
| +14.2 | Smoke N for the Kids | 2024-08-17 |
| +12.3 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main | 2025-07-26 |
| +11.5 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) | 2026-07-17 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 78% | top 19% | 97.3% | 95.6% |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75% | top 32% | 95.5% | 93.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 11% | 97.6% | 95.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) Lincoln, IL | 4 / 16 (343.3944) | 11 (167.9772) | 2 (175.4172) | — | — |
| 2026-08-15 | Smoke N for the Kids (Day 2) 🏅 Troy, IL | 8 / 32 (337.6572) | 14 (165.0972) | 4 (172.5600) | — | — |
| 2026-08-14 | Smoke N for the Kids (Day 1) 🏅 Troy, IL | 8 / 26 (333.6344) | 6 (168.5372) | 13 (165.0972) | — | — |
| 2026-07-18 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 2) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 5 / 32 (345.0856) | 3 (175.4172) | 8 (169.6684) | — | — |
| 2026-07-17 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 3 / 32 (347.3944) | 2 (175.4172) | 5 (171.9772) | — | — |
| 2026-05-24 | 8th Annual KCBS World Invitational: Master Series Invitational and the Backyard Series Invitational (Sunday, May 24, 2026) unrated Lebanon, TN | 17 / 82 (346.2744) | 17 (174.2628) | 24 (172.0116) | — | — |
| 2026-05-22 | 8th Annual KCBS World Invitational: World Chicken Finals (Friday, May 22, 2026) unrated Lebanon, TN | — | 69 (165.6800) | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-27 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge 🏅 St. Robert, MO | 5 / 26 (350.2744) | 2 (178.8572) | 11 (171.4172) | — | — |
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 5 / 125 (350.2744) | 28 (171.4172) | 1 (178.8572) | 17 (171.4056) | — |
| 2025-09-13 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 14 / 27 (330.7772) | 11 (167.3944) | 17 (163.3828) | — | — |
| 2025-08-16 | Smoke N for the Kids 🏅 Troy, IL | 11 / 32 (333.6460) | 15 (160.5144) | 4 (173.1316) | — | — |
| 2025-07-26 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main 🏅 Collinsville, IL | 5 / 32 (343.9544) | 5 (171.9772) | 5 (171.9772) | — | — |
| 2025-03-14 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 25 / 100 (340.5144) | 27 (168.5372) | 19 (171.9772) | 8 (173.1200) | — |
| 2024-09-14 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 1 / 35 (351.4172) | 1 (178.2972) | 4 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2024-08-17 | Smoke N for the Kids 🏅 Troy, IL | 5 / 27 (336.0000) | 4 (170.8572) | 10 (165.1428) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #38 (923 pts) | #31 (971 pts) | #26 (1020 pts) | — | — |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | — | #1010 (60 pts) | — | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #125 (453 pts) | #128 (448 pts) | #121 (548 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #128 (446 pts) | #135 (471 pts) | #171 (321 pts) | — | — |