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ROCKY FORK BBQ

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

Power ranking

#4791
of 6,413 rated · rankings

Rating

1467
peak 1467 · rated over 6 contests

Contests

6
in the data

First seen

2016-07-08
latest 2019-07-12

Best ToY finish

#1468
Master 2018

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

0
0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
of 6 contests

Avg finish

top 78%
overall standings

Perfect 180s

0

Current form

648.41 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 644.12 (+4.29)

Walk rate

17%
contests with a top-10 call

Consistency

±14.56
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken
avg 162.26 · weakest Brisket (159.09)

Road miles

530
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 136 mi

Schedule strength

49%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1563)

Purse competed for

$6K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries

Master avg

644.12 / 720
6 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (1 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.

A tough matchup

6–0 behind in the head-to-head

SLIPPERY PETE'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

SLIPPERY PETE'S BBQ has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 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.

144 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Rise and Swine
#4812 of the rated field
1466 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1466
No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 6 contests
  • last seen 2025-09-05
⚔ Head-to-head
Smokin Joe's
#4781 of the rated field
1467 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
17%
Peak
1467
No shared contest yet.

They turned up 5 years after ROCKY FORK BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.

  • rated over 6 contests
  • last seen 2025-05-30
⚔ Head-to-head
LOST WHISKEY BBQ
#4779 of the rated field
1467 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1467
No shared contest yet.

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

  • rated over 6 contests
  • last seen 2023-06-24
⚔ Head-to-head
B & D'S SMOKEHOUSE
#4776 of the rated field
1467 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1467
No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 6 contests
  • last seen 2018-09-15
⚔ Head-to-head
THE BAR-BQ
#4769 of the rated field
1467 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1500
No shared contest yet.

They've been 1500 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

  • rated over 6 contests
  • last seen 2017-07-15
⚔ Head-to-head
HAVE GRILL WILL TRAVEL
#4804 of the rated field
1466 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1466
No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before ROCKY FORK BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 6 contests
⚔ Head-to-head

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
SLIPPERY PETE'S BBQ 6 0 6 0% ⚔ compare
HIGH ON THE HOG OHIO 5 1 4 20% ⚔ compare
HISTORIC BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 6 0 0 0 166.2744 156.0116 162.26 top 68%
Pork Ribs 6 0 0 0 166.8344 154.2400 161.39 top 71%
Pork 6 1 0 0 171.9772 145.6228 161.38 top 62%
Brisket 6 0 0 0 165.0856 151.3484 159.09 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 state / province

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
OH50top 76%
IN10top 92%

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Medium (20–39)40top 80%
Large (40+)20top 75%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off 2 26 0 top 88% 2019-07-12

The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 3 yrs 2016-07-08 → 2019-07-12
Busiest season 2018 2 contests
Contests a season 1.5 across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in OH 5 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited 5 1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat Chicken 6 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat Chicken averages 162.26 · weakest Brisket (159.09)
Walk rate 17% a top-10 call in 1 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 6 contests
Master average 644.12 out of 720 · 6 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced 132 49–174 across every shared overall standing
Road miles 530 6 mapped stops · furthest 136 mi
Schedule strength 1563 average field rating faced — tougher than 49% of rated contests
Purse competed for $6,000 listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships 0 from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff 1 yrs 2018-06-29 → 2019-07-12
Power rating 1467 peak 1467 · #4791 of 6,413 rated

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

  1. 2016
  2. First tracked contest Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off
  3. Peak power rating (1488) Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off
  4. 2017
  5. First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.8624 *Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off
  6. 2018
  7. First call PigMania Hilliard State Championship BBQ & Music Festival
  8. Career-best overall score661.5772 PigMania Hilliard State Championship BBQ & Music Festival
  9. Career-best single call (Pork)171.9772 PigMania Hilliard State Championship BBQ & Music Festival
  10. 2019
  11. Most recent contest Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off

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

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-12.5Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off2016-07-08
-8.7*CCS Fest2018-04-06
-6.2*Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival2017-10-20
-4.6Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off2019-07-12
-0.7PigMania Hilliard State Championship BBQ & Music Festival2018-06-29

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)

Season by season

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20191000 0% top 79% 91.1% 91.1%
20182000 50% top 79% 91.9% 89.5%
20172000 0% top 68% 90.5% 90.1%
20161000 0% top 97% 86.5% 86.5%

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

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2019-07-12 Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off 🏅 Kettering, OH 26 / 33 (655.8744) 18 (166.2744) 21 (166.2516) 26 (162.8344) 25 (160.5140)
2018-06-29 PigMania Hilliard State Championship BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Hilliard, OH 22 / 33 (661.5772) 23 (162.2400) 17 (166.8344) 9 (171.9772) 26 (160.5256)
2018-04-06 *CCS Fest Indianapolis, IN 45 / 49 (626.6516) 37 (159.3944) 43 (154.2400) 34 (159.3600) 45 (153.6572)
2017-10-20 *Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH 30 / 39 (646.0912) 25 (164.5372) 23 (165.6800) 22 (164.5256) 38 (151.3484)
2017-07-07 *Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH 24 / 41 (651.8624) 23 (165.1084) 28 (159.3712) 18 (163.9772) 19 (163.4056)
2016-07-08 Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH 33 / 34 (622.6628) 29 (156.0116) 32 (155.9428) 33 (145.6228) 20 (165.0856)

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)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2018 ↗ Master #1468 (133 pts) #1556 (128 pts) #1462 (158 pts) #1265 (203 pts) #1703 (118 pts)

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