SEASONED SWINE

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

Rating

1509

peak 1509 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2018-10-19

latest 2019-10-18

Best ToY finish

#1849

Master 2019

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 54%

overall standings

Best overall

665.1084 / 720

Master · Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival

Perfect 180s

Current form

655.36

last 4 Master vs avg 655.36 (+0.00)

Walk rate

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

172.5600

Pork · Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival

Consistency

±8.35

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 165.13 · weakest Brisket (161.11)

Road miles

129

mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 44 mi

Schedule strength

70%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1589)

Purse competed for

$37K

listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

GCs in 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

655.36 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (3 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

665.1084 career-best overall

92.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 665.1084 at Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival — 92.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
2018-10-19

A tough matchup

4–0 behind in the head-to-head

Backdraft BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

Backdraft 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 WILD HOGS BBQ 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.

SEASONED SWINE 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 100 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.

Rockin R Bbq

#2841 of the rated field

1509 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1515

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 2020-09-19

⚔ Head-to-head

Howling Hog BBQ

#2843 of the rated field

1509 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1519

No shared contest yet.

They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before SEASONED SWINE's first contest.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2017-06-10

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Big Stacks BBQ

#2847 of the rated field

1509 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1509

No shared contest yet.

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

rated over 6 contests

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Just For Fun BBQ

#2850 of the rated field

1509 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 29%
Peak: 1513

No shared contest yet.

Level with SEASONED SWINE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 7 contests
last seen 2025-10-17

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Big Dog BBQ

#2833 of the rated field

1510 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 50%
Peak: 1529

No shared contest yet.

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 8 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2026-08-21

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CLOVER RIDGE SMOKERS

#2845 of the rated field

1509 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 8
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1510

No shared contest yet.

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 8 contests
last seen 2016-08-12

⚔ Head-to-head

By meat

Category	Entries	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	169.6800	160.5372	164.41	top 61%
Pork Ribs	4	169.7144	159.9660	165.13	top 46%
Pork	4	172.5600	159.4516	164.71	top 53%
Brisket	4	169.1428	155.3484	161.11	top 57%

“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)	1	0	top 82%
Large (40+)	3	0	top 45%

The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 1 yrs 2018-10-19 → 2019-10-18

Busiest season 2019 3 contests

Contests a season 2 across 2 seasons in the data

Cooks most in CO 4 of 4 contests

Contests visited 4 0 of them cooked more than once

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

Strongest meat Pork Ribs averages 165.13 · weakest Brisket (161.11)

Walk rate 0% a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 4 contests

Master average 655.36 out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 124 89–94 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 129 4 mapped stops · furthest 44 mi

Schedule strength 1589 average field rating faced — tougher than 70% of rated contests

Purse competed for $36,750 listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships 0 from 3 state-championship entries

Power rating 1509 peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated

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

2018
Oct 19 First tracked contest Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival
Oct 19 First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.1084 Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival
Oct 19 Career-best overall score665.1084 Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival
Oct 19 Career-best single call (Pork)172.5600 Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival
2019
Oct 18 Peak power rating (1509) Meat Scream BBQ Competition
Oct 18 Most recent contest Meat Scream BBQ Competition

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+7.7	Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival	2018-10-19
+3.6	Meat Scream BBQ Competition	2019-10-18
+3.4	26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge	2019-06-14

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-5.3	National Western BBQ Throwdown	2019-01-11

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

Season	Contests	GCs	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	3	0	0	0	0%	top 60%	91.4%	90.6%
2018	1	0	0	0	0%	top 35%	92.4%	92.4%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2019-10-18	Meat Scream BBQ Competition 🏅 Westminster, CO	22 / 46 (658.2056)	17 (169.6800)	11 (169.7144)	34 (160.5600)	32 (158.2512)
2019-06-14	26th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge 🏅 Frisco, CO	28 / 55 (656.0116)	35 (161.7028)	21 (165.7144)	35 (159.4516)	13 (169.1428)
2019-01-11	National Western BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Denver, CO	31 / 38 (642.1260)	34 (160.5372)	29 (159.9660)	18 (166.2744)	31 (155.3484)
2018-10-19	Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival Westminster, CO	17 / 48 (665.1084)	26 (165.7256)	21 (165.1428)	13 (172.5600)	25 (161.6800)

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
2019 ↗	Master	#1849 (75 pts)	#1796 (100 pts)	#1516 (130 pts)	#2029 (60 pts)	#2010 (60 pts)