#3084 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThe Hicktown BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1503
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-04-12
latest 2022-05-05
Best ToY finish
#1920
Master 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.83 · weakest Pork (159.35)
Road miles
112
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 56 mi
Purse competed for
$43K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
648.93 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
330.79 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
The Hicktown BBQ has 2 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 108 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after The Hicktown BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Hicktown BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3096 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before The Hicktown BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3081 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before The Hicktown BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 168.5484 | 168.83 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 157.6572 | 159.95 | top 68% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3484 | 159.3484 | 159.35 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 162.8000 | 162.80 | top 70% |
“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 77% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 42% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.1 yrs
2019-04-12 → 2022-05-05
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.83 · weakest Pork (159.35)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
648.93
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
330.79
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
180
94–102 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
112
2 mapped stops · furthest 56 mi
Purse competed for
$42,900
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.1 yrs
2019-04-12 → 2022-05-05
Power rating
1503
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score648.9256 Smoke on the Falls
- Career-best overall score648.9256 Smoke on the Falls
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.1200 Smoke on the Falls
- 2022
- Most recent contest Poosa Q
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 42% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-05 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 30 / 72 (330.7884) | 19 (168.5484) | 36 (162.2400) | — | — |
| 2019-04-12 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 23 / 30 (648.9256) | 12 (169.1200) | 26 (157.6572) | 25 (159.3484) | 21 (162.8000) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #295 (90 pts) | #332 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1920 (65 pts) | #1593 (120 pts) | #2538 (55 pts) | #2529 (55 pts) | #1906 (75 pts) |