The comeback
6.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6.8 years, then back at Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest (2023-06-09).
- last seen 2016-09-09
- back 2023-06-09
SUGAR HOUNDS BARBECUE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1507
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-09-09
latest 2023-06-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.74 · weakest Brisket (158.86)
Road miles
2
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
645.12 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
346.85 / 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.
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.
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.
SUGAR HOUNDS BARBECUE 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 115 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.
#2938 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to SUGAR HOUNDS BARBECUE)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team SUGAR HOUNDS BARBECUE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2919 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with SUGAR HOUNDS BARBECUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.2972 | 161.1200 | 169.71 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5488 | 155.4056 | 161.98 | top 53% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 169.7372 | 169.74 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8572 | 158.8572 | 158.86 | top 87% |
“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.
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6.7 yrs
2016-09-09 → 2023-06-09
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.74 · weakest Brisket (158.86)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
645.12
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
346.85
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
80
49–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
2
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$14,940
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6.8 yrs
2016-09-09 → 2023-06-09
Power rating
1507
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest *Derby BBQ Festival
- 2016
- Career-best overall score645.1200 *Derby BBQ Festival
- 2023
- First call Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First category win (Chicken) Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall podium Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score346.8460 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.2972 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 9% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-09 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 3 / 32 (346.8460) | 1 (178.2972) | 7 (168.5488) | — | — |
| 2016-09-09 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | 31 / 38 (645.1200) | 28 (161.1200) | 32 (155.4056) | 15 (169.7372) | 33 (158.8572) |
| 2015-09-11 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #177 (266 pts) | #242 (146 pts) | — | — |