The heartbreaker
Tie
level with the champion
Finished level on points with the champion at GBC Throwdown (Nov 19, 2021) — the Grand Championship went to the KCBS tiebreaker.
QUEEN OF PIGS
QUEEN OF PIGS is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 28 at the GBC Throwdown (2021), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1542
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Mar 5, 2021
latest Nov 19, 2021
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
50% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 10%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
68
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
57%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1572)
Purse competed for
$56K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to QUEEN OF PIGS, each with one reason worth a look.
QUEEN OF PIGS has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 53 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,940 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1541
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,938 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before QUEEN OF PIGS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,939 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1541
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before QUEEN OF PIGS's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,937 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1544
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1559
Level with QUEEN OF PIGS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,933 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1542
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 13% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 5% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
180
finished ahead 221 times, behind 29
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Nov 19, 2021 → Mar 3, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20231 milestone
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
20216 milestones
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score176.5600 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall podium GBC Throwdown
- First Reserve Championship GBC Throwdown
- Career-best overall score180 GBC Throwdown
- Peak power rating (1542) GBC Throwdown
20191 milestone
- First tracked contest Hawgin On Lanier
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.1 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Mar 5, 2021 |
| +15.8 | GBC Throwdown | Nov 19, 2021 |
| +9.6 | GBC Summer Showdown | Jul 30, 2021 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0% | top 10% | 100% | 96.8% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 19, 2021 | GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 2 / 28 (180) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 30, 2021 | GBC Summer Showdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 7 / 39 (166.2284) | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 4 / 81 (176.5600) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Gainesville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |