The heartbreaker
Tie
level with the champion
Finished level on points with the champion at GBC Throwdown (2021-11-19) — the Grand Championship went to the KCBS tiebreaker.
QUEEN OF PIGS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1542
peak 1542 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2021-03-05
latest 2021-11-19
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 10%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Road miles
68
mi 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 🏅
GCs in 6 state-championship entries
Storylines (4 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
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
TRIPLE H BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
TRIPLE H BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of CLAUDE'S Q in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
YES, DEAR BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
QUEEN OF PIGS has 3 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 52 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.
#1926 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1541
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#1923 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1541
No shared contest yet.
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#1925 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1541
No shared contest yet.
Level with QUEEN OF PIGS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#1916 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1559
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before QUEEN OF PIGS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#1921 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1541
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#1915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1545
No shared contest yet.
14 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 29% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 13% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 5% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2021-03-05 → 2021-11-19
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
3 of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Opponents faced
180
221–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
68
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1572
average field rating faced — tougher than 57% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$55,875
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 6 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
2021-11-19 → 2023-03-03
Power rating
1542
peak 1542 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Hawgin On Lanier
- 2021
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall podium GBC Throwdown
- First Reserve Championship GBC Throwdown
- Career-best overall score180.0000 GBC Throwdown
- Peak power rating (1542) GBC Throwdown
- 2023
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.1 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2021-03-05 |
| +15.8 | GBC Throwdown | 2021-11-19 |
| +9.6 | GBC Summer Showdown | 2021-07-30 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0% | top 10% | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-03 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-19 | GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 2 / 28 (180.0000) | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-07-30 | GBC Summer Showdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 7 / 39 (166.2284) | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-03-05 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 4 / 81 (176.5600) | — | — | — | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-08-02 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Gainesville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |