The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Eddie Q has finished one call ahead of Piggin & Grinnin 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Piggin & Grinnin
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-09-10
latest 2022-09-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 156.56 · weakest Chicken (154.90)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
311.46 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
Piggin & Grinnin 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 160 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Piggin & Grinnin on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 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 Piggin & Grinnin's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Piggin & Grinnin's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 6 years before Piggin & Grinnin's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 163.4628 | 146.3432 | 154.90 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 147.4168 | 156.56 | top 34% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bands & BBQ at the Point | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 62% | 2022-09-09 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2021-09-10 → 2022-09-09
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KY
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 156.56 · weakest Chicken (154.90)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
311.46
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
69
25–70 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Bands & BBQ at the Point
- First call Bands & BBQ at the Point
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score329.1656 Bands & BBQ at the Point
- Career-best overall score329.1656 Bands & BBQ at the Point
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.7028 Bands & BBQ at the Point
- 2022
- Most recent contest Bands & BBQ at the Point
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 63% | 81.6% | 81.6% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-09 | Bands & BBQ at the Point 🏅 Carrollton, KY | 20 / 32 (293.7600) | 15 (146.3432) | 17 (147.4168) | — | — |
| 2021-09-10 | Bands & BBQ at the Point 🏅 Carrollton, KY | 17 / 28 (329.1656) | 2 (163.4628) | 4 (165.7028) | — | — |