The comeback
9.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 9.6 years, then back at ND BBQ Championship (2026-05-01).
- last seen 2016-10-14
- back 2026-05-01
Slim Piggins
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2026-05-01
latest 2026-05-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 96%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 162.85 · weakest Chicken (141.68)
Road miles
1,153
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1102 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
626.73 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Slim Piggins has 1 rated contest — 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 151 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Slim Piggins's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Slim Piggins's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3726 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Slim Piggins on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Slim Piggins's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3677 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Slim Piggins'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6800 | 141.6800 | 141.68 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 82% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 162.8456 | 162.85 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 159.9772 | 159.98 | top 77% |
“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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-05-01 → 2026-05-01
Busiest season
2016
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
4 of 5 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 162.85 · weakest Chicken (141.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Master average
626.73
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
70
3–67 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,153
5 mapped stops · furthest 1,102 mi
Purse competed for
$10,200
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
9.6 yrs
2016-10-14 → 2026-05-01
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge
- 2026
- Career-best overall score626.7312 ND BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)162.8456 ND BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest ND BBQ Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 87% | 87% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 68 / 71 (626.7312) | 71 (141.6800) | 58 (162.2284) | 53 (162.8456) | 55 (159.9772) |
| 2016-10-14 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-09-23 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-10-16 | Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-09-26 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Hickory, NC | — | — | — | — | — |