Happy hunting ground
Top 18%
average finish here
Lakeland Pig Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 18% across 3 visits.
- 3 visits
- best finish 2nd
- average top 18%
PODUNK PORKERS BBQ
PODUNK PORKERS BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 58 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2019), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1533
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Jan 25, 2019
latest Jan 28, 2022 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
29% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 18%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.80
spread of their Backyard (4-meat) overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.97 · weakest Brisket (160.73)
Road miles
7
across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
33%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1545)
Purse competed for
$75K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard (4-meat) avg
658.78 / 720
3 Backyard (4-meat) contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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PODUNK PORKERS BBQ 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 89 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,136 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1533
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,154 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1533
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careers#2,145 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1533
Level with PODUNK PORKERS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,147 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1533
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#2,155 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 63%
- Peak
- 1533
Careers of much the same size, 8 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1533
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before PODUNK PORKERS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 158.2172 | 167.97 | top 19% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 158.8688 | 165.91 | top 23% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.5944 | 155.9428 | 164.17 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 157.6572 | 160.73 | top 30% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 3 | 2 | 0 | top 18% | Jan 28, 2022 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
213
finished ahead 256 times, behind 56
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jan 24, 2020 → Jan 28, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20222 milestones
- Peak power rating (1533) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
20198 milestones
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- First category win (Pork) Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall top-10 Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall podium Lakeland Pig Festival
- First Reserve Championship Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.5716 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score676.5716 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.5944 Lakeland Pig Festival
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.6 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 25, 2019 |
| +10.9 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2020 |
| +5.3 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 28, 2022 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 33% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 94% | 94% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 2022 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 20 / 60 (638.1832) | 26 (158.2172) | 26 (158.8688) | 21 (159.9772) | 15 (161.1200) |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 9 / 53 (661.5884) | 4 (173.1084) | 7 (169.1200) | 34 (155.9428) | 15 (163.4172) |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 2 / 58 (676.5716) | 4 (172.5828) | 8 (169.7372) | 1 (176.5944) | 21 (157.6572) |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |