High-water mark
176.0000
career-best overall
97.8% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 176.0000 at GBC Throwdown — 97.8% of a perfect 180.
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- Nov 19, 2021
THE PORK HUNTERS
THE PORK HUNTERS is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 28 at the GBC Throwdown (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1540
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Mar 5, 2021
latest Nov 19, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 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 11%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
54
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
57%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1572)
Purse competed for
$44K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
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THE PORK HUNTERS 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 65 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,968 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1540
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1542
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before THE PORK HUNTERS's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1541
Level with THE PORK HUNTERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1540
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 10 contests, alongside a 40% overall top-10 rate.
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- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1540
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before THE PORK HUNTERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,951 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1541
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before THE PORK HUNTERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ 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 10% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 12% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 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 209 times, behind 41
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20216 milestones
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score173.1200 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall podium GBC Throwdown
- Career-best overall score176 GBC Throwdown
- Peak power rating (1540) GBC Throwdown
- Most recent contest GBC Throwdown
20191 milestone
- First tracked contest Hawgin On Lanier
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.2 | GBC Summer Showdown | Jul 30, 2021 |
| +14.2 | GBC Throwdown | Nov 19, 2021 |
| +11.7 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Mar 5, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0% | top 11% | 97.8% | 97.1% |
| 2020 | 2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2021 | GBC Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 3 / 28 (176) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 30, 2021 | GBC Summer Showdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | 4 / 39 (175.4172) | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 10 / 81 (173.1200) | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Gainesville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |