High-water mark
678.7084
career-best overall
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.7084 at Revolutionary BBQ Brawl — 94.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-24
The Rusty Porker
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-04-24
latest 2026-07-09
Best ToY finish
#648
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.26 · weakest Brisket (164.52)
Road miles
365
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 365 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
673.86 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
The Rusty Porker 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 121 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.
#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before The Rusty Porker's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before The Rusty Porker's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with The Rusty Porker on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before The Rusty Porker's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3343 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before The Rusty Porker'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 171.9656 | 172.26 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1088 | 165.0972 | 165.10 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.9656 | 171.97 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 159.3600 | 164.52 | top 61% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SC | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| VA | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2026-04-24 → 2026-07-09
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Cooks most in
SC
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 172.26 · weakest Brisket (164.52)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
673.86
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
110
32–80 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
365
2 mapped stops · furthest 365 mi
Purse competed for
$25,210
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1496
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Revolutionary BBQ Brawl
- First call Revolutionary BBQ Brawl
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.7084 Revolutionary BBQ Brawl
- Career-best overall score678.7084 Revolutionary BBQ Brawl
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5600 South Carolina Festival of Discovery
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 69% | 94.3% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 59 / 75 (669.0060) | 33 (172.5600) | 61 (165.1088) | 27 (171.9772) | 65 (159.3600) |
| 2026-04-24 | Revolutionary BBQ Brawl 🏅 Williamsburg, VA | 12 / 20 (678.7084) | 12 (171.9656) | 19 (165.0972) | 5 (171.9656) | 7 (169.6800) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #648 (170 pts) | #725 (170 pts) | #833 (135 pts) | #595 (230 pts) | #612 (210 pts) |