High-water mark
674.8800
career-best overall
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.8800 at *Nile Beer-B-Q — 93.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-10-14
Southern Hospitality
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-10-14
latest 2021-06-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
647.64
last 4 Master vs avg 647.64 (-0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.13
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.99 · weakest Brisket (154.83)
Road miles
50
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Schedule strength
46%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1559)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
647.64 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Montana BBQ Cook-off (2021-06-11).
- last seen 2019-06-22
- back 2021-06-11
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.
Southern Hospitality has 4 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 124 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.
#3433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 40
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 15%
- Peak
- 1512
0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to Southern Hospitality)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Southern Hospitality has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#3443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before Southern Hospitality's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3432 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Southern Hospitality on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3429 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 159.3944 | 166.99 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 152.5372 | 160.68 | top 68% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5828 | 151.9656 | 165.14 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.6172 | 145.6684 | 154.83 | top 65% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 64% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana BBQ Cook-off | 3 | 16 | 0 | top 64% | 2021-06-11 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.7 yrs
2017-10-14 → 2021-06-11
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MT
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.99 · weakest Brisket (154.83)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
647.64
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
61
36–59 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
50
4 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Schedule strength
1559
average field rating faced — tougher than 46% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-06-22 → 2021-06-11
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Nile Beer-B-Q
- First call *Nile Beer-B-Q
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.8800 *Nile Beer-B-Q
- Career-best overall score674.8800 *Nile Beer-B-Q
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.1428 *Nile Beer-B-Q
- Peak power rating (1499) *Nile Beer-B-Q
- 2021
- Most recent contest Montana BBQ Cook-off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.4 | Montana BBQ Cook-off | 2021-06-11 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.6 | Montana BBQ Cook-Off | 2018-06-23 |
| -0.9 | Montana BBQ Cook-Off | 2019-06-22 |
| -0.7 | *Nile Beer-B-Q | 2017-10-14 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 65% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-11 | Montana BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Absarokee, MT | 16 / 27 (636.4800) | 11 (170.8572) | 15 (165.1200) | 19 (151.9656) | 17 (148.5372) |
| 2019-06-22 | Montana BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Absarokee, MT | 17 / 29 (649.0172) | 19 (160.5600) | 15 (164.5372) | 12 (167.4172) | 18 (156.5028) |
| 2018-06-23 | Montana BBQ Cook-Off Absarokee, MT | 19 / 26 (630.1712) | 20 (159.3944) | 18 (160.5256) | 16 (164.5828) | 23 (145.6684) |
| 2017-10-14 | *Nile Beer-B-Q Billings, MT | 11 / 17 (674.8800) | 3 (177.1428) | 16 (152.5372) | 4 (176.5828) | 8 (168.6172) |