High-water mark
497.0856
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 497.0856 at Hawgin On Lanier — 92.1% of a perfect 540.
- Backyard
- Jul 31, 2020
O Holy Knight
O Holy Knight is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2020. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 33 at the BBQ Boogie & Blues (2019). They are ranked #1912 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1542
peak 1542 · rated over 6 contests
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Mar 1, 2019
latest Jul 31, 2020 · 1.4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
50% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.49
spread of their Backyard (3-meat) overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.63 · weakest Brisket (157.11)
Road miles
251
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 43 mi
Schedule strength
57%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1573)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
335.97 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
482.03 / 540
5 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to O Holy Knight, each with one reason worth a look.
49 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,908 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1546
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,914 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1542
4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#1,911 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1542
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,917 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 44%
- Peak
- 1546
Their rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 9 contests, alongside a 44% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#1,921 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1542
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 3 years before O Holy Knight's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,910 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1545
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before O Holy Knight's first contest.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMOKIN' SWEETMEATS | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKE ON THIS | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Q-INATOR! | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| COOL HAND QUE | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 171.4056 | 158.2172 | 164.63 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 171.4400 | 145.0744 | 161.21 | top 23% |
| Pork | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 165.7144 | 155.3828 | 159.47 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.1084 | 157.1084 | 157.11 | top 15% |
“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) | 4 | 0 | top 24% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 29% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
5 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
6
a different one every time
Opponents faced
210
finished ahead 223 times, behind 112
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20204 milestones
- Career-best overall score497.0856 Hawgin On Lanier
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4400 Hawgin On Lanier
- Peak power rating (1542) Hawgin On Lanier
- Most recent contest Hawgin On Lanier
20195 milestones
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First call Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score487.9200 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 BBQ Boogie & Blues
- First overall podium BBQ Boogie & Blues
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.4 | BBQ Boogie & Blues | Apr 26, 2019 |
| +10.5 | Honeybee BBQ Competition | May 31, 2019 |
| +9.1 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Mar 1, 2019 |
| +6.8 | Piggin in the Park | Jul 19, 2019 |
| +3.1 | Hawgin On Lanier | Jul 31, 2020 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.6 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown | Nov 15, 2019 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 93.3% | 89.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier 🏅 Cumming, GA | 19 / 55 (497.0856) | 26 (163.4172) | 7 (171.4400) | 28 (162.2284) | — |
| Nov 15, 2019 | Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown 🏅 Cedartown, GA | 16 / 35 (470.1144) | 4 (167.9772) | 17 (145.0744) | 15 (157.0628) | — |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Piggin in the Park 🏅 Jasper, GA | 6 / 25 (479.2576) | 8 (159.3600) | 5 (161.6688) | 6 (158.2288) | — |
| May 31, 2019 | Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 LaFayette, GA | 4 / 22 (475.7944) | 4 (158.2172) | 3 (159.3600) | 5 (158.2172) | — |
| Apr 26, 2019 | BBQ Boogie & Blues 🏅 Calhoun, GA | 3 / 33 (335.9656) | 3 (171.4056) | 9 (164.5600) | 3 (165.7144) | 5 (157.1084) |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 14 / 62 (487.9200) | 8 (167.3828) | 11 (165.1544) | 23 (155.3828) | — |