Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.8968 at 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.2 years, then back at Plant City Pig Jam (2019-11-22).
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.
Nice Racks BBQ has 3 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 110 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Nice Racks BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 7 years before Nice Racks BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 4 years before Nice Racks BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 153.1316 | 164.28 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 145.0972 | 160.25 | top 54% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5140 | 150.2628 | 160.54 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 160.0000 | 164.55 | top 39% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 2 | 0 | top 45% |
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 51% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 54% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 99 | 0 | top 61% | 2017-09-01 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.8 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2017-09-01 |
| +4 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2020-01-24 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.3 | Plant City Pig Jam | 2019-11-22 |
| 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 40% | 178.2% | 178.2% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 51% | 172.2% | 172.2% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 93.3% | 92.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 21 / 53 (641.6344) | 40 (153.1316) | 30 (159.4288) | 19 (162.8340) | 9 (166.2400) |
| 2019-11-22 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 20 / 39 (619.9316) | 5 (164.5716) | 24 (145.0972) | 24 (150.2628) | 8 (160.0000) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 183 / 407 (665.0284) | 101 (171.9772) | 174 (166.8228) | 294 (160.5484) | 180 (165.6800) |
| 2017-08-31 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 99 / 129 (671.8968) | 91 (167.4288) | 72 (169.6684) | 93 (168.5140) | 94 (166.2856) |