A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Three Hog Night Smokers ahead in 100% of their meetings
Three Hog Night Smokers has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Zoo-E-Que
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1473
peak 1473 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-10-20
latest 2019-08-16
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
586.56
last 3 Master vs avg 586.56 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±59.00
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 161.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (126.43)
Road miles
65
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 39 mi
Schedule strength
90%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1627)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
586.56 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
They cook the hard rooms
1627
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 90% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1627 power rating — a tougher draw than 90% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated contests
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.
Zoo-E-Que 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 146 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.
#4469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
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#4475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4462 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
Level with Zoo-E-Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Zoo-E-Que did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4440 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
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#4468 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1503 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.7996 | 146.3316 | 154.11 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 167.4400 | 20.0000 | 126.43 | top 63% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 155.9428 | 161.11 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 144.5028 | 154.64 | top 84% |
“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 83% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 98% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.8 yrs
2017-10-20 → 2019-08-16
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 161.11 · weakest Pork Ribs (126.43)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
586.56
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
84
4–104 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
65
4 mapped stops · furthest 39 mi
Schedule strength
1627
average field rating faced — tougher than 90% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$5,400
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1473
peak 1473 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- Peak power rating (1489) *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- 2018
- Career-best overall score633.0852 *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1
- First call *Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival – Saucy and Glazed BBQ Competition(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2019
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)167.4400 Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival Saucy and Glazed BBQ
- Most recent contest Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival Saucy and Glazed BBQ
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.2 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2017-10-20 |
| -8.5 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | 2018-03-02 |
| -7 | Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival Saucy and Glazed BBQ | 2019-08-16 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 98% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 69.9% | 69.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-16 | Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival Saucy and Glazed BBQ 🏅 Newton, KS | 15 / 18 (623.2800) | 16 (155.3944) | 6 (167.4400) | 17 (155.9428) | 17 (144.5028) |
| 2018-08-19 | *Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival – Saucy and Glazed BBQ Competition(BACKYARD ONLY) Newton, KS | — | 12 (146.3316) | 3 (163.4056) | — | — |
| 2018-03-02 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 Cheney, KS | 46 / 47 (633.0852) | 44 (158.7996) | 45 (154.8800) | 40 (161.1200) | 39 (158.2856) |
| 2017-10-20 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 46 / 47 (503.3140) | 45 (155.9312) | 47 (20.0000) | 24 (166.2628) | 35 (161.1200) |