Happy hunting ground
Top 16%
average finish here
Maryland State BBQ Bash is their spot: an average finish in the top 16% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 4th
- average top 16%
Old Hilltop BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1526
peak 1526 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2017-08-11
latest 2019-08-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 16%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.02 · weakest Chicken (151.94)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
325.69 / 720
1 Master contest · 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.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 47 at their very first tracked contest, Maryland State BBQ Bash (2017-08-11).
- 2017-08-11
- 47-team field
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.
Old Hilltop BBQ 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 73 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.
#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2322 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Level with Old Hilltop BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Old Hilltop BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 9 years after Old Hilltop BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-head#2312 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2330 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before Old Hilltop BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9428 | 151.9428 | 151.94 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.0228 | 160.0228 | 160.02 | top 13% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 9% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 16% | 2019-08-09 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2017-08-11 → 2019-08-09
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 160.02 · weakest Chicken (151.94)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
325.69
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
132
143–18 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2017-08-11 → 2019-08-09
Power rating
1526
peak 1526 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First overall top-10 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score325.6916 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2019
- First call Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)160.0228 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 9% | 45.2% | 45.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-09 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 7 / 30 (311.9656) | 18 (151.9428) | 4 (160.0228) | — | — |
| 2017-08-11 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 4 / 47 (325.6916) | — | — | — | — |