High-water mark
690.1944
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.1944 at Sip & Swine BBQ Festival — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-03-06
Blue Hound Barbecue
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1512
peak 1512 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-03-06
latest 2026-03-06
Best ToY finish
#714
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 23%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.26 · weakest Pork (170.82)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
690.19 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Blue Hound Barbecue has 1 rated contest — 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 119 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.
#2756 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Blue Hound Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2749 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2021, 5 years before Blue Hound Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2759 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Blue Hound Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2768 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Level with Blue Hound Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2735 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Blue Hound Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2745 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Blue Hound Barbecue'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 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1432 | 173.1432 | 173.14 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 170.8228 | 170.82 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 171.9656 | 171.97 | top 32% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-03-06 → 2026-03-06
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
GA
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.26 · weakest Pork (170.82)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
690.19
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
76
57–18 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$12,100
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1512
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score690.1944 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score690.1944 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2628 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 23% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 10 / 44 (690.1944) | 15 (174.2628) | 12 (173.1432) | 21 (170.8228) | 14 (171.9656) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #714 (135 pts) | #887 (110 pts) | #862 (125 pts) | #920 (80 pts) | #827 (115 pts) |