High-water mark
676.4800
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.4800 at Ribs on the Ridge — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-02-20
Hawks Den BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1489
peak 1489 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-01-22
latest 2026-02-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.24)
Road miles
26
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$35K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
675.33 / 720
2 Master contests · 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.
Hawks Den 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 153 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.
#3712 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 11 years before Hawks Den BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Hawks Den BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3697 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hawks Den BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Hawks Den BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Hawks Den 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 165.6800 | 170.56 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 165.0856 | 166.24 | top 79% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 166.8344 | 169.41 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 159.3716 | 169.13 | top 44% |
“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 72% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2026-01-22 → 2026-02-20
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.24)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
675.33
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
120
35–117 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
26
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$34,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1489
peak 1489 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.1832 Lakeland Pig Festival
- First call Ribs on the Ridge
- First category win (Brisket) Ribs on the Ridge
- Career-best overall score676.4800 Ribs on the Ridge
- Career-best single call (Brisket)178.8800 Ribs on the Ridge
- Most recent contest Ribs on the Ridge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | top 69% | 94% | 93.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | Ribs on the Ridge 🏅 Haines City, FL | 23 / 32 (676.4800) | 27 (165.6800) | 28 (165.0856) | 24 (166.8344) | 1 (178.8800) |
| 2026-01-22 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 42 / 63 (674.1832) | 16 (175.4400) | 45 (167.3944) | 24 (171.9772) | 53 (159.3716) |