High-water mark
663.8860
career-best overall
92.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.8860 at The Golden State Battle VIII — 92.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-01-30
Hot Hoskins BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1513 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2026-01-30
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 49%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.96 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.09)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
663.89 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
306.71 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 35 at their very first tracked contest, 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (2025-09-12).
- 2025-09-12
- 35-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.
Hot Hoskins 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 113 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.
#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Hot Hoskins BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Hot Hoskins BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3026 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hot Hoskins BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3048 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Hot Hoskins BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3041 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 178.8572 | 153.0628 | 165.96 | top 12% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 153.6456 | 157.09 | top 51% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 162.2516 | 162.25 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 162.2400 | 162.24 | top 83% |
“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 14% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2026-01-30
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.96 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.09)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
663.89
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
306.71
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
68
39–45 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1504
peak 1513 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First call 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First overall top-10 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.8860 The Golden State Battle VIII
- Career-best overall score663.8860 The Golden State Battle VIII
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8572 The Golden State Battle VIII
- Most recent contest The Golden State Battle VIII
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 14% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | The Golden State Battle VIII 🏅 Riverside, CA | 34 / 41 (663.8860) | 4 (178.8572) | 37 (160.5372) | 35 (162.2516) | 34 (162.2400) |
| 2025-09-12 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 5 / 35 (306.7084) | 5 (153.0628) | 4 (153.6456) | — | — |