Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (2018-10-26).
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.
HAWGDAWG Q'N 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 108 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HAWGDAWG Q'N has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after HAWGDAWG Q'N did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HAWGDAWG Q'N on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 170.8572 | 174.86 | top 13% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0000 | 162.8688 | 167.43 | top 28% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 161.6572 | 165.97 | top 46% |
| 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 41% | 44.8% | 44.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | — | 9 (170.8572) | 2 (172.0000) | 9 (170.2744) | — |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 2 (178.8572) | 21 (162.8688) | 29 (161.6572) | — |
| 2015-09-11 | Decatur Jaycee's 21st Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-09-19 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | 31 / 75 (322.7772) | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-16 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |