Happy hunting ground
Top 19%
average finish here
Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) is their spot: an average finish in the top 19% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 14th
- average top 19%
Little Pig Town
Little Pig Town is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2018. Their best overall finish is 4th of 41 at the 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff (2014).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1552
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 3, 2013
latest Oct 26, 2018 · 5.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 21%
overall standings
Best overall
687.3828 / 720
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Best single call
177.7372
Consistency
±4.03
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 171.08 · weakest Pork Ribs (168.78)
Road miles
992
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 613 mi
Schedule strength
85%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1616)
Master avg
680.53 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Little Pig Town, each with one reason worth a look.
Little Pig Town has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 58 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,693 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1552
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,714 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1552
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#1,706 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1552
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Compare careers#1,699 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1552
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,705 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 88%
- Peak
- 1558
Level with Little Pig Town on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1552
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4744 | 166.8228 | 170.63 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 165.6800 | 168.78 | top 38% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 165.1084 | 170.05 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 177.7372 | 167.9884 | 171.08 | top 27% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 14% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 19% | Oct 26, 2018 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2013
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
368
finished ahead 369 times, behind 66
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Oct 23, 2015 → Oct 26, 2018
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20183 milestones
- Career-best overall score687.3828 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
- Peak power rating (1552) Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
- Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
20151 milestone
- Career-best single call (Brisket)177.7372 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
20141 milestone
- First overall top-10 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff
20133 milestones
- First tracked contest 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score681.1200 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- First call Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +17.3 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | Oct 26, 2018 |
| +15.5 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff | Sep 19, 2014 |
| +13.6 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Oct 23, 2015 |
| +5.6 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | Oct 11, 2013 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 14% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 28% | 94.6% | 94.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 14 / 102 (687.3828) | 14 (175.4744) | 58 (167.9656) | 8 (175.4172) | 45 (168.5256) |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 22 / 93 (679.9312) | 42 (169.1200) | 48 (167.9656) | 58 (165.1084) | 2 (177.7372) |
| Sep 19, 2014 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff Ponca City, OK | 4 / 41 (679.3824) | 14 (169.7256) | 6 (170.2856) | 9 (169.6800) | 2 (169.6912) |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) Midwest City, OK | 14 / 30 (674.8456) | 23 (166.8228) | 6 (172.0116) | 12 (168.0228) | 19 (167.9884) |
| Oct 3, 2013 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 17 / 174 (681.1200) | 29 (172) | 78 (165.6800) | 27 (172) | 37 (171.4400) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.