Happy hunting ground
Top 17%
average finish here
Lakeland Pig Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 17% across 4 visits.
- 4 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 17%
Podunk Porkers
Podunk Porkers is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2014 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 40 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2025). They are ranked #1820 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings. Also listed in KCBS results as “PO Dunk porkers”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1546
peak 1546 · rated over 5 contests
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jan 23, 2014
latest Jan 22, 2026 · 12 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
33% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.02
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.77 · weakest Brisket (162.85)
Road miles
5
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
38%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1550)
Purse competed for
$100K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Master avg
634.70 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
342.05 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
668.48 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Podunk Porkers, each with one reason worth a look.
67 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1546
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Podunk Porkers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,811 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 83%
- Peak
- 1547
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,827 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1546
Level with Podunk Porkers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,823 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1546
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Podunk Porkers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,819 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1546
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 13 years before Podunk Porkers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,810 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1547
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accutech BBQ | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 162.8116 | 168.77 | top 25% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 162.2516 | 168.43 | top 30% |
| Pork | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 163.3828 | 168.32 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 141.6684 | 162.85 | top 35% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 4 | 3 | 0 | top 17% | Jan 22, 2026 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
294
finished ahead 375 times, behind 111
Longest layoff
8 yrs
Jan 23, 2014 → Jan 28, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20262 milestones
- Peak power rating (1546) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
20253 milestones
- First overall top-10 Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall podium Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4172 Lakeland Pig Festival
20241 milestone
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
20232 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.4800 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score668.4800 Lakeland Pig Festival
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest The Tiger Town Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2025 |
| +14.2 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 22, 2026 |
| +10.6 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 27, 2023 |
| +9.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 26, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.1 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival | Jan 23, 2014 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 8% | 96.5% | 96.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 25% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2026 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 6 / 63 (345.0972) | 6 (171.9772) | 10 (173.1200) | 29 (163.3828) | 5 (169.7028) |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 3 / 40 (347.4172) | 4 (175.4172) | 6 (172) | 20 (169.1428) | 18 (164.0116) |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 16 / 61 (333.6460) | 27 (162.8116) | 9 (170.8344) | 7 (174.2856) | 4 (172.0228) |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 13 / 51 (668.4800) | 13 (167.4056) | 32 (163.9544) | 13 (170.2628) | 15 (166.8572) |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23, 2014 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 44 / 69 (634.6972) | 24 (166.2400) | 28 (162.2516) | 28 (164.5372) | 60 (141.6684) |