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Buttz & Hose BBQ
Buttz & Hose BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 13th of 40 at the Lakeland Pig Festival (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1522
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Jan 27, 2023
latest Jan 22, 2026 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±3.27
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.84 · weakest Pork (161.55)
Road miles
0
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)
Purse competed for
$75K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.54 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
656.43 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (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.
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 159.9772 | 163.98 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 165.1428 | 166.84 | top 41% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 150.2856 | 161.55 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 153.1088 | 161.82 | top 42% |
“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 | 13 | 0 | top 39% | Jan 22, 2026 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
237
finished ahead 258 times, behind 160
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20262 milestones
- Peak power rating (1522) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
20252 milestones
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2744 Lakeland Pig Festival
20233 milestones
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score656.4344 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score656.4344 Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.3 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2025 |
| +5.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 22, 2026 |
| +5.4 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 26, 2024 |
| +3.1 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 27, 2023 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 35% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 33% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 39% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
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 | 22 / 63 (332.5028) | 21 (166.8344) | 26 (165.6684) | 38 (159.3944) | 37 (154.7772) |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 13 / 40 (336.5600) | 25 (165.6800) | 10 (170.8800) | 6 (174.2744) | 9 (170.8572) |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 24 / 61 (328.5600) | 24 (163.4172) | 30 (165.1428) | 53 (150.2856) | 40 (153.1088) |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 25 / 51 (656.4344) | 38 (159.9772) | 25 (165.6800) | 31 (162.2400) | 11 (168.5372) |