The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge (2016-09-23).
- last seen 2014-09-26
- back 2016-09-23
DIRTY SOUTH BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1471
peak 1471 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2013-04-19
latest 2013-05-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 98%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 155.43 · weakest Brisket (148.57)
Road miles
449
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 318 mi
Master avg
606.57 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
DIRTY SOUTH 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 129 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.
#4558 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after DIRTY SOUTH BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4566 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1507 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4568 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
No shared contest yet.
Level with DIRTY SOUTH BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4545 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4534 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1507 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 147.4284 | 152.29 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2860 | 148.5712 | 155.43 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4282 | 149.1428 | 150.29 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8570 | 146.2858 | 148.57 | top 92% |
“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 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2013-04-19 → 2013-05-24
Busiest season
2016
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
4 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 155.43 · weakest Brisket (148.57)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Master average
606.57
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
76
3–91 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
449
6 mapped stops · furthest 318 mi
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2014-09-26 → 2016-09-23
Power rating
1471
peak 1471 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest High on the Hog Festival
- Career-best overall score607.4284 Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)162.2860 Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ Cook-off
- 2016
- Most recent contest *Town of Mt. Pleasant Fall Festival & First Annual Polar Pig Cook-Off
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 84.4% | 84.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-11 | *Town of Mt. Pleasant Fall Festival & First Annual Polar Pig Cook-Off Mt. Pleasant, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-10-14 | Smoking in the Foothills Lenoir, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-09-23 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Newton, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-09-26 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Hickory, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-05-24 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ Cook-off Lewisburg, TN | 36 / 36 (607.4284) | 35 (147.4284) | 19 (162.2860) | 33 (151.4282) | 35 (146.2858) |
| 2013-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | 57 / 60 (605.7138) | 50 (157.1428) | 55 (148.5712) | 58 (149.1428) | 52 (150.8570) |