A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
3 BRATS AND A COCKTAIL WEENIE ahead in 100% of their meetings
3 BRATS AND A COCKTAIL WEENIE has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Hillbilly Hut Boys
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1469
peak 1469 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2022-09-29
latest 2025-11-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 87%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
629.12
last 4 Master vs avg 629.12 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±24.30
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.83 · weakest Chicken (152.39)
Road miles
29
mi across 5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
72%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1590)
Purse competed for
$205K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
629.12 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HI-TECH SMOKERS in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
Hillbilly Hut Boys has 4 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 144 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.
#4628 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
0–4 in 4 shared contests (0% to Hillbilly Hut Boys)
These two have cooked 4 of the same contests — Rub On It BBQ ahead 4–0 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#4639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 12
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1469
3–1 in 4 shared contests (75% to Hillbilly Hut Boys)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 12 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#4616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4632 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1470
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hillbilly Hut Boys on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4636 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1469
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Hillbilly Hut Boys's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4657 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1469
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before Hillbilly Hut Boys's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6456 | 149.6456 | 152.39 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 146.7772 | 157.23 | top 77% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4628 | 142.2168 | 159.83 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 154.7772 | 159.67 | top 74% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 293 | 0 | top 80% | 2025-11-05 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 443 | 0 | top 94% | 2023-09-27 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.1 yrs
2022-09-29 → 2025-11-05
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 159.83 · weakest Chicken (152.39)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Master average
629.12
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
884
229–1,603 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
29
5 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1590
average field rating faced — tougher than 72% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$205,275
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2023-09-27 → 2024-10-30
Power rating
1469
peak 1469 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Peak power rating (1489) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.0628 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Career-best overall score661.0628 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0000 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.5 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | 2022-09-29 |
| -9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| -7.2 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2024-10-30 |
| -2.9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 82.4% | 82.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 293 / 401 (661.0628) | 368 (157.6456) | 124 (172.0000) | 162 (171.4628) | 326 (159.9544) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 382 / 444 (636.4460) | 423 (150.2744) | 366 (161.0972) | 236 (167.9656) | 362 (157.1088) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 443 / 487 (625.5656) | 457 (151.9772) | 468 (149.0516) | 410 (157.6912) | 242 (166.8456) |
| 2022-10-01 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 490 / 505 (593.4168) | 487 (149.6456) | 496 (146.7772) | 493 (142.2168) | 426 (154.7772) |