HOGG UGLY

HOGG UGLY is a competition barbecue team with 13 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2014 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 6th of 13 at the Roast N Boast (2025). They are ranked #4452 of 6,477 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#4,452

of 6,477 rated · rankings

Rating

1474

peak 1474 · rated over 11 contests

Contests

in the data

First seen

Oct 17, 2014

latest Oct 17, 2025 · 11 years on the trail

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

2 podiums

Overall top-10s

31% of 13 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s, still running

Avg finish

top 73%

overall standings

Best overall

661.0404 / 720

Master · Roast N Boast

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

62%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

172.0116

Pork Ribs · Roast-N-Boast

Consistency

±18.08

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 163.45 · weakest Chicken (159.08)

Road miles

116

across 13 mapped stops · furthest 50 mi

Schedule strength

44%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1558)

Purse competed for

$39K

listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 7 state-championship entries

Master avg

636.64 / 720

5 Master contests · 0 GCs

Backyard avg

329.66 / 360

2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs

Backyard (3-meat) avg

485.35 / 540

4 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 0 GCs

These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), 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.

Storylines (8 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Riding a hot streak

4 straight overall top-10s

Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.

career best 4

They almost always walk

62% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 8 of 13 contests

A top-10 category call in 62% of their 13 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

A tough matchup

5–0 behind in the head-to-head

HOLY SMOKIN!!! ahead in 100% of their meetings

HOLY SMOKIN!!! has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.

The weak link

−4.4 points behind their best meat

Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.37 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 18% of the time against 55%.

Chicken avg 159.08
Pork Ribs avg 163.45
2 calls in 11 entries

A strong matchup

5–2 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 71% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Country Hoggs in 5 of their 7 shared contests.

Looking over their shoulder

3× one call behind them

BEER-B-QUE BOYS has landed one call behind them 3 times.

The metronome

±2.24% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.24% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 89.5% of a perfect score
13 contests

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A standing appointment

7 years running at one contest

They've cooked Roast N Boast every year from 2018 to 2024 — the contest they never miss.

8 visits in all
best finish 6th

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to HOGG UGLY, each with one reason worth a look.

147 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Country Hoggs

#4,456 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 7
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 29%
Peak: 1474

5–2 in 7 shared contests (71% to HOGG UGLY)

These two have cooked 7 of the same contests — HOGG UGLY ahead 5–2 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.

rated over 7 contests
last seen Oct 17, 2025

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25/35 GLORY GRILLERS

#4,428 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1504

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to HOGG UGLY)

They've been 1504 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

rated over 6 contests
last seen Sep 29, 2016

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SMOKIN TRIGGERS

#4,439 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 152
GCs: 2
Top-10s: 24%
Peak: 1708

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to HOGG UGLY)

152 contests to 13: their number has had years to settle where HOGG UGLY's is still finding its level.

rated over 144 contests
last seen Aug 11, 2023

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PIG FARMER'S BBQ

#4,430 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1501

12 contests and no Grand Championship yet.

rated over 12 contests
last seen Jan 17, 2025

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T&J's Dirty Butts

#4,465 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 10
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1474

Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before HOGG UGLY's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 10 contests

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SMOKIN THE GOOD STUFF

#4,441 of the rated field

1474 power rating

Contests: 13
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1474

Level with HOGG UGLY on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 13 contests
last seen Oct 4, 2024

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
BEER-B-QUE BOYS	11	4	7	36%	⚔ compare
Misfits of Smoke	11	4	6	36%	⚔ compare
Country Hoggs	7	5	2	71%	⚔ compare
RIVER RATS	6	4	2	67%	⚔ compare
Party Barge BBQ	5	4	1	80%	⚔ compare
PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ	5	1	4	20%	⚔ compare
Smokey Bees BBQ - MS	5	1	4	20%	⚔ compare
HOLY SMOKIN!!!	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare
RIBLIFE	5	0	5	0%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	11	2	1	170.2628	146.7656	159.08	top 76%
Pork Ribs	11	6	1	172.0116	139.3256	163.45	top 57%
Pork	11	3	0	169.7144	149.6572	160.23	top 75%
Brisket	5	1	0	167.3944	151.9544	159.27	top 68%

“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	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	6	top 70%
Medium (20–39)	4	top 72%
Large (40+)	1	top 90%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Roast N Boast	8	6	0	top 73%	Oct 18, 2024

More numbers

Busiest season 2015 2 contests

Contests a season 1.1 across 12 seasons in the data

Most contests held in MS 13 of 13 contests

Contests visited 4 1 of them more than once

Opponents faced 244 finished ahead 108 times, behind 279

Longest layoff 1.2 yrs Aug 27, 2021 → Oct 28, 2022

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20251 milestone

Oct 17 Most recent contest Roast N Boast

20222 milestones

Oct 28 First overall top-10 Roast N Boast
Oct 28 10th tracked contest Roast N Boast

20201 milestone

Oct 9 Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0116 Roast-N-Boast

20182 milestones

Sep 21 First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.0404 Roast N Boast
Sep 21 Career-best overall score661.0404 Roast N Boast

20171 milestone

Oct 6 First call Roast N Boast BBQ

20142 milestones

Oct 17 First tracked contest Roast N' Boast
Oct 17 Peak power rating (1498) Roast N' Boast

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+7	Roast N Boast	Oct 18, 2024
+5.7	Roast N Boast	Oct 17, 2025
+3	Roast-N-Boast	Oct 9, 2020
+0.2	Roast N Boast	Oct 28, 2022

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-12.4	Roast N Boast	Oct 4, 2019
-11.2	Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel	Mar 13, 2015
-7	Roast N Boast BBQ	Oct 6, 2017
-4.5	Roast N Boast	Sep 21, 2018
-3.9	Roast-N-Boast	Aug 27, 2021

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	Top-10s	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2025	1	1	100%	top 46%	91.9%	91.9%
2024	1	1	100%	top 40%	91.3%	91.3%
2023	1	1	100%	top 83%	91.3%	91.3%
2022	1	1	100%	top 113%	91.3%	91.3%
2021	1	0	100%	top 63%	88.8%	88.8%
2020	1	0	100%	top 47%	88.1%	88.1%
2019	1	0	0%	top 100%	84.9%	84.9%
2018	1	0	100%	top 76%	91.8%	91.8%
2017	1	0	100%	top 80%	89.8%	89.8%
2016	1	0	0%	—	—	—
2015	2	0	0%	top 90%	86.2%	86.2%
2014	1	0	0%	top 60%	89.4%	89.4%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Oct 17, 2025	Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	6 / 13 (330.8000)	8 (162.2628)	4 (168.5372)	5 (168.5372)	—
Oct 18, 2024	Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	6 / 15 (328.5140)	2 (170.2628)	9 (158.2512)	11 (154.2284)	—
Oct 20, 2023	Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	10 / 12 (493.0288)	11 (163.3944)	10 (166.2516)	11 (163.3828)	—
Oct 28, 2022	Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	9 / 8 (493.0512)	12 (158.2744)	5 (170.2628)	8 (164.5140)	—
Aug 27, 2021	Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	12 / 19 (479.3944)	13 (147.3828)	5 (170.8800)	12 (161.1316)	—
Oct 9, 2020	Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	17 / 36 (475.9200)	19 (146.7656)	3 (172.0116)	17 (157.1428)	—
Oct 4, 2019	Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS	25 / 25 (611.2228)	21 (158.8572)	25 (139.3256)	21 (160.5372)	22 (152.5028)
Sep 21, 2018	Roast N Boast Columbus, MS	13 / 17 (661.0404)	15 (162.8000)	13 (165.1316)	8 (169.7144)	15 (163.3944)
Oct 6, 2017	Roast N Boast BBQ Columbus, MS	20 / 25 (646.6628)	21 (158.2172)	19 (159.3484)	22 (161.7028)	8 (167.3944)
Sep 30, 2016	Roast N Boast BBQ Columbus, MS	—	—	—	—	—
Oct 2, 2015	Roast N' Boast Columbus, MS	—	—	—	—	—
Mar 13, 2015	Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel Tupelo, MS	85 / 94 (620.9260)	85 (157.6572)	54 (161.6572)	90 (149.6572)	81 (151.9544)
Oct 17, 2014	Roast N' Boast Columbus, MS	15 / 25 (643.3368)	14 (164)	11 (166.2628)	23 (151.9884)	12 (161.0856)

HOGG UGLY

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Best top-10 run

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Backyard avg

Backyard (3-meat) avg

Storylines (8 found in their record)

Riding a hot streak

They almost always walk

A tough matchup

The weak link

A strong matchup

Looking over their shoulder

The metronome

A standing appointment

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

More numbers

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

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

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)