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.
Country Hoggs
Country Hoggs is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 7th of 13 at the Roast N Boast (2025). They are ranked #4465 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1474
peak 1474 · rated over 7 contests
Contests
9
in the data
First seen
Oct 4, 2019
latest Oct 17, 2025 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
22% of 9 contests
Avg finish
top 83%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
44%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±35.16
spread of their Backyard (3-meat) overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 157.97 · weakest Chicken (152.80)
Road miles
196
across 9 mapped stops · furthest 96 mi
Schedule strength
54%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1569)
Purse competed for
$43K
listed at 8 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 7 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
314.98 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
460.52 / 540
4 Backyard (3-meat) contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Country Hoggs, each with one reason worth a look.
145 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#4,461 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 36%
- Peak
- 1474
2–5 in 7 shared contests (29% to Country Hoggs)
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.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,452 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1474
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Country Hoggs's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,445 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Country Hoggs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,468 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Level with Country Hoggs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,462 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Country Hoggs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Misfits of Smoke | 7 | 5 | 2 | 71% | ⚔ compare |
| BEER-B-QUE BOYS | 7 | 2 | 4 | 29% | ⚔ compare |
| HOGG UGLY | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% | ⚔ compare |
| RIVER RATS | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| Party Barge BBQ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| HOLY SMOKIN!!! | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Smokey Bees BBQ - MS | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| RIBLIFE | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 133.6684 | 152.80 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 117.0744 | 155.19 | top 83% |
| Pork | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 150.2400 | 157.97 | top 83% |
“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 | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 5 | 0 | top 93% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roast N Boast | 6 | 9 | 0 | top 88% | Oct 18, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MS
8 of 9 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
135
finished ahead 66 times, behind 164
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Oct 4, 2019 → Oct 9, 2020
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Roast N Boast
20215 milestones
- First call Roast-N-Boast
- First overall top-10 Roast-N-Boast
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score491.4744 Roast-N-Boast
- Career-best overall score491.4744 Roast-N-Boast
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.7372 Roast-N-Boast
20192 milestones
- First tracked contest Roast N Boast
- Peak power rating (1500) Roast N Boast
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +3 | Roast N Boast | Oct 17, 2025 |
| +1.1 | Roast-N-Boast | Aug 27, 2021 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.1 | Roast N Boast | Oct 20, 2023 |
| -8.6 | Roast N Boast | Oct 18, 2024 |
| -5.1 | Roast-N-Boast | Oct 9, 2020 |
| -5 | Roast N Boast | Oct 28, 2022 |
| -0.5 | Roast N Boast | Oct 4, 2019 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 54% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 80% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 133% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 150% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 91% | 91% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 74.4% | 74.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 87% | 87% |
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 | 7 / 13 (330.2288) | 7 (163.3944) | 8 (166.8344) | 11 (162.8228) | — |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 12 / 15 (301.6228) | 12 (143.9544) | 11 (157.6684) | 6 (161.1428) | — |
| May 4, 2024 | The Great Alabama Public Television BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT PORK) Birmingham, AL | — | — | — | 17 (150.2400) | — |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 16 / 12 (482.2396) | 13 (162.8684) | 15 (160.5484) | 17 (158.8228) | — |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 12 / 8 (466.7996) | 16 (153.1084) | 13 (150.2856) | 9 (163.4056) | — |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Roast N Boast - Rib Roast (ONE MEAT RIBS) Columbus, MS | — | — | 20 (159.4172) | — | — |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 9 / 19 (491.4744) | 11 (159.4744) | 7 (169.7372) | 11 (162.2628) | — |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Roast-N-Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 23 / 36 (401.5656) | 23 (133.6684) | 23 (117.0744) | 22 (150.8228) | — |
| Oct 4, 2019 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 13 / 25 (313.0972) | 14 (153.1428) | 11 (159.9544) | 16 (154.2172) | — |