High-water mark
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.0628 at Silicon Valley Barbeque Championships — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
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- 2016-06-24
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.0628 at Silicon Valley Barbeque Championships — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
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.
Hog Island Pitmaster has 1 rated contest — 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 111 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hog Island Pitmaster's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hog Island Pitmaster on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Hog Island Pitmaster did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hog Island Pitmaster's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hog Island Pitmaster's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hog Island Pitmaster's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 171.9656 | 171.97 | top 13% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 163.9772 | 163.98 | top 37% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 163.9772 | 163.98 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 165.1428 | 165.14 | top 24% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-24 | Silicon Valley Barbeque Championships Santa Clara, CA | 12 / 54 (665.0628) | 7 (171.9656) | 20 (163.9772) | 19 (163.9772) | 13 (165.1428) |