High-water mark
679.3256
career-best overall
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3256 at The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival — 94.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-10-03
County Line Swine
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1491 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-06-20
latest 2026-07-09
Best ToY finish
#927
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
677.83
last 3 Master vs avg 677.83 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±1.74
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 172.93 · weakest Brisket (165.30)
Road miles
362
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 260 mi
Schedule strength
71%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1589)
Purse competed for
$79K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
677.83 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
K & E's Little Smokers has finished one call ahead of County Line Swine 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Blue Smoke Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Blue Smoke Q has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 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.
County Line Swine has 3 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 142 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Level with County Line Swine on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before County Line Swine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3590 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before County Line Swine's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before County Line Swine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 167.3944 | 170.08 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 160.5716 | 169.52 | top 49% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 166.8228 | 172.93 | top 37% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 161.0856 | 165.30 | top 67% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SC | 1 | 0 | top 59% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 69% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2025-06-20 → 2026-07-09
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SC
1 of 3 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 172.93 · weakest Brisket (165.30)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
677.83
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
150
53–134 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
362
3 mapped stops · furthest 260 mi
Schedule strength
1589
average field rating faced — tougher than 71% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$78,510
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1491
peak 1491 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Poosa Q
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.3828 Poosa Q
- Peak power rating (1494) Poosa Q
- First call The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- Career-best overall score679.3256 The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival
- 2026
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.5600 South Carolina Festival of Discovery
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.6 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery | 2026-07-09 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.1 | Poosa Q | 2025-06-20 |
| -4.2 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival | 2025-10-03 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 59% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 72% | 94.4% | 94.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 44 / 75 (678.7772) | 57 (167.3944) | 15 (173.7372) | 8 (176.5600) | 61 (161.0856) |
| 2025-10-03 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lyons, GA | 21 / 32 (679.3256) | 8 (174.2628) | 9 (174.2628) | 24 (166.8228) | 23 (163.9772) |
| 2025-06-20 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 33 / 42 (675.3828) | 32 (168.5712) | 41 (160.5716) | 11 (175.4056) | 20 (170.8344) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #936 (110 pts) | #697 (155 pts) | #950 (60 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #907 (130 pts) | #1094 (85 pts) |