High-water mark
682.1828
career-best overall
94.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 682.1828 at Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival — 94.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-09-29
HOG HEAVEN BAR B QUE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1516 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-09-23
latest 2025-09-26
Best ToY finish
#868
Master 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
677.74
last 4 Master vs avg 677.74 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±3.25
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 174.55 · weakest Chicken (164.54)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
77%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1599)
Purse competed for
$53K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
677.74 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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 tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Glamping Grillers ahead in 100% of their meetings
Glamping Grillers has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of PORK AVENUE in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Smokin Through The Night has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
HOG HEAVEN BAR B QUE 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 107 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.
#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before HOG HEAVEN BAR B QUE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOG HEAVEN BAR B QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before HOG HEAVEN BAR B QUE'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 159.9428 | 164.54 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 170.8228 | 174.55 | top 32% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 168.5256 | 171.97 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 158.8000 | 166.67 | top 52% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 3 | 8 | 0 | top 56% | 2025-09-26 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2022-09-23 → 2025-09-26
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 174.55 · weakest Chicken (164.54)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
677.74
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
69
54–53 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1599
average field rating faced — tougher than 77% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$52,800
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2022-09-23 → 2023-09-29
Power rating
1514
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival
- First call Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.0288 Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival
- 2023
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score682.1828 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.8572 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1516) Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- 2025
- Most recent contest Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.7 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2023-09-29 |
| +7.4 | Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival | 2022-09-23 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.4 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2024-09-27 |
| -0.8 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2025-09-26 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 94.1% | 94.1% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 32% | 94.7% | 94.7% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 39% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival 🏅 Jonesboro, AR | 17 / 26 (678.1600) | 24 (159.9428) | 15 (170.8228) | 12 (173.1316) | 12 (174.2628) |
| 2024-09-27 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival 🏅 Jonesboro, AR | 19 / 27 (677.5772) | 12 (171.9772) | 13 (173.1200) | 18 (170.8228) | 24 (161.6572) |
| 2023-09-29 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival 🏅 Jonesboro, AR | 8 / 25 (682.1828) | 17 (162.8344) | 1 (178.8572) | 10 (168.5256) | 3 (171.9656) |
| 2022-09-23 | Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival 🏅 Jonesboro, AR | 13 / 33 (673.0288) | 22 (163.3944) | 6 (175.4172) | 7 (175.4172) | 20 (158.8000) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1034 (91 pts) | #1457 (56 pts) | #1163 (101 pts) | #985 (116 pts) | #972 (116 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1092 (82 pts) | #1026 (117 pts) | #1118 (112 pts) | #1114 (87 pts) | #1498 (57 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #868 (145 pts) | #1195 (90 pts) | #712 (275 pts) | #964 (125 pts) | #731 (225 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1051 (118 pts) | #1298 (73 pts) | #951 (173 pts) | #928 (163 pts) | #1242 (83 pts) |