Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.7772 at 4th Annual Santa Anita Winners' Circle BBQ Championship — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
Finished 3 of 49 at their very first tracked contest, The Pig (Guinea Pig) Competitor's Series (2015-02-20).
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.
Rocket Pig has 2 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 77 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Rocket Pig has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Rocket Pig did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rocket Pig on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Rocket Pig's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Rocket Pig's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 170.8228 | 173.98 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 169.6800 | 169.98 | top 22% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 170.2628 | 170.85 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 166.2400 | 170.83 | top 17% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 8% | 95.4% | 95.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-20 | 4th Annual Santa Anita Winners' Circle BBQ Championship Arcadia, CA | 10 / 100 (686.7772) | 35 (170.8228) | 22 (170.2744) | 33 (170.2628) | 7 (175.4172) |
| 2015-02-20 | The Pig (Guinea Pig) Competitor's Series Rancho Mirage, CA | 3 / 49 (684.5028) | 3 (177.1428) | 11 (169.6800) | 5 (171.4400) | 13 (166.2400) |