#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hive and Hickory's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headHive and Hickory
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1492 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-09-19
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 90%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.92)
Purse competed for
$4K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
321.60 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Hive and Hickory 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 140 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.
#3538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2025.
⚔ 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, 4 years before Hive and Hickory's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3551 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hive and Hickory on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Hive and Hickory's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ 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, 8 years before Hive and Hickory'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.6800 | 165.68 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9200 | 155.9200 | 155.92 | top 87% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.9772 | 171.98 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-09-19 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.92)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
321.60
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
29
3–26 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$3,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1492
peak 1492 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
- Career-best overall score321.6000 Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.9772 Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Glencoe, AL | 27 / 30 (321.6000) | 26 (165.6800) | 26 (155.9200) | 15 (171.9772) | — |