A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC ahead in 100% of their meetings
CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Pyro Pigs BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1467
peak 1467 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2024-05-03
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
603.58
last 3 Master vs avg 603.58 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.63
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 157.46 · weakest Brisket (144.49)
Road miles
53
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Schedule strength
84%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1612)
Purse competed for
$39K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
603.58 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
They cook the hard rooms
1612
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 84% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1612 power rating — a tougher draw than 84% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated 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.
Pyro Pigs BBQ 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 145 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.
#4796 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1510 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4771 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Pyro Pigs BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4789 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Pyro Pigs BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4780 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pyro Pigs BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4768 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Pyro Pigs BBQ'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5144 | 146.8116 | 149.87 | top 99% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 150.7772 | 157.46 | top 94% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2516 | 146.8000 | 151.76 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 139.8972 | 144.49 | top 99% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.4 yrs
2024-05-03 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NC
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 157.46 · weakest Brisket (144.49)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
603.58
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
91
0–135 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
53
3 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Schedule strength
1612
average field rating faced — tougher than 84% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$39,360
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1467
peak 1467 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)162.2628 Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1
- Peak power rating (1489) Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1
- 2025
- Career-best overall score616.9600 Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
- Most recent contest Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.5 | Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1 | 2024-05-03 |
| -10.9 | Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge | 2025-09-19 |
| -10.7 | Pigmaster BBQ Challenge | 2024-09-20 |
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)
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 100% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 84.6% | 82.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge 🏅 Rutherford College, NC | 36 / 36 (616.9600) | 36 (150.2744) | 34 (159.3484) | 35 (154.2516) | 35 (153.0856) |
| 2024-09-20 | Pigmaster BBQ Challenge 🏅 Rutherford College, NC | 33 / 33 (584.8688) | 33 (146.8116) | 33 (150.7772) | 33 (146.8000) | 33 (140.4800) |
| 2024-05-03 | Jiggy With The Piggy - Day 1 🏅 Kannapolis, NC | 45 / 45 (608.9144) | 43 (152.5144) | 39 (162.2628) | 44 (154.2400) | 45 (139.8972) |