High-water mark
680.5028
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.5028 at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-09-13
Hickory Lodge Cookers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1500
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-09-13
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.42 · weakest Brisket (153.68)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$100K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
660.77 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Hickory Lodge Cookers 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 112 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.
#3198 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Hickory Lodge Cookers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3167 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 2021, 4 years before Hickory Lodge Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3189 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hickory Lodge Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Hickory Lodge Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Hickory Lodge Cookers'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 166.2400 | 168.53 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.2972 | 160.5484 | 169.42 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 165.7028 | 169.13 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 148.5372 | 153.68 | top 82% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 54% | 2025-09-12 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-13 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.42 · weakest Brisket (153.68)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
660.77
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
120
67–90 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$100,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1500
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First call Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score680.5028 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best overall score680.5028 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- 2025
- Most recent contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
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 80% | 89% | 89% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 27% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 74 / 92 (641.0284) | 49 (166.2400) | 75 (160.5484) | 54 (165.7028) | 83 (148.5372) |
| 2024-09-13 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 18 / 67 (680.5028) | 24 (170.8228) | 1 (178.2972) | 19 (172.5600) | 49 (158.8228) |