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Armed and Hammered

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1507
peak 1507 · rated over 2 contests

Contests

2
in the data

First seen

2013-06-21
latest 2014-06-20

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

1
1 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
of 2 contests

Avg finish

top 42%
overall standings

Best overall

655.9996 / 720

Perfect 180s

0

Walk rate

100%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

178.8800

Strongest meat

Pork
avg 171.73 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.57)

Road miles

4
mi across 2 mapped stops

Master avg

652.25 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs

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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.

Armed and Hammered 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 114 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.

Space Station BBQ
#2901 of the rated field
1508 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
5
GCs
0
Top-10s
20%
Peak
1515
No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2026-01-22
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Salt and Pepper BBQ
#2919 of the rated field
1507 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
5
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1516
No shared contest yet.

Level with Armed and Hammered on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2025-10-03
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BAD BOB'S QUE
#2903 of the rated field
1508 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
5
GCs
0
Top-10s
20%
Peak
1513
No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2025-03-22
⚔ Head-to-head
FOUR GUYS PORKIN
#2937 of the rated field
1507 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
5
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1508
No shared contest yet.

They turned up 7 years after Armed and Hammered did, first appearing in 2020.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2025-03-07
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Smok'n M
#2906 of the rated field
1508 ▲ 0 power rating
Contests
6
GCs
0
Top-10s
50%
Peak
1527
No shared contest yet.

6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Armed and Hammered's is still finding its level.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2022-06-11
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SOUTHERN HEAT BBQ
#2924 of the rated field
1507 ▼ 0 power rating
Contests
5
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1519
No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

  • rated over 5 contests
  • last seen 2019-12-06
⚔ Head-to-head

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 2 1 0 0 169.7142 160.5372 165.13 top 44%
Pork Ribs 2 0 0 0 157.1428 156.0004 156.57 top 77%
Pork 2 1 1 1 178.8800 164.5714 171.73 top 23%
Brisket 2 0 0 0 164.5712 153.0740 158.82 top 59%

“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

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Medium (20–39)10top 33%
Large (40+)10top 50%

Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Peak City Pig Fest 2 12 0 top 42% 2014-06-20

The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 1 yrs 2013-06-21 → 2014-06-20
Busiest season 2014 1 contest
Contests a season 1 across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in NC 2 of 2 contests
Contests visited 1 1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat Chicken 2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat Pork averages 171.73 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.57)
Walk rate 100% a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 2 contests
Master average 652.25 out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced 65 48–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles 4 2 mapped stops
Power rating 1507 peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

  1. 2013
  2. First tracked contest Peak City Pig Fest
  3. First call Peak City Pig Fest
  4. First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.9996 Peak City Pig Fest
  5. Career-best overall score655.9996 Peak City Pig Fest
  6. 2014
  7. First category win (Pork) Peak City Pig Fest
  8. Career-best single call (Pork)178.8800 Peak City Pig Fest
  9. Most recent contest Peak City Pig Fest

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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20141001 100% top 50% 90.1% 90.1%
20131000 100% top 33% 91.1% 91.1%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2014-06-20 Peak City Pig Fest Apex, NC 24 / 48 (648.4916) 33 (160.5372) 38 (156.0004) 1 (178.8800) 38 (153.0740)
2013-06-21 Peak City Pig Fest Apex, NC 12 / 36 (655.9996) 7 (169.7142) 27 (157.1428) 16 (164.5714) 14 (164.5712)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

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