High-water mark
668.4456
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.4456 at Smoke on the Ohio — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-09-08
Powells Pig Pile Bbq
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1500 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-09-08
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.99 · weakest Brisket (162.53)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
663.01 / 720
2 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.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
AbiCue has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Powells Pig Pile Bbq 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 128 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.
#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Powells Pig Pile Bbq's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3261 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#3232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Level with Powells Pig Pile Bbq on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Powells Pig Pile Bbq's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3227 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Powells Pig Pile 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8456 | 169.1316 | 171.99 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 162.2400 | 163.38 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 158.2400 | 165.10 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 159.9544 | 162.53 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the Ohio | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 59% | 2025-09-12 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2023-09-08 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IN
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
Chicken
averages 171.99 · weakest Brisket (162.53)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
663.01
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
21–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2023-09-08 → 2025-09-12
Power rating
1499
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Ohio
- First call Smoke on the Ohio
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.4456 Smoke on the Ohio
- Career-best overall score668.4456 Smoke on the Ohio
- 2025
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8456 Smoke on the Ohio
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Ohio
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 | 100% | top 63% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | Smoke on the Ohio 🏅 Mt. Vernon, IN | 17 / 27 (657.5656) | 7 (174.8456) | 17 (164.5256) | 25 (158.2400) | 17 (159.9544) |
| 2023-09-08 | Smoke on the Ohio 🏅 Mt. Vernon, IN | 14 / 25 (668.4456) | 11 (169.1316) | 16 (162.2400) | 8 (171.9656) | 16 (165.1084) |