High-water mark
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 662.8566 at Queen City Cook-Off — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2013-06-21
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 662.8566 at Queen City Cook-Off — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
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.
Hot Cole's 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 117 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Hot Cole's has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hot Cole's's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Hot Cole's did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hot Cole's on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hot Cole's's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hot Cole's's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 173.1428 | 173.14 | top 15% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5712 | 160.5712 | 160.57 | top 79% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 167.4284 | 167.43 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7142 | 161.7142 | 161.71 | top 74% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 64% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-21 | Queen City Cook-Off Clarksville, TN | 25 / 39 (662.8566) | 6 (173.1428) | 31 (160.5712) | 19 (167.4284) | 29 (161.7142) |