The heartbreaker
0.5372
points from the title
Came within 0.5372 points of the Grand Championship at Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Jun 19, 2021).
ROCK'N HOGS BBQ
ROCK'N HOGS BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 22 at the Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2021), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #289 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1516
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Jun 19, 2021
latest Jun 20, 2025 · 4 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
50% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.63
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.29 · weakest Chicken (157.70)
Road miles
0
across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
6%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1508)
Purse competed for
$7,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
329.43 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to ROCK'N HOGS BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
ROCK'N HOGS BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 74 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,611 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before ROCK'N HOGS BBQ's first contest.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before ROCK'N HOGS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Level with ROCK'N HOGS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before ROCK'N HOGS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,613 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 10 years before ROCK'N HOGS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 169.1656 | 128.5144 | 157.70 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 177.1772 | 148.5832 | 164.29 | top 36% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 54% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 27% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 4 | 2 | 0 | top 40% | Jun 20, 2025 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
43
finished ahead 44 times, behind 24
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Jun 22, 2018 → Jun 19, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
20221 milestone
- Peak power rating (1522) Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (Backyard)
20216 milestones
- First overall top-10 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score344.0572 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score344.0572 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1772 Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
20172 milestones
- First tracked contest Rib Fest 2017 (BACKYARD)
- First call Rib Fest 2017 (BACKYARD)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 19, 2021 |
| +7.1 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (Backyard) | Jun 17, 2022 |
| +2.3 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 20, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.1 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 21, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 45% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 76% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 9% | 95.6% | 95.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2025 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 9 / 20 (325.1200) | 15 (153.6800) | 5 (171.4400) | — | — |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 13 / 17 (317.7488) | 4 (169.1656) | 16 (148.5832) | — | — |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (Backyard) Sioux City, IA | 4 / 13 (330.8112) | 6 (162.2628) | 3 (168.5484) | — | — |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | 2 / 22 (344.0572) | 4 (166.8800) | 2 (177.1772) | — | — |
| Jun 22, 2018 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Sioux City, IA | — | 6 (165.7028) | 5 (165.1656) | — | — |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Rib Fest 2017 (BACKYARD) Sioux, IA | — | 20 (128.5144) | 9 (154.8460) | — | — |