A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
BLIND HOG BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BLIND HOG BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Johnson's Fish House
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1467
peak 1467 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2021-06-11
latest 2025-06-06
Best ToY finish
#1440
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 90%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
642.54
last 4 Master vs avg 642.54 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.34
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.68 · weakest Chicken (156.07)
Road miles
5
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
78%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1601)
Purse competed for
$45K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
642.54 / 720
4 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest (2023-06-09).
- last seen 2021-06-11
- back 2023-06-09
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.
Johnson's Fish House has 4 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 144 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.
#4755 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4724 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1468
No shared contest yet.
Level with Johnson's Fish House on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4734 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1468
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1510 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4743 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1468
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4771 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Johnson's Fish House'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6688 | 143.3144 | 156.07 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1316 | 157.6456 | 165.68 | top 69% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 155.3716 | 160.83 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 153.0744 | 159.95 | top 81% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2 | 26 | 0 | top 97% | 2024-06-07 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2021-06-11 → 2025-06-06
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.68 · weakest Chicken (156.07)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
642.54
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
74
14–109 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
5
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1601
average field rating faced — tougher than 78% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$44,500
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2021-06-11 → 2023-06-09
Power rating
1467
peak 1467 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- First call Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1316 Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Peak power rating (1494) Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score661.5776 Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score661.5776 Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.9 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2023-06-09 |
| -9.7 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2024-06-07 |
| -6.4 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2021-06-11 |
| -4.6 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest | 2025-06-06 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 83% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 82% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-06 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 25 / 30 (661.5776) | 29 (161.6688) | 26 (167.3944) | 27 (165.1200) | 23 (167.3944) |
| 2024-06-07 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 31 / 33 (637.4972) | 31 (159.3484) | 24 (164.5600) | 32 (155.3716) | 27 (158.2172) |
| 2023-06-09 | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 26 / 26 (624.9256) | 26 (143.3144) | 25 (157.6456) | 22 (162.8456) | 20 (161.1200) |
| 2021-06-11 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest 🏅 Wynne, AR | 31 / 38 (646.1716) | 33 (159.9656) | 8 (173.1316) | 31 (160.0000) | 34 (153.0744) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1440 (55 pts) | #1476 (55 pts) | #1535 (55 pts) | #1451 (55 pts) | #1173 (65 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1480 (58 pts) | #1512 (58 pts) | #1308 (63 pts) | #1491 (58 pts) | #1480 (58 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1623 (51 pts) | #1647 (51 pts) | #1738 (51 pts) | #1261 (66 pts) | #1219 (76 pts) |