High-water mark
513.1088
career-best overall
95.0% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 513.1088 at Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) — 95.0% of a perfect 540.
- Competitor Series
- Apr 25, 2025
Hog Molly BBQ
Hog Molly BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 7th of 39 at the Great Americana BBQ Festival (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1519
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 21 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 23, 2019
latest Apr 25, 2025 · 5.7 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 174.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.27)
Road miles
34
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
337.66 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
505.09 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Hog Molly BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Hog Molly BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 80 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1522
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Hog Molly BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,511 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
They were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Hog Molly BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,520 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
Level with Hog Molly BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1519
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 9 contests to 5.
⚔ Compare careers#2,518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 166.2628 | 169.41 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 164.5600 | 166.27 | top 46% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 12% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Americana BBQ Festival | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 27% | Aug 27, 2021 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
129
finished ahead 110 times, behind 38
Longest layoff
3.7 yrs
Aug 27, 2021 → Apr 25, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Career-best overall score513.1088 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- Most recent contest Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES)
20212 milestones
- First call Great Americana BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2628 Great Americana BBQ Festival
20192 milestones
- First overall top-10 Great Americana BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.6572 Great Americana BBQ Festival
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Great American BBQ Festival
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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 95% | 95% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 18% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2025 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 11 / 31 (513.1088) | 8 (172.5600) | 15 (167.9772) | — | — |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 9 / 25 (505.0856) | 14 (166.2628) | 11 (164.5600) | 3 (174.2628) | — |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN | 7 / 39 (337.6572) | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 24, 2018 | Great American BBQ Festival (JUDGES FULL) Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Great American BBQ Festival Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.