High-water mark
655.3484
career-best overall
182.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 655.3484 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 182.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-01-27
HOOKED ON QUE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1513
peak 1513 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2023-01-27
latest 2025-03-14
Best ToY finish
#194
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 44%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
438.40
last 3 Backyard vs avg 438.40 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Consistency
±153.40
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.82 · weakest Pork (156.82)
Road miles
11
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
35%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1546)
Purse competed for
$35K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
648.41 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
438.40 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
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.
A tough matchup
3–1
behind in the head-to-head
Kings BBQ Team ahead in 75% of their meetings
Kings BBQ Team has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
HOOKED ON QUE 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 118 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.
#2708 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
0–2 in 2 shared contests (0% to HOOKED ON QUE)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HOOKED ON QUE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2716 of the rated field
- Contests
- 23
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1515
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to HOOKED ON QUE)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 18 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#2720 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1524
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#2719 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOOKED ON QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before HOOKED ON QUE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 159.9656 | 163.53 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 162.2400 | 166.82 | top 38% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 150.7888 | 156.82 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8344 | 155.3944 | 160.69 | top 49% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 40% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 47% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 40% | 2025-03-14 |
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 2 | 22 | 0 | top 47% | 2024-01-26 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2023-01-27 → 2025-03-14
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 166.82 · weakest Pork (156.82)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
2 of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
648.41
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
438.40
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
178
145–117 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
11
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1546
average field rating faced — tougher than 35% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$35,100
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1513
peak 1513 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.3484 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score655.3484 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1200 Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2024
- First call Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First overall top-10 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- 2025
- First overall podium Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First Reserve Championship Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Peak power rating (1513) Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Most recent contest Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.6 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2025-03-14 |
| +6.7 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2024-01-26 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.2 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2024-03-16 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 51% | 91.7% | 90.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 182% | 182% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-14 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 2 / 15 (329.6228) | 5 (163.3828) | 2 (166.2400) | 7 (150.7888) | 2 (166.8344) |
| 2024-03-16 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 10 / 15 (648.4116) | 9 (166.2400) | 10 (162.2400) | 10 (161.6800) | 11 (158.2516) |
| 2024-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 22 / 61 (330.2404) | 21 (164.5488) | 29 (165.6916) | 49 (154.8116) | 35 (155.3944) |
| 2023-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 30 / 51 (655.3484) | 41 (159.9656) | 12 (173.1200) | 37 (160.0000) | 26 (162.2628) |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #194 (233 pts) | #255 (158 pts) | #208 (233 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #950 (115 pts) | #958 (125 pts) | #1105 (115 pts) | #1001 (115 pts) | #1011 (110 pts) |