A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Kings BBQ Team ahead in 100% of their meetings
Kings BBQ Team has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
HSW BBQ
HSW BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 5th of 15 at the Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds (2025). They finished #204 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1488
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Mar 16, 2024
latest Mar 14, 2025 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
50% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±2.83
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.71 · weakest Brisket (154.25)
Road miles
23
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
28%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1538)
Purse competed for
$51K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
630.62 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
320.91 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #204 (218 pts) | #184 (268 pts) | #217 (218 pts) | — | — |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 165.7028 | 153.7028 | 158.97 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 153.6572 | 159.26 | top 60% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 150.2856 | 159.71 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 146.8344 | 154.25 | top 65% |
“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 60% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 35% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 110% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 60% | Mar 14, 2025 |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
134
finished ahead 47 times, behind 125
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
20246 milestones
- First tracked contest Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First call Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Career-best overall score630.6172 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- Career-best single call (Pork)166.2400 Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds
- First overall top-10 Plant City Pig Jam
- Peak power rating (1494) Plant City Pig Jam
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.7 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | Mar 14, 2025 |
| +5.3 | Plant City Pig Jam | Nov 22, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.7 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 24, 2025 |
| -11.6 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | Mar 16, 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 72% | 90% | 89% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 89.3% | 88.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 5 / 15 (323.9772) | 3 (165.7028) | 5 (158.2744) | 8 (150.2856) | 4 (163.9772) |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 44 / 40 (317.1428) | 49 (153.7028) | 34 (163.4400) | 38 (158.2628) | 41 (151.9656) |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 9 / 26 (321.6228) | 7 (159.9544) | 7 (161.6684) | 7 (164.0572) | 13 (146.8344) |
| Mar 16, 2024 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 13 / 15 (630.6172) | 12 (156.5144) | 14 (153.6572) | 7 (166.2400) | 12 (154.2056) |