The heartbreaker
4.0912
points from the title
Came within 4.0912 points of the Grand Championship at Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
TRICKY PIG
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1523
peak 1523 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2024-01-04
latest 2025-02-14
Best ToY finish
#207
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 11%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
333.39
last 4 Backyard vs avg 333.39 (+0.00)
Walk rate
71%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±7.03
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.23 · weakest Pork (158.27)
Road miles
1,043
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1042 mi
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
333.39 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
Happy hunting ground
Top 7%
average finish here
Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) is their spot: an average finish in the top 7% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 2nd
- average top 7%
High-water mark
345.0856
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.0856 at 8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show — 95.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-01-04
The comeback
4.3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.3 years, then back at 8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show (2024-01-04).
- last seen 2019-09-21
- back 2024-01-04
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 39 at their very first tracked contest, Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
- 39-team field
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.
TRICKY PIG has 2 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 99 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.
#2414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1530
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to TRICKY PIG)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team TRICKY PIG has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2399 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before TRICKY PIG's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2419 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before TRICKY PIG's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2405 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Level with TRICKY PIG on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2403 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 10 years before TRICKY PIG'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 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 175.4056 | 162.2516 | 166.40 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 173.1772 | 162.8688 | 168.23 | top 12% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 158.2744 | 158.27 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 26% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 2 | 0 | top 16% |
| IL | 2 | 0 | top 7% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 7% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 7% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2024-01-04 → 2025-02-14
Busiest season
—
2 contests
Contests a season
1.2
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NY
3 of 7 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 5 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 168.23 · weakest Pork (158.27)
Walk rate
71%
a top-10 call in 5 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
57%
4 of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
333.39
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
142
149–13 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,043
5 mapped stops · furthest 1,042 mi
Purse competed for
$19,700
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.3 yrs
2019-09-21 → 2024-01-04
Power rating
1523
peak 1523 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score326.2976 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2024
- Career-best overall score345.0856 8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show
- 2025
- Most recent contest Ribs on the Ridge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 92.1% | 91.3% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-14 | Ribs on the Ridge 🏅 Haines City, FL | 4 / 16 (330.7884) | 5 (164.5256) | 3 (166.2628) | — | — |
| 2024-01-04 | 8th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam & Car Show 🏅 Elkton, FL | 3 / 43 (345.0856) | 2 (175.4056) | 9 (169.6800) | 20 (158.2744) | 11 (161.6800) |
| 2019-09-21 | Oinktoberfest 🏅 Clarence, NY | — | — | 3 (173.1772) | — | — |
| 2018-09-22 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-09-19 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 3 / 38 (331.3944) | 9 (162.2516) | 2 (169.1428) | — | — | |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 2 / 39 (326.2976) | 2 (163.4288) | 4 (162.8688) | — | — |
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 | #224 (183 pts) | #255 (158 pts) | #225 (208 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #207 (224 pts) | #202 (249 pts) | #296 (134 pts) | — | — |