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
TRICKY PIG is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 39 at the Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #207 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1523
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Jan 4, 2024
latest Feb 14, 2025 · 1.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
4 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
57% of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 11%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
57%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.03
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.99 · weakest Pork (158.27)
Road miles
1,043
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,042 mi
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to TRICKY PIG, each with one reason worth a look.
TRICKY PIG 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 98 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,438 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#2,440 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1522
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.
⚔ Compare careers#2,417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1523
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,427 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1523
They were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before TRICKY PIG's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,420 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1532
Level with TRICKY PIG on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 169.6800 | 162.8688 | 166.99 | top 14% |
| 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 field size and state
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% |
Repeat visits (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% | — |
More numbers
Busiest season
—
2 contests
Contests a season
1.2
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
NY
3 of 7 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
142
finished ahead 149 times, behind 13
Longest layoff
4.3 yrs
Sep 21, 2019 → Jan 4, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Ribs on the Ridge
20242 milestones
- 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
—6 milestones
- 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 score331.3944 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 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 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2025 | Ribs on the Ridge 🏅 Haines City, FL | 4 / 16 (330.7884) | 5 (164.5256) | 3 (166.2628) | — | — |
| Jan 4, 2024 | 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) |
| Sep 21, 2019 | Oinktoberfest 🏅 Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 22, 2018 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 19, 2015 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 2 / 39 (326.2976) | 2 (163.4288) | 4 (162.8688) | — | — |
| — | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 3 / 38 (331.3944) | 9 (162.2516) | 2 (169.1428) | — | — |