High-water mark
334.2516
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.2516 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 92.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-01-24
Lake Region High Thunder Thighs
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1513
peak 1513 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-02-16
latest 2025-01-24
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.83 · weakest Pork (162.83)
Road miles
26
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$35K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.09 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 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 115 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
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Lake Region High Thunder Thighs)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Lake Region High Thunder Thighs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Lake Region High Thunder Thighs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Lake Region High Thunder Thighs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Lake Region High Thunder Thighs's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 163.9428 | 164.25 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 159.9772 | 164.83 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 157.6684 | 162.83 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 165.1200 | 161.1200 | 163.12 | top 31% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 24% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.9 yrs
2024-02-16 → 2025-01-24
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 164.83 · weakest Pork (162.83)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
329.09
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
112
80–46 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
26
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$34,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1513
peak 1513 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Ribs on the Ridge Brews & BBQ
- First call Ribs on the Ridge Brews & BBQ
- First overall top-10 Ribs on the Ridge Brews & BBQ
- 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.2516 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score334.2516 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.6916 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 90% | 90% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 18 / 40 (334.2516) | 26 (164.5600) | 14 (169.6916) | 40 (157.6684) | 21 (161.1200) |
| 2024-02-16 | Ribs on the Ridge Brews & BBQ 🏅 Haines City, FL | 7 / 29 (323.9200) | 5 (163.9428) | 8 (159.9772) | 5 (168.0000) | 3 (165.1200) |