A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Bottle Hill BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bottle Hill BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Hawt Hawgs BBQ
Hawt Hawgs BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. Their best overall finish is 5th of 38 at the Barbeque on the Bow Festival (2025). They finished #251 in the 2025 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1482
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 30, 2025
latest Sep 27, 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
60%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 167.85 · weakest Pork Ribs (161.11)
Road miles
183
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 125 mi
Schedule strength
30%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1541)
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
Master avg
329.66 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
328.58 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Hawt Hawgs BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Hawt Hawgs BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 131 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,043 of the rated field
- Contests
- 60
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 27%
- Peak
- 1482
1–2 in 3 shared contests (33% to Hawt Hawgs BBQ)
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — MOTLEY QUE ahead 2–1 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,039 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1482
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
Level with Hawt Hawgs BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,056 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Hawt Hawgs BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Hawt Hawgs BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 174.8456 | 162.8456 | 167.85 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 158.8116 | 161.11 | top 64% |
“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 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 57% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AB
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
51
finished ahead 33 times, behind 45
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
20257 milestones
- First tracked contest Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First call Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First overall top-10 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score328.5828 Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Peak power rating (1510) Barbeque on the Bow Festival
- Career-best overall score333.6572 Smoke in the Valley
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8456 Smoke in the Valley
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.2 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival | Aug 30, 2025 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.9 | Summer Grillin' BBQ Festival | Sep 12, 2025 |
| -13.3 | Smoke in the Valley | Sep 27, 2025 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 71% | 91.3% | 60.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Calmar, AB | — | 10 (166.2512) | — | — | — |
| May 23, 2026 | Embers and Ice Pitmaster Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Calmar, AB | — | — | 14 (161.6456) | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2025 | Smoke in the Valley Edmonton, AB | 23 / 23 (333.6572) | 5 (174.8456) | 21 (158.8116) | — | — |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Summer Grillin' BBQ Festival Leduc, AB | 16 / 16 (325.6684) | 15 (162.8456) | 12 (162.8228) | — | — |
| Aug 30, 2025 | Barbeque on the Bow Festival Calgary, AB | 5 / 38 (328.5828) | 3 (167.4400) | 4 (161.1428) | — | — |