High-water mark
668.3884
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.3884 at Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-07-11
HOG TUAH BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1486 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2025-07-11
latest 2026-05-15
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (140.84)
Road miles
46
mi across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
53%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1568)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
664.68 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
335.97 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is 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.
Storylines (2 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.
The weak link
−28.0
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 27.98 points below their pork, and turns into a call 33% of the time against 0%.
- Pork Ribs avg 140.84
- Pork avg 168.82
- 2 calls in 6 entries
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.
HOG TUAH BBQ has 3 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 147 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.
#3881 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 9 years before HOG TUAH BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3869 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOG TUAH BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3864 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before HOG TUAH BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3882 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before HOG TUAH BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before HOG TUAH BBQ'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 161.0856 | 168.73 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 20.0000 | 140.84 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 167.9656 | 168.82 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 163.9312 | 165.66 | top 70% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 69% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 77% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2025-07-11 → 2026-05-15
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (140.84)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 3 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Master average
664.68
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
335.97
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
77
20–71 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
46
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1568
average field rating faced — tougher than 53% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$19,850
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1486
peak 1486 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score668.3884 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score668.3884 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2628 Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off
- Peak power rating (1493) Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off
- 2026
- Most recent contest West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.2 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off | 2025-07-11 |
| -4 | 37th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out | 2025-09-19 |
| -3.2 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2026-05-15 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 69% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 77% | 92.8% | 92.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (BACKYARD ONLY) Kansas City, MO | 11 / 16 (335.9656) | 7 (170.8456) | 12 (165.1200) | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS Contest #2) Kansas City, MO | — | — | 10 (162.8572) | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | West Bottoms Backyard Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Kansas City, MO | — | — | 15 (20.0000) | — | — |
| 2025-09-19 | 37th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out 🏅 Kearney, MO | 22 / 30 (660.9712) | 25 (161.0856) | 20 (164.5372) | 18 (167.9656) | 18 (167.3828) |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Cameron, MO | 29 / 36 (668.3884) | 12 (174.2628) | 33 (160.5144) | 24 (169.6800) | 29 (163.9312) |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cameron, MO | — | — | 9 (172.0116) | — | — |