High-water mark
687.3604
career-best overall
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.3604 at BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-08-16
Hungry Moose
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1512
peak 1512 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-07-02
latest 2024-08-16
Best ToY finish
#809
Master 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
638.43
last 3 Master vs avg 638.43 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
and counting
Consistency
±43.21
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 169.89 · weakest Pork (149.72)
Road miles
314
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 312 mi
Schedule strength
23%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1531)
Master avg
638.43 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
3BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
3BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
1.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.9 years, then back at Twin Smoke (2024-05-18).
- last seen 2022-07-02
- back 2024-05-18
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.
Hungry Moose 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 113 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.
#2756 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2749 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hungry Moose on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2784 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Hungry Moose's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2759 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Hungry Moose's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2768 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Hungry Moose's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 9 years before Hungry Moose'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 | 169.6800 | 137.1428 | 157.12 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 170.8460 | 155.4400 | 161.70 | top 47% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 128.5600 | 149.72 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 174.8572 | 161.1200 | 169.89 | top 19% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Smoke | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 49% | 2024-05-18 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2022-07-02 → 2024-08-16
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LT
2 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 169.89 · weakest Pork (149.72)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
3 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests — and still running
Master average
638.43
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
35
27–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
314
3 mapped stops · furthest 312 mi
Schedule strength
1531
average field rating faced — tougher than 23% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
2022-07-02 → 2024-05-18
Power rating
1512
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Twin Smoke
- First call Twin Smoke
- First overall top-10 Twin Smoke
- 2024
- First category win (Brisket) Twin Smoke
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score687.3604 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- Career-best overall score687.3604 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.8572 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- Peak power rating (1512) BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
- Most recent contest BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.2 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia | 2024-08-16 |
| +6.3 | Twin Smoke | 2024-05-18 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.7 | Twin Smoke | 2022-07-02 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 38% | 95.5% | 92.6% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 80.9% | 80.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue Parish, 76505 | 6 / 16 (687.3604) | 12 (169.6800) | 9 (170.8460) | 7 (171.9772) | 5 (174.8572) |
| 2024-05-18 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 7 / 18 (645.6800) | 5 (164.5372) | 7 (158.8228) | 16 (148.6172) | 1 (173.7028) |
| 2022-07-02 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 9 / 15 (582.2628) | 14 (137.1428) | 7 (155.4400) | 15 (128.5600) | 3 (161.1200) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #809 (156 pts) | #1082 (106 pts) | #993 (126 pts) | #870 (146 pts) | #827 (166 pts) |