The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at SC Festival of Discovery (Jul 9, 2021).
- last seen Jul 12, 2019
- back Jul 9, 2021
Piggytails
Piggytails is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 8th of 81 at the SC Festival of Discovery (2021). Also listed in KCBS results as “PIGGY TAILS”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1513
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jul 9, 2021
latest Jul 9, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 10%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
441
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 441 mi
Purse competed for
$90K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Piggytails, each with one reason worth a look.
Piggytails has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 126 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,723 of the rated field
- Contests
- 70
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 9%
- Peak
- 1565
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Piggytails)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Piggytails has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,706 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,729 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Level with Piggytails on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,701 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,721 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1513
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,715 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Piggytails's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
SC
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
89
finished ahead 74 times, behind 14
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jul 12, 2019 → Jul 9, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest South Carolina Festival of Discovery
20212 milestones
- First overall top-10 SC Festival of Discovery
- Career-best overall score146.2400 SC Festival of Discovery
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest Interstate BBQ Festival
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 10% | 81.2% | 81.2% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2024 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 6, 2023 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 9, 2021 | SC Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | 8 / 81 (146.2400) | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 12, 2019 | SC Festival of Discovery 🏅 Greenwood, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Interstate BBQ Festival Hagerstown, MD | — | — | — | — | — |