High-water mark
688.4568
career-best overall
95.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 688.4568 at 2024 Icebox Cookoff — 95.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jul 6, 2024
Slow Porkin' BBQ
Slow Porkin' BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 8th of 37 at the 2024 Icebox Cookoff (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1514
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 21 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Jul 6, 2024 · 1.8 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.97
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 172.75 · weakest Pork Ribs (164.54)
Road miles
2,622
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 1,478 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
675.14 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Slow Porkin' BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Slow Porkin' BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 115 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,671 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Slow Porkin' BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Slow Porkin' BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 23%
- Peak
- 1529
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Slow Porkin' BBQ)
13 contests to 5: their number has had years to settle where Slow Porkin' BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,682 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Compare careers#2,697 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#2,667 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Level with Slow Porkin' BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,676 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Slow Porkin' 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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 168.5600 | 172.75 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 158.2628 | 164.54 | top 69% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 166.2628 | 168.41 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1772 | 165.1084 | 168.26 | top 48% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 22% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 65% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Opponents faced
539
finished ahead 320 times, behind 468
Longest layoff
7.9 yrs
Nov 13, 2014 → Sep 29, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20244 milestones
- First overall top-10 2024 Icebox Cookoff
- Career-best overall score688.4568 2024 Icebox Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7028 2024 Icebox Cookoff
- Most recent contest 2024 Icebox Cookoff
20221 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.4800 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
20142 milestones
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 95.6% | 95.6% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 93.4% | 92.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2024 | 2024 Icebox Cookoff 🏅 Sweet Home, OR | 8 / 37 (688.4568) | 5 (177.7028) | 5 (176.5600) | 27 (167.9656) | 26 (166.2284) |
| Oct 1, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 275 / 505 (664.4684) | 216 (168.5600) | 415 (159.3600) | 137 (171.4400) | 256 (165.1084) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 188 / 249 (672.4800) | 107 (172) | 209 (163.9888) | 174 (167.9656) | 140 (168.5256) |
| Nov 13, 2014 | World Food Championships - World Barbecue Championships (Competitiors Series) Las Vegas, NV | — | — | 41 (158.2628) | 23 (166.2628) | 7 (173.1772) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.