High-water mark
674.1944
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1944 at Smoke on the Water — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Apr 29, 2022
Hogwarts BBQ
Hogwarts BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2022. Their best overall finish is 8th of 25 at the Smoke on the Water (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1509
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 29, 2022
latest Apr 29, 2022
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.27 · weakest Pork (158.83)
Road miles
99
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 39 mi
Purse competed for
$37K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
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Hogwarts BBQ 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 102 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,891 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Hogwarts BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,871 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Hogwarts BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,894 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
Level with Hogwarts BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,895 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 9 years before Hogwarts BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,893 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 8 contests to 5.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 174.2744 | 174.27 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 12% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 158.8344 | 158.83 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.5256 | 168.53 | top 28% |
“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
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IN
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
24
finished ahead 17 times, behind 7
Longest layoff
2 yrs
Jun 17, 2022 → Jun 7, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest Hoosier BBQ Classic
20225 milestones
- First call Smoke on the Water
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Water
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.1944 Smoke on the Water
- Career-best overall score674.1944 Smoke on the Water
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2744 Smoke on the Water
20201 milestone
- First tracked contest Big Blue Barbecue
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% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 32% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2024 | Hoosier BBQ Classic 🏅 Franklin, IN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1 🏅 Franklin, IN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Smoke on the Water 🏅 Liberty, IN | 8 / 25 (674.1944) | 4 (174.2744) | 3 (172.5600) | 16 (158.8344) | 7 (168.5256) |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Big Blue Barbecue 🏅 Shelbyville, IN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 14, 2020 | Big Blue Barbecue 🏅 Shelbyville, IN | — | — | — | — | — |