High-water mark
335.3716
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.3716 at Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-04-26
Going Hogging
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2019-09-13
latest 2024-04-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 51%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.39)
Road miles
53
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
331.37 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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 comeback
4.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.6 years, then back at Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-04-26).
- last seen 2019-09-13
- back 2024-04-26
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.
Going Hogging has 2 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 114 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.
#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Going Hogging's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Going Hogging on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Going Hogging's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Going Hogging's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Going Hogging'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 159.4060 | 165.98 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 162.8116 | 165.39 | top 56% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.6 yrs
2019-09-13 → 2024-04-26
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.39)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Backyard average
331.37
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
104
53–54 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
53
5 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Purse competed for
$15,100
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.6 yrs
2019-09-13 → 2024-04-26
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
- 2019
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.3716 RiverFest
- 2024
- Career-best overall score335.3716 Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5600 Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-26 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Florence, AL | 21 / 40 (335.3716) | 11 (172.5600) | 30 (162.8116) | — | — |
| 2019-09-13 | RiverFest 🏅 Decatur, AL | 18 / 37 (327.3716) | 24 (159.4060) | 14 (167.9656) | — | — |
| 2018-09-14 | *Riverfest BBQ and Music Festival Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-07-27 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-07-28 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |