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
- Apr 26, 2024
Going Hogging
Going Hogging is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 18th of 37 at the RiverFest (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1504
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 13, 2019
latest Apr 26, 2024 · 4.6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
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
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 35 mi
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
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.
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Going Hogging 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 112 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,076 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,062 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Going Hogging's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Going Hogging's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,074 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Going Hogging on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,053 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Going Hogging's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,066 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Going Hogging'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 | 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% |
“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 49% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
104
finished ahead 53 times, behind 54
Longest layoff
4.6 yrs
Sep 13, 2019 → Apr 26, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- 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)
20191 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.3716 RiverFest
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off
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% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2024 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Florence, AL | 21 / 40 (335.3716) | 11 (172.5600) | 30 (162.8116) | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2019 | RiverFest 🏅 Decatur, AL | 18 / 37 (327.3716) | 24 (159.4060) | 14 (167.9656) | — | — |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Riverfest BBQ and Music Festival Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 27, 2018 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2017 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |