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MASON'S FAT HAWG BBQ

MASON'S FAT HAWG BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 14th of 28 at the Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024). They finished #311 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1470
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4

Contests

4
in the data

First seen

May 4, 2018
latest Mar 9, 2024 · 5.8 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#311
Backyard 2024 · every season

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

0
0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
0% of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 86%
overall standings

Best overall

641.4744 / 720

Perfect 180s

0

Walk rate

25%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

168.5488

Consistency

±28.41
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken
avg 158.40 · weakest Brisket (144.67)

Road miles

891
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 740 mi

Schedule strength

58%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1574)

Purse competed for

$3,050
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry

Master avg

603.92 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs

Backyard avg

322.80 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs

These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.

This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.

Storylines (2 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

A tough matchup

3–0 behind in the head-to-head

One2BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

One2BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2024 ↗ Backyard #311 (108 pts) #297 (128 pts) #362 (78 pts) — —
2019 ↗ Master #1955 (60 pts) #2049 (60 pts) #2026 (60 pts) #2029 (60 pts) #2010 (60 pts)
2018 ↗ Master #1524 (120 pts) #1598 (120 pts) #1614 (120 pts) #1610 (120 pts) #1586 (120 pts)

Overall rank by season

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 4 1 0 0 168.5488 147.3944 158.40 top 71%
Pork Ribs 4 0 0 0 157.6800 151.3484 156.09 top 85%
Pork 4 0 0 0 160.5028 134.1828 150.77 top 92%
Brisket 3 0 0 0 158.2628 119.8288 144.67 top 90%

“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

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Medium (20–39)30top 83%
Large (40+)10top 93%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
AL10top 50%
TN10top 93%
IN10top 100%
IL10top 100%

More numbers

Busiest season 2018 2 contests
Contests a season 1.3 across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in AL 1 of 4 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited 4 a different one every time
Opponents faced 154 finished ahead 19 times, behind 147
Longest layoff 5 yrs Mar 8, 2019 → Mar 9, 2024

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20242 milestones
  1. First call Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
  2. Most recent contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
20192 milestones
  1. Career-best overall score641.4744 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
  2. Career-best single call (Chicken)168.5488 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
20182 milestones
  1. First tracked contest Route 66 Smoke Out
  2. Peak power rating (1486) Route 66 Smoke Out

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

SwingContestDate
+4Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)Mar 9, 2024

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-14.5Route 66 Smoke OutMay 4, 2018
-11Rockin BBQMay 11, 2018
-8.7Smoke on the Shores BBQ ChampionshipMar 8, 2019

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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20241000 100% top 50% 89.7% 89.7%
20191000 0% top 93% 89.1% 89.1%
20182000 0% top 100% 83% 81.3%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Mar 9, 2024 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL 14 / 28 (322.8000) 10 (165.1200) 20 (157.6800) 22 (160.5028) —
Mar 8, 2019 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Nashville, TN 62 / 67 (641.4744) 36 (168.5488) 58 (157.6688) 59 (159.3484) 63 (155.9084)
May 11, 2018 Rockin BBQ Warsaw, IN 37 / 37 (572.7772) 35 (152.5488) 34 (151.3484) 37 (149.0512) 37 (119.8288)
May 4, 2018 Route 66 Smoke Out Dwight, IL 38 / 38 (597.5088) 38 (147.3944) 34 (157.6688) 38 (134.1828) 29 (158.2628)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

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