High-water mark
172.0688
career-best overall
95.6% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 172.0688 at Smoke in the Spring — 95.6% of a perfect 180.
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- Apr 9, 2021
Hunter Hoisington
Hunter Hoisington is a competition barbecue team with 13 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. Their best overall finish is 5th of 105 at the Smoke in the Spring (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1517
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
13
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Apr 9, 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
8% of 13 contests
Avg finish
top 5%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
1,132
across 13 mapped stops · furthest 183 mi
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Hunter Hoisington, each with one reason worth a look.
Hunter Hoisington 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 81 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,576 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Fewer contests behind them than Hunter Hoisington has cooked, 6 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,572 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1527
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Hunter Hoisington's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,567 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1518
Level with Hunter Hoisington on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1533
Fewer contests behind them than Hunter Hoisington has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,566 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before Hunter Hoisington's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,579 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1531
Fewer contests behind them than Hunter Hoisington has cooked, 6 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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
2017
3 contests
Contests a season
1.6
across 8 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
6 of 13 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
Opponents faced
130
finished ahead 121 times, behind 8
Longest layoff
2.5 yrs
Apr 9, 2021 → Sep 27, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20231 milestone
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
20213 milestones
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score172.0688 Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score172.0688 Smoke in the Spring
20181 milestone
- 10th tracked contest Shepherd's Smokin Summer Kick Off
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 5% | 95.6% | 95.6% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |