The comeback
2.5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.5 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que (2023-09-27).
- last seen 2021-04-09
- back 2023-09-27
Tyler Hoisington
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1515 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
10
in the data
First seen
2021-04-09
latest 2021-04-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 10 contests
Avg finish
top 9%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
631
mi across 10 mapped stops · furthest 116 mi
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Tyler Hoisington has 1 rated contest — 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 82 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than Tyler Hoisington has cooked, 5 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2617 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tyler Hoisington on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2616 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Tyler Hoisington's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2621 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Fewer contests behind them than Tyler Hoisington has cooked, 6 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2021-04-09
Busiest season
2018
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
5 of 10 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 10 contests
Overall top-10 rate
10%
1 of 10 contests
Opponents faced
130
113–16 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
631
10 mapped stops · furthest 116 mi
Purse competed for
$25,855
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.5 yrs
2021-04-09 → 2023-09-27
Power rating
1515
peak 1515 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL)
- 2021
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score167.3712 Smoke in the Spring
- 2025
- 10th tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 9% | — | — |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 9 / 105 (167.3712) | — | — | — | — |
| 2020-10-30 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-06-29 | Freedom Fest BBQ Cook-Off Willard, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-05-25 | *Shepherd's Smokin Summer Kick Off Branson, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-04-06 | Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-10-06 | *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ Independence, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-07-07 | Johnson County Fair BBQ Challenge Warrensburg, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-03-31 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) Pleasant Hill, MO | — | — | — | — | — |