High-water mark
331.3600
career-best overall
92.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.3600 at Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-08-20
Tricky Pig BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2022-08-20
latest 2023-09-16
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 29%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
17%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 163.69 · weakest Chicken (163.09)
Road miles
588
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 530 mi
Purse competed for
$1K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
326.78 / 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
4.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.9 years, then back at Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-08-20).
- last seen 2017-09-22
- back 2022-08-20
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.
Tricky Pig BBQ 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 105 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.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before Tricky Pig BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tricky Pig BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2680 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Tricky Pig BBQ'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 | 164.5256 | 161.6572 | 163.09 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 157.6800 | 163.69 | top 40% |
| 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 10% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 29% | 2023-09-16 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2022-08-20 → 2023-09-16
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NY
4 of 6 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 163.69 · weakest Chicken (163.09)
Walk rate
17%
a top-10 call in 1 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
17%
1 of 6 contests
Backyard average
326.78
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
55–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
588
6 mapped stops · furthest 530 mi
Purse competed for
$1,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
4.9 yrs
2017-09-22 → 2022-08-20
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Roc City Rib Fest
- 2022
- First call Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.3600 Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score331.3600 Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)169.7028 Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Most recent contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 92% | 92% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-16 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 17 / 35 (322.2056) | 15 (164.5256) | 22 (157.6800) | — | — |
| 2022-08-20 | Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 4 / 41 (331.3600) | 12 (161.6572) | 7 (169.7028) | — | — |
| 2017-09-22 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-09-03 | Finger Lakes Fire & Smoke Geneva, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-09-04 | Finger Lakes Fire & Smoke Geneva, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-24 | Roc City Rib Fest Rochester, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #280 (110 pts) | #334 (75 pts) | — | — |
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #252 (125 pts) | #214 (165 pts) | — | — |