Giant slayer
33
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 33-team field at Kings of the Que BBQ Championship.
- 2013-04-06
HOUND DOG BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1503
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2013-04-06
latest 2021-08-20
Best ToY finish
#1567
Master 2021
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 50%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 158.55 · weakest Chicken (155.95)
Road miles
1,748
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 1748 mi
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
627.89 / 720
2 Master contests · 1 GC
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.
Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 33 at their very first tracked contest, Kings of the Que BBQ Championship (2013-04-06).
- 2013-04-06
- 33-team field
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.
HOUND DOG 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 109 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.
#3103 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3084 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOUND DOG BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head#3096 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3101 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3081 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before HOUND DOG 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 | 156.0002 | 155.9084 | 155.95 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 168.5712 | 145.0972 | 156.83 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.2856 | 142.8228 | 158.55 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4286 | 149.6688 | 156.55 | top 54% |
“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 (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8.4 yrs
2013-04-06 → 2021-08-20
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 158.55 · weakest Chicken (155.95)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Wins it all
50%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2013-04-06
Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
Master average
627.89
out of 720 · 2 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
58
33–25 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,748
2 mapped stops · furthest 1,748 mi
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
8.4 yrs
2013-04-06 → 2021-08-20
Power rating
1503
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First call Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First category win (Pork) Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First overall podium Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First Grand Championship Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.2856 Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- Biggest field won (33 teams) Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score662.2856 Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2856 Kings of the Que BBQ Championship
- 2021
- Most recent contest Cape Jaycees BBQ Fest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 82.4% | 82.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-20 | Cape Jaycees BBQ Fest 🏅 Cape Girardeau, MO | 26 / 27 (593.4972) | 23 (155.9084) | 26 (145.0972) | 27 (142.8228) | 24 (149.6688) |
| 2013-04-06 | Kings of the Que BBQ Championship Woodland, CA | 1 / 33 (662.2856) | 17 (156.0002) | 2 (168.5712) | 1 (174.2856) | 6 (163.4286) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1567 (52 pts) | #1274 (62 pts) | #1606 (52 pts) | #1563 (52 pts) | #1504 (57 pts) |