Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 78 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at 1st Annual Greenport Harbor Beer, BBQ & Blues (2015-06-27) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 22-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Rogue Hog BBQ.
Took the Grand Championship over a 38-team field at Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition.
A call in 10 of 14 contests
A top-10 category call in 71% of their 14 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.8456 at Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA ahead in 80% of their meetings
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA has come out ahead in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
Ahead in 83% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BLAZIN' BUTTZ BBQ in 5 of their 6 shared contests.
INSANE SWINE BBQ ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, INSANE SWINE BBQ has out-cooked them in 4 of 4 shared pork entries.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 8,237 miles across 13 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 2,047 miles to Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition.
Their overall lands within ±2.08% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
34 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than R2-BQ has cooked, 9 to 14, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with R2-BQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head16 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 44% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 20 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLAZIN' BUTTZ BBQ | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% | ⚔ compare |
| Rogue Hog BBQ | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 172.0228 | 149.2000 | 162.90 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 134.2856 | 162.81 | top 32% |
| Pork | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 171.4400 | 158.2972 | 165.95 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 173.1084 | 147.9428 | 162.83 | top 36% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| CT | 2 | 0 | top 37% |
| NY | 2 | 1 | top 11% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
| NH | 1 | 0 | top 19% |
| DE | 1 | 0 | top 14% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
| PR | 1 | 1 | top 3% |
| PA | 1 | 0 | top 7% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 2 | top 23% |
| Large (40+) | 6 | 0 | top 27% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.7 | Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition | 2014-02-21 |
| +15.6 | 1st Annual Greenport Harbor Beer, BBQ & Blues | 2015-06-27 |
| +13 | Sun BBQ Fest | 2017-06-03 |
| +11.9 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair | 2014-04-11 |
| +11.5 | New Holland Summer Fest | 2013-08-23 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.5 | Ridgefield Gone Country BBQ Festival | 2015-05-02 |
| -0.5 | Flames on the Flint (SBBQA) | 2014-03-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 8% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 17% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% | top 43% | 92.8% | 91% |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 75% | top 23% | 95.4% | 92.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-22 | *Barbeque on the Hill (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Blue Island, IL | — | 9 (151.9540) | 15 (134.2856) | — | — |
| 2017-09-23 | *Barbeque on the Hill (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Blue Island, IL | — | — | 4 (158.8572) | — | — |
| 2017-06-03 | Sun BBQ Fest Uncasville, CT | 6 / 73 (680.6056) | 10 (172.0228) | 13 (170.8572) | 19 (167.4628) | 19 (170.2628) |
| 2016-09-24 | Barbeque on the Hill (COMPETITORS SERIES) Blue Island, IL | — | — | 13 (155.4516) | — | — |
| 2016-04-08 | NYC BBQ Cookoff Staten Island, NY | 6 / 35 (656.0000) | 3 (170.2972) | 19 (155.4172) | 1 (171.4400) | 11 (158.8456) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 54 / 93 (668.4680) | 43 (169.1084) | 13 (173.7028) | 80 (159.4284) | 53 (166.2284) |
| 2015-06-27 | 1st Annual Greenport Harbor Beer, BBQ & Blues Peconic, NY | 1 / 21 (665.6684) | 4 (167.9884) | 9 (162.8572) | 4 (165.1200) | 1 (169.7028) |
| 2015-05-02 | Ridgefield Gone Country BBQ Festival Ridgefield, CT | 20 / 30 (630.7544) | 20 (161.7028) | 15 (162.8116) | 20 (158.2972) | 25 (147.9428) |
| 2014-05-31 | Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ, Beer Fest Swanzey, NH | 9 / 48 (655.4740) | 30 (161.1656) | 4 (171.4628) | 16 (164.5484) | 18 (158.2972) |
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | 15 / 109 (649.6800) | 38 (159.9884) | 17 (164.5600) | 19 (165.7144) | 31 (159.4172) |
| 2014-03-14 | Flames on the Flint (SBBQA) Bainbridge, GA | 24 / 43 (661.0172) | 32 (160.5372) | 11 (170.2628) | 7 (170.8228) | 28 (159.3944) |
| 2014-02-21 | Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition San Juan, PR | 1 / 38 (686.8456) | 10 (169.1544) | 2 (173.7028) | 3 (170.8800) | 3 (173.1084) |
| 2013-08-23 | New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA | 5 / 71 (658.2628) | 30 (161.6456) | 11 (165.7488) | 7 (165.7484) | 10 (165.1200) |
| Barbeque on the Hill (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated BlueIsland, IL | 8 / 16 (308.5712) | 11 (149.2000) | 5 (159.3712) | — | — |