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 91 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (2017-08-18) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 9-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, REDNECK SCIENTIFIC.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.9084 at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
Finished 1 of 29 at their very first tracked contest, Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (2017-08-18).
Where this team stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record they hold outright; the rest are boards they are on. Rebuilt nightly, so beating one shows up here the next morning.
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.
Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs 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 83 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.
8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Cool Grog N Smokin Hogs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 171.9656 | 174.83 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 161.1316 | 165.13 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.5600 | 165.6800 | 169.12 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 161.0972 | 167.68 | top 47% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 95.5% | 94% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-25 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) Richmond, VA | 20 / 29 (665.6116) | 3 (177.7028) | 26 (161.1316) | 18 (165.6800) | 25 (161.0972) |
| 2017-08-18 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Asheville, NC | 1 / 29 (687.9084) | 7 (171.9656) | 11 (169.1200) | 2 (172.5600) | 2 (174.2628) |