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Sweaty Hogs

Sweaty Hogs is a competition barbecue team with 12 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. They have won 7 Grand Championships, most recently at the BBQ Festival (2022). They are ranked #854 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#854
of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1621
peak 1621 · rated over 10 contests2 invitational or side-series contests not counted

Contests

12
in the data

First seen

Jun 15, 2019
latest Aug 19, 2022 · 3.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#153
Master 2022 · every season

Grand champs

7
0 reserve · wins it all 58% of the time

Category wins

11
20 podiums

Overall top-10s

10
83% of 12 contests

Best top-10 run

8
straight overall top-10s, still running · 4 straight GCs

Avg finish

top 23%
overall standings

Best overall

696.0572 / 720
Master · BIGFEAST CHALLENGE

Perfect 180s

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Current form

683.89 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 675.42 (+8.47)

Walk rate

83%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

179.4400
Chicken · Longhorn BBQ

Consistency

±17.33
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Brisket
avg 170.65 · weakest Chicken (165.18)

Road miles

12,715
across 12 mapped stops · furthest 5,003 mi

Schedule strength

14%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1521)

Purse competed for

$69K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings

Master avg

675.42 / 720
11 Master contests · 7 GCs

Storylines (15 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Riding a hot streak

8 straight overall top-10s

Currently on a 8-contest overall top-10 run — including 3 straight Grand Championships.

  • career best 8
  • 3 straight GCs

Against the odds

22-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 78 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at Longhorn BBQ (May 14, 2022) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 22-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, White Squirrel BBQ.

On the rise

+78 rating points in a year

Their power rating has climbed 78 points across 7 contests since Aug 20, 2021 — from 1543 up to 1621.

  • 7 contests since Aug 20, 2021
  • now 1621

Signature meat

36% brisket entries won

4 wins from 11 entries

When brisket is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 36% of their entries (4 of 11).

  • best 177.1772
  • average 170.65
  • 10 calls

Happy hunting ground

2× Grand Championships here

Twin Smoke is their spot: 2 Grand Championships in 2 visits.

  • 2 visits
  • best finish 1st
  • average top 7%

Multi-meat days

4 contests with 2+ category wins

They've won two or more meats on the same day 4 times — the best of them 2 category wins at Longhorn BBQ (May 14, 2022).

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork 1st

They almost always walk

83% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 10 of 12 contests

A top-10 category call in 83% of their 12 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

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High-water mark

696.0572 career-best overall

96.7% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 696.0572 at BIGFEAST CHALLENGE — 96.7% of a perfect 720.

  • Master
  • Aug 13, 2022

Their season

2022 4 Grand Championships

2022 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 4 Grand Championships and 5 category wins, at an average finish in the top 10%.

  • 5 contests
  • 5 overall top-10s
  • 5 category wins
  • average top 10%

The weak link

−5.5 points behind their best meat

Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 5.48 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 73% of the time against 91%.

  • Chicken avg 165.18
  • Brisket avg 170.65
  • 8 calls in 11 entries

A strong matchup

8–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Insomnia BBQ Team in 8 of their 8 shared contests.

Announced themselves early

4th at their very first contest

Finished 4 of 23 at their very first tracked contest, BBQ Battle Finland (Jun 15, 2019).

  • Jun 15, 2019
  • 23-team field

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team has landed one call behind them 2 times.

The metronome

±2.40% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.40% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

  • averages 93.6% of a perfect score
  • 12 contests

In the record book (on 1 all-time board)

Where this team sits in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record they hold outright; the rest are boards they are on.

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2022 ↗ Master #153 (1,233 pts) #231 (973 pts) #271 (913 pts) #154 (1,233 pts) #202 (1,078 pts)
2021 ↗ Master #358 (528 pts) #554 (328 pts) #390 (528 pts) #493 (378 pts) #386 (528 pts)
2019 ↗ Master #1432 (128 pts) #1672 (118 pts) #1535 (128 pts) #1481 (138 pts) #1354 (168 pts)

Overall rank by season

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The Docfather BBQ
#856 of the rated field
1621 power rating
Contests
33
GCs
0
Top-10s
30%
Peak
1648
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Sweaty Hogs)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Sweaty Hogs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

  • rated over 32 contests
  • last seen May 8, 2026
⚔ Head-to-head
SWEET PEPPERS
#853 of the rated field
1622 power rating
Contests
19
GCs
0
Top-10s
79%
Peak
1622

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 19 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

  • rated over 19 contests
  • last seen Jul 2, 2016
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SIN CITY SMOKERS
#859 of the rated field
1621 power rating
Contests
28
GCs
0
Top-10s
46%
Peak
1631

Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Sweaty Hogs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 28 contests
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SMOKIN T'S
#858 of the rated field
1621 power rating
Contests
32
GCs
1
Top-10s
44%
Peak
1627

32 contests to 12: their number has had years to settle where Sweaty Hogs's is still finding its level.

  • rated over 29 contests
  • last seen Oct 12, 2018
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STEEL CITY BBQ
#860 of the rated field
1621 power rating
Contests
33
GCs
0
Top-10s
45%
Peak
1632

33 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 45% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

  • rated over 33 contests
  • last seen Aug 14, 2020
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BARREL BOYS BBQ
#857 of the rated field
1621 power rating
Contests
43
GCs
2
Top-10s
35%
Peak
1653

They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Sweaty Hogs's first contest.

  • rated over 38 contests
  • last seen Jun 13, 2025
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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
Insomnia BBQ Team 8 8 0 100% ⚔ compare
Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 8 7 1 88% ⚔ compare
SMOKING FINNS FI 5 4 1 80% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 11 8 2 2 179.4400 151.9772 165.18 top 44%
Pork Ribs 11 10 3 6 178.8800 160.5600 169.41 top 31%
Pork 11 10 2 6 178.8800 160.5600 170.18 top 30%
Brisket 11 10 4 6 177.1772 162.2744 170.65 top 22%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Small (<20 teams)87top 13%
Medium (20–39)20top 15%
Large (40+)20top 71%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
LT22top 7%
MO10top 49%
TN10top 93%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
BBQ Festival 2 1 2 top 9% Aug 19, 2022
Twin Smoke 2 1 2 top 7% Jul 2, 2022

More numbers

Busiest season 2022 5 contests · 4 GCs
Contests a season 3 across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in LT 2 of 12 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited 10 2 of them more than once
First title Aug 21, 2020 BBQ Festival 2020
Opponents faced 311 finished ahead 206 times, behind 156

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20227 milestones
  1. Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 Longhorn BBQ
  2. 10th tracked contest Twin Smoke
  3. 5th Grand Championship Twin Smoke
  4. 10th category win BIGFEAST CHALLENGE
  5. Career-best overall score696.0572 BIGFEAST CHALLENGE
  6. Peak power rating (1621) BBQ Festival
  7. Most recent contest BBQ Festival
20204 milestones
  1. First category win (Pork Ribs) BBQ Festival 2020
  2. First overall podium BBQ Festival 2020
  3. First Grand Championship BBQ Festival 2020
  4. First multi-meat day BBQ Festival 2020
20194 milestones
  1. First tracked contest BBQ Battle Finland
  2. First call BBQ Battle Finland
  3. First overall top-10 BBQ Battle Finland
  4. First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.9656 BBQ Battle Finland

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

SwingContestDate
+15.5BBQ Festival 2020Aug 21, 2020
+15BBQ Festival 2021Aug 20, 2021
+15Twin SmokeSep 11, 2021
+14.1Longhorn BBQMay 14, 2022
+12.6BIGFEAST CHALLENGEAug 13, 2022

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20225455 100% top 10% 96.7% 95%
20212224 100% top 7% 96.4% 95.1%
20202112 50% top 28% 95.1% 93.3%
20193020 67% top 53% 92% 90.5%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Aug 19, 2022 BBQ Festival Saue Parish 1 / 10 (686.8228) 4 (167.3828) 6 (170.8572) 1 (178.8800) 2 (169.7028)
Aug 13, 2022 BIGFEAST CHALLENGE Uusikaupunki 1 / 9 (696.0572) 1 (177.7372) 5 (165.7028) 2 (178.8800) 2 (173.7372)
Jul 2, 2022 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 1 / 15 (666.3200) 4 (156.5600) 3 (160.5600) 2 (177.2000) 1 (172)
Jun 3, 2022 Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp 5 / 38 (677.1084) 22 (163.9656) 6 (169.1544) 3 (176) 8 (167.9884)
May 14, 2022 Longhorn BBQ Broerup 1 / 14 (693.1428) 1 (179.4400) 3 (168.5600) 1 (176.0344) 4 (169.1084)
Sep 11, 2021 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 1 / 15 (694.3088) 5 (166.8460) 1 (178.8800) 3 (172.0228) 1 (176.5600)
Aug 20, 2021 BBQ Festival 2021 Saue Parish 1 / 13 (675.4172) 5 (162.8228) 1 (174.8572) 5 (160.5600) 1 (177.1772)
Aug 21, 2020 BBQ Festival 2020 Saue Parish 1 / 13 (685.0512) 7 (166.2628) 1 (178.8572) 7 (165.0740) 1 (174.8572)
Apr 6, 2020 Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO 53 / 109 (164.5716) — — — —
Oct 25, 2019 31st Annual Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Lynchburg, TN 90 / 97 (641.0972) 97 (151.9772) 83 (162.8572) 70 (163.9884) 70 (162.2744)
Aug 16, 2019 BBQ Festival 2019 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish 9 / 18 (662.3084) 10 (166.2744) 9 (164) 8 (161.1312) 5 (170.9028)
Jun 15, 2019 BBQ Battle Finland Tampere 4 / 23 (651.9656) 15 (157.6684) 2 (169.1888) 9 (162.2400) 6 (162.8684)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

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