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
Sweaty Hogs
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1622
peak 1622 · rated over 10 contests ⓘ
Best runs
8
straight top-10s · 4 straight GCs
Contests
12
in the data
First seen
2019-06-15
latest 2022-08-19
Best ToY finish
#153
Master 2022
Grand champs
7
0 reserve
Category wins
11
20 podiums
Overall top-10s
10
of 12 contests
Avg finish
top 23%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
683.89 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 675.42 (+8.47)
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
8
and counting
Consistency
±17.33
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.18 · weakest Chicken (165.18)
Road miles
12,715
mi across 12 mapped stops · furthest 5003 mi
Schedule strength
15%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1522)
Purse competed for
$69K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
675.42 / 720
11 Master contests · 7 GCs
Storylines (15 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.
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 (2022-05-14) 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 2021-08-20 — from 1543 up to 1622.
- 7 contests since 2021-08-20
- now 1622
Signature meat
33%
brisket entries won
4 wins from 12 entries
When brisket is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 33% of their entries (4 of 12).
- best 177.1772
- average 170.15
- 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 (2022-05-14).
- 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.
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
- 2022-08-13
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
−5.0
points behind their best meat
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 5.01 points below their pork, and turns into a call 73% of the time against 91%.
- Chicken avg 165.18
- Pork avg 170.18
- 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 (2019-06-15).
- 2019-06-15
- 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 long haul
12,715
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 12,715 miles across 12 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 5,003 miles to 31st Annual Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue(JUDGES FULL)(COMPETITORS SERIES).
- 12 mapped stops
- furthest 5,003 mi
The metronome
±2.41%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±2.41% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 93.8% of a perfect score
- 12 contests
In the record book (1 in the KCBS record book)
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.
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.
#848 of the rated field
- Contests
- 19
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 79%
- Peak
- 1622
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 19 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 24
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 42%
- Peak
- 1621
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 6 years before Sweaty Hogs's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#850 of the rated field
- Contests
- 33
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 36%
- Peak
- 1622
No shared contest yet.
33 contests to 12: their number has had years to settle where Sweaty Hogs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#851 of the rated field
- Contests
- 99
- GCs
- 3
- Top-10s
- 25%
- Peak
- 1719
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 3 Grand Championships in 99 contests, alongside a 25% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 19
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 53%
- Peak
- 1629
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% 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.
⚔ Head-to-head#853 of the rated field
- Contests
- 33
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 30%
- Peak
- 1648
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Sweaty Hogs)
Level with Sweaty Hogs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win 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
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg 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 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 177.1772 | 162.2744 | 170.15 | top 25% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| LT | 2 | 2 | top 7% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 8 | 7 | top 13% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 15% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 71% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ Festival | 2 | 1 | 2 | top 9% | 2022-08-19 |
| Twin Smoke | 2 | 1 | 2 | top 7% | 2022-07-02 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.2 yrs
2019-06-15 → 2022-08-19
Busiest season
2022
5 contests · 4 GCs
Contests a season
3
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LT
2 of 12 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
10
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Brisket
12 entries · 4 wins · 10 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 170.18 · weakest Chicken (165.18)
Walk rate
83%
a top-10 call in 10 of 12 contests
Overall top-10 rate
83%
10 of 12 contests
Wins it all
58%
7 Grand Championships · 0 reserve
First title
2020-08-21
BBQ Festival 2020
Best top-10 run
8
straight contests — and still running
Master average
675.42
out of 720 · 11 contests · 7 GCs
Opponents faced
311
206–156 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
12,715
12 mapped stops · furthest 5,003 mi
Schedule strength
1522
average field rating faced — tougher than 15% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$69,100
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1622
peak 1622 · #849 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest BBQ Battle Finland
- First call BBQ Battle Finland
- First overall top-10 BBQ Battle Finland
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.9656 BBQ Battle Finland
- 2020
- First category win (Pork Ribs) BBQ Festival 2020
- First overall podium BBQ Festival 2020
- First Grand Championship BBQ Festival 2020
- First multi-meat day BBQ Festival 2020
- 2022
- Career-best single call (Chicken)179.4400 Longhorn BBQ
- 10th tracked contest Twin Smoke
- 5th Grand Championship Twin Smoke
- 10th category win BIGFEAST CHALLENGE
- Career-best overall score696.0572 BIGFEAST CHALLENGE
- Peak power rating (1622) BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.6 | BBQ Festival 2020 | 2020-08-21 |
| +15.1 | BBQ Festival 2021 | 2021-08-20 |
| +15 | Twin Smoke | 2021-09-11 |
| +14.2 | Longhorn BBQ | 2022-05-14 |
| +12.6 | BIGFEAST CHALLENGE | 2022-08-13 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 100% | top 10% | 96.7% | 95% |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 100% | top 7% | 96.4% | 95.1% |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% | top 28% | 95.1% | 95.1% |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 67% | top 53% | 92% | 90.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-19 | BBQ Festival Saue Parish, 76505 | 1 / 10 (686.8228) | 4 (167.3828) | 6 (170.8572) | 1 (178.8800) | 2 (169.7028) |
| 2022-08-13 | BIGFEAST CHALLENGE UUSIKAUPUNKI, 23450 | 1 / 9 (696.0572) | 1 (177.7372) | 5 (165.7028) | 2 (178.8800) | 2 (173.7372) |
| 2022-07-02 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 1 / 15 (666.3200) | 4 (156.5600) | 3 (160.5600) | 2 (177.2000) | 1 (172.0000) |
| 2022-06-03 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp, 2134CG | 5 / 38 (677.1084) | 22 (163.9656) | 6 (169.1544) | 3 (176.0000) | 8 (167.9884) |
| 2022-05-14 | Longhorn BBQ Broerup, 6650 | 1 / 14 (693.1428) | 1 (179.4400) | 3 (168.5600) | 1 (176.0344) | 4 (169.1084) |
| 2021-09-11 | Twin Smoke Vilnius, LT | 1 / 15 (694.3088) | 5 (166.8460) | 1 (178.8800) | 3 (172.0228) | 1 (176.5600) |
| 2021-08-20 | BBQ Festival 2021 Saue Parish, 76505 | 1 / 13 (675.4172) | 5 (162.8228) | 1 (174.8572) | 5 (160.5600) | 1 (177.1772) |
| 2020-08-21 | BBQ Festival 2020 Saue Parish, | 1 / 13 (685.0512) | 7 (166.2628) | 1 (178.8572) | 7 (165.0740) | 1 (174.8572) |
| 2020-04-06 | Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO | 53 / 109 (164.5716) | — | — | — | 52 (164.5716) |
| 2019-10-25 | 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) |
| 2019-08-16 | BBQ Festival 2019 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish, 75501 | 9 / 18 (662.3084) | 10 (166.2744) | 9 (164.0000) | 8 (161.1312) | 5 (170.9028) |
| 2019-06-15 | BBQ Battle Finland Tampere, 33840 | 4 / 23 (651.9656) | 15 (157.6684) | 2 (169.1888) | 9 (162.2400) | 6 (162.8684) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #153 (1233 pts) | #231 (973 pts) | #271 (913 pts) | #154 (1233 pts) | #202 (1078 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) |