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Would you like to get your own dynamic rankings widget like the one displayed below?

NEW FOR 2009...we are now ranking every team that competes in a KCBS contest. As long as your team has competed in a KCBS sanctioned contest this year, you can get a custom widget that matches your site's design here.


Over 600 rankings widgets have been created and downloaded. See the following widgetized sites for examples:

Scenic City Smokers
Spanky And The Meat Mafia
Smokehouse 72
Swiggin Pig
Reservoir Hogs
Smoked To The Bone
Whiskey Ranch
Hot For Teacher BBQ
Captain Rons Brew-n-Que
Learn2q.com
Slabs of Approval
The BBQ Guru
Slap Yo Daddy BBQ

Featured Recipe

From The Recipe Exchange
Grilled Chicken Spiedini

This wonderful Italian dish requires some preparation is but well worth the effort.

Grilled Chicken Spiedini

See the entire recipe and process along with pictures here.


BBQ Team Power Rankings

Who's hot on the BBQ competition circuit this year? Find out how your favorite teams fair in our Power Rankings. As the season begins to wind down, you'll want to know which teams will make our Top 25 list. And, you might just want to know how your team stacks up against the competition. We've evaluated every completed KCBS competition and have scored the teams in the Overall, Chicken, Ribs, Pork, and Brisket categories. Every team who has finished in the Top 10 in at least one category in one contest is ranked here!



Do It Yourself BBQ Team Rankings

So you think you can improve upon our Power Rankings system? Now you can test your own methodology against our data. Use our new rankings engine to design and create a BBQ team ranking system based on your criteria. Click here to visit the Do It Yourself BBQ Team Rankings generator.


KCBS Team Contest Map

Do you want to see where a particular team has been competing? The interactive Team Contest Map will visually show you where any team has competed in a KCBS sanctioned contest. Click here to view the Team Contest Map.

The Pickled Pig

Though we may occasionally act contrary in manner, we are not always pigs. The Pickled Pig is a competition BBQ team that hails from Overland Park, Kansas.

We enjoy the thrill of the hunt, a swill of good beer, fine whisky or rum and slow-smoked BBQ. Our over-indulgent tendencies may appear to be "Pig-like" but we tend to think that the only good pig is either smoked or Pickled! Given our choices in the matter, we choose the latter.

We operate this site primarily to promote one of our favorite passions - good BBQ. We also want to promote our BBQ team, share team information with our friends and supporters, and interact with fellow BBQ enthusiasts.

Whether you're a fellow competitor, certified judge, BBQ novice, fan of The Pig, or just plain love to eat BBQ, we want you to feel welcome here and encourage your participation. We're not good enough to be secretive, so we'll gladly share everything we know and hope you'll do the same for the good of the sport. Be sure to check out our Online Community forums.


Planning Your 2009 BBQ Contest Schedule?

See what contests are happening in your area during any given week. This interactive map can make contest schedule planning a little easier and is a convenient way to locate contest information and results. Click here or on the map image below to go to the interactive contest planning map.

The 2009 KCBS Contest schedule has been loaded into the map. Be sure and check back regularly for updates and changes.

If you prefer text instead of a fancy map, you might like our new KCBS contest schedule page.


What's Happening In The Pickled Pig Forums

The Pickled Pig Forum Community continues to grow. Many of our site's original features (like recipes and contest pictures) have been moved to these forums over the last year. Everyone is welcome to visit and absorb the information, but we encourage you to participate so others can benefit from your expertise. You can launch your Pickled Pig Forum experience by clicking on any of the thread titles in the table below.


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KCBS Awards Map Widget


Would you like to add a customized, interactive, and dynamic mapping widget to your web site that allows visitors to see exactly where you've been racking up the wins in KCBS awards? The Pickled Pig can help make that happen. We track and update all of the data, and we've done the programming on the back end. All you have to do is copy and paste some HTML from our site to yours.

As long as your team has a Top 10 Overall finish in a KCBS sanctioned contest this year, you can get a custom widget that matches your site's design here.

See how the following teams use this new widget to improve their site:

Cancer Sucks!
Pellet Envy
Rhythm n' Que
Screamin' Nite Hog
Smoke Me Tender
Son Seekers BBQ Team

2009 Pickled Pig BBQ Team Contest Schedule

Polar Swine IV - Lake Melvern, KS (February 6-7)
Jack Daniel's Backyard BBQ - Kansas City, MO (March 7)
Smokin' On Big Creek - Pleasant Hill, MO (April 3-4)
VFW BBQ Contest - Overland Park, KS (April 24-25)
Belton BBQ Contest - Belton, MO (May 1-2)
Sertoma 48 - Lawrence, KS (May 8-9)
Wheatstock - Abilene, KS (May 29-30)
McLouth BBQ Contest - McLouth, KS(June 5-6)
Raytown BBQ Contest - Raytown, MO(June 12-13)
Chest to Chest Brisket Invitational - Great Bend, KS (July 9-10)
10th Annual Central Kansas Barbeque Cookoff - Great Bend, KS (July 10-11)
Wheels N' Squeels BBQ Challenge - Olathe, KS (August 7-8)
CrossPoints BBQ Cookoff - Shawnee, KS (September 11-12)
Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out - Kearney, MO (September 18-19)
American Royal Invitational - Kansas City, MO(October 2-3)
American Royal Open - Kansas City, MO(October 3-4)

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KCBS Contest Statistics

Using our contest database, we've compiled some interesting statistics regarding completed KCBS sanctioned contests. Click here to view our KCBS Sanctioned Contests Statistics.


KCBS Contest Results

We've put the power of relational databases to work on our new KCBS Contest Results feature. Click on any team listed in the results and see a team history of KCBS Top 10 finishes in each category. Click here to browse our KCBS Contest Results listing.


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