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KCBS in Hawaii HI
10 tracked contests over 3.8 years,
40 teams on the scoresheets — the 68th busiest of 94 regions on file.
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At a glance
This season 1
contest in 2026 · 13 teams competing
Teams competed 40
distinct teams on record
Typical field 12
teams · biggest 18
Avg winning score 701.69
Master · of 720 · best 706.27
Avg category score 166.67
across 225 meat entries
Perfect 180s 2 🔥
8.9 per 1,000 entries
Grand champions 3
titles handed out here
State championships 3 🏅
on the calendar
Towns 3
5 venues · 8 recurring contests
Seasons on record 4
2022 – 2026
Published purses $27,550
across 8 contests that listed one
Cancelled 4
not counted as contests held
How Hawaii stacks up (against all 94 regions on file)
The bar is Hawaii's standing on that measure: a full bar is the region that leads it, an empty one is the region that trails it. Rate-based measures need a minimum body of results before a region is ranked at all, so a single hot weekend can't buy a place. The median is the middle region, not the average — one huge region would drag an average somewhere no region actually is.
Regions like this one
Matched on the shape of the scene — how many contests it runs, how deep the fields get, how the room scores and how often it hands out a 180 — not on the map. Counts are compared on a log scale, because 5 contests to 15 is a different scene while 300 to 310 is the same one.
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Season by season
Click a column heading to re-sort. Winning score is the Master overall (of 720); a season with no scored Master contest leaves it blank.
Contests per season (up to 2026)
When they cook (month of year)
Field depth over time (average teams per contest, and teams competing that season)
What it took to win (average Master winning score, and 180s scored)
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How the room scores (every judged meat, against the sport as a whole)
A lower average means a harder room. “vs sport” is this region's average minus the same meat's average everywhere KCBS is scored.
Meat Avg here vs sport Entries 180s 180s /1k
Chicken
166.19
+1.03
42
0
0
Pork Ribs
167.97
+4.35
87
1
11.5
Pork
167.58
+3.28
42
0
0
Brisket
164.23
+2
54
1
18.5
Top teams who cook here (by power rating)
The regulars (most contests cooked in Hawaii)
Team Contests GCs Last
SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ 3 2 Jul 24, 2026
Cynical BBQ 3 1 Jul 24, 2026
MACBBQ 3 — Jul 24, 2026
TINY E BBQ 2 — Jul 25, 2025
Sweetie's Bar-B-Q 2 — Jul 24, 2026
Rolling Smoke BBQ & CO 2 — Jul 24, 2026
It's Just Me BBQ 2 — Jul 24, 2026
BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 1 — Jul 24, 2026
CROOKED PIGS 1 — Nov 10, 2023
LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 1 — Jul 25, 2025
Small Axe BBQ 1 — Nov 10, 2023
SMOKECRAFT - MD 1 — Nov 10, 2023
Highest scores in Hawaii (Master · /720)
Score Team Where
706.2744 Cynical BBQ
2nd Annual Curley Que Classic Jul 24, 2026
705.1200 SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ
Curley Que Classic Jul 25, 2025
705.1084 Cynical BBQ
Curley Que Classic Jul 25, 2025
703.3828 SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ
2nd Annual Curley Que Classic Jul 24, 2026
701.7032 Smoked & Furious
2nd Annual Curley Que Classic Jul 24, 2026
699.4172 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ
Curley Que Classic Jul 25, 2025
699.3944 Damn Yankee Texas Barbeque
Curley Que Classic Jul 25, 2025
697.6912 THE BBQ BUS
2nd Annual Curley Que Classic Jul 24, 2026
693.6916 Sweetie's Bar-B-Q
Curley Que Classic Jul 25, 2025
693.6800 SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ
Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" Nov 10, 2023
Contests that come back (recurring)
Where it happens (towns in Hawaii)
Town Contests Seasons Avg field Last
Honolulu 8 4 12 Jul 24, 2026
Schofield Barracks 1 1 — Nov 5, 2023
Kapolei 1 1 — Oct 1, 2022
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Where else these teams cook
Of the 32 teams with a recorded finish in Hawaii, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.
On the map (every mapped contest in Hawaii — tap a pin)
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