High-water mark
690.2516
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.2516 at 2nd Annual Brew B-Q — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-11-11
HONEY FIRE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-09-16
latest 2016-11-11
Best ToY finish
#1142
Master 2016
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 42%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.42 · weakest Pork (164.26)
Road miles
96
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 96 mi
Master avg
677.91 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
HONEY FIRE 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 98 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.
#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2653 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after HONEY FIRE did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#2658 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with HONEY FIRE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2665 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9888 | 169.6800 | 170.83 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.2972 | 164.5372 | 171.42 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 159.3828 | 164.26 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 170.8228 | 171.40 | top 51% |
“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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2016-09-16 → 2016-11-11
Busiest season
2016
2 contests
Cooks most in
TN
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.42 · weakest Pork (164.26)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
677.91
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
27–16 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
96
2 mapped stops · furthest 96 mi
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Nebo Fall Festival and BBQ Competition
- First call Nebo Fall Festival and BBQ Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score665.5772 Nebo Fall Festival and BBQ Competition
- First category win (Pork Ribs) 2nd Annual Brew B-Q
- First overall top-10 2nd Annual Brew B-Q
- Career-best overall score690.2516 2nd Annual Brew B-Q
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 2nd Annual Brew B-Q
- Most recent contest 2nd Annual Brew B-Q
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 42% | 95.9% | 94.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-11 | 2nd Annual Brew B-Q Nashville, TN | 7 / 25 (690.2516) | 13 (171.9888) | 1 (178.2972) | 12 (169.1428) | 14 (170.8228) |
| 2016-09-16 | Nebo Fall Festival and BBQ Competition Nebo, KY | 11 / 20 (665.5772) | 9 (169.6800) | 12 (164.5372) | 19 (159.3828) | 9 (171.9772) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1142 (270 pts) | #1312 (240 pts) | #955 (385 pts) | #1522 (190 pts) | #1309 (235 pts) |