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Insomnia BBQ Team

Insomnia BBQ Team is a competition barbecue team with 38 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2025. They have won 5 Grand Championships, most recently at the Vienna BBQ Days (2024), and finished Reserve Grand Champion 6 times. They are ranked #464 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#464
of 6,476 rated · rankings

Rating

1685
peak 1685 · rated over 29 contests1 invitational or side-series contest not counted

Contests

38
in the data

First seen

Aug 18, 2017
latest Oct 18, 2025 · 8.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#75
Master 2024 · every season

Grand champs

5
6 reserve · wins it all 13% of the time

Category wins

22
50 podiums

Overall top-10s

27
71% of 38 contests

Best top-10 run

12
straight overall top-10s · 3 straight GCs

Avg finish

top 30%
overall standings

Best overall

707.9772 / 720
Master · Wild West Fest on Fire

Perfect 180s

3 🔥

Current form

681.64 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 672.18 (+9.46)

Walk rate

89%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

180 🔥
Brisket · Alps BBQ Days

Consistency

±18.98
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs
avg 168.54 · weakest Pork (167.91)

Road miles

23,647
across 38 mapped stops · furthest 5,014 mi

Schedule strength

34%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1545)

Master avg

672.18 / 720
30 Master contests · 5 GCs

Storylines (20 found in their record)

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

Riding a hot streak

5 straight overall top-10s

Currently on a 5-contest overall top-10 run.

  • career best 12

The heartbreaker

2.2856 points from the title

Came within 2.2856 points of the Grand Championship at BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia (Aug 15, 2025).

Among the elite

#464 of 6,476 rated teams

In the top 7% of every rated team in the data

A power rating of 1685 puts them #464 of 6,476 rated teams — the top 7% of the field.

  • rating 1685
  • peak 1685
  • 29 rated contests

Perfect scores on the board

3 perfect 180s

3 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 3 different meats.

  • Chicken ×1
  • Pork Ribs ×1
  • Brisket ×1

Against the odds

26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at Alps BBQ Days (Jul 20, 2024) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 26-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, COOKLOUNGE BBQ.

Signature meat

27% brisket entries won

8 wins from 30 entries

When brisket is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 27% of their entries (8 of 30).

  • best 180.0000
  • average 168.16
  • 28 calls

Happy hunting ground

1× Grand Championship here

Vienna BBQ Days is their spot: 1 Grand Championship in 3 visits.

  • 3 visits
  • best finish 1st
  • average top 19%
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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 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia (Aug 15, 2025).

  • Pork Ribs 1st
  • Brisket 1st

They almost always walk

89% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 34 of 38 contests

A top-10 category call in 89% of their 38 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

707.9772 career-best overall

98.3% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 707.9772 at Wild West Fest on Fire — 98.3% of a perfect 720.

  • Master
  • Aug 10, 2024

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ has finished one call ahead of Insomnia BBQ Team 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

Their season

2024 4 Grand Championships

2024 was the year it came together: 14 contests, 4 Grand Championships and 7 category wins, at an average finish in the top 26%.

  • 14 contests
  • 8 overall top-10s
  • 7 category wins
  • average top 26%

A tough matchup

8–0 behind in the head-to-head

Sweaty Hogs ahead in 100% of their meetings

Sweaty Hogs has come out ahead in 8 of their 8 shared contests.

A strong matchup

6–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BBQ Rüütlid in 6 of their 6 shared contests.

Announced themselves early

4th at their very first contest

Finished 4 of 15 at their very first tracked contest, BBQ Festival 2017 (Aug 18, 2017).

  • Aug 18, 2017
  • 15-team field

Always the bridesmaid

6 reserve championships

Runner-up for the whole thing 6 times against 5 Grand Championships — close enough to touch it, over and over.

  • 5 Grand Championships
  • 38 contests

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

Click & Q has landed one call behind them 2 times.

A July team

Top 22% average finish in July

Something about July: average finish in the top 22% across 3 contests, versus top 30% the rest of the year.

  • 3 July contests
  • top 30% the rest of the year

A standing appointment

4 years running at one contest

They've cooked Twin Smoke every year from 2021 to 2024 — the contest they never miss.

  • 4 visits in all
  • best finish 2nd

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
2025 ↗ Master #278 (786 pts) #365 (636 pts) #290 (875 pts) #366 (616 pts) #288 (811 pts)
2024 ↗ Master #75 (1,685 pts) #76 (1,599 pts) #38 (1,929 pts) #94 (1,440 pts) #43 (1,785 pts)
2023 ↗ Master #656 (239 pts) #760 (214 pts) #742 (264 pts) #781 (189 pts) #700 (239 pts)
2019 ↗ Master #1037 (246 pts) #1194 (211 pts) #1134 (236 pts) #1262 (191 pts) #717 (466 pts)

Overall rank by season

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MIDNIGHT STOKERS
#466 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
32
GCs
1
Top-10s
47%
Peak
1685

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 31 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

  • rated over 31 contests
  • last seen Oct 21, 2016
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Big Boots BBQ
#467 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
30
GCs
2
Top-10s
60%
Peak
1689

Careers of much the same size, 30 contests to 38, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 27 contests
  • last seen May 5, 2023
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Fine As* Swine BBQ
#465 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
33
GCs
1
Top-10s
73%
Peak
1686

Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 33 contests, alongside a 73% overall top-10 rate.

  • rated over 32 contests
  • last seen Sep 12, 2025
  • on a 5-contest top-10 run
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JOUSTING PIGS BBQ
#462 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
48
GCs
0
Top-10s
27%
Peak
1688

Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Insomnia BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 48 contests
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QUETOPIA
#463 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
50
GCs
3
Top-10s
32%
Peak
1698

Level with Insomnia BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

  • rated over 48 contests
  • last seen Oct 2, 2020
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DAD'S GRILLIN CREW
#461 of the rated field
1685 power rating
Contests
99
GCs
3
Top-10s
52%
Peak
1775

They've been 1775 at their best, 90 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

  • rated over 96 contests
  • last seen May 10, 2024
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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 14 8 6 57% ⚔ compare
COOKLOUNGE BBQ 10 5 5 50% ⚔ compare
BBQ Symphony 10 3 7 30% ⚔ compare
SMOKING FINNS FI 9 4 5 44% ⚔ compare
The BBQ Ranch 8 4 4 50% ⚔ compare
Sweaty Hogs 8 0 8 0% ⚔ compare
3BBQ 7 6 1 86% ⚔ compare
SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ 7 5 2 71% ⚔ compare
Clean Smoke BBQ 7 4 3 57% ⚔ compare
BBQ Rüütlid 6 6 0 100% ⚔ compare
Piiripealsed 6 5 1 83% ⚔ compare
Sleeping Beauties of BBQ 6 5 1 83% ⚔ compare
Dreamfire BBQ Team 6 4 2 67% ⚔ compare
Just wing it BBQ team 6 4 2 67% ⚔ compare
Woodquarter Smokerheads 6 4 2 67% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 31 24 5 11 180 🔥 150.8228 168.39 top 41%
Pork Ribs 37 30 5 12 180 🔥 149.7028 168.54 top 37%
Pork 30 22 4 12 179.4400 153.6684 167.91 top 37%
Brisket 30 28 8 15 180 🔥 150.2400 168.16 top 30%

“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)224top 29%
Medium (20–39)71top 28%
Large (40+)10top 62%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
LT40top 26%
TN10top 62%

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

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Twin Smoke 4 2 0 top 26% May 18, 2024
Vienna BBQ Days 3 1 1 top 19% Oct 18, 2025
Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 2) 2 3 0 top 38% Sep 13, 2025
BBQ Festival 2 6 0 top 58% Aug 19, 2022
BBQ Festival 2020 2 2 0 top 22% Aug 21, 2020

More numbers

Busiest season 2024 14 contests · 4 GCs
Contests a season 4.2 across 9 seasons in the data
Most contests held in LT 4 of 38 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited 22 5 of them more than once
Most-entered meat Pork Ribs 37 entries · 5 wins · 30 calls
First title Aug 18, 2023 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa
Opponents faced 282 finished ahead 356 times, behind 161

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

20252 milestones
  1. Peak power rating (1685) Vienna BBQ Days
  2. Most recent contest Vienna BBQ Days
20244 milestones
  1. First perfect 180 (Pork Ribs) The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS)
  2. 25th tracked contest Alps BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS)
  3. Career-best overall score707.9772 Wild West Fest on Fire
  4. 5th Grand Championship Vienna BBQ Days
20232 milestones
  1. First Grand Championship BBQ Festival Vanamoisa
  2. 10th category win BBQ Festival Vanamoisa
20222 milestones
  1. First multi-meat day Twin Smoke
  2. 10th tracked contest BIGFEAST CHALLENGE
20182 milestones
  1. First overall podium BBQ Festival 2018
  2. First Reserve Championship BBQ Festival 2018
20175 milestones
  1. First tracked contest BBQ Festival 2017
  2. First call BBQ Festival 2017
  3. First category win (Brisket) BBQ Festival 2017
  4. First overall top-10 BBQ Festival 2017
  5. First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.3712 BBQ Festival 2017

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

SwingContestDate
+14.7Alps BBQ DaysJul 20, 2024
+13.2BBQ Festival VanamoisaAug 18, 2023
+12.1Twin SmokeJul 2, 2022
+12.1Twin SmokeMay 20, 2023
+12.1Wild West Fest on FireAug 10, 2024

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-7.4BBQ FestivalAug 19, 2022
-6.6Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 1)Sep 12, 2025
-3.8BBQ Festival 2019Aug 16, 2019
-3.4Fo.G & Smoke 2024Sep 21, 2024
-1.3Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2020Sep 17, 2022

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — 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)
20255044 80% top 30% 95.1% 94.3%
202414487 86% top 26% 98.3% 94.9%
20237154 86% top 19% 95.3% 94.2%
20224034 100% top 41% 95.9% 92.6%
20212021 100% top 40% 92.5% 90.9%
20201010 100% top 23% 93.4% 93.4%
20193020 100% top 45% 93.4% 90.8%
20181011 100% top 20% 90.4% 90.4%
20171011 100% top 27% 90.5% 90.5%

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

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Oct 18, 2025 Vienna BBQ Days Vienna 3 / 11 (684.4572) 1 (176.5600) 7 (167.3944) 5 (174.2628) 6 (166.2400)
Oct 18, 2025 Vienna BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Vienna — — 12 (170.8228) — —
Sep 13, 2025 Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 2) Dongen 3 / 23 (679.3488) 9 (168.5372) 3 (174.2744) 18 (159.9544) 1 (176.5828)
Sep 12, 2025 Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 1) Dongen 10 / 16 (666.7200) 15 (162.8228) 7 (168.5372) 8 (167.9772) 9 (167.3828)
Aug 15, 2025 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia Saue 2 / 11 (683.9656) 6 (162.8572) 1 (173.1084) 2 (173.1428) 1 (174.8572)
Oct 19, 2024 Vienna BBQ Days Vienna 1 / 14 (693.7144) 2 (176) 7 (169.7372) 2 (173.7144) 1 (174.2628)
Oct 19, 2024 Vienna BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Vienna — — 11 (163.9772) — —
Oct 11, 2024 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN 54 / 87 (674.1940) 29 (171.9884) 81 (161.1200) 15 (174.8456) 58 (166.2400)
Sep 21, 2024 Fo.G & Smoke 2024 Providence of MODENA (MO) 9 / 19 (674.9140) 13 (166.8800) 7 (169.7600) 12 (166.2856) 3 (171.9884)
Aug 23, 2024 Smoke in the North Rolfstorp 1 / 23 (693.1544) 10 (169.6800) 3 (173.1772) 2 (175.4172) 1 (174.8800)
Aug 10, 2024 Wild West Fest on Fire Medvode 1 / 11 (707.9772) 4 (175.4056) 2 (177.1544) 1 (176.5600) 1 (178.8572)
Aug 10, 2024 Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) Medvode — — 5 (170.8572) — —
Jul 20, 2024 Alps BBQ Days Reichenau an der Rax 1 / 10 (702.8456) 3 (176) 3 (173.1428) 3 (173.7028) 1 (180)
Jul 20, 2024 Alps BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Reichenau an der Rax — — 6 (170.8344) — —
Jun 15, 2024 The War of Barbeque Peschiera del Garda 3 / 17 (697.1544) 3 (177.7028) 5 (174.8800) 4 (176.5600) 8 (168.0116)
Jun 15, 2024 The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda — 1 (180) — — —
Jun 15, 2024 The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda — — 1 (180) — —
May 18, 2024 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 8 / 18 (634.2628) 8 (162.2856) 11 (154.2860) 14 (153.6684) 3 (164.0228)
Apr 20, 2024 De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest 2024 Terneuzen 8 / 23 (669.0284) 13 (167.9656) 4 (172.5600) 18 (158.2056) 7 (170.2972)
Oct 21, 2023 Vienna BBQ Days 2023 Vienna 3 / 13 (686.2172) 4 (174.8456) 6 (169.6916) 2 (172.5600) 4 (169.1200)
Oct 21, 2023 Vienna BBQ Days 2023 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Vienna — — 11 (167.4172) — —
Aug 26, 2023 Smoke in the North Edition Q in the Swamp Rolfstorp 2 / 21 (681.6568) 10 (165.1084) 1 (175.4400) 3 (174.8456) 8 (166.2628)
Aug 18, 2023 BBQ Festival Vanamoisa Saue Parish 1 / 15 (671.4284) 1 (174.2856) 6 (163.4400) 6 (165.1656) 3 (168.5372)
Jul 29, 2023 Vienna Alps BBQ Days Reichenau 5 / 12 (666.8000) 7 (165.1084) 4 (169.7028) 9 (159.4288) 1 (172.5600)
Jul 29, 2023 Vienna Alps BBQ Days (ONE MEAT RIBS) Reichenau — — 4 (168.5372) — —
May 20, 2023 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 2 / 14 (684.5256) 3 (168.5372) 1 (176.5828) 4 (167.4056) 2 (172)
Sep 17, 2022 Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2020 Sint Niklaas 15 / 25 (641.5656) 10 (167.3828) 22 (156.5256) 13 (161.6800) 15 (155.9772)
Aug 19, 2022 BBQ Festival Saue Parish 7 / 10 (673.7028) 10 (157.7028) 2 (173.7028) 3 (176.5600) 6 (165.7372)
Aug 13, 2022 BIGFEAST CHALLENGE Uusikaupunki 2 / 9 (690.2740) 2 (173.1428) 1 (173.7256) 1 (179.4400) 5 (163.9656)
Jul 2, 2022 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 2 / 15 (662.2744) 1 (178.2972) 9 (149.7028) 1 (178.8800) 7 (155.3944)
Sep 11, 2021 Twin Smoke Vilnius, Lithuania 5 / 15 (665.6688) 1 (175.4400) 4 (167.4288) 2 (172.5600) 9 (150.2400)
Aug 20, 2021 BBQ Festival 2021 Saue Parish 6 / 13 (643.3256) 2 (169.7028) 5 (164) 6 (158.2856) 8 (151.3372)
Aug 21, 2020 BBQ Festival 2020 Saue Parish 3 / 13 (672.4572) 5 (167.4172) 3 (171.4056) 6 (165.0972) 4 (168.5372)
Sep 13, 2019 Open Polish BBQ Championship Poland 8 / 23 (672.5256) 13 (162.8344) 2 (177.1428) 9 (160.5828) 6 (171.9656)
Aug 16, 2019 BBQ Festival 2019 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish 11 / 18 (651.2916) 16 (157.6800) 7 (166.2628) 16 (154.2172) 3 (173.1316)
Jun 15, 2019 BBQ Battle Finland Tampere 9 / 23 (637.6344) 10 (161.0972) 17 (153.7372) 14 (155.3600) 2 (167.4400)
Aug 17, 2018 BBQ Festival 2018 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish 2 / 10 (650.8576) 7 (155.9772) 4 (161.1888) 1 (165.6800) 2 (168.0116)
Aug 18, 2017 BBQ Festival 2017 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish 4 / 15 (651.3712) 13 (150.8228) 4 (164.5600) 5 (165.1428) 1 (170.8456)

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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