TARHEEL SMOKEHOUSE
TARHEEL SMOKEHOUSE is a competition barbecue team with 2 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2020 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 29th of 61 at the Sip & Swine BBQ Festival (2020). They finished #1309 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
Contests
First seen
Avg finish
Strongest meat
Road miles
Purse competed for
Master avg
Backyard (3-meat) avg
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.7656 | 146.2056 | 148.49 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6572 | 152.4916 | 155.07 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 157.6456 | 158.52 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7656 | 146.7656 | 146.77 | top 92% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | 2 | 29 | 0 | top 70% | Mar 4, 2022 |
More numbers
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20222 milestones
- Career-best overall score608.2740 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
20202 milestones
- First tracked contest Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)159.3944 Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2022 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 68 / 73 (608.2740) | 69 (146.2056) | 65 (157.6572) | 66 (157.6456) | 67 (146.7656) |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | 29 / 61 (462.6516) | 30 (150.7656) | 26 (152.4916) | 22 (159.3944) | — |