State champions
1
state championship won
They've taken 1 state championship from 4 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 4 state-championship entries
Honey do bbq
Honey do bbq is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2022. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest (2022). They finished #860 in the 2022 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1498
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Aug 27, 2021
latest Aug 26, 2022 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 13% of the time
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.62
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 167.64 · weakest Pork (157.24)
Road miles
2,399
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 1,333 mi
Schedule strength
71%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1590)
Purse competed for
$48K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
646.18 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Honey do bbq, each with one reason worth a look.
Honey do bbq has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 107 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,307 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
Fewer contests behind them than Honey do bbq has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Honey do bbq's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,311 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Honey do bbq's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,310 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with Honey do bbq on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,299 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Honey do bbq's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1498
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 146.7772 | 158.54 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 177.1544 | 157.0856 | 167.64 | top 51% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 147.9544 | 157.24 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 157.1200 | 160.12 | top 81% |
“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
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 1 | top 60% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 78% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
4 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
2
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
SD
4 of 8 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
First title
Aug 26, 2022
Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
Opponents faced
94
finished ahead 45 times, behind 85
Longest layoff
3.2 yrs
Jun 8, 2018 → Aug 27, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20227 milestones
- First overall top-10 Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- First overall podium Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- First Grand Championship Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- First state championship Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- Career-best overall score659.8856 Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- Peak power rating (1498) Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest
20214 milestones
- First call Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.9432 Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1544 Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Historic New Castle Colonial BBQ Competition
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +20.7 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest | Aug 26, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.1 | The Art of BBQ | Jul 1, 2022 |
| -6.3 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest | Aug 27, 2021 |
| -6.2 | Original SD BBQ Championship | Jun 3, 2022 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — 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
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25% | top 57% | 96.8% | 91.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 87% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2022 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 1 / 28 (174.2628) | 20 (166.8572) | 21 (167.4172) | 27 (162.2284) | 23 (163.3828) |
| Jul 1, 2022 | The Art of BBQ 🏅 Sterling, CO | 25 / 28 (628.3888) | 28 (146.7772) | 18 (163.3944) | 24 (160.5144) | 22 (157.7028) |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Original SD BBQ Championship 🏅 Huron, SD | 36 / 46 (644.5028) | 30 (166.2740) | 10 (173.1544) | 45 (147.9544) | 39 (157.1200) |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Original SD BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) Huron, SD | — | — | 27 (157.0856) | — | — |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 27 / 31 (651.9432) | 29 (154.2400) | 1 (177.1544) | 26 (158.2628) | 24 (162.2860) |
| Jun 8, 2018 | Historic New Castle Colonial BBQ Competition New Castle, DE | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 18, 2018 | Twin Valley Fire And Smoke Morgantown, PA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 9, 2017 | Historic New Castle Colonial BBQ Competition New Castle, DE | — | — | — | — | — |