High-water mark
177.7028
career-best overall
98.7% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 177.7028 at 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) — 98.7% of a perfect 180.
- Competitor Series
- Nov 2, 2024
Hold My Beer and Watch This
Hold My Beer and Watch This is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2024. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Aug 27, 2021
latest Nov 2, 2024 · 3.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 17% of the time
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
50% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 17%
overall standings
Best overall
177.7028 / 180
Competitor Series · 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
11
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 1 | top 7% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 27% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.2
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
First title
Nov 2, 2024
901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
Opponents faced
61
finished ahead 65 times, behind 12
Longest layoff
2.6 yrs
Aug 27, 2021 → Apr 20, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES)
20243 milestones
- First overall podium 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
- First Grand Championship 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
- Career-best overall score177.7028 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
—3 milestones
- First tracked contest Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall top-10 Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score177.7028 Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | — | 98.7% | 98.7% |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 7% | 98.7% | 98.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 27% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 25, 2025 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 2, 2024 | 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) unrated Memphis, TN | 1 / 15 (177.7028) | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 20, 2024 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 27, 2021 | World Championship Hot wing Contest and Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Memphis, TN | 8 / 30 (172.5600) | — | — | — | — |
| — | Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Memphis, TN | 6 (177.7028) | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.