A multi-meat day
1
contest with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship (Aug 24, 2018).
- Pork 1st
- Brisket 1st
Texas Stick Burners
Texas Stick Burners is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2015 and 2021. Their best overall finish is 5th of 54 at the Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship (2018). They are ranked #1878 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1545
peak 1545 · rated over 5 contests
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 28, 2015
latest Aug 20, 2021 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 27%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.89
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.59 · weakest Pork Ribs (165.21)
Road miles
452
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 226 mi
Schedule strength
34%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1546)
Purse competed for
$9,310
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
671.55 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Texas Stick Burners, each with one reason worth a look.
70 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,886 of the rated field
- Contests
- 21
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1550
3–0 in 3 shared contests (100% to Texas Stick Burners)
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — Texas Stick Burners ahead 3–0 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1545
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,885 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1544
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 6 years before Texas Stick Burners's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,867 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1545
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#1,873 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1545
Level with Texas Stick Burners on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,883 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1544
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 163.3828 | 168.10 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 157.0856 | 165.21 | top 44% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 177.7372 | 159.9772 | 169.59 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 158.8112 | 168.66 | 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
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 27% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 21% | Aug 24, 2018 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TX
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
198
finished ahead 192 times, behind 65
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Aug 24, 2018 → Aug 20, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20212 milestones
- Peak power rating (1545) Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Most recent contest Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championship
20184 milestones
- First category win (Pork) Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- First multi-meat day Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Career-best overall score689.0856 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
- Career-best single call (Brisket)179.4400 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship
20171 milestone
- First overall top-10 The Wind Rider Music & BBQ Festival (WFC QUALIFIER)
20153 milestones
- First tracked contest Raider Red Meats BBQ and Ribeye Championship
- First call Raider Red Meats BBQ and Ribeye Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score663.2912 Raider Red Meats BBQ and Ribeye Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.3 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship | Aug 24, 2018 |
| +9.6 | The Wind Rider Music & BBQ Festival (WFC QUALIFIER) | May 26, 2017 |
| +9.1 | Raider Red Meats BBQ and Ribeye Championship | Aug 28, 2015 |
| +6.7 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship | Aug 26, 2016 |
| +4.7 | Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championship | Aug 20, 2021 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 40% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 9% | 95.7% | 95.7% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 92.3% | 92.3% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2021 | Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championship 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 17 / 43 (664.9596) | 16 (165.1084) | 21 (161.6572) | 14 (169.6684) | 12 (168.5256) |
| Aug 24, 2018 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship Lubbock, TX | 5 / 54 (689.0856) | 24 (165.6800) | 27 (166.2284) | 1 (177.7372) | 1 (179.4400) |
| May 26, 2017 | The Wind Rider Music & BBQ Festival (WFC QUALIFIER) Ruidoso, NM | 10 / 36 (675.9540) | 7 (172.0228) | 11 (167.9656) | 2 (177.1544) | 27 (158.8112) |
| Aug 26, 2016 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship Lubbock, TX | 23 / 72 (664.4684) | 6 (174.2856) | 54 (157.0856) | 49 (159.9772) | 8 (173.1200) |
| Aug 28, 2015 | Raider Red Meats BBQ and Ribeye Championship Lubbock, TX | 15 / 57 (663.2912) | 34 (163.3828) | 10 (173.1200) | 25 (163.4056) | 20 (163.3828) |