The comeback
12.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 12.8 years, then back at Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) (2026-03-20).
- last seen 2013-05-24
- back 2026-03-20
Honky Tonk BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2013-05-24
latest 2026-03-20
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.72 · weakest Brisket (158.86)
Road miles
397
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 397 mi
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
638.29 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
340.00 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), 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.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Honky Tonk BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 100 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Honky Tonk BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2874 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2868 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Level with Honky Tonk BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Honky Tonk BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2847 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Honky Tonk BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7260 | 161.7142 | 165.72 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 156.5716 | 164.36 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 161.1428 | 163.12 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8572 | 158.8572 | 158.86 | top 50% |
“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.
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
12.8 yrs
2013-05-24 → 2026-03-20
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TN
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 165.72 · weakest Brisket (158.86)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
638.29
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
340.00
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
244
153–91 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
397
3 mapped stops · furthest 397 mi
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
12.8 yrs
2013-05-24 → 2026-03-20
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- Career-best overall score638.2858 Westmont Red, White & BBQ
- 2026
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.0004 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.2744 Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship
Category scores over time
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 21% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship 🏅 Lebanon, TN | 26 / 125 (340.0004) | 30 (169.7260) | 19 (170.2744) | 37 (165.0972) | — |
| 2026-03-20 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Lebanon, TN | — | — | 60 (166.2400) | — | — |
| 2013-05-24 | Westmont Red, White & BBQ Westmont, IL | 42 / 70 (638.2858) | 40 (161.7142) | 45 (156.5716) | 40 (161.1428) | 35 (158.8572) |