The heartbreaker
Came within 0.5484 points of the Grand Championship at 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ (2021-04-23).
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Came within 0.5484 points of the Grand Championship at 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ (2021-04-23).
In the top 10% of every rated team in the data
A power rating of 1655 puts them #617 of 6,413 rated teams — the top 10% of the field.
4 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 84 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Original SD BBQ Championship (2022-06-03) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 16-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, LAST CALL HEROES BBQ.
Took the Grand Championship over a 46-team field at Original SD BBQ Championship.
ND BBQ Championship is their spot: an average finish in the top 19% across 2 visits.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Original SD BBQ Championships (2023-06-02).
A call in 34 of 50 contests
A top-10 category call in 68% of their 50 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
97.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 698.2516 at 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ — 97.0% of a perfect 720.
They've taken 2 state championships from 39 entries at contests carrying the title.
SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ has finished one call ahead of BnB BBQ 3 times — their closest competition in the data.
2023 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 1 Grand Championship and 4 category wins, at an average finish in the top 23%.
LAST CALL HEROES BBQ ahead in 83% of their meetings
LAST CALL HEROES BBQ has come out ahead in 29 of their 35 shared contests.
Their last Grand Championship came at Original SD BBQ Championships on 2023-06-02 — 14 contests and 3.3 years ago.
Ahead in 88% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ SD in 15 of their 17 shared contests.
A tougher draw than 86% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1616 power rating — a tougher draw than 86% of every rated contest in the data.
YOU QUE'D ME ALL NIGHT LONG has landed one call behind them 3 times.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 13,254 miles across 50 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 904 miles to Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series)(JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY).
Their overall lands within ±1.51% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
They've cooked Original SD BBQ Championships every year from 2023 to 2026 — the contest they never miss.
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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BnB BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1753 at their best, 98 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before BnB BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than BnB BBQ has cooked, 31 to 50, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 74 contests, alongside a 53% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAST CALL HEROES BBQ | 35 | 6 | 29 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| RUM N' SMOKE BBQ | 32 | 12 | 20 | 38% | ⚔ compare |
| SPITFIRE | 29 | 10 | 19 | 34% | ⚔ compare |
| RUB MY RACK | 25 | 12 | 13 | 48% | ⚔ compare |
| PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | 25 | 11 | 14 | 44% | ⚔ compare |
| SIN CIRCLE BBQ | 25 | 7 | 18 | 28% | ⚔ compare |
| RICHIE Z's | 22 | 13 | 9 | 59% | ⚔ compare |
| MACHETE BOYS BBQ | 22 | 12 | 10 | 55% | ⚔ compare |
| SHIGGIN & GRINNIN | 22 | 3 | 19 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| BURNT TREES BBQ | 20 | 11 | 9 | 55% | ⚔ compare |
| OWENS BBQ | 20 | 8 | 12 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| WHO DAT BBQ | 19 | 5 | 14 | 26% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKEY AND HIS BANDITS | 18 | 10 | 8 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ SD | 17 | 15 | 2 | 88% | ⚔ compare |
| Pigtamer BBQ | 17 | 12 | 5 | 71% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 43 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 177.7144 | 157.6688 | 169.97 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 50 | 22 | 0 | 5 | 178.8572 | 158.2512 | 169.80 | top 39% |
| Pork | 43 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 180.0000 🔥 | 157.0972 | 168.98 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 43 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 180.0000 🔥 | 156.6060 | 166.87 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD | 20 | 2 | top 40% |
| MN | 6 | 0 | top 56% |
| KS | 4 | 0 | top 40% |
| IA | 4 | 0 | top 49% |
| ND | 2 | 0 | top 19% |
| TN | 2 | 0 | top 58% |
| NE | 2 | 0 | top 46% |
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 23% |
| MT | 1 | 0 | top 69% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 19 | 1 | top 45% |
| Large (40+) | 24 | 1 | top 42% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original SD BBQ Championships | 4 | 1 | 1 | top 38% | 2026-06-05 |
| Original SD BBQ Championship | 3 | 1 | 1 | top 31% | 2022-06-03 |
| Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll | 3 | 7 | 0 | top 48% | 2023-09-08 |
| ND BBQ Championship | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 19% | 2025-10-03 |
| Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 37% | 2024-08-23 |
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series)(JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2 | 40 | 0 | top 58% | 2023-10-13 |
| Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 20% | 2023-08-25 |
| Minnesota in May (Masters) | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 54% | 2022-05-13 |
| Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 48% | 2021-08-27 |
| KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 63% | 2021-07-16 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +18.1 | 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | 2021-04-23 |
| +14.8 | Back to Mayberry Day 1 | 2020-06-26 |
| +14.6 | Original SD BBQ Championship | 2022-06-03 |
| +14.4 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest | 2020-08-21 |
| +14.3 | Original SD BBQ Championships | 2023-06-02 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.2 | Original SD BBQ Championships | 2026-06-05 |
| -9.3 | Minnesota in May (Masters) | 2022-05-13 |
| -7.3 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest | 2021-08-27 |
| -7.2 | Miles City Cowtown Cookoff | 2022-06-24 |
| -4.9 | Original SD BBQ Championships | 2025-06-06 |
| 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 79% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40% | top 39% | 95.7% | 94.6% |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 25% | 95.9% | 94.9% |
| 2023 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 100% | top 23% | 96.8% | 95.5% |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 56% | top 50% | 97% | 93.9% |
| 2021 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 82% | top 43% | 97% | 93.8% |
| 2020 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 78% | top 44% | 95% | 93.4% |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 40% | top 53% | 93.8% | 92.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 | Original SD BBQ Championships 🏅 Huron, SD | 38 / 48 (661.0632) | 43 (157.6688) | 13 (172.5716) | 33 (167.4056) | 32 (163.4172) |
| 2026-06-05 | Original SD BBQ Championships (ONE MEAT RIBS) Huron, SD | — | — | 14 (169.1200) | — | — |
| 2025-10-03 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 8 / 46 (689.0744) | 13 (171.9772) | 3 (176.5600) | 8 (173.1200) | 24 (167.4172) |
| 2025-10-03 | ND BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fargo, ND | — | — | 11 (169.6800) | — | — |
| 2025-08-29 | SD BBQ Shootout @ Huset's Speedway 🏅 Brandon, SD | 20 / 44 (678.2176) | 5 (176.5600) | 9 (174.2744) | 40 (159.9888) | 22 (167.3944) |
| 2025-06-06 | Original SD BBQ Championships 🏅 Huron, SD | 26 / 48 (675.8972) | 39 (164.5372) | 22 (169.6800) | 19 (171.4056) | 18 (170.2744) |
| 2025-06-05 | Original SD BBQ Championships (One Meat Ribs) Huron, SD | — | — | 14 (167.4172) | — | — |
| 2024-09-27 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 10 / 47 (677.1204) | 19 (167.4056) | 7 (171.9656) | 20 (167.4516) | 17 (170.2976) |
| 2024-08-23 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ 🏅 Hill City, SD | 11 / 29 (682.2060) | 26 (165.6800) | 2 (176.0000) | 7 (173.1316) | 19 (167.3944) |
| 2024-06-07 | Original SD BBQ Championships 🏅 Huron, SD | 5 / 34 (690.8228) | 6 (176.5600) | 8 (175.4172) | 1 (180.0000) | 24 (158.8456) |
| 2024-06-07 | Original SD BBQ Championships (ONE MEAT RIBS) Huron, SD | — | — | 7 (167.4172) | — | — |
| 2023-10-13 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series)(JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 40 / 81 (679.9428) | 74 (160.5484) | 35 (172.5600) | 10 (174.8572) | 29 (171.9772) |
| 2023-09-08 | Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll 🏅 Vermillion, SD | 7 / 28 (679.9432) | 1 (177.7144) | 24 (163.4172) | 23 (164.5372) | 4 (174.2744) |
| 2023-08-25 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 4 / 26 (697.0860) | 3 (176.5600) | 4 (176.5716) | 18 (163.9544) | 1 (180.0000) |
| 2023-06-02 | Original SD BBQ Championships 🏅 Huron, SD | 1 / 39 (694.2516) | 1 (175.4172) | 10 (171.9772) | 10 (173.7028) | 1 (173.1544) |
| 2023-06-01 | Original SD BBQ Championships (One Meat Ribs) Huron, SD | — | — | 2 (171.9772) | — | — |
| 2022-10-14 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series)(JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 55 / 83 (669.6116) | 16 (174.2972) | 73 (162.2400) | 30 (171.4056) | 66 (161.6688) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 189 / 249 (672.4796) | 195 (166.8456) | 161 (169.1200) | 110 (171.4056) | 196 (165.1084) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 98 / 505 (684.5028) | 315 (165.0856) | 129 (171.9772) | 45 (176.5600) | 110 (170.8800) |
| 2022-09-09 | Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll 🏅 Vermillion, SD | 18 / 28 (665.6232) | 23 (165.6800) | 21 (163.3828) | 10 (169.7144) | 19 (166.8460) |
| 2022-08-26 | Hill City Wine, Brew & BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 7 / 28 (690.8000) | 7 (174.8572) | 4 (175.4172) | 14 (170.8456) | 18 (169.6800) |
| 2022-06-24 | Miles City Cowtown Cookoff 🏅 Miles City, MT | 18 / 26 (673.0168) | 21 (161.1200) | 2 (177.7028) | 20 (166.2284) | 14 (167.9656) |
| 2022-06-03 | Original SD BBQ Championship 🏅 Huron, SD | 1 / 46 (698.2288) | 14 (171.9772) | 3 (177.7144) | 1 (180.0000) | 21 (168.5372) |
| 2022-06-02 | Original SD BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) Huron, SD | — | — | 8 (170.2628) | — | — |
| 2022-05-13 | Minnesota in May (Masters) 🏅 Cambridge, MN | 45 / 59 (655.8972) | 49 (161.6800) | 18 (169.1200) | 52 (162.2744) | 42 (162.8228) |
| 2021-09-10 | Ribs, Rods & Rock N Roll 🏅 Vermillion, SD | 14 / 26 (671.9084) | 5 (174.2628) | 24 (158.2628) | 17 (168.5256) | 5 (170.8572) |
| 2021-08-27 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 24 / 31 (663.2684) | 19 (171.4056) | 15 (170.8228) | 27 (157.0972) | 22 (163.9428) |
| 2021-07-30 | 5th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest 🏅 Emmetsburg, IA | 16 / 35 (666.1600) | 24 (167.3828) | 9 (169.6916) | 21 (164.5600) | 18 (164.5256) |
| 2021-07-16 | KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off 🏅 Worthington, MN | 19 / 33 (671.3712) | 4 (176.0000) | 21 (165.6912) | 19 (168.0000) | 25 (161.6800) |
| 2021-06-19 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 2 🏅 Holdrege, NE | 17 / 36 (678.7888) | 16 (172.0000) | 4 (178.8572) | 23 (165.1316) | 27 (162.8000) |
| 2021-06-18 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 1 🏅 Holdrege, NE | 18 / 40 (674.1944) | 32 (164.5256) | 5 (174.8572) | 32 (161.6800) | 9 (173.1316) |
| 2021-06-04 | Original SD BBQ Championship 🏅 Huron, SD | 19 / 49 (670.2516) | 30 (163.4172) | 28 (165.1316) | 6 (174.2972) | 19 (167.4056) |
| 2021-06-04 | The Original SD BBQ Championships - One Meat Standalone Ribs Contest Huron, SD | — | — | 6 (173.1200) | — | — |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May 🏅 Cambridge, MN | 19 / 60 (672.4796) | 31 (167.9656) | 16 (167.4284) | 3 (176.5828) | 44 (160.5028) |
| 2021-04-23 | 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK | 2 / 41 (698.2516) | 2 (177.7144) | 4 (172.5600) | 11 (173.1200) | 7 (174.8572) |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 29 / 105 (687.3600) | 32 (173.7028) | 86 (162.2400) | 16 (175.4172) | 11 (176.0000) |
| 2020-09-18 | KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off 🏅 Worthington, MN | 24 / 35 (664.9828) | 29 (162.8344) | 7 (171.9656) | 15 (169.6800) | 24 (160.5028) |
| 2020-09-11 | Ribs, Rod and Rock N Roll 🏅 Vermillion, SD | 12 / 29 (674.8692) | 2 (176.5944) | 10 (173.1316) | 15 (168.5372) | 26 (156.6060) |
| 2020-08-28 | Minnesota in Mayaugust 🏅 Cambridge, MN | 19 / 45 (673.0628) | 25 (167.9772) | 18 (167.4172) | 7 (173.7028) | 28 (163.9656) |
| 2020-08-21 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest 🏅 Hill City, SD | 8 / 43 (681.6916) | 17 (172.0000) | 10 (171.4172) | 29 (162.2744) | 2 (176.0000) |
| 2020-07-25 | 4th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest 🏅 Emmetsburg, IA | 17 / 30 (662.1828) | 13 (167.4172) | 8 (169.1428) | 10 (167.9656) | 25 (157.6572) |
| 2020-07-10 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest 🏅 Mayetta, KS | 22 / 61 (683.8968) | 10 (174.2856) | 15 (174.2628) | 48 (161.0856) | 12 (174.2628) |
| 2020-06-27 | Back to Mayberry Day 2 🏅 Rodney, IA | 33 / 47 (662.7656) | 3 (174.8572) | 26 (166.2628) | 42 (163.3828) | 42 (158.2628) |
| 2020-06-26 | Back to Mayberry Day 1 🏅 Rodney, IA | 12 / 53 (674.7544) | 23 (167.9656) | 21 (167.3828) | 21 (169.6800) | 11 (169.7260) |
| 2020-06-12 | Beats, Brews, & BBQ 🏅 Wagoner, OK | 23 / 55 (674.7656) | 26 (169.6800) | 36 (162.8572) | 28 (169.1200) | 13 (173.1084) |
| 2019-09-06 | Ribs, Rod & Rock'n Roll 🏅 Vermillion, SD | 17 / 29 (667.3144) | 17 (167.3944) | 14 (170.2744) | 21 (160.5256) | 14 (169.1200) |
| 2019-08-23 | Hill City Wine Brew & BBQ 🏅 Hill City, SD | 11 / 31 (675.3260) | 14 (170.2744) | 24 (165.6916) | 1 (180.0000) | 24 (159.3600) |
| 2019-08-16 | SMSU Smokefest 🏅 MARSHALL, MN | 28 / 46 (663.3260) | 18 (170.8228) | 32 (163.3944) | 32 (162.2516) | 25 (166.8572) |
| 2019-07-19 | Cookin On Kampeska 🏅 Watertown, SD | 23 / 40 (663.9084) | 18 (169.6800) | 23 (166.2628) | 16 (168.5372) | 32 (159.4284) |
| 2019-05-31 | Original SD BBQ Championship 🏅 Huron, SD | 19 / 37 (658.7424) | 1 (176.5600) | 27 (158.2512) | 19 (166.8228) | 25 (157.1084) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #927 (60 pts) | #1010 (60 pts) | #657 (229 pts) | #970 (60 pts) | #950 (60 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #561 (300 pts) | #553 (365 pts) | #379 (683 pts) | #585 (305 pts) | #664 (235 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #448 (443 pts) | #596 (318 pts) | #344 (722 pts) | #408 (528 pts) | #683 (248 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #329 (644 pts) | #290 (789 pts) | #388 (643 pts) | #624 (284 pts) | #291 (764 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #288 (797 pts) | #403 (587 pts) | #196 (1126 pts) | #311 (777 pts) | #430 (537 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #240 (795 pts) | #222 (880 pts) | #156 (1175 pts) | #200 (960 pts) | #225 (885 pts) |
| 2020 ↗ | Master | #128 (854 pts) | #82 (1089 pts) | #105 (984 pts) | #135 (829 pts) | #106 (929 pts) |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #713 (440 pts) | #506 (680 pts) | #871 (360 pts) | #569 (610 pts) | #874 (350 pts) |