High-water mark
692.4800
career-best overall
96.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 692.4800 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 96.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Nov 5, 2025
Love BBQ
Love BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 42nd of 158 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1500
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Nov 5, 2025 · 3.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 55%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±69.75
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.41 · weakest Brisket (167.25)
Road miles
1,261
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Schedule strength
56%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Purse competed for
$156K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
645.85 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
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Love BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 120 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,228 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Love BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1507
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Love BBQ's first contest.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,235 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BULLHORN BBQ | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| Kanned Heat | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| CHICKEN FRIED BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| RENEGADE BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Sure Shot BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| LA PASADITA | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| TINY E BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Smoke Show BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| MAN MEAT BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| LC BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Rio Valley Meat BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 167.9884 | 170.83 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 158.1940 | 169.80 | top 40% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 167.4172 | 171.41 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 163.4172 | 167.25 | top 53% |
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
4 contests
Contests a season
3
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
5 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Opponents faced
752
finished ahead 727 times, behind 673
Longest layoff
3 yrs
Sep 29, 2022 → Sep 12, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20252 milestones
- Career-best overall score692.4800 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
20224 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.1024 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7028 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Peak power rating (1504) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.3 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Nov 5, 2025 |
| +3.8 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.4 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 12, 2025 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 96.2% | 87.3% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 93.6% | 93.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 119 / 401 (686.8000) | 198 (170.8228) | 38 (176) | 163 (171.4400) | 186 (168.5372) |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 42 / 158 (692.4800) | 100 (170.8228) | 21 (176.5600) | 61 (171.9772) | 43 (173.1200) |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 91 / 92 (507.4172) | 23 (170.2744) | 35 (169.7256) | 44 (167.4172) | — |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 249 / 505 (668.4684) | 234 (167.9884) | 215 (168.5372) | 227 (168.5256) | 286 (163.4172) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 177 / 249 (674.1024) | 73 (174.2628) | 241 (158.1940) | 21 (177.7028) | 206 (163.9428) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.