High-water mark
174.2628
career-best overall
96.8% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 174.2628 at Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) — 96.8% of a perfect 180.
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- Oct 20, 2023
Hank Day
Hank Day is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 9th of 35 at the Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) (2023).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1486
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 11 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Jul 27, 2018
latest Oct 20, 2023 · 5.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
13% of 8 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Best overall
174.2628 / 180
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
1,800
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 600 mi
Purse competed for
$46K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Hank Day, each with one reason worth a look.
Hank Day has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 148 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,874 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Fewer contests behind them than Hank Day has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,878 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
They turned up 5 years after Hank Day did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Compare careers#3,873 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Hank Day's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Hank Day on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,834 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Hank Day's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Hank Day's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 26% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.6
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
5 of 8 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
118
finished ahead 39 times, behind 80
Longest layoff
4.2 yrs
Aug 2, 2019 → Sep 27, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
20233 milestones
- First overall top-10 Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score174.2628 Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION)
- Career-best overall score174.2628 Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION)
20171 milestone
- First tracked contest Racing for the BBQ
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 26% | 96.8% | 96.8% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 22.5% | 22.5% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
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 - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) unrated Roswell, GA | 9 / 35 (174.2628) | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ 🏅 Laurie, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 3, 2018 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ Laurie, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 27, 2018 | Racing for the BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | 65 / 66 (161.6456) | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ Laurie, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2017 | Racing for the BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.