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Top 16%
average finish here
Smokin on the Route is their spot: an average finish in the top 16% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 16%
FAST HAND BBQ Co.
FAST HAND BBQ Co. is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 5 at the Patriot Day of Remembrance BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (2025), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They are ranked #1835 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1546
peak 1546 · rated over 8 contests
Contests
8
in the data
First seen
Aug 4, 2023
latest Sep 26, 2025 · 2.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
6
75% of 8 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 40%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
338.82 ▲
last 5 Backyard vs avg 336.52 (+2.29)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.33
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 171.34 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.54)
Road miles
652
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 148 mi
Schedule strength
72%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1592)
Purse competed for
$85K
listed at 8 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Master avg
346.82 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
336.52 / 360
6 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
506.78 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #139 (412 pts) | #148 (387 pts) | #153 (387 pts) | — | — |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1470 (52 pts) | #846 (167 pts) | #1230 (82 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #123 (480 pts) | #124 (515 pts) | #128 (435 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #144 (348 pts) | #215 (183 pts) | — | — |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to FAST HAND BBQ Co., each with one reason worth a look.
68 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#1,846 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1546
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Compare careers#1,829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1546
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before FAST HAND BBQ Co.'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,844 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1546
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,828 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1546
They were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before FAST HAND BBQ Co.'s first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#1,836 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1546
Level with FAST HAND BBQ Co. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#1,843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1546
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BULL IN THE RING | 7 | 4 | 3 | 57% | ⚔ compare |
| WOOD HOOK BBQ | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| SUPER SWINE | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| CEO BBQ | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| HOLLOW Q | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 176.5600 | 163.4056 | 171.34 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 176.5600 | 150.7772 | 166.54 | top 44% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 169.7028 | 169.70 | top 47% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 41% |
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 43% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 21% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin on the Route | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 16% | Sep 26, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
2.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
OK
5 of 8 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited
7
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
154
finished ahead 143 times, behind 107
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20254 milestones
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.5600 Old Town Smokeout
- First Reserve Championship Patriot Day of Remembrance BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1546) Smokin on the Route
- Most recent contest Smokin on the Route
20241 milestone
- First overall podium Smokin on the Route
20235 milestones
- First tracked contest Que' For a Cause
- First call Que' For a Cause
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score325.0516 Que' For a Cause
- First overall top-10 Boats Beats & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score506.7772 Boats Beats & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.6 | Smokin on the Route | Jul 26, 2024 |
| +11.9 | Smokin on the Route | Sep 26, 2025 |
| +9.7 | Patriot Day of Remembrance BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 13, 2025 |
| +8.4 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest | Jun 7, 2024 |
| +7.1 | Boats Beats & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 1, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.9 | Old Town Smokeout | Jun 27, 2025 |
| -0.7 | Que' For a Cause | Aug 4, 2023 |
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 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 53% | 94.8% | 78.5% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 95.9% | 94.4% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 93.8% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2025 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 4 / 20 (341.1088) | 5 (171.4172) | 5 (169.6916) | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2025 | Patriot Day of Remembrance BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) Webb City, MO | 2 / 5 (333.1084) | 2 (163.4056) | 2 (169.7028) | — | — |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Old Town Smokeout 🏅 Van Buren, AR | 27 / 27 (346.8228) | 6 (176.5600) | 19 (170.2628) | — | — |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 3 / 27 (345.0972) | 5 (168.5372) | 3 (176.5600) | — | — |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 9 / 43 (338.2516) | 10 (167.9772) | 9 (170.2744) | — | — |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Lake Views & BBQ 🏅 Wagoner, OK | 7 / 21 (336.5256) | 2 (175.4400) | 13 (161.0856) | — | — |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Boats Beats & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Grove, OK | 7 / 17 (506.7772) | 3 (173.1200) | 11 (163.9544) | 8 (169.7028) | — |
| Aug 4, 2023 | Que' For a Cause Tahlequah, OK | 19 / 36 (325.0516) | 9 (174.2744) | 20 (150.7772) | — | — |