The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Five Creek Cookers has finished one call ahead of Honorable Mention Cookers 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Honorable Mention Cookers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1462
peak 1462 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2023-09-08
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 95%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
563.12
last 3 Master vs avg 563.12 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±56.84
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 154.45 · weakest Chicken (108.38)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
19%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1527)
Purse competed for
$135K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
563.12 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Honorable Mention Cookers has 3 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 124 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.
#4999 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1462
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Honorable Mention Cookers)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Honorable Mention Cookers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#5017 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1462
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4988 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1462
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Honorable Mention Cookers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#5013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1462
No shared contest yet.
Level with Honorable Mention Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4992 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1462
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Honorable Mention Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4997 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1501 at their best, 38 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 20.0000 | 108.38 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7656 | 145.0860 | 151.18 | top 92% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8460 | 146.8344 | 154.45 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4400 | 145.6916 | 149.12 | top 87% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 3 | 62 | 0 | top 95% | 2025-09-12 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2023-09-08 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 154.45 · weakest Chicken (108.38)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
563.12
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
191
12–243 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1527
average field rating faced — tougher than 19% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$135,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2023-09-08 → 2024-09-13
Power rating
1462
peak 1462 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Peak power rating (1486) Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- 2024
- Career-best overall score611.2456 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.2744 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
- 2025
- Most recent contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.2 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2023-09-08 |
| -12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2025-09-12 |
| -11.8 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2024-09-13 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 67.1% | 67.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 88 / 92 (594.8228) | 92 (138.8572) | 86 (153.6912) | 90 (146.8344) | 69 (155.4400) |
| 2024-09-13 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 62 / 67 (611.2456) | 42 (166.2744) | 65 (145.0860) | 62 (153.6684) | 66 (146.2168) |
| 2023-09-08 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 96 / 99 (483.3032) | 97 (20.0000) | 86 (154.7656) | 68 (162.8460) | 88 (145.6916) |