High-water mark
690.8232
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.8232 at Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jul 3, 2026
Freedom Works BBQ
Freedom Works BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 14th of 26 at the Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off (2026). They finished #579 in the 2026 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1489
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 29, 2025
latest Sep 25, 2026 · 1.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 72%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±18.71
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.84 · weakest Brisket (162.96)
Road miles
826
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 395 mi
Schedule strength
77%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1600)
Purse competed for
$44K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
670.78 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Freedom Works BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Freedom Works BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 166 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,687 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,668 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
They were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before Freedom Works BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,717 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Freedom Works BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,673 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Level with Freedom Works BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Freedom Works BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Freedom Works BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 165.0972 | 170.84 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 162.8228 | 170.72 | top 47% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 161.6456 | 166.28 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 151.9544 | 162.96 | top 77% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 72% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
ID
3 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
87
finished ahead 43 times, behind 87
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20265 milestones
- First call Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best overall score690.8232 Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.1428 Meat & Tater BBQ Fest
- Peak power rating (1501) Meat & Tater BBQ Fest
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Sound
20252 milestones
- First tracked contest Meat & Tater BBQ Fest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score650.1600 Meat & Tater BBQ Fest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.7 | Meat & Tater BBQ Fest | Sep 4, 2026 |
| +3 | Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off | Jul 3, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.7 | Smoke on the Sound | Sep 25, 2026 |
| -7.5 | Meat & Tater BBQ Fest | Aug 29, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 66% | 95.9% | 94.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | Smoke on the Sound 🏅 Redmond, WA | 16 / 17 (654.1256) | 11 (169.1084) | 6 (171.4172) | 15 (161.6456) | 17 (151.9544) |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Meat & Tater BBQ Fest 🏅 Meridian, ID | 26 / 52 (688) | 15 (177.1428) | 25 (171.9772) | 35 (169.7600) | 33 (169.1200) |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Meat & Tater BBQ Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Meridian, ID | — | — | 20 (170.8228) | — | — |
| Jul 3, 2026 | Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off 🏅 Dillon, MT | 14 / 26 (690.8232) | 12 (172.0116) | 2 (176.5600) | 15 (171.9772) | 16 (170.2744) |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Meat & Tater BBQ Fest 🏅 Meridian, ID | 35 / 39 (650.1600) | 36 (165.0972) | 33 (162.8228) | 36 (161.7372) | 32 (160.5028) |