High-water mark
701.1200
career-best overall
97.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 701.1200 at Kenai River BBQ Competition — 97.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- May 31, 2024
Holy Trinity BBQ
Holy Trinity BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 2nd of 7 at the Kenai River BBQ Competition (2024), and they have finished Reserve Grand Champion once.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1509
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
May 31, 2024
latest Jun 21, 2025 · 1.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
2
6 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
60% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 55%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±246.76
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 175.43 · weakest Pork (170.83)
Road miles
179
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 71 mi
Schedule strength
48%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1562)
Purse competed for
$3,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
522.06 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | — | #818 (186 pts) | #973 (162 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Holy Trinity BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Holy Trinity 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 99 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,895 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Holy Trinity BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,874 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,896 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Holy Trinity BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,897 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Level with Holy Trinity BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,893 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1519
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Holy Trinity BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,891 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Holy Trinity 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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 177.7028 | 174.2628 | 175.42 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 177.7144 | 170.8228 | 173.69 | top 47% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.5716 | 165.0972 | 170.83 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 179.4400 | 171.4172 | 175.43 | top 26% |
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AK
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 1 win · 4 calls
Opponents faced
15
finished ahead 10 times, behind 10
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
Apr 29, 2023 → May 31, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown
20248 milestones
- First category win (Brisket) Kenai River BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- First overall podium Kenai River BBQ Competition
- First Reserve Championship Kenai River BBQ Competition
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score701.1200 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score701.1200 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Brisket)179.4400 Kenai River BBQ Competition
- Peak power rating (1520) Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown
20232 milestones
- First tracked contest Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- First call Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.7 | Kenai River BBQ Competition | May 31, 2024 |
| +9.4 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown | Jul 26, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.4 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown | Jun 21, 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 24% | 24% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 33% | 97.4% | 96.7% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2025 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Eagle River, AK | 8 / 8 (173.1200) | — | 6 (173.1200) | — | — |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Eagle River, AK | 3 / 8 (691.9316) | 2 (177.7028) | 1 (177.7144) | 7 (165.0972) | 3 (171.4172) |
| May 31, 2024 | Kenai River BBQ Competition Soldotna, AK | 2 / 7 (701.1200) | 3 (174.2856) | 4 (170.8228) | 3 (176.5716) | 1 (179.4400) |
| Apr 29, 2023 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Palmer, AK | — | 4 (174.2628) | — | — | — |
| Apr 29, 2023 | Break Up Shake Up BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Palmer, AK | — | — | 5 (173.1084) | — | — |