Tip of Texas BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 9 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2020 and 2025. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Inaugural Yellow City BBQ Shootout (2022). They are ranked #1650 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
They've taken 1 state championship from 6 entries at contests carrying the title.
6 state-championship entries
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A tough matchup
5–2behind in the head-to-head
Bushmaster BBQ ahead in 71% of their meetings
Bushmaster BBQ has come out ahead in 5 of their 7 shared contests.
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The weak link
−6.1points behind their best meat
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.05 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 29% of the time against 83%.
Brisket avg 167.08
Chicken avg 173.14
2 calls in 7 entries
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The comeback
3.7 yrsoff the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3.7 years, then back at Beats, Brews, & BBQ (Jun 12, 2020).
last seen Oct 7, 2016
back Jun 12, 2020
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They cook the hard rooms
1611average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 84% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1611 power rating — a tougher draw than 84% of every rated contest in the data.
7 rated contests
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Boom or bust
±8.28%swing around their own average
Their overall swings ±8.28% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.
averages 90.7% of a perfect score
best 96.9%
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The long haul
4,738road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,738 miles across 9 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 579 miles to Beats, Brews, & BBQ.
9 mapped stops
furthest 579 mi
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Tip of Texas BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
“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
1
top 6%
Medium (20–39)
2
0
top 18%
Large (40+)
4
0
top 61%
By state / province (where the contests were held)