High-water mark
172.5600
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 180
Their best day on record: 172.5600 at 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) — 95.9% of a perfect 180.
- Competitor Series
- Nov 2, 2024
Burnin' Love
Burnin' Love is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2024. Their best overall finish is 5th of 15 at the 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) (2024). Also listed in KCBS results as “Burnin Love”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Nov 2, 2024
latest Nov 2, 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Best overall
172.5600 / 180
Competitor Series · 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
8
across 5 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$29K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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
1.2
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TN
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
42
finished ahead 19 times, behind 29
Longest layoff
1.5 yrs
Oct 22, 2022 → Apr 20, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES)
20242 milestones
- First overall top-10 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
- Career-best overall score172.5600 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL)
—2 milestones
- First tracked contest Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score165.1200 Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 33% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2025 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 2, 2024 | 901 Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) (JUDGING FULL) unrated Memphis, TN | 5 / 15 (172.5600) | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 20, 2024 | World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 22, 2022 | World Championship Hot Wing Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS) Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 27, 2021 | World Championship Hot wing Contest and Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Memphis, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Southern Hotwing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Memphis, TN | 26 (165.1200) | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.