High-water mark
687.8740
career-best overall
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.8740 at Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-04-11
Bee's Knees
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1501
peak 1501 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-05-05
latest 2025-04-11
Best ToY finish
#1018
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.37 · weakest Pork (169.98)
Road miles
258
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 86 mi
Purse competed for
$54K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
679.29 / 720
2 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.
The comeback
6.8 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 6.8 years, then back at Poosa Q (2022-05-05).
- last seen 2015-07-31
- back 2022-05-05
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.
Bee's Knees has 2 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 99 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.
#3156 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1501
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Bee's Knees)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Bee's Knees has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3133 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#3142 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Bee's Knees's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3158 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bee's Knees on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3141 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Bee's Knees's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 165.0856 | 170.82 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 166.8344 | 172.37 | top 43% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 167.9772 | 169.98 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 170.8112 | 171.39 | top 46% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.9 yrs
2022-05-05 → 2025-04-11
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 172.37 · weakest Pork (169.98)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
679.29
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
166
69–114 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
258
3 mapped stops · furthest 86 mi
Purse competed for
$54,120
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
6.8 yrs
2015-07-31 → 2022-05-05
Power rating
1501
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- First call I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)179.4400 I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score670.7084 Poosa Q
- 2025
- Career-best overall score687.8740 Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 55% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls BBQ Competition 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 17 / 31 (687.8740) | 19 (173.1084) | 19 (170.8228) | 20 (171.9772) | 17 (171.9656) |
| 2022-05-05 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 42 / 72 (670.7084) | 52 (165.0856) | 46 (166.8344) | 37 (167.9772) | 27 (170.8112) |
| 2015-07-31 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 8 (174.2628) | 1 (179.4400) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1018 (96 pts) | #1125 (86 pts) | #1219 (86 pts) | #1124 (81 pts) | #1053 (96 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1309 (60 pts) | #1341 (60 pts) | #1404 (60 pts) | #1348 (60 pts) | #1333 (60 pts) |