Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 6 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke on the River (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022-09-16).
- 2022-09-16
- 6-team field
Bunky's Hickory Pit
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1481
peak 1481 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-09-16
latest 2025-04-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 89%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.10 · weakest Pork (146.24)
Road miles
31
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
635.85 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
307.31 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Bunky's Hickory Pit 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 121 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.
#4072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bunky's Hickory Pit on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4061 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 8 years before Bunky's Hickory Pit's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4065 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4058 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Bunky's Hickory Pit'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 153.0740 | 163.10 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 154.2400 | 161.98 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2400 | 146.2400 | 146.24 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7772 | 146.7772 | 146.78 | top 98% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.6 yrs
2022-09-16 → 2025-04-11
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.10 · weakest Pork (146.24)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
635.85
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
307.31
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
110
6–105 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
31
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$27,650
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.6 yrs
2022-09-16 → 2025-04-11
Power rating
1481
peak 1481 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Smoke on the River (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Smoke on the River (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the River (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Career-best overall score635.8516 Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1200 Smoke in the Spring
- Most recent contest Smoke in the Spring
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)
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 95% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-11 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 87 / 92 (635.8516) | 37 (173.1200) | 52 (169.7144) | 91 (146.2400) | 90 (146.7772) |
| 2022-09-16 | Smoke on the River (BACKYARD ONLY) Burlington, KS | 5 / 6 (307.3140) | 5 (153.0740) | 6 (154.2400) | — | — |