Their season
2024
their best year
2024 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 58%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 58%
Buckeye Barbecue
Buckeye Barbecue is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 16th of 37 at the Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1483
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 31 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Oct 19, 2018
latest Oct 30, 2024 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 72%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.67
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.41 · weakest Pork (162.09)
Road miles
1,518
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 505 mi
Schedule strength
81%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1606)
Purse competed for
$164K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
651.00 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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Buckeye Barbecue 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 144 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,039 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1482
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
Level with Buckeye Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,011 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,035 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
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⚔ Compare careers#4,013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
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⚔ Compare careers#4,026 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Buckeye Barbecue'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 155.4400 | 163.55 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 160.5488 | 164.41 | top 66% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 158.8456 | 162.09 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 162.2856 | 163.62 | top 67% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 77% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
4 of 7 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
675
finished ahead 235 times, behind 750
Longest layoff
4.9 yrs
Oct 19, 2018 → Sep 27, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4172 Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- Career-best overall score658.7772 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
20182 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.6568 Mid-South BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1492) Mid-South BBQ Festival
20151 milestone
- First tracked contest Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.9 | Mid-South BBQ Festival | Oct 19, 2018 |
| -6.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 27, 2023 |
| -2.9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Oct 30, 2024 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 93.7% | 92.6% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 89% | 89% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 319 / 444 (658.7772) | 301 (165.1084) | 356 (162.2516) | 221 (168.5600) | 308 (162.8572) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 16 / 37 (506.2172) | 24 (164.5256) | 12 (171.4172) | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 399 / 487 (640.5600) | 441 (155.4400) | 382 (160.5488) | 395 (158.8568) | 268 (165.7144) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 19, 2018 | Mid-South BBQ Festival Mount Pleasant, TN | 20 / 22 (653.6568) | 15 (169.1084) | 16 (163.4172) | 19 (158.8456) | 17 (162.2856) |
| May 22, 2015 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.