The long haul
4,411
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,411 miles across 6 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 4,407 miles to Poosa Q.
- 6 mapped stops
- furthest 4,407 mi
Wings of BBQ
Wings of BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 15th of 18 at the Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" (2023). They finished #1044 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1487
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Nov 10, 2023
latest Oct 4, 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 81%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 168.56 · weakest Pork (145.66)
Road miles
4,411
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 4,407 mi
Purse competed for
$59K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
631.27 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
325.06 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Wings of BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Wings of BBQ has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 132 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,798 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,827 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
They were already cooking in 2018, 5 years before Wings of BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1487
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#3,819 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1487
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 4 years before Wings of BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,829 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
Level with Wings of BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,826 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Wings of BBQ'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 157.0856 | 161.09 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 173.1428 | 164.5372 | 168.56 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6572 | 145.6572 | 145.66 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4288 | 148.5144 | 157.97 | top 61% |
“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 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
HI
5 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Opponents faced
133
finished ahead 26 times, behind 106
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20242 milestones
20232 milestones
- Career-best overall score631.2688 Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout"
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1428 Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" (ONE MEAT RIBS)
20222 milestones
- First tracked contest Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 2 (One Meat Ribs )
- First call Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 2 (One Meat Ribs )
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2024 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 47 / 59 (325.0628) | 50 (157.0856) | 34 (167.9772) | — | — |
| Nov 11, 2023 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" (ONE MEAT BRISKET) Honolulu, HI | — | — | — | — | 4 (167.4288) |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" 🏅 Honolulu, HI | 15 / 18 (631.2688) | 11 (165.0972) | 3 (172) | 18 (145.6572) | 16 (148.5144) |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" (ONE MEAT RIBS) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 5 (173.1428) | — | — |
| Nov 12, 2022 | Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 3 (One Meat Ribs) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 8 (165.1316) | — | — |
| Nov 12, 2022 | Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 2 (One Meat Ribs ) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 10 (164.5372) | — | — |