High-water mark
683.9656
career-best overall
95.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.9656 at 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ — 95.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-04-17
Whiskey Pit BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1515
peak 1529 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
2013-10-03
latest 2024-09-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 46%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
655.56
last 5 Master vs avg 655.56 (+0.00)
Walk rate
80%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±22.98
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.73)
Road miles
655
mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 152 mi
Schedule strength
48%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1562)
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
655.56 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CLARK CREW BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
CLARK CREW BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The weak link
−15.0
points behind their best meat
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 15.01 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 20% of the time against 60%.
- Pork Ribs avg 155.73
- Brisket avg 170.74
- 1 calls in 5 entries
The comeback
7.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.6 years, then back at Shawnee Great Grillers (2024-09-27).
- last seen 2017-03-10
- back 2024-09-27
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.
Whiskey Pit BBQ has 4 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 85 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.
#2637 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2648 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 9 years after Whiskey Pit BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2642 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Whiskey Pit BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2646 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Whiskey Pit BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2635 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 141.7256 | 164.21 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 140.4684 | 155.73 | top 69% |
| Pork | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 160.5028 | 164.88 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 165.1428 | 170.74 | top 19% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 3 | 0 | top 55% |
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 36% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 53% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
11 yrs
2013-10-03 → 2024-09-27
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
5
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.74 · weakest Pork Ribs (155.73)
Walk rate
80%
a top-10 call in 4 of 5 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 5 contests
Master average
655.56
out of 720 · 5 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
352
197–184 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
655
5 mapped stops · furthest 152 mi
Schedule strength
1562
average field rating faced — tougher than 48% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$6,350
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.6 yrs
2017-03-10 → 2024-09-27
Power rating
1515
peak 1529 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- First call 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.7428 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- Career-best single call (Brisket)177.1428 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational
- 2015
- Career-best overall score683.9656 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ
- 2017
- Peak power rating (1529) *Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off
- 2024
- Most recent contest Shawnee Great Grillers
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.3 | 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | 2015-04-17 |
| +10.1 | *Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off | 2017-03-10 |
| +5.1 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2014-10-17 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.4 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2024-09-27 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 95% | 95% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 40% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 49% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 68 / 73 (621.6340) | 73 (141.7256) | 68 (154.2628) | 55 (160.5028) | 29 (165.1428) |
| 2017-03-10 | *Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off Great Bend, KS | 11 / 34 (672.4912) | 16 (167.3828) | 19 (163.4172) | 13 (167.4056) | 5 (174.2856) |
| 2015-04-17 | 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK | 13 / 75 (683.9656) | 13 (174.2628) | 5 (174.8572) | 45 (165.7028) | 18 (169.1428) |
| 2014-10-17 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 12 / 30 (636.9828) | 10 (164.5372) | 27 (140.4684) | 10 (163.9772) | 4 (168.0000) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 85 / 174 (662.7428) | 25 (173.1200) | 172 (145.6572) | 73 (166.8228) | 6 (177.1428) |