Their season
2023
their best year
2023 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 1 category win, at an average finish in the top 67%.
- 3 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 1 category win
- average top 67%
Lone Star Q
Lone Star Q is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 13th of 24 at the Somerset Sizzle (2023). They finished #1182 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “Lone Star Q'”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1472
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
May 20, 2023
latest Aug 9, 2025 · 2.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podium
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±14.92
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 163.27 · weakest Chicken (157.22)
Road miles
427
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 182 mi
Schedule strength
35%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1547)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
644.61 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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 Lone Star Q, each with one reason worth a look.
Lone Star Q has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 138 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,562 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,594 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
Level with Lone Star Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,563 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1472
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,592 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
They've been 1507 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,580 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Lone Star Q'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 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 141.6572 | 157.22 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4056 | 154.8116 | 162.06 | top 66% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 155.9428 | 163.27 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 156.5488 | 160.41 | top 75% |
“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) | 3 | 0 | top 80% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
2.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CT
3 of 7 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 1 win · 1 call
Opponents faced
75
finished ahead 24 times, behind 99
Longest layoff
1.3 yrs
Apr 13, 2024 → Aug 9, 2025
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Trillium BBQ Throwdown
20237 milestones
- First tracked contest Somerset Sizzle
- First call Somerset Sizzle
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Somerset Sizzle
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score659.3716 Somerset Sizzle
- Career-best overall score659.3716 Somerset Sizzle
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4056 Somerset Sizzle
- Peak power rating (1501) Somerset Sizzle
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.7 | Somerset Sizzle | May 20, 2023 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.8 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) | Apr 13, 2024 |
| -9 | Trillium BBQ Throwdown | Aug 9, 2025 |
| -8.4 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition | Aug 19, 2023 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33% | top 67% | 91.6% | 90.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2025 | Trillium BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Canton, MA | 18 / 20 (651.9088) | 17 (163.4400) | 20 (157.0972) | 17 (162.2400) | 10 (169.1316) |
| Apr 13, 2024 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) 🏅 Bristol, CT | 35 / 37 (619.8748) | 37 (141.6572) | 33 (155.3716) | 27 (166.2972) | 34 (156.5488) |
| Apr 13, 2024 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS) Bristol, CT | — | — | 13 (154.8116) | — | — |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Bristol, CT | — | 13 (153.0740) | — | — | — |
| Aug 19, 2023 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition 🏅 Hiram, ME | 37 / 46 (647.2800) | 20 (169.6800) | 34 (162.8572) | 43 (155.9428) | 38 (158.8000) |
| Aug 19, 2023 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT RIBS) Hiram, ME | — | — | 11 (166.8228) | — | — |
| May 20, 2023 | Somerset Sizzle 🏅 Somerset, MA | 13 / 24 (659.3716) | 20 (158.2288) | 1 (175.4056) | 10 (168.5944) | 18 (157.1428) |