Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0972 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST — 93.5% of a perfect 720.
MAN MEAT BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
MAN MEAT BBQ has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.57 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SMOKIN STACHE BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
HB BBQ has 3 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 153 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HB BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1522 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head57 contests to 5: their number has had years to settle where HB BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HB BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before HB BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 LEGS UP BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| MAN MEAT BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| CLARK CREW BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Petie's Smokin Pits BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1544 | 155.9428 | 164.08 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 149.6456 | 161.79 | top 78% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 158.2168 | 167.64 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 147.9544 | 160.06 | top 74% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 4 | 0 | top 82% |
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 82% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 321 | 0 | top 78% | 2023-09-27 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 181 | 0 | top 85% | 2023-09-27 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | 2022-09-29 |
| -1.1 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| -0.7 | OKC BBQ Fest | 2022-10-21 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 91.7% | 90.3% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 93.5% | 91.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 321 / 487 (660.4340) | 293 (166.2744) | 218 (169.7028) | 408 (158.2168) | 263 (166.2400) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 207 / 211 (639.7828) | 202 (160.5028) | 188 (164.5372) | 206 (159.3828) | 203 (155.3600) |
| 2022-10-21 | OKC BBQ Fest 🏅 Oklahoma City, OK | 23 / 35 (667.2568) | 26 (164.5256) | 21 (169.6684) | 15 (171.4172) | 26 (161.6456) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 181 / 249 (673.0972) | 84 (173.1544) | 245 (155.3828) | 45 (175.4400) | 130 (169.1200) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 451 / 505 (627.2684) | 452 (155.9428) | 486 (149.6456) | 92 (173.7256) | 459 (147.9544) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #938 (120 pts) | #1011 (120 pts) | #1118 (120 pts) | #989 (120 pts) | #989 (120 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1269 (70 pts) | #1341 (60 pts) | #1326 (80 pts) | #1147 (110 pts) | #1333 (60 pts) |