High-water mark
673.0972
career-best overall
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.
- Master
- Sep 29, 2022
HB BBQ
HB BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 23rd of 35 at the OKC BBQ Fest (2022). They finished #938 in the 2023 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “H-B BBQ”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1489
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 29, 2022
latest Sep 27, 2023 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 78%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±17.31
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.64 · weakest Brisket (160.06)
Road miles
567
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 284 mi
Schedule strength
74%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1594)
Purse competed for
$144K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
653.57 / 720
5 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 HB BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
HB BBQ 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 150 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,725 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to HB BBQ)
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-head#3,706 of the rated field
- Contests
- 22
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 23%
- Peak
- 1551
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to HB BBQ)
They've been 1551 at their best, 61 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,734 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
They were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before HB BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,719 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1489
Level with HB BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,700 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before HB BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| 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 |
By meat
| 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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 66% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 82% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 181 | 0 | top 85% | Sep 27, 2023 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 321 | 0 | top 78% | Sep 27, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
3 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
694
finished ahead 303 times, behind 1,178
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20231 milestone
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
20225 milestones
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.0972 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Career-best overall score673.0972 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork)175.4400 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST
- Peak power rating (1491) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
| -1.1 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 27, 2023 |
| -0.7 | OKC BBQ Fest | Oct 21, 2022 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 91.7% | 90.3% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 93.5% | 91.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2023 | 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) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | 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) |
| Oct 21, 2022 | OKC BBQ Fest 🏅 Oklahoma City, OK | 23 / 35 (667.2568) | 26 (164.5256) | 21 (169.6684) | 15 (171.4172) | 26 (161.6456) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | 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) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | 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) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.