🏆 Serial winner
Brian Erbe has taken 2 grand championships from 21 contests — a 10% strike rate.
Brian Erbe
Competes out of TX
Contests
21
Grand championships
2
9.5% strike rate
Reserve champion
2
Average finish
5.5
best: 1st
Power rating
1529
#12 of 90
Career points
410
⭐ Signature category
Their strongest board is Beef Brisket — an average finish of 4.5 across 21 entries.
🎯 Room to make up
Chicken lags behind at 8.0 average — 3.5 places worse than their best category.
📍 Happy hunting ground
19 of their 21 contests came in TX, where they have won 2.
😤 The measuring stick
Ricky Bocanegra has the edge: 6–2 across 8 shared contests.
📅 First seen
Their earliest result here is Kaufman Junior Livestock Association on March 11, 2022.
By category
| Category | Entries | Wins | Top 3 | Best | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 15 | 0 | 1 | 3rd | 8 |
| Pork Spareribs | 19 | 3 | 4 | 1st | 5.6 |
| Beef Brisket | 21 | 8 | 11 | 1st | 4.5 |
Familiar foes
Head-to-head across shared contests, four meetings or more.
| Head cook | Meetings | Ahead | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Peacock | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Bud Brown | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Ricky Bocanegra | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| James Richey | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Vinny McNamara | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Terry Blount | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Steve Cumbie | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Abbie Garza | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Tim Esh | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| AJ George | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Nate Bocanegra | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Bryan Parker | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Jaime Garza | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Marcus Lopez | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Jeremy Masterson | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Lance Bracco | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Contest by contest
| Contest | Date | Where | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texarkana Air Show BBQ Cookoff | Jun 27, 2026 | Texarkana, AR | 9th |
| Back The Blues | Jun 13, 2026 | Wills Point, TX | 12th |
| Glenn Heights County Line Cookoff | Mar 28, 2026 | Glenn Heights, TX | 5th |
| Cowtown Cook-Off and Music Festival | Feb 21, 2026 | Ft Worth, TX | 6th |
| Pecan Festival & BBQ Cook Off | Nov 8, 2025 | Ardmore, OK | 3rd |
| Smoke & Whiskey Fest | Oct 25, 2025 | Flower Mound, TX | 3rd |
| Patriot Days BBQ Bash | Sep 13, 2025 | Ennis, TX | 4th |
| 903 BBQ Cook Off | Jun 28, 2025 | Paris, TX | 6th |
| Jim Bowie Days Smokedown | Jun 21, 2025 | Bowie, TX | 12th |
| Cody Dragoo Memorial Cook Off | May 24, 2025 | West, TX | 1st |
| Cooking For Canines | May 3, 2025 | Ft Worth, TX | 2nd |
| KCJLS BBQ Cook Off | Mar 8, 2025 | Kaufman, TX | 3rd |
| SmokeFest | Oct 26, 2024 | Flower Mound, TX | 7th |
| 903 BBQ | Jun 22, 2024 | Paris, TX | 5th |
| Reinspire BBQ Cookoff | Apr 6, 2024 | Cleburne, TX | 5th |
| 5th Annual Spring Freedom is NOT Free BBQ Cook Off | Mar 23, 2024 | Granbury, TX | 7th |
| 2023 Events - Outlaw BBQ | Oct 28, 2023 | WICHITA FALLS, TX | 10th |
| Hella Shrine BBQ Extravaganza | Sep 16, 2023 | Garland, TX | 2nd |
| 903 1st Annual BBQ Cook-off | Jul 23, 2022 | Paris, TX | 3rd |
| Kaufman Junior Livestock Association | Mar 11, 2022 | Kaufman, TX | 9th |
| Cooking for Canines | Ft Worth, TX | 1st |