TOTALLY BASTED

TOTALLY BASTED is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2021. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 39 at the 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition (2019). They finished #1074 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1518

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4

Contests

in the data

First seen

May 18, 2018

latest May 28, 2021 · 3 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#1074

Master 2019 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

2 podiums

Overall top-10s

25% of 4 contests

Avg finish

top 51%

overall standings

Best overall

689.0516 / 720

Master · 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

75%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

177.7144

Chicken · 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition

Consistency

±19.79

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork

avg 167.83 · weakest Pork Ribs (162.25)

Road miles

across 4 mapped stops

Schedule strength

89%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1624)

Purse competed for

$23K

listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 2 state-championship entries

Master avg

662.20 / 720

4 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (5 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

High-water mark

689.0516 career-best overall

95.7% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 689.0516 at 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition — 95.7% of a perfect 720.

Master
May 31, 2019

A tough matchup

4–0 behind in the head-to-head

DIRT ROAD BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

DIRT ROAD BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

A strong matchup

4–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of BLAIR'S BIGFOOT BBQ in 4 of their 4 shared contests.

The comeback

2 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 2 years, then back at 9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition (May 28, 2021).

last seen May 31, 2019
back May 28, 2021

They cook the hard rooms

1624 average field rating faced

A tougher draw than 89% of rated fields

The fields they enter average a 1624 power rating — a tougher draw than 89% of every rated contest in the data.

4 rated contests

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2021 ↗	Master	#1236 (60 pts)	#1286 (60 pts)	#1309 (60 pts)	#960 (120 pts)	#841 (165 pts)
2019 ↗	Master	#1074 (235 pts)	#988 (285 pts)	#1765 (105 pts)	#1761 (105 pts)	#1124 (235 pts)

Overall rank by season

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	4	1	1	1	177.7144	158.3200	166.00	top 52%
Pork Ribs	4	0	0	0	168.5256	157.6684	162.25	top 64%
Pork	4	1	0	0	172.5600	159.9544	167.83	top 40%
Brisket	4	2	0	1	175.4172	150.8000	166.13	top 41%

“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)	2	0	top 36%
Large (40+)	2	0	top 65%

More numbers

Busiest season 2018 2 contests

Contests a season 1.3 across 3 seasons in the data

Most contests held in NE 4 of 4 contests

Contests visited 4 a different one every time

Opponents faced 91 finished ahead 79 times, behind 78

Longest layoff 2 yrs May 31, 2019 → May 28, 2021

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20212 milestones

May 28 Peak power rating (1518) 9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
May 28 Most recent contest 9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition

20195 milestones

May 31 First category win (Chicken) 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
May 31 First overall top-10 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
May 31 First overall podium 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
May 31 Career-best overall score689.0516 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
May 31 Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7144 8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition

20183 milestones

May 18 First tracked contest 7th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition
Sep 1 First call Septemberfest BBQ & Rib-eye Steak Cookoff Challenge
Sep 1 First overall past 90% of a perfect score655.8968 Septemberfest BBQ & Rib-eye Steak Cookoff Challenge

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+17.2	8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition	May 31, 2019
+3.6	9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition	May 28, 2021
+0.9	Septemberfest BBQ & Rib-eye Steak Cookoff Challenge	Sep 1, 2018

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-3.3	7th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition	May 18, 2018

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	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2021	1	0	0	100%	top 57%	92.9%	92.9%
2019	1	1	1	100%	top 8%	95.7%	95.7%
2018	2	0	0	50%	top 69%	91.1%	89.6%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
May 28, 2021	9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition 🏅 Valley, NE	26 / 46 (669.1660)	40 (158.3200)	31 (165.1200)	13 (171.4172)	7 (174.3088)
May 31, 2019	8th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition 🏅 Valley, NE	3 / 39 (689.0516)	1 (177.7144)	16 (168.5256)	16 (167.3944)	3 (175.4172)
Sep 1, 2018	Septemberfest BBQ & Rib-eye Steak Cookoff Challenge Omaha, NE	22 / 34 (655.8968)	23 (161.6912)	26 (157.6684)	6 (172.5600)	20 (163.9772)
May 18, 2018	7th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition Valley, NE	31 / 42 (634.6860)	21 (166.2628)	30 (157.6688)	31 (159.9544)	35 (150.8000)