Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 27 at their very first tracked contest, Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1 (2021-07-30).
- 2021-07-30
- 27-team field
Shotgun BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1513 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-07-30
latest 2021-08-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 161.68 · weakest Brisket (143.90)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
608.93 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
310.74 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
Shotgun BBQ has 2 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 114 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.
#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Shotgun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Shotgun BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Shotgun BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Shotgun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3026 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before Shotgun BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 158.2284 | 149.6800 | 153.95 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 153.6688 | 152.5144 | 153.09 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.8972 | 143.8972 | 143.90 | top 96% |
“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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-07-30 → 2021-08-01
Busiest season
2021
2 contests
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 161.68 · weakest Brisket (143.90)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
608.93
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
310.74
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
35
28–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$18,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1504
peak 1513 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1
- First call Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1
- First overall top-10 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1
- Career-best overall score608.9260 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2
- Career-best single call (Pork)161.6800 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2
- Most recent contest Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2
Category scores over time
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 54% | 86.3% | 85.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-01 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2 🏅 Dodge City, KS | 24 / 26 (608.9260) | 26 (149.6800) | 23 (153.6688) | 23 (161.6800) | 25 (143.8972) |
| 2021-07-30 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1 🏅 Dodge City, KS | 4 / 27 (310.7428) | 2 (158.2284) | 6 (152.5144) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #124 (232 pts) | #162 (147 pts) | — | — |