A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
LEE LA Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
LEE LA Q has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
JACK SHACK
JACK SHACK is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 9th of 26 at the Honeybee BBQ Competition (2025). They finished #266 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1507
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
May 20, 2022
latest Apr 3, 2026 · 3.9 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
40% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 48%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.51
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 165.96 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.94)
Road miles
181
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 97 mi
Schedule strength
48%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1562)
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
326.18 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
483.86 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), 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.
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 JACK SHACK, each with one reason worth a look.
JACK SHACK has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 119 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,945 of the rated field
- Contests
- 15
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 27%
- Peak
- 1509
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to JACK SHACK)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team JACK SHACK has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,926 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 13%
- Peak
- 1507
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 8 contests to 5.
⚔ Compare careers#2,933 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
They were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before JACK SHACK's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,957 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Level with JACK SHACK on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,963 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before JACK SHACK's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,965 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before JACK SHACK's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 153.6684 | 164.10 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 150.7772 | 159.94 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 165.6800 | 165.96 | top 21% |
“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
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeybee BBQ Competition | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 37% | May 30, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
2 of 5 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
142
finished ahead 88 times, behind 82
Longest layoff
3.7 yrs
Sep 21, 2018 → May 20, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20264 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score338.2056 Smoke on the Falls
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.8228 Smoke on the Falls
- Peak power rating (1507) Smoke on the Falls
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Falls
20223 milestones
- First call Honeybee BBQ Competition
- First overall top-10 Honeybee BBQ Competition
- Career-best overall score483.8628 Honeybee BBQ Competition
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest Smoke in the Valley
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.7 | Smoke on the Falls | Apr 3, 2026 |
| +4.4 | Honeybee BBQ Competition | May 30, 2025 |
| +3.9 | Honeybee BBQ Competition | Jun 3, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | May 20, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 39% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 89% | 89% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 60% | 89.6% | 89.2% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2026 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 14 / 36 (338.2056) | 13 (170.8228) | 21 (167.3828) | — | — |
| May 30, 2025 | Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 Lafayette, GA | 9 / 26 (320.4572) | 5 (169.6800) | 10 (150.7772) | 7 (165.6800) | — |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Honeybee BBQ Competition 🏅 Lafayette, GA | 10 / 25 (483.8628) | 15 (153.6684) | 8 (163.9544) | 4 (166.2400) | — |
| May 20, 2022 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Winchester, TN | 23 / 29 (319.8740) | 22 (162.2400) | 25 (157.6340) | — | — |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Smoke in the Valley Pikeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |