The heartbreaker
1.1544
points from the title
Came within 1.1544 points of the Grand Championship at Smokin in the Valley (2026-04-03).
Shucky Bey BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1520
peak 1520 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-04-03
latest 2026-04-03
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 6%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
1 🔥
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 180.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.68)
Purse competed for
$5K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
699.36 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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Storylines (3 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.
Perfect scores on the board
1
perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork.
- Pork ×1
High-water mark
699.3600
career-best overall
97.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 699.3600 at Smokin in the Valley — 97.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-04-03
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.
Shucky Bey BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 79 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.
#2498 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Shucky Bey BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2021, 5 years before Shucky Bey BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Level with Shucky Bey BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2507 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Shucky Bey BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2497 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Shucky Bey BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2500 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Shucky Bey BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 175.4172 | 175.42 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 35% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 180.0000 🔥 | 180.0000 | 180.00 | top 3% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 13% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-04-03 → 2026-04-03
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
KS
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 180.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.68)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
699.36
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Perfect 180s
1
every judge at the table handing back a nine
Opponents faced
30
29–1 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$5,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1520
peak 1520 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smokin in the Valley
- First call Smokin in the Valley
- First category win (Pork) Smokin in the Valley
- First overall top-10 Smokin in the Valley
- First overall podium Smokin in the Valley
- First Reserve Championship Smokin in the Valley
- First perfect 180 (Pork) Smokin in the Valley
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score699.3600 Smokin in the Valley
- Career-best overall score699.3600 Smokin in the Valley
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 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 6% | 97.1% | 97.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03 | Smokin in the Valley 🏅 Linn Valley, KS | 2 / 31 (699.3600) | 5 (175.4172) | 11 (169.6800) | 1 (180.0000) | 4 (174.2628) |