#3881 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headSHOOTING THE BREEZE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1486 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-09-13
latest 2025-09-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 87%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.54 · weakest Chicken (156.26)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
318.79 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE 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 145 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.
#3879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before SHOOTING THE BREEZE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3869 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Level with SHOOTING THE BREEZE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3864 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before SHOOTING THE BREEZE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before SHOOTING THE BREEZE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3871 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before SHOOTING THE BREEZE'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 147.4172 | 156.26 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 158.8000 | 162.54 | top 77% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buds Blues and BBQ | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 87% | 2025-09-05 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-13 → 2025-09-05
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.54 · weakest Chicken (156.26)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
318.79
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
6–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$14,900
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1486
peak 1486 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Buds Blues and BBQ
- First call Buds Blues and BBQ
- First overall top-10 Buds Blues and BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.2744 Buds Blues and BBQ
- 2025
- Career-best overall score323.8972 Buds Blues and BBQ
- Most recent contest Buds Blues and BBQ
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 111% | 90% | 90% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 63% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | Buds Blues and BBQ 🏅 Columbia, MO | 10 / 9 (323.8972) | 9 (165.0972) | 10 (158.8000) | — | — |
| 2024-09-13 | Buds Blues and BBQ 🏅 Columbia, MO | 10 / 16 (313.6916) | 10 (147.4172) | 7 (166.2744) | — | — |