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Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team

Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team is a competition barbecue team with 36 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 33 at the Wild West BBQ Cook-Off (2022). They are ranked #1421 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#1,421
of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1570
peak 1592 · rated over 35 contests

Contests

36
in the data

First seen

May 14, 2021
latest Jul 26, 2025 · 4.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#177
Master 2022 · every season

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

3
9 podiums

Overall top-10s

15
42% of 36 contests

Best top-10 run

3
straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 47%
overall standings

Best overall

696.5028 / 720
Master · Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Flyin BBQ Competition

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Current form

680.82 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 679.95 (+0.86)

Walk rate

81%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

180 🔥
Chicken · Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1)

Consistency

±12.08
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken
avg 171.45 · weakest Brisket (167.54)

Road miles

7,184
across 36 mapped stops · furthest 377 mi

Schedule strength

73%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1592)

Purse competed for

$362K
listed at 33 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
won from 34 state-championship entries

Master avg

679.95 / 720
35 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (14 found in their record)

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

Perfect scores on the board

2 perfect 180s

2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.

  • Chicken ×1
  • Pork Ribs ×1

They almost always walk

81% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 29 of 36 contests

A top-10 category call in 81% of their 36 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

The one to beat

2× one call ahead of them

Texas Smoke Whisperer has finished one call ahead of Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 2 times — their closest competition in the data.

A tough matchup

17–4 behind in the head-to-head

MAN MEAT BBQ ahead in 81% of their meetings

MAN MEAT BBQ has come out ahead in 17 of their 21 shared contests.

A strong matchup

11–1 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 92% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE in 11 of their 12 shared contests.

Chicken nemesis

14 of 21 shared chicken entries lost

MAN MEAT BBQ ahead 67% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, MAN MEAT BBQ has out-cooked them in 14 of 21 shared chicken entries.

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Built for the big stage

Top 39% average finish in large fields

Field size changes the story: they average a top 39% finish in large fields against top 52% in small ones.

  • Large (40+): top 39% (6)
  • Small (<20 teams): top 52% (4)

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

BUTCHER BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.

A May team

Top 34% average finish in May

Something about May: average finish in the top 34% across 7 contests, versus top 47% the rest of the year.

  • 7 May contests
  • top 47% the rest of the year

The long haul

7,184 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 7,184 miles across 36 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 377 miles to SLV Beat the Heat BBQ.

  • 36 mapped stops
  • furthest 377 mi

The metronome

±1.68% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.68% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

  • averages 94.4% of a perfect score
  • 36 contests

A standing appointment

4 years running at one contest

They've cooked Wild West BBQ Cook-Off every year from 2022 to 2025 — the contest they never miss.

  • 4 visits in all
  • best finish 3rd

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

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2025 ↗ Master #1148 (60 pts) #1147 (80 pts) #1278 (65 pts) #1020 (110 pts) #1094 (85 pts)
2024 ↗ Master #242 (900 pts) #262 (890 pts) #245 (995 pts) #285 (780 pts) #278 (825 pts)
2023 ↗ Master #290 (757 pts) #295 (772 pts) #266 (897 pts) #311 (687 pts) #301 (742 pts)
2022 ↗ Master #177 (1,140 pts) #170 (1,200 pts) #148 (1,300 pts) #173 (1,155 pts) #189 (1,110 pts)
2021 ↗ Master #203 (957 pts) #198 (952 pts) #135 (1,275 pts) #261 (767 pts) #185 (1,007 pts)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team, each with one reason worth a look.

42 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Lucky D's BBQ
#1,413 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
74
GCs
2
Top-10s
27%
Peak
1691
2–1 in 3 shared contests (67% to Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team)

These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team ahead 2–1 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.

  • rated over 72 contests
  • last seen Sep 30, 2026
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BUCKAROO BBQ
#1,419 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
35
GCs
0
Top-10s
29%
Peak
1607

They've been 1607 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

  • rated over 35 contests
  • last seen Apr 26, 2019
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SMOKIN' R'S 2.0
#1,429 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
38
GCs
0
Top-10s
24%
Peak
1616

Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 38 contests
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SMOKEVILLE
#1,416 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
44
GCs
0
Top-10s
23%
Peak
1584

Careers of much the same size, 44 contests to 36, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 44 contests
  • last seen Aug 28, 2020
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LIBERTY BBQ
#1,428 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
23
GCs
0
Top-10s
30%
Peak
1589

23 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 30% top-10 finishes rather than wins.

  • rated over 23 contests
  • last seen Oct 28, 2022
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4 SMOKIN' BUTTS
#1,417 of the rated field
1570 power rating
Contests
23
GCs
2
Top-10s
39%
Peak
1605

They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team's first contest.

  • rated over 22 contests
  • last seen May 1, 2021
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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
MAN MEAT BBQ 21 4 17 19% ⚔ compare
Smoked & Furious 18 5 13 28% ⚔ compare
POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 17 4 13 24% ⚔ compare
BrewsCue 13 6 7 46% ⚔ compare
ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 12 11 1 92% ⚔ compare
MUNNY'S STOVE 12 2 10 17% ⚔ compare
FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 12 1 11 8% ⚔ compare
Cities Edge BBQ 11 5 6 45% ⚔ compare
HOLLOW Q 11 4 7 36% ⚔ compare
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 11 4 7 36% ⚔ compare
SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 11 3 8 27% ⚔ compare
CLARK CREW BBQ 11 0 11 0% ⚔ compare
WELL SAUCED BBQ 10 4 6 40% ⚔ compare
MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 10 2 8 20% ⚔ compare
Bushmaster BBQ 9 3 6 33% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 35 14 1 2 180 🔥 158.2512 171.45 top 44%
Pork Ribs 36 18 1 4 180 🔥 157.6456 170.74 top 43%
Pork 35 13 0 2 179.4400 155.9312 169.99 top 49%
Brisket 35 11 1 1 176.5716 150.2172 167.54 top 51%

“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

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Small (<20 teams)40top 52%
Medium (20–39)250top 49%
Large (40+)60top 39%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
KS170top 53%
TX70top 35%
CO60top 45%
OK50top 47%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 4 3 0 top 41% Apr 25, 2025
Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 3 5 0 top 35% Jun 9, 2023
Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) 2 7 0 top 56% Jul 26, 2025
Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 2 26 0 top 68% Jun 13, 2025
Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 2 9 0 top 20% Aug 16, 2024
Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) 2 10 0 top 55% Jul 27, 2024
The National Beef Smokin' Saddles Official BBQ Contest (Day 2) 2 18 0 top 73% Jul 29, 2023
Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition (Day 2) 2 7 0 top 41% Jul 30, 2022
Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 2) 2 4 0 top 40% May 15, 2021

More numbers

Busiest season 2022 9 contests
Contests a season 7.2 across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in KS 18 of 36 contests · 4 states in all
Contests visited 23 9 of them more than once
Most-entered meat Pork Ribs 36 entries · 1 win · 18 calls
Opponents faced 495 finished ahead 604 times, behind 536

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

20251 milestone
  1. Most recent contest Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2)
20241 milestone
  1. Peak power rating (1592) Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off
20233 milestones
  1. First perfect 180 (Pork Ribs) Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Flyin BBQ Competition
  2. Career-best overall score696.5028 Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Flyin BBQ Competition
  3. 25th tracked contest Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships
20222 milestones
  1. 10th tracked contest Inaugural Yellow City BBQ Shootout
  2. First overall podium Wild West BBQ Cook-Off
20215 milestones
  1. First tracked contest Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)
  2. First call Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)
  3. First category win (Brisket) Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)
  4. First overall top-10 Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)
  5. First overall past 90% of a perfect score683.9084 Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)

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

📈 Biggest rating jumps

SwingContestDate
+15.5Wild West BBQ Cook-OffMay 6, 2022
+14.3Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1)May 14, 2021
+12.63rd Annual Alva Police Department Cars, Concerts and BBQ ContestMay 3, 2024
+11.6Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music FestJun 11, 2021
+11.2Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition (Day 1)Jul 29, 2022

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-11.5Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music FestJun 13, 2025
-9.3Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music FestJun 9, 2023
-9Wild West BBQ Cook-OffApr 25, 2025
-8.4Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music FestJun 7, 2024
-6.5The National Beef Smokin' Saddles Official BBQ Contest (Day 1)Jul 28, 2023

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — 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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20254011 50% top 66% 96.5% 94.4%
20247051 86% top 40% 96.7% 95.4%
20237020 57% top 49% 96.7% 94.5%
20229040 100% top 43% 96.5% 94%
20219031 89% top 48% 96.7% 94%

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

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Jul 26, 2025 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 14 / 19 (687.9200) 12 (170.8228) 13 (171.4172) 3 (177.1428) 14 (168.5372)
Jul 25, 2025 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 7 / 18 (694.7768) 1 (180) 11 (171.4056) 4 (177.7028) 15 (165.6684)
Jun 13, 2025 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS 26 / 36 (672.4796) 29 (165.7028) 28 (164.5256) 11 (173.1428) 23 (169.1084)
Apr 25, 2025 Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO 24 / 30 (664.4228) 20 (169.1200) 23 (162.8228) 14 (168.5372) 19 (163.9428)
Sep 20, 2024 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cook-Off 🏅 Ponca City, OK 7 / 26 (684.4800) 12 (168.5372) 1 (177.1544) 10 (172.5600) 15 (166.2284)
Aug 16, 2024 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX 9 / 41 (687.3368) 12 (170.8456) 9 (173.1084) 18 (167.9772) 5 (175.4056)
Jul 27, 2024 Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 10 / 20 (693.6340) 7 (176.5600) 10 (172.5600) 10 (171.9656) 11 (172.5484)
Jul 26, 2024 Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 12 / 20 (686.7544) 11 (174.2628) 11 (171.9772) 16 (169.6800) 9 (170.8344)
Jun 7, 2024 Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS 27 / 43 (676.9940) 28 (169.6684) 27 (167.3944) 27 (170.2628) 17 (169.6684)
May 10, 2024 Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO 9 / 29 (682.1828) 10 (170.8456) 5 (174.2744) 7 (173.1200) 20 (163.9428)
May 3, 2024 3rd Annual Alva Police Department Cars, Concerts and BBQ Contest 🏅 Alva, OK 5 / 20 (695.9540) 4 (177.7372) 14 (172.5600) 9 (175.4056) 11 (170.2512)
Aug 18, 2023 Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX 9 / 48 (693.6456) 10 (173.1200) 7 (176.5600) 17 (170.8456) 10 (173.1200)
Jul 29, 2023 The National Beef Smokin' Saddles Official BBQ Contest (Day 2) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 18 / 27 (685.0744) 13 (174.8572) 18 (169.7144) 14 (171.9656) 22 (168.5372)
Jul 28, 2023 The National Beef Smokin' Saddles Official BBQ Contest (Day 1) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 20 / 25 (673.0516) 23 (165.6916) 11 (172.5600) 12 (172.5600) 21 (162.2400)
Jun 9, 2023 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS 19 / 32 (671.3144) 13 (172.0116) 23 (162.2516) 22 (167.3712) 11 (169.6800)
May 27, 2023 Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest 🏅 Castle Rock, CO 17 / 37 (678.7424) 12 (171.9884) 19 (168.5484) 30 (165.0856) 9 (173.1200)
May 12, 2023 Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO 13 / 30 (665.6228) 14 (168) 13 (166.8572) 10 (172.5484) 24 (158.2172)
Apr 21, 2023 Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Flyin BBQ Competition 🏅 Derby, KS 8 / 28 (696.5028) 13 (171.9656) 2 (180) 15 (169.6800) 9 (174.8572)
Oct 21, 2022 OKC BBQ Fest 🏅 Oklahoma City, OK 16 / 35 (685.0284) 19 (168.5372) 23 (167.3828) 3 (179.4400) 16 (169.6684)
Aug 19, 2022 Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX 15 / 59 (677.0972) 22 (167.4400) 19 (168.5716) 19 (168.5256) 6 (172.5600)
Jul 30, 2022 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition (Day 2) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 14 / 25 (689.6344) 14 (173.1200) 9 (173.7028) 21 (166.2400) 4 (176.5716)
Jul 29, 2022 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition (Day 1) 🏅 Dodge City, KS 7 / 26 (694.7772) 9 (173.1200) 10 (173.1200) 7 (175.4172) 7 (173.1200)
Jun 10, 2022 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS 8 / 29 (677.6456) 4 (176.0228) 9 (170.2744) 10 (169.1084) 20 (162.2400)
May 6, 2022 Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO 3 / 33 (686.2060) 21 (167.3944) 3 (176) 7 (171.9772) 5 (170.8344)
Apr 22, 2022 17th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK 20 / 26 (655.2456) 10 (173.1200) 23 (157.6456) 16 (168.5256) 22 (155.9544)
Apr 15, 2022 Pork-A-Palooza 🏅 Weatherford, OK 18 / 29 (674.1484) 3 (178.8572) 4 (174.2628) 11 (170.8112) 27 (150.2172)
Mar 19, 2022 Inaugural Yellow City BBQ Shootout 🏅 Amarillo, TX 10 / 17 (650.6968) 6 (168) 2 (169.1200) 15 (155.9312) 15 (157.6456)
Oct 15, 2021 Harper County Bullseye BBQ 🏅 Harper, KS 6 / 16 (694.2628) 7 (172.5828) 10 (170.8228) 4 (176.5600) 5 (174.2972)
Aug 20, 2021 Raider Red Meat BBQ & Ribeye Championship 🏅 Lubbock, TX 18 / 43 (663.8852) 28 (158.2512) 4 (174.8456) 13 (169.6684) 21 (161.1200)
Aug 6, 2021 SLV Beat the Heat BBQ 🏅 Alamosa, CO 26 / 42 (664.5372) 28 (164.5828) 9 (173.7372) 28 (165.6684) 28 (160.5488)
Aug 1, 2021 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2 🏅 Dodge City, KS 18 / 26 (673.5656) 6 (175.4056) 18 (167.9772) 22 (163.9428) 16 (166.2400)
Jul 30, 2021 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1 🏅 Dodge City, KS 20 / 27 (675.2912) 20 (169.6684) 6 (174.2628) 24 (165.6800) 17 (165.6800)
Jul 30, 2021 Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition - One Meat Rib Contest Dodge City, KS — — 14 (162.8000) — —
Jun 11, 2021 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS 5 / 28 (695.9312) 6 (177.7028) 7 (173.7028) 10 (172.5600) 11 (171.9656)
May 15, 2021 Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 2) 🏅 Plainview, TX 15 / 22 (665.5656) 7 (174.2972) 12 (169.6800) 22 (157.6456) 13 (163.9428)
May 14, 2021 Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1) 🏅 Plainview, TX 4 / 33 (683.9084) 12 (170.8344) 5 (173.1428) 20 (164.5256) 1 (175.4056)

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