High-water mark
334.2516
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.2516 at Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-06-14
Liberty Call Smoke Shack
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1506 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-06-14
latest 2024-06-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 36%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.28)
Road miles
43
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
334.25 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
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.
Liberty Call Smoke Shack 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 111 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.
#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Liberty Call Smoke Shack's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2985 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2976 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Liberty Call Smoke Shack's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2975 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Liberty Call Smoke Shack on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2973 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Liberty Call Smoke Shack's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2982 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Liberty Call Smoke Shack'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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 32% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5716 | 163.9888 | 166.28 | top 47% |
| 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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-06-14 → 2024-06-14
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IN
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.28)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
334.25
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
18–9 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
43
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1506
peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score334.2516 Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score334.2516 Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.2628 Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Most recent contest 11th Annual Rockin' BBQ (ONE MEAT RIBS)
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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 11th Annual Rockin' BBQ (ONE MEAT RIBS) 🏅 Warsaw, IN | — | — | 16 (168.5716) | — | — |
| 2024-06-14 | Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Logansport, IN | 10 / 28 (334.2516) | 9 (170.2628) | 11 (163.9888) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | — | — | #1175 (99 pts) | — | — |