Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Great Shepherd BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
Buns Out BBQ KC
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1477
peak 1477 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2025-03-21
latest 2025-03-21
Best ToY finish
#407
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 97%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.53 · weakest Pork Ribs (145.07)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
305.60 / 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.
Buns Out BBQ KC 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 141 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.
#4293 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4308 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 11 years before Buns Out BBQ KC's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4309 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Buns Out BBQ KC's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4274 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Buns Out BBQ KC on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4281 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Buns Out BBQ KC's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4303 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1476
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Buns Out BBQ KC'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 160.5256 | 160.53 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.0744 | 145.0744 | 145.07 | top 100% |
| 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 (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-03-21 → 2025-03-21
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.53 · weakest Pork Ribs (145.07)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
305.60
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
33
3–43 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7,450
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1477
peak 1477 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue Steak Cook-Off
- Career-best overall score305.6000 American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)160.5256 American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-21 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest Kansas City, MO | 32 / 33 (305.6000) | 28 (160.5256) | 33 (145.0744) | — | — |
| 2025-03-21 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Steak Cook-Off Kansas City, MO | 13 (164.5372) | — | — | — | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #407 (58 pts) | #406 (58 pts) | #413 (58 pts) | — | — |