High-water mark
681.0972
career-best overall
94.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 681.0972 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Oct 30, 2024
The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint
The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2018 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 65th of 87 at the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) (2024).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1501
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 22 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 26, 2018
latest Oct 30, 2024 · 6 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±19.43
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.54 · weakest Brisket (160.98)
Road miles
526
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 526 mi
Purse competed for
$113K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
664.77 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
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The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 107 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,175 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
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⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 159.4284 | 168.71 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4056 | 149.0748 | 165.53 | top 62% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 163.9656 | 169.54 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 156.5716 | 160.98 | top 82% |
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
562
finished ahead 360 times, behind 438
Longest layoff
6 yrs
Oct 26, 2018 → Oct 11, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20244 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.7660 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
- Career-best overall score681.0972 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7028 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — 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
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 94.6% | 93.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 166 / 444 (681.0972) | 174 (171.4172) | 68 (175.4056) | 23 (177.7028) | 367 (156.5716) |
| Oct 30, 2024 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 116 / 169 (678.7428) | 39 (175.4172) | 118 (169.1084) | 101 (170.2628) | 145 (163.9544) |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 65 / 87 (666.7660) | 50 (168.5716) | 58 (168.5372) | 63 (166.2400) | 69 (163.4172) |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 95 / 102 (632.4576) | 88 (159.4284) | 100 (149.0748) | 63 (163.9656) | 80 (159.9888) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.