Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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.
GETTIN' BASTED ahead in 100% of their meetings
GETTIN' BASTED has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Rusty's BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 6 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) (2024-10-11).
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.
The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint 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 121 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| 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.
| 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% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-30 | 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) |
| 2024-10-30 | 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) |
| 2024-10-11 | 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) |
| 2018-10-26 | 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) |