High-water mark
671.8972
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.8972 at WV Coalfields Cookoff — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Jun 7, 2024
ShawnBo's BBQ
ShawnBo's BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 4th of 15 at the WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown (2023). They finished #966 in the 2024 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1499
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Jun 10, 2022
latest Jun 7, 2024 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
75% of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 58%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±15.02
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.77 · weakest Chicken (160.66)
Road miles
200
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 75 mi
Schedule strength
79%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1602)
Purse competed for
$31K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
652.97 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
501.04 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 150.7540 | 160.66 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 156.5144 | 162.68 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 171.9656 | 159.3600 | 165.82 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 176 | 158.7884 | 167.77 | top 40% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WV Coalfields Cookoff | 3 | 6 | 0 | top 68% | Jun 7, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WV
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
58
finished ahead 32 times, behind 59
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20243 milestones
- Career-best overall score671.8972 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- Most recent contest WV Coalfields Cookoff
20231 milestone
- Peak power rating (1514) WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown
20224 milestones
- First tracked contest WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First call WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First overall top-10 WV Coalfields Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score501.0400 WV Coalfields Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.8 | WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown | Apr 21, 2023 |
| +5.5 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | Jun 10, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.9 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | Jun 9, 2023 |
| -6 | WV Coalfields Cookoff | Jun 7, 2024 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 77% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 57% | 90.5% | 89.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 40% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2024 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 10 / 13 (671.8972) | 11 (166.2400) | 11 (165.1200) | 11 (164.5372) | 3 (176) |
| Jun 9, 2023 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 14 / 16 (635.1540) | 14 (150.7540) | 14 (156.5144) | 13 (159.3600) | 8 (168.5256) |
| Apr 21, 2023 | WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Cottageville, WV | 4 / 15 (651.8628) | 4 (161.6800) | 5 (163.9772) | 2 (167.4172) | 7 (158.7884) |
| Jun 10, 2022 | WV Coalfields Cookoff 🏅 Welch, WV | 6 / 15 (501.0400) | 7 (163.9544) | 7 (165.1200) | 3 (171.9656) | — |