High-water mark
685.6000
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.6000 at VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-11-03
Sheltered Smoke
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-06-25
latest 2023-11-03
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 47%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 172.26 · weakest Pork (168.25)
Road miles
60
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 60 mi
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
677.60 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
Sheltered Smoke 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 98 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.
#2841 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before Sheltered Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2843 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Sheltered Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2868 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sheltered Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2852 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Sheltered Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2854 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Sheltered Smoke'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 166.2400 | 168.83 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 159.9544 | 168.26 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 166.8228 | 168.25 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 171.4056 | 172.26 | top 30% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.4 yrs
2021-06-25 → 2023-11-03
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
LA
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 172.26 · weakest Pork (168.25)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
677.60
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
23–18 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
60
2 mapped stops · furthest 60 mi
Purse competed for
$6,450
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.4 yrs
2021-06-25 → 2023-11-03
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Back the Blue
- First call Back the Blue
- First overall top-10 Back the Blue
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score669.6000 Back the Blue
- 2023
- Career-best overall score685.6000 VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5600 VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
- Most recent contest VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 44% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 93% | 93% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-03 | VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 12 / 27 (685.6000) | 15 (166.2400) | 6 (176.5600) | 12 (169.6800) | 8 (173.1200) |
| 2021-06-25 | Back the Blue 🏅 Brookhaven, MS | 8 / 16 (669.6000) | 7 (171.4172) | 14 (159.9544) | 8 (166.8228) | 5 (171.4056) |