Happy hunting ground
Top 9%
average finish here
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest is their spot: an average finish in the top 9% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 9th
- average top 9%
BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW
BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 9th of 505 at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1540
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 29, 2019
latest Sep 27, 2023 · 4.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.70
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.28 · weakest Pork (168.10)
Road miles
8,517
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 8,517 mi
Schedule strength
48%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1562)
Purse competed for
$139K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
682.70 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW, each with one reason worth a look.
BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 59 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#1,951 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1540
2–0 in 2 shared contests (100% to BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW)
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,956 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1540
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#1,961 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1542
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#1,948 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1541
They turned up 5 years after BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#1,963 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1540
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#1,947 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1541
Level with BLUEBIRD BBQ CREW on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 169.7144 | 174.28 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7144 | 155.3828 | 169.82 | top 43% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 165.6800 | 168.10 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 161.1432 | 170.51 | top 35% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 53 | 0 | top 57% | Sep 27, 2023 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 9% | Sep 27, 2023 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
KS
4 of 5 contests
Contests visited
3
2 of them more than once
Opponents faced
710
finished ahead 1,146 times, behind 341
Longest layoff
3.3 yrs
Jun 29, 2019 → Sep 29, 2022
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- Peak power rating (1540) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
20223 milestones
- First overall top-10 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best overall score699.9772 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7144 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
20193 milestones
- First tracked contest Queensland BBQ Championship
- First call Queensland BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.7492 Queensland BBQ Championship
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +18.7 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | Sep 29, 2022 |
| +13.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Sep 27, 2023 |
| +8.1 | Queensland BBQ Championship | Jun 29, 2019 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 95.6% | 93.7% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 12% | 97.2% | 96.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 195 / 211 (661.0284) | 38 (176.5600) | 209 (155.3828) | 172 (165.6800) | 176 (163.4056) |
| Sep 27, 2023 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 78 / 487 (688.5372) | 107 (173.7144) | 160 (171.4400) | 252 (167.9656) | 39 (175.4172) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 9 / 505 (699.9772) | 90 (173.7028) | 10 (177.7144) | 141 (171.4172) | 21 (177.1428) |
| Sep 29, 2022 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 53 / 249 (690.2060) | 15 (177.7028) | 179 (167.3944) | 141 (169.6916) | 30 (175.4172) |
| Jun 29, 2019 | Queensland BBQ Championship Cleveland Queensland | 11 / 41 (673.7492) | 17 (169.7144) | 3 (177.1544) | 18 (165.7372) | 27 (161.1432) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.