Giant slayer
105
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 105-team field at Smoke in the Spring.
- Apr 9, 2021
Sloan Bohannon
Sloan Bohannon is a competition barbecue team with 11 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2021. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Smoke in the Spring (2021).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1519
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
11
in the data
First seen
Apr 9, 2021
latest Apr 9, 2021
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 9% of the time
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
9% of 11 contests
Avg finish
top 1%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
974
across 11 mapped stops · furthest 155 mi
Purse competed for
$55K
listed at 8 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
won from 9 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Sloan Bohannon, each with one reason worth a look.
Sloan Bohannon has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 81 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,537 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
Fewer contests behind them than Sloan Bohannon has cooked, 5 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1522
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Compare careers#2,516 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Sloan Bohannon's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Sloan Bohannon's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,528 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1519
Level with Sloan Bohannon on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,522 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
Fewer contests behind them than Sloan Bohannon has cooked, 6 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|
“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.
More numbers
Busiest season
2021
3 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.8
across 6 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
8 of 11 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
First title
Apr 9, 2021
Smoke in the Spring
Opponents faced
130
finished ahead 129 times, behind 0
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
Jun 29, 2018 → Jul 20, 2019
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- 10th tracked contest Smokin on the Osage (Day 1)
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que
20217 milestones
- First overall top-10 Smoke in the Spring
- First overall podium Smoke in the Spring
- First Grand Championship Smoke in the Spring
- First state championship Smoke in the Spring
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score177.7600 Smoke in the Spring
- Biggest field won (105 teams) Smoke in the Spring
- Career-best overall score177.7600 Smoke in the Spring
20181 milestone
- First tracked contest Freedom Fest BBQ Cook-Off
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% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 1% | 98.8% | 98.8% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
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 - Kids Que Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Anchor City Cook Off 🏅 Centralia, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Mozingo Lake BBQ 🏅 Maryville, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | 1 / 105 (177.7600) | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Smoke in the Spring 🏅 Osage City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Anchor City Cook off 🏅 Centralia, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2019 | Route 66 BBQ & Steak Showdown 🏅 Springfiled, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 20, 2019 | Smoking on the Osage BBQ contest and Car show 🏅 Osceola, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Freedom Fest BBQ Cook-Off Willard, MO | — | — | — | — | — |