- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThe 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.
CODE BLUE BBQ 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 145 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 13 years after CODE BLUE BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CODE BLUE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where CODE BLUE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 160.5714 | 163.42 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5714 | 154.8684 | 159.72 | top 57% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 149.1426 | 151.39 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8572 | 153.1544 | 156.01 | top 56% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 66% | 87.9% | 87.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-27 | Hermann BBQ & Brats Festival Hermann, MO | 32 / 39 (627.9428) | 18 (166.2744) | 33 (154.8684) | 35 (153.6456) | 27 (153.1544) |
| 2013-04-19 | Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest Washington, MO | 25 / 50 (633.1426) | 23 (160.5714) | 15 (164.5714) | 41 (149.1426) | 21 (158.8572) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2000 (85 pts) | #1789 (125 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #1912 (95 pts) |