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.
BLAZED AND INFUSED 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 151 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BLAZED AND INFUSED has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BLAZED AND INFUSED on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after BLAZED AND INFUSED did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BLAZED AND INFUSED's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 119.8972 | 137.95 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 143.9316 | 145.67 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 149.1544 | 154.00 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 125.6688 | 143.97 | top 80% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 79.9% | 79.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 81.7% | 81.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-14 | 23rd Annual State BBQ Championship of Nebraska Omaha, NE | 41 / 42 (575.2460) | 41 (119.8972) | 41 (143.9316) | 38 (149.1544) | 26 (162.2628) |
| 2013-09-27 | Ak-Sar-Ben's River City Rodeo & Stock Show Omaha, NE | 55 / 56 (587.9316) | 47 (156.0000) | 52 (147.4172) | 38 (158.8456) | 55 (125.6688) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |