TURN BEFORE YOU BURN

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1488

peak 1488 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2015-05-23

latest 2015-06-19

Best ToY finish

#2158

Master 2015

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

0 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 2 contests

Avg finish

top 81%

overall standings

Best overall

639.2456 / 720

Master · Sugar Mound BBQ Festival

Perfect 180s

Walk rate

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

168.5372

Chicken · Rock'n Freedom

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 165.95 · weakest Brisket (151.37)

Road miles

131

mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 131 mi

Master avg

634.67 / 720

2 Master contests · 0 GCs

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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.

TURN BEFORE YOU BURN 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 149 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.

INDIGO PIG

#3746 of the rated field

1488 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 68
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 9%
Peak: 1532

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to TURN BEFORE YOU BURN)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team TURN BEFORE YOU BURN has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 67 contests
last seen 2024-05-31

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Homestead Smoke Shack BBQ

#3758 of the rated field

1488 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1488

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-07-25

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Sibo Smokers

#3748 of the rated field

1488 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 80%
Peak: 1488

No shared contest yet.

They turned up 10 years after TURN BEFORE YOU BURN did, first appearing in 2025.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-07-24
on a 4-contest top-10 run

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Still Site BBQ

#3730 of the rated field

1488 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1502

No shared contest yet.

Level with TURN BEFORE YOU BURN on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-04-03

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Crazy Thunder BBQ Team

#3740 of the rated field

1488 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1504

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2025-03-21

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MOOSE KNUCKLE BBQ

#3764 of the rated field

1488 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 20%
Peak: 1503

No shared contest yet.

A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2023-09-02

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By meat

Category	Entries	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	2	168.5372	163.3712	165.95	top 63%
Pork Ribs	2	164.5372	147.9316	156.23	top 76%
Pork	2	168.0000	154.2288	161.11	top 69%
Brisket	2	159.3940	143.3372	151.37	top 85%

“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
MO	1	0	top 86%
KS	1	0	top 76%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Medium (20–39)	1	0	top 86%
Large (40+)	1	0	top 76%

The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 0.1 yrs 2015-05-23 → 2015-06-19

Busiest season 2015 2 contests

Cooks most in MO 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 · 0 calls

Strongest meat Chicken averages 165.95 · weakest Brisket (151.37)

Walk rate 0% a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests

Overall top-10 rate 0% 0 of 2 contests

Master average 634.67 out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 89 20–76 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 131 2 mapped stops · furthest 131 mi

Power rating 1488 peak 1488 · #null of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2015
May 23 First tracked contest Sugar Mound BBQ Festival
May 23 Career-best overall score639.2456 Sugar Mound BBQ Festival
Jun 19 Career-best single call (Chicken)168.5372 Rock'n Freedom
Jun 19 Most recent contest Rock'n Freedom

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)
2015	2	0	0	0	0%	top 81%	88.8%	88.1%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2015-06-19	Rock'n Freedom Seymour, MO	31 / 36 (630.0916)	20 (168.5372)	35 (147.9316)	34 (154.2288)	25 (159.3940)
2015-05-23	Sugar Mound BBQ Festival Mound City, KS	47 / 62 (639.2456)	44 (163.3712)	34 (164.5372)	27 (168.0000)	62 (143.3372)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2015 ↗	Master	#2158 (60 pts)	#2073 (85 pts)	#2209 (60 pts)	#2225 (60 pts)	#2214 (60 pts)