High-water mark
662.7428
career-best overall
92.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 662.7428 at Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff — 92.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-09-23
BORN OF FIRE!
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2016-09-23
latest 2017-09-22
Best ToY finish
#2212
Master 2017
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.28 · weakest Pork (161.09)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
654.42 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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.
BORN OF FIRE! 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 125 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.
#3476 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to BORN OF FIRE!)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BORN OF FIRE! has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with BORN OF FIRE! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3466 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 162.8456 | 166.28 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 157.6456 | 162.52 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 154.1940 | 161.09 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 161.6572 | 164.53 | top 54% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff | 2 | 39 | 0 | top 70% | 2017-09-22 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2016-09-23 → 2017-09-22
Busiest season
2017
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.28 · weakest Pork (161.09)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
654.42
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
85
37–80 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.7428 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best overall score662.7428 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- Career-best single call (Chicken)169.7144 Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
- 2017
- Most recent contest Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 92% | 92% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-22 | Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff Murphysboro, IL | 43 / 55 (646.0912) | 44 (162.8456) | 30 (167.3944) | 54 (154.1940) | 34 (161.6572) |
| 2016-09-23 | Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff Murphysboro, IL | 39 / 64 (662.7428) | 26 (169.7144) | 58 (157.6456) | 34 (167.9772) | 29 (167.4056) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2274 (60 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |