Giant slayer
58
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 58-team field at Minnesota in May.
- May 9, 2025
Blake Stocker
Blake Stocker is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2025. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Minnesota in May (2025).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1519
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
May 9, 2025
latest May 9, 2025
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 20% of the time
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 2%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Road miles
147
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 147 mi
Purse competed for
$53K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
won from 5 state-championship entries
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Blake Stocker, each with one reason worth a look.
Blake Stocker 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 83 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,543 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 30%
- Peak
- 1529
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Blake Stocker)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Blake Stocker has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2,538 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,541 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
Level with Blake Stocker on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,533 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,540 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Blake Stocker's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ 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
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MN
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
1
a different one every time
First title
May 9, 2025
Minnesota in May
Opponents faced
111
finished ahead 109 times, behind 0
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest Minnesota in May
20257 milestones
- First overall top-10 Minnesota in May
- First overall podium Minnesota in May
- First Grand Championship Minnesota in May
- First state championship Minnesota in May
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score168 Minnesota in May
- Biggest field won (58 teams) Minnesota in May
- Career-best overall score168 Minnesota in May
20221 milestone
- First tracked contest Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 2% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2026 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 9, 2025 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | 1 / 58 (168) | — | — | — | — |
| May 10, 2024 | Minnesota in May 🏅 St. Peter, MN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 9, 2023 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) 🏅 West Salem, WI | — | — | — | — | — |