Bros & Fire PTY is a competition barbecue team with 12 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2025 and 2026. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the BBQ Fest Parque Tempisque (2026). They are ranked #2772 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.47 · weakest Brisket (160.96)
Road miles
4,401
across 12 mapped stops · furthest 1,441 mi
Schedule strength
16%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1523)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
659.74 / 720
11 Master contests · 1 GC
Storylines (8 found in their record)
Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.
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Against the odds
27-in-100shot on pre-contest ratings
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 73 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at BBQ Fest Parque Tempisque (May 1, 2026) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 27-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Justice BBQ.
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They almost always walk
75%of contests with a top-10 call
A call in 9 of 12 contests
A top-10 category call in 75% of their 12 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
Justice BBQ has come out ahead in 9 of their 10 shared contests.
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The weak link
−7.5points behind their best meat
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.50 points below their pork, and turns into a call 64% of the time against 64%.
Brisket avg 160.96
Pork avg 168.47
7 calls in 11 entries
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A strong matchup
4–0ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BBQ Fellas in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
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Pork nemesis
7 of 10shared pork entries lost
Justice BBQ ahead 70% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, Justice BBQ has out-cooked them in 7 of 10 shared pork entries.
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The long haul
4,401road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,401 miles across 12 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,441 miles to The Downtown BBQ Showdown.
12 mapped stops
furthest 1,441 mi
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
“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 field size and state
By contest size
Field
Contests
GCs
Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)
7
1
top 54%
Medium (20–39)
3
0
top 37%
Large (40+)
1
0
top 78%
By state / province (where the contests were held)