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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.
Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams has 1 rated contest — 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 144 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 11 years before Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Burnt Ends and Broken Dreams's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 154.2172 | 154.22 | top 107% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5256 | 156.5256 | 156.53 | top 103% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 161.0972 | 161.10 | top 90% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 88% | 88% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-02 | Grand American Barbecue New York State Championship Open (OPEN FORMAT) 🏅 New Paltz, NY | 54 / 59 (633.5200) | 58 (161.6800) | 63 (154.2172) | 61 (156.5256) | 53 (161.0972) |