High-water mark
677.7716
career-best overall
94.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.7716 at Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship — 94.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-04-29
Flame Thrower BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-05-01
latest 2016-04-29
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 167.99 · weakest Brisket (159.72)
Road miles
27
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
657.46 / 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.
Flame Thrower BBQ 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 83 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Flame Thrower BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Flame Thrower BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Flame Thrower BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 11 years after Flame Thrower BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4744 | 159.4400 | 165.46 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.9144 | 157.6804 | 164.30 | top 30% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 165.1544 | 167.99 | top 19% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 154.8800 | 159.72 | top 38% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2015-05-01 → 2016-04-29
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 167.99 · weakest Brisket (159.72)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
657.46
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
47
43–17 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
27
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Elk Grove Western Festival & BBQ Championship
- First call Elk Grove Western Festival & BBQ Championship
- 2016
- First overall top-10 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score677.7716 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score677.7716 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)171.4744 Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 94.1% | 94.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-29 | Elk Grove Western Festival and BBQ Championship Elk Grove, CA | 4 / 30 (677.7716) | 6 (171.4744) | 3 (170.9144) | 7 (170.8228) | 8 (164.5600) |
| 2015-05-01 | Elk Grove Western Festival & BBQ Championship Elk Grove, CA | 15 / 32 (637.1548) | 19 (159.4400) | 16 (157.6804) | 5 (165.1544) | 16 (154.8800) |