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.
Fire It Up 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 148 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Fire It Up BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Fire It Up BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Fire It Up BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fire It Up BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4060 | 155.3828 | 155.39 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9544 | 147.3716 | 151.66 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 150.8800 | 155.42 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4172 | 147.4172 | 149.42 | top 97% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 87% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-12 | BBQ On the Bypass Langley, BC | 17 / 19 (601.0516) | 13 (155.3828) | 16 (147.3716) | 17 (150.8800) | 19 (147.4172) |
| 2014-09-13 | BBQ on the Bypass Langley, BC | 13 / 15 (622.7432) | 14 (155.4060) | 14 (155.9544) | 9 (159.9656) | 14 (151.4172) |