Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.4112 at Truman Heritage Festival (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE) — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
BURNT FINGER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BURNT FINGER BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Smoke Ringer has 3 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 99 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Smoke Ringer did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smoke Ringer 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 163.3828 | 164.54 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1084 | 160.5028 | 167.01 | top 36% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 162.8000 | 166.24 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 163.3828 | 165.69 | top 29% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 25% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 21% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 36% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.7 | Truman Heritage Festival (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE) | 2014-05-02 |
| +9 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | 2014-04-11 |
| +2.9 | Tonganoxie Days BBQ Blowout | 2014-06-13 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 31% | 92.8% | 92.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-13 | Tonganoxie Days BBQ Blowout Tonganoxie, KS | 18 / 41 (659.2912) | 17 (166.8456) | 28 (160.5028) | 15 (167.3828) | 16 (164.5600) |
| 2014-05-02 | Truman Heritage Festival (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE) Grandview, MO | 6 / 28 (668.4112) | 14 (163.3828) | 3 (173.1084) | 8 (168.5372) | 10 (163.3828) |
| 2014-04-11 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake Smithville, MO | 15 / 54 (662.7316) | 29 (163.3828) | 16 (167.4172) | 31 (162.8000) | 6 (169.1316) |