High-water mark
643.9888
career-best overall
178.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 643.9888 at 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) — 178.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-05-17
IN FLAMMA, BULL!
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1482
peak 1505 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2019-05-17
latest 2025-09-12
Best ToY finish
#1148
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.82 · weakest Pork (153.96)
Road miles
0
mi across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
41%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1554)
Purse competed for
$16K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
626.37 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
643.99 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Fire Breathin' Bros has finished one call ahead of IN FLAMMA, BULL! 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A tough matchup
4–1
behind in the head-to-head
Blackjack bbq ahead in 80% of their meetings
Blackjack bbq has come out ahead in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
The weak link
−8.9
points behind their best meat
Pork is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.86 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 33% of the time against 50%.
- Pork avg 153.96
- Pork Ribs avg 162.82
- 2 calls in 6 entries
The comeback
2.4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.4 years, then back at 17th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2021-10-08).
- last seen 2019-05-17
- back 2021-10-08
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.
IN FLAMMA, BULL! 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 113 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.
#4015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4029 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Level with IN FLAMMA, BULL! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before IN FLAMMA, BULL!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1482
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before IN FLAMMA, BULL!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Breathin' Bros | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| Blackjack bbq | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 149.6800 | 154.43 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 174.2972 | 152.5144 | 162.82 | top 57% |
| Pork | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 147.3372 | 153.96 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0232 | 150.2400 | 157.13 | top 81% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 57% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 94% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
6.3 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
6
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
6 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.82 · weakest Pork (153.96)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 4 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
2 of 6 contests
Master average
626.37
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
643.99
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
95
24–120 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1554
average field rating faced — tougher than 41% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$16,200
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.4 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2021-10-08
Power rating
1482
peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score643.9888 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score643.9888 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.2972 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1505) 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Most recent contest 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.3 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-05-17 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.2 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | 2025-09-12 |
| -10.9 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | 2024-06-28 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 74% | — | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 38% | 178.9% | 178.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 35 / 35 (622.6172) | 35 (157.0744) | 34 (159.3600) | 34 (155.9428) | 34 (150.2400) |
| 2024-06-28 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 32 / 35 (630.1148) | 29 (166.2400) | 35 (152.5144) | 34 (147.3372) | 23 (164.0232) |
| 2023-10-20 | 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Riverside, CA | 18 / 20 (634.7200) | 19 (149.7028) | 9 (167.3828) | 18 (153.6572) | — |
| 2022-10-07 | The 18th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) 🏅 unrated Riverside, CA | 6 / 10 (631.8400) | 10 (152.4912) | 2 (169.7144) | 9 (147.9428) | — |
| 2021-10-08 | 17th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Riverside, CA | 14 / 19 (623.9088) | 16 (149.6800) | 14 (153.6344) | 9 (163.4400) | — |
| 2019-05-17 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) Riverside, CA | 6 / 16 (643.9888) | 11 (151.3944) | 1 (174.2972) | 12 (155.4400) | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1163 (70 pts) |