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.
IN FLAMMA, BULL!
IN FLAMMA, BULL! is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2026. Their best overall finish is 6th of 10 at The 18th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) (2022). They finished #1148 in the 2025 Master Series Team of the Year standings. Also listed in KCBS results as “IN FLAMMA BULL”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1471
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 43 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
May 17, 2019
latest Sep 18, 2026 · 7.3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
29% of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 78%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
57%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±3.13
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 161.43 · weakest Chicken (154.40)
Road miles
0
across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
49%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1563)
Purse competed for
$26K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
625.91 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (4-meat) avg
643.99 / 720
1 Backyard (4-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (4-meat) out of 720), 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1342 (56 pts) | #1392 (56 pts) | #1434 (56 pts) | #1352 (56 pts) | #1344 (56 pts) |
| 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) |
Overall rank by season
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to IN FLAMMA, BULL!, each with one reason worth a look.
IN FLAMMA, BULL! has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 138 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,594 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careers#4,592 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
They've been 1507 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,601 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before IN FLAMMA, BULL!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,580 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
Level with IN FLAMMA, BULL! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1471
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before IN FLAMMA, BULL!'s most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Breathin' Bros | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% | ⚔ compare |
| Blackjack bbq | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 149.6800 | 154.40 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 174.2972 | 152.5144 | 161.43 | top 63% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 147.3372 | 155.54 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0232 | 150.2400 | 156.74 | top 87% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 3 | 0 | top 57% |
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 0 | top 95% |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
CA
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
7
a different one every time
Opponents faced
112
finished ahead 25 times, behind 160
Longest layoff
2.4 yrs
May 17, 2019 → Oct 8, 2021
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20261 milestone
- Most recent contest 22nd Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
20197 milestones
- 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)
- 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)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.3 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) | May 17, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.2 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | Sep 12, 2025 |
| -10.9 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | Jun 28, 2024 |
| -10.9 | 22nd Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest | Sep 18, 2026 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 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% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 74% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 38% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | 22nd Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 30 / 31 (625.0056) | 30 (154.2516) | 31 (153.1084) | — | 30 (155.9428) |
| Sep 12, 2025 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 35 / 35 (622.6172) | 35 (157.0744) | 34 (159.3600) | 34 (155.9428) | 34 (150.2400) |
| Jun 28, 2024 | 20th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 32 / 35 (630.1148) | 29 (166.2400) | 35 (152.5144) | 34 (147.3372) | 23 (164.0232) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 19th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Riverside, CA | 18 / 20 (634.7200) | 19 (149.7028) | 9 (167.3828) | — | — |
| Oct 7, 2022 | The 18th Annual Burnt Offering BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) 🏅 unrated Riverside, CA | 6 / 10 (631.8400) | 10 (152.4912) | 2 (169.7144) | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2021 | 17th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Riverside, CA | 14 / 19 (623.9088) | 16 (149.6800) | 14 (153.6344) | 9 (163.4400) | — |
| May 17, 2019 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) Riverside, CA | 6 / 16 (643.9888) | 11 (151.3944) | 1 (174.2972) | 12 (155.4400) | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.