Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.5372 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
BLAZEN BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
BLAZEN BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of FOUR CROWS BBQ 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.
That's The Way BBQ Go! 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 90 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 That's The Way BBQ Go! has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 19 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with That's The Way BBQ Go! on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after That's The Way BBQ Go! did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 158.2744 | 161.69 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1544 | 161.1200 | 167.56 | top 27% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.3200 | 161.6800 | 168.86 | top 25% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 157.1200 | 163.85 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 26% | 94% | 91.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-25 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 12 / 97 (676.5372) | 71 (159.3828) | 3 (177.1544) | 4 (174.3200) | 45 (165.6800) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 137 / 535 (655.3712) | 172 (165.6684) | 181 (163.4400) | 79 (169.1428) | 284 (157.1200) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 91 / 174 (661.0972) | 117 (163.4400) | 55 (168.5372) | 119 (161.6800) | 66 (167.4400) |
| 2013-08-31 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 11 / 89 (654.8344) | 46 (158.2744) | 34 (161.1200) | 10 (170.2856) | 14 (165.1544) |