Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.2628 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 93.6% 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.
Blazin Blues 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 94 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 Blazin Blues has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Blazin Blues did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Blazin Blues on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 161.6684 | 166.08 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 147.9772 | 161.13 | top 50% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 154.2284 | 164.56 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 176.0344 | 169.1200 | 173.14 | top 9% |
“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 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 23% | 93.6% | 92.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 184 / 535 (649.0512) | 33 (172.5828) | 445 (147.9772) | 396 (154.2284) | 14 (174.2628) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 31 / 174 (674.2628) | 136 (161.6684) | 46 (169.1200) | 70 (167.4400) | 10 (176.0344) |
| 2013-08-02 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ Laurie, MO | 9 / 51 (671.3944) | 25 (163.9772) | 20 (166.2972) | 4 (172.0000) | 10 (169.1200) |