Riding a hot streak
4
straight overall top-10s
Currently on a 4-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 4
Firehouse Jimat BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1539
peak 1539 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
4
straight top-10s
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2025-06-27
latest 2026-06-26
Best ToY finish
#309
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 25%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
678.57
last 4 Master vs avg 678.57 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
4
and counting
Consistency
±5.14
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 172.43 · weakest Brisket (166.59)
Road miles
159
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 63 mi
Schedule strength
16%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1523)
Master avg
678.57 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (8 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.
On the rise
+27
rating points in a year
Their power rating has climbed 27 points across 4 contests since 2025-06-27 — from 1512 up to 1539.
- 4 contests since 2025-06-27
- now 1539
Happy hunting ground
Top 20%
average finish here
Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 is their spot: an average finish in the top 20% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 3rd
- average top 20%
High-water mark
683.9884
career-best overall
95.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.9884 at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 — 95.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-06-26
A tough matchup
3–1
behind in the head-to-head
Justice BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
Justice BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of 88 BBQ in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 (2025-06-27).
- 2025-06-27
- 16-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Pura Vida BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Firehouse Jimat BBQ has 4 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 73 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.
#1963 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#1973 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Firehouse Jimat BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#1977 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Firehouse Jimat BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#1978 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
Level with Firehouse Jimat BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#1965 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 2 Grand Championships in 5 contests, alongside a 60% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#1957 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 57%
- Peak
- 1550
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before Firehouse Jimat BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 165.6684 | 168.13 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 178.2972 | 165.1200 | 172.43 | top 36% |
| Pork | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 177.1428 | 167.9884 | 171.43 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 168.0228 | 164.0228 | 166.59 | 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 20% | 2026-06-26 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-06-27 → 2026-06-26
Busiest season
2026
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
SJ
2 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 4 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 172.43 · weakest Brisket (166.59)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 4 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
4 of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
4
straight contests — and still running
Master average
678.57
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
33
52–13 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
159
4 mapped stops · furthest 63 mi
Schedule strength
1523
average field rating faced — tougher than 16% of rated contests
Power rating
1539
peak 1539 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First call Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall top-10 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall podium Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.9028 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025
- 2026
- Career-best overall score683.9884 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026
- Peak power rating (1539) Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026
- Most recent contest Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.2 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 | 2025-06-27 |
| +10.1 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 | 2026-06-26 |
| +8.6 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge | 2026-03-06 |
| +8.4 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | 2026-02-21 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 95% | 94.2% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 19% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 4 / 19 (683.9884) | 8 (170.2628) | 2 (178.2972) | 14 (167.9884) | 7 (167.4400) |
| 2026-03-06 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge Play Jaco, 61101 | 5 / 16 (681.1656) | 7 (170.2856) | 6 (174.8572) | 9 (169.1656) | 7 (166.8572) |
| 2026-02-21 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica Alajuela, 10903 | 5 / 18 (670.2396) | 7 (165.6684) | 14 (165.1200) | 2 (171.4284) | 3 (168.0228) |
| 2025-06-27 | Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 Perez Zeldon, SJ | 3 / 16 (678.9028) | 4 (166.2972) | 3 (171.4400) | 3 (177.1428) | 9 (164.0228) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #309 (528 pts) | #408 (433 pts) | #388 (498 pts) | #353 (468 pts) | #329 (513 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #675 (216 pts) | #787 (191 pts) | #785 (216 pts) | #714 (216 pts) | #901 (126 pts) |