Signature meat
33%
chicken entries won
2 wins from 6 entries
When chicken is on the table, watch out — they've won it in 33% of their entries (2 of 6).
- best 172.0228
- average 162.77
- 3 calls
Fire In My Belly
Fire In My Belly is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2020. They have won 2 Grand Championships, most recently at the Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 (2020). They finished #983 in the 2019 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1528
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
May 4, 2019
latest Oct 30, 2020 · 1.5 years on the trail
Grand champs
2
0 reserve · wins it all 33% of the time
Category wins
3
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
4
67% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
83%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.61
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.89 · weakest Pork (155.17)
Road miles
135
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
5%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1508)
Master avg
656.33 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
321.56 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 2 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Fire In My Belly, each with one reason worth a look.
Fire In My Belly 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 72 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,265 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,274 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
They turned up 5 years after Fire In My Belly did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Compare careers#2,272 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
Level with Fire In My Belly on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,259 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1529
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,257 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1539
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 7 years before Fire In My Belly's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1529
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 9 contests to 6.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GlazenUp BBQ | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% | ⚔ compare |
| BSA | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 172.0228 | 150.2972 | 162.77 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 170.2628 | 153.6916 | 161.70 | top 35% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0228 | 150.3200 | 155.17 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.9144 | 170.8572 | 170.89 | top 22% |
“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 | 2 | top 21% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 48% |
More numbers
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
WA
1 of 6 contests
Contests visited
6
a different one every time
Opponents faced
71
finished ahead 78 times, behind 38
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20202 milestones
- Peak power rating (1528) Bare Bones BBQ Comp
- Most recent contest Bare Bones BBQ Comp
20191 milestone
- Career-best overall score658.2628 Spit in the Hills
—9 milestones
- First tracked contest Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First call Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First category win (Chicken) Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First overall top-10 Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First overall podium Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First Grand Championship Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First multi-meat day Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.6400 Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0228 Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.2 | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 | Aug 29, 2020 |
| +5.5 | Brew N Que-Perth 2019 | Oct 4, 2019 |
| +5.3 | Spit in the Hills | May 4, 2019 |
| +2.4 | Bare Bones BBQ Comp | Oct 30, 2020 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% | top 39% | 93.5% | 89.1% |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 29% | 90.5% | 89.6% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 37% | 91.4% | 91.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2020 | Bare Bones BBQ Comp Perth | 5 / 10 (319.3944) | 3 (165.7028) | 9 (153.6916) | — | — |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 Herron | 1 / 14 (325.6912) | 1 (165.7256) | 3 (159.9656) | — | — |
| Oct 4, 2019 | Brew N Que-Perth 2019 Ascot WA | 11 / 30 (654.3884) | 25 (156.0340) | 5 (167.4172) | 15 (160.0228) | 6 (170.9144) |
| May 4, 2019 | Spit in the Hills Chidlow, Western | 8 / 21 (658.2628) | 11 (166.8228) | 4 (170.2628) | 19 (150.3200) | 5 (170.8572) |
| — | Pit Boss Premium Charcoal Barbecue (BACKYARD ONLY) Perth Western | 14 / 20 (304.5256) | 16 (150.2972) | 11 (154.2284) | — | — |
| — | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 2 (Backyard Only) Bakersville, WA | 1 / 14 (336.6400) | 1 (172.0228) | 1 (164.6172) | — | — |