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.
UNCLE BUCK'S BBQ & CATERING 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 118 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team UNCLE BUCK'S BBQ & CATERING has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after UNCLE BUCK'S BBQ & CATERING did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with UNCLE BUCK'S BBQ & CATERING on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 161.7140 | 163.70 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9428 | 144.5716 | 146.26 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 137.6340 | 151.96 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4284 | 147.9428 | 149.69 | top 63% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 83.2% | 83.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | 78 / 109 (599.1996) | 19 (165.6800) | 73 (147.9428) | 106 (137.6340) | 74 (147.9428) |
| 2013-04-19 | Pork in the Park Barbeque Festival Salisbury, MD | 46 / 106 (623.9996) | 31 (161.7140) | 84 (144.5716) | 13 (166.2856) | 62 (151.4284) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2084 (75 pts) | #2001 (105 pts) | #2161 (75 pts) | #2172 (75 pts) | #2148 (75 pts) |