The one to beat
KANE'S BIG SMOKIN BBQ has finished one call ahead of SAUCED AND RUBBED 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
KANE'S BIG SMOKIN BBQ has finished one call ahead of SAUCED AND RUBBED 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
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.
SAUCED AND RUBBED 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 127 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after SAUCED AND RUBBED did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SAUCED AND RUBBED 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-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 | 153.0856 | 146.2856 | 149.69 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 164.5712 | 167.15 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4744 | 142.2512 | 146.86 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2860 | 137.6112 | 141.95 | top 87% |
“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 | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun BBQ Fest | 2 | 59 | 0 | top 85% | 2017-06-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 84% | 84% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-03 | Sun BBQ Fest Uncasville, CT | 62 / 73 (605.1084) | 69 (146.2856) | 17 (169.7372) | 58 (151.4744) | 65 (137.6112) |
| 2016-06-11 | Sun BBQ Fest Uncasville, CT | 59 / 69 (606.1940) | 60 (153.0856) | 28 (164.5712) | 65 (142.2512) | 58 (146.2860) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2059 (100 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2274 (60 pts) | #2353 (60 pts) | #2349 (60 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |