Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.4056 at Back to BAYsics Primitive Contest-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES ( DAY 2) — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
BIG RAZ BBQ has finished one call ahead of Close Enough BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
MILLER'S BACKYARD BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
MILLER'S BACKYARD BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of T-BONE BBQ MA in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A tougher draw than 88% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1620 power rating — a tougher draw than 88% of every rated contest 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.
Close Enough 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 96 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Close Enough BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before Close Enough BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Close Enough BBQ 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 4.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 162.8228 | 165.98 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 171.4516 | 157.0628 | 167.55 | top 35% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.0228 | 162.2628 | 168.71 | top 37% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 155.4172 | 163.43 | top 50% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | 3 | 0 | top 55% |
| ME | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 55% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.8 | Back to BAYsics Primitive Contest-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES ( DAY 2) | 2018-10-13 |
| +10.9 | Thrillin' & Grillin' Maine State Championship BBQ Festival @ aquaboggan Waterpark | 2019-08-10 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.6 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown (DAY 1) CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | 2019-05-17 |
| -0.8 | Bay State BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) | 2018-10-12 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 92.4% | 91.1% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 49% | 95.5% | 93.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-10 | Thrillin' & Grillin' Maine State Championship BBQ Festival @ aquaboggan Waterpark 🏅 Saco, ME | 8 / 28 (665.0972) | 19 (162.8228) | 3 (171.4516) | 17 (162.2628) | 6 (168.5600) |
| 2019-05-17 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown (DAY 1) CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Plymouth, MA | 18 / 27 (647.3828) | 18 (163.4056) | 20 (157.0628) | 6 (169.1772) | 19 (157.7372) |
| 2018-10-13 | Back to BAYsics Primitive Contest-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES ( DAY 2) Monson, MA | 5 / 18 (687.4056) | 11 (168.5372) | 7 (170.8456) | 3 (176.0228) | 4 (172.0000) |
| 2018-10-12 | Bay State BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) Monson, MA | 18 / 26 (662.7772) | 12 (169.1428) | 4 (170.8344) | 13 (167.3828) | 22 (155.4172) |