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.
Ribbed Off BBQ 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 156 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 Ribbed Off BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ribbed Off BBQ 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 | 153.1428 | 150.2400 | 151.69 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3712 | 142.7660 | 145.07 | top 85% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8456 | 147.9428 | 151.39 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4628 | 150.1944 | 150.83 | top 54% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey State Barbecue Championship | 2 | 43 | 0 | top 70% | 2018-07-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-14 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 49 / 64 (591.1432) | 44 (150.2400) | 60 (142.7660) | 51 (147.9428) | 39 (150.1944) |
| 2017-07-07 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 43 / 67 (606.8224) | 46 (153.1428) | 51 (147.3712) | 39 (154.8456) | 32 (151.4628) |