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.
OLDRIVER BBQ TEAM 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 141 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team OLDRIVER BBQ TEAM 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-headLevel with OLDRIVER BBQ TEAM 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 154.2856 | 159.99 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2972 | 165.7144 | 170.01 | top 40% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3200 | 158.2744 | 158.30 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 155.9884 | 148.5372 | 152.26 | 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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| 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 100% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-09 | Italian Hardcore Barbecue (Day 2) Milano, 20090 | 20 / 20 (634.3084) | 20 (154.2856) | 11 (165.7144) | 19 (158.3200) | 18 (155.9884) |
| 2017-05-27 | Italian Hardcore Barbcue Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, 20015 | 10 / 12 (646.8116) | 10 (165.7028) | 3 (174.2972) | 11 (158.2744) | 10 (148.5372) |