Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.5716 at 6th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship — 92.9% of a perfect 720.
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.
Cider House BBQ has 3 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 111 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cider House 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.3200 | 156.5372 | 162.30 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 156.5144 | 160.93 | top 62% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 162.8112 | 167.98 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.2856 | 150.8000 | 162.64 | top 51% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BC | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
| CA | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| AZ | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.1 | Barn Burner BBQ | 2017-04-08 |
| +4.6 | 6th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | 2017-03-31 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.1 | *The Queen Creek BBQ Battle | 2016-02-19 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 39% | 92.9% | 92.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-08 | Barn Burner BBQ Chilliwack, BC | 6 / 19 (661.6916) | 11 (164.0344) | 15 (156.5144) | 3 (166.8572) | 1 (174.2856) |
| 2017-03-31 | 6th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Arcadia, CA | 35 / 77 (668.5716) | 50 (166.3200) | 41 (165.1544) | 12 (174.2628) | 44 (162.8344) |
| 2016-02-19 | *The Queen Creek BBQ Battle Queen Creek, AZ | 32 / 37 (631.2684) | 31 (156.5372) | 20 (161.1200) | 21 (162.8112) | 33 (150.8000) |