Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Dr. Pearl's Medicinal Smoke BBQ Team ahead in 100% of their meetings
Dr. Pearl's Medicinal Smoke BBQ Team has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
BIG BLUE SMOKIN CREW 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 146 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 BIG BLUE SMOKIN CREW has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BIG BLUE SMOKIN CREW 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8912 | 150.8456 | 154.67 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7144 | 141.6684 | 147.03 | top 71% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 152.0000 | 156.97 | top 38% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0344 | 127.9656 | 141.12 | top 68% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NJ | 2 | 0 | top 84% |
| NY | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.1 | Hudson Valley Ribfest | 2015-08-14 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.3 | Que by the Sea | 2013-09-21 |
| -6.8 | Red, White and Que | 2014-09-06 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 44% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 82.8% | 82.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 79.7% | 79.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-14 | Hudson Valley Ribfest New Paltz, NY | 25 / 57 (629.7488) | 34 (154.2744) | 41 (149.7144) | 6 (165.7256) | 13 (160.0344) |
| 2014-09-06 | Red, White and Que Cresskill, NJ | 25 / 31 (595.9540) | 20 (158.8912) | 22 (149.7028) | 20 (152.0000) | 28 (135.3600) |
| 2013-09-21 | Que by the Sea Seaside Heights, NJ | 43 / 49 (573.6568) | 31 (150.8456) | 35 (141.6684) | 19 (153.1772) | 44 (127.9656) |