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.
Scarborough Fare 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 140 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 Scarborough Fare 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Scarborough Fare 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ 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 | 154.8228 | 143.9084 | 150.23 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0000 | 150.3200 | 160.76 | top 41% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4056 | 150.8800 | 153.53 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5372 | 130.2400 | 138.63 | top 82% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Valley Ribfest | 2 | 44 | 0 | top 83% | 2014-08-16 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | Hudson Valley Ribfest | 2013-08-16 |
| -10.8 | Hudson Valley Ribfest | 2014-08-16 |
| -1.6 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets | 2014-08-08 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 86.3% | 84.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 86% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-16 | Hudson Valley Ribfest New Paltz, NY | 48 / 60 (590.7888) | 44 (151.9544) | 42 (150.3200) | 31 (155.4056) | 54 (133.1088) |
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | 33 / 54 (621.6228) | 40 (154.8228) | 26 (159.9656) | 34 (154.2972) | 32 (152.5372) |
| 2013-08-16 | Hudson Valley Ribfest New Paltz, NY | 44 / 51 (597.0284) | 46 (143.9084) | 2 (172.0000) | 43 (150.8800) | 49 (130.2400) |