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.
Uncle Bucks BBQ &Caterin 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 151 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 Uncle Bucks BBQ &Caterin 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 Uncle Bucks BBQ &Caterin on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Uncle Bucks BBQ &Caterin's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 164.5712 | 161.7144 | 163.14 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8570 | 139.9998 | 145.43 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4282 | 149.7142 | 150.57 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7142 | 144.5714 | 147.14 | top 74% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 84.5% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-14 | Central MD Swinetastic BBQ Festival Frederick, MD | 51 / 63 (603.9994) | 19 (164.5712) | 57 (139.9998) | 47 (149.7142) | 46 (149.7142) |
| 2013-05-10 | Green Lane Fire CO's Green Lane, PA | 32 / 58 (608.5710) | 15 (161.7144) | 29 (150.8570) | 32 (151.4282) | 43 (144.5714) |