High-water mark
678.7772
career-best overall
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.7772 at Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) — 94.3% of a perfect 720.
- Competitor Series
- Sep 15, 2023
Pork and Starboard
Pork and Starboard is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2023. Their best overall finish is 7th of 17 at the Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (2023).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1490
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 13 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
May 27, 2023
latest Sep 15, 2023
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
17% of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.26 · weakest Pork (151.93)
Road miles
51
across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Pork and Starboard, each with one reason worth a look.
Pork and Starboard has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 160 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,670 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Pork and Starboard's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#3,675 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pork and Starboard's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,656 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Level with Pork and Starboard on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pork and Starboard's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,700 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pork and Starboard's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 150.8684 | 158.70 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 142.2516 | 160.26 | top 71% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9316 | 151.9316 | 151.93 | top 85% |
“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.
By field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 41% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 80% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2023
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
IL
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
6 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
79
finished ahead 31 times, behind 76
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20235 milestones
- First overall top-10 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score678.7772 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Career-best overall score678.7772 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)168.5256 Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- Most recent contest Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
—2 milestones
- First tracked contest Saluting with Smoke-Yorkville (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)
- First call Saluting With Smoke (COMPETITORS SERIES)
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 77% | 89.7% | 88.6% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 63% | 94.3% | 89.8% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2023 | Saluting with Smoke (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 7 / 17 (678.7772) | 14 (163.4288) | 8 (168.5256) | — | — |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat - Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 24 (160.5256) | — | — |
| May 27, 2023 | Westmont Red White & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) Westmont, IL | 29 / 34 (460.4460) | 14 (166.2628) | 33 (142.2516) | 29 (151.9316) | — |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Saluting with Smoke Single Meat Rib Burn (ONE MEAT RIBS) Yorkville, IL | — | — | 21 (164.5256) | — | — |
| — | Saluting With Smoke (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 24 / 38 (484.5712) | 35 (150.8684) | 10 (164.5600) | — | — |
| — | Saluting with Smoke-Yorkville (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) unrated Yorkville, IL | 20 / 22 (629.1656) | 19 (154.2284) | 13 (161.2000) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.