The heartbreaker
2.7312
points from the title
Came within 2.7312 points of the Grand Championship at Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES) ().
Noah's Bark
Noah's Bark is a competition barbecue team with 15 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2016 and 2019. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES) (2019), and finished Reserve Grand Champion once. They finished #1644 in the 2016 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1504
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 12 invitational or side-series contests not counted
Contests
15
in the data
First seen
Jul 1, 2016
latest Jul 12, 2019 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
1
1 reserve · wins it all 7% of the time
Category wins
1
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
20% of 15 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 23%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.31 · weakest Chicken (162.58)
Road miles
1,983
across 14 mapped stops · furthest 404 mi
Purse competed for
$500
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1644 (145 pts) | #2124 (100 pts) | #1649 (165 pts) | #1322 (240 pts) | #2015 (115 pts) |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Noah's Bark, each with one reason worth a look.
Noah's Bark 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 105 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,050 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Noah's Bark's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,032 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
Fewer contests behind them than Noah's Bark has cooked, 5 to 15, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,034 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1505
Level with Noah's Bark on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,040 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before Noah's Bark's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,052 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1519
Fewer contests behind them than Noah's Bark has cooked, 8 to 15, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#3,047 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1504
Fewer contests behind them than Noah's Bark has cooked, 7 to 15, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 167.4400 | 157.7256 | 162.58 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0228 | 168.0228 | 168.02 | top 33% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.3084 | 170.3084 | 170.31 | top 13% |
| Brisket | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 161.0856 | 167.02 | top 40% |
“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
More numbers
Busiest season
2018
6 contests
Contests a season
3
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
GA
6 of 15 contests · 7 states in all
Contests visited
3
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Brisket
3 entries · 1 win · 3 calls
First title
Jul 12, 2019
Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
Opponents faced
39
finished ahead 32 times, behind 7
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20195 milestones
- First category win (Brisket) Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
- First Grand Championship Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
- Career-best overall score693.1544 Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
- Career-best single call (Brisket)177.7372 Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
- Most recent contest Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES)
20181 milestone
- 10th tracked contest Smoke on the Falls
—6 milestones
- First tracked contest Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
- First call Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
- First overall top-10 Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
- First overall podium Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
- First Reserve Championship Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score656.5828 Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 15% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 7% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| 2018 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 47% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2019 | Adath Israel Kosher BBQ Cook-off (KOSHER SERIES) unrated Cincinnati, OH | 1 / 14 (693.1544) | — | — | — | 1 (177.7372) |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Smoke in the Valley Pikeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Smokin in McMinnville McMinnville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 11, 2018 | Roman Roast on the River Rome, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 27, 2018 | BBQ Boogie & Blues Calhoun, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Smoke in the Valley Pikeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jun 16, 2017 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash Weston, WV | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 12, 2017 | Roman Roast on the River Rome, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 28, 2017 | BBQ Boogie & Blues (GBC Qualifier) Calhoun, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 7, 2017 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Fire on the Mountain Leburn, KY | 7 / 15 (657.1424) | 13 (157.7256) | 5 (168.0228) | 2 (170.3084) | 10 (161.0856) |
| — | Seventh Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES) unrated Dallas, TX | 2 / 13 (656.5828) | 2 (167.4400) | — | — | 6 (162.2400) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.