High-water mark
616.4800
career-best overall
171.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 616.4800 at 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) — 171.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-05-17
Alamo Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1481
peak 1481 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-17
latest 2021-06-04
Best ToY finish
#1236
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 84%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 153.70 · weakest Brisket (146.25)
Road miles
1,168
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 1168 mi
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
608.41 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
616.48 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
Alamo Smokers 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 134 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.
#4098 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1480
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Alamo Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#4072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Alamo Smokers did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#4089 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Level with Alamo Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4077 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1481
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 4 years before Alamo Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157.1656 | 150.2400 | 153.70 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 148.5372 | 151.38 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 143.4056 | 153.39 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2512 | 146.2512 | 146.25 | top 94% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| CA | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 75% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.1 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2021-06-04
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
1 of 2 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 153.70 · weakest Brisket (146.25)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
608.41
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
616.48
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
62
7–55 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,168
2 mapped stops · furthest 1,168 mi
Purse competed for
$15,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2021-06-04
Power rating
1481
peak 1481 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score616.4800 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score616.4800 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2021
- Career-best single call (Pork)163.3828 Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-off
- Most recent contest Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-off
Category scores over time
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 75% | 171.2% | 171.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Cedar Park, TX | 45 / 48 (608.4112) | 43 (150.2400) | 45 (148.5372) | 34 (163.3828) | 45 (146.2512) |
| 2019-05-17 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) Riverside, CA | 12 / 16 (616.4800) | 9 (157.1656) | 10 (154.2172) | 15 (143.4056) | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #1236 (60 pts) | #1286 (60 pts) | #1309 (60 pts) | #1262 (60 pts) | #1245 (60 pts) |