High-water mark
671.4172
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.4172 at Smoke in the North (Day 1) — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-08-21
Alpha-BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1500 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2026-08-21
latest 2026-08-22
Best ToY finish
#621
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 63%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.82)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
664.21 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
Alpha-BBQ 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 121 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.
#3424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before Alpha-BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 8 years before Alpha-BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Alpha-BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3422 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Alpha-BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3413 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Alpha-BBQ'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 | 173.7144 | 161.7028 | 167.71 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 151.9316 | 156.82 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 165.0972 | 169.68 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7488 | 166.2628 | 170.01 | 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke in the North (Day 2) | 2 | 15 | 0 | top 63% | 2026-08-22 |
The story so far (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-08-21 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (156.82)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
664.21
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
27
20–32 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1495
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- First call Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score671.4172 Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- Career-best overall score671.4172 Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- Career-best single call (Pork)174.2628 Smoke in the North (Day 1)
- Most recent contest Smoke in the North (Day 2)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 63% | 93.3% | 92.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | Smoke in the North (Day 2) Boras, 50113 | 19 / 26 (657.0060) | 8 (173.7144) | 26 (151.9316) | 20 (165.0972) | 15 (166.2628) |
| 2026-08-21 | Smoke in the North (Day 1) Boras, 50113 | 15 / 28 (671.4172) | 25 (161.7028) | 25 (161.7028) | 7 (174.2628) | 6 (173.7488) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #621 (184 pts) | #664 (199 pts) | #953 (104 pts) | #589 (234 pts) | #533 (269 pts) |