Giant slayer
35
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 35-team field at 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest.
- 2025-09-12
Ashes to Embers BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1519
peak 1519 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
2
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 3%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 176.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.12)
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
345.12 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Storylines (4 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.
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (2025-09-12).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
High-water mark
345.1200
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.1200 at 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest — 95.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-09-12
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 1 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 1 state-championship entries
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.
Ashes to Embers BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 84 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.
#2518 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Ashes to Embers BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2523 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Ashes to Embers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Ashes to Embers BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2524 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Ashes to Embers BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2526 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Ashes to Embers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 11 years before Ashes to Embers BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 3% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 169.1200 | 169.1200 | 169.12 | top 3% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest · 1 GC
Cooks most in
CA
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 176.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (169.12)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Wins it all
100%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2025-09-12
21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
Backyard average
345.12
out of 360 · 1 contest · 1 GC
Opponents faced
41
40–0 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$8,200
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1519
peak 1519 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First call 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First category win (Chicken) 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First overall top-10 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First overall podium 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First Grand Championship 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First state championship 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First multi-meat day 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score345.1200 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- Biggest field won (35 teams) 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score345.1200 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)176.0000 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 3% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | 21st Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest 🏅 Riverside, CA | 1 / 35 (345.1200) | 1 (176.0000) | 1 (169.1200) | — | — |