High-water mark
465.0172
career-best overall
129.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 465.0172 at Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY) — 129.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-09-22
BBQ WHISKY SMOKE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1478
peak 1478 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-09-22
latest 2025-04-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 103%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 158.79 · weakest Pork Ribs (142.81)
Road miles
44
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
308.19 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
BBQ WHISKY SMOKE 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 135 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.
#4234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BBQ WHISKY SMOKE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#4251 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Level with BBQ WHISKY SMOKE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4257 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before BBQ WHISKY SMOKE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before BBQ WHISKY SMOKE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4229 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before BBQ WHISKY SMOKE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before BBQ WHISKY SMOKE'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 151.3716 | 157.39 | top 99% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8116 | 142.8116 | 142.81 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.7884 | 158.7884 | 158.79 | top 83% |
| 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 (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.6 yrs
2023-09-22 → 2025-04-25
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 158.79 · weakest Pork Ribs (142.81)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
308.19
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
54
1–63 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
44
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$5,725
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.6 yrs
2023-09-22 → 2025-04-25
Power rating
1478
peak 1478 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score465.0172 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score465.0172 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)163.4172 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Most recent contest Revolutionary BBQ Brawl (Day 1)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 110% | 42% | 42% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 129.2% | 129.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-25 | Revolutionary BBQ Brawl (Day 1) 🏅 Williamsburg, VA | 22 / 20 (151.3716) | 22 (151.3716) | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-22 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY) Ashland, VA | 23 / 24 (465.0172) | 21 (163.4172) | 24 (142.8116) | 20 (158.7884) | — |