#3983 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headMissing Link BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1483
peak 1483 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2023-10-13
latest 2024-10-11
Best ToY finish
#373
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.42 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.38)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
314.79 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Missing Link 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 129 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.
#3990 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Missing Link BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4002 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 2019, 5 years before Missing Link BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Missing Link BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Missing Link BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3987 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Missing Link 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 156.0112 | 161.42 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 148.5144 | 153.38 | top 99% |
| 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
1 yrs
2023-10-13 → 2024-10-11
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
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
Chicken
averages 161.42 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.38)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
314.79
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
86
24–93 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$25,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1483
peak 1483 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2024
- Career-best overall score315.3372 MD State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.8228 MD State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest MD State BBQ Bash
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-11 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 26 / 26 (315.3372) | 16 (166.8228) | 28 (148.5144) | — | — |
| 2023-10-13 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 23 / 23 (314.2512) | 23 (156.0112) | 21 (158.2400) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #373 (60 pts) | #326 (105 pts) | #379 (60 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #324 (70 pts) | #329 (80 pts) | — | — |