High-water mark
331.4400
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.4400 at Maryland State BBQ Bash — 92.1% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2021-10-15
Alchemy BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1534
peak 1536 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Best runs
3
straight top-10s
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-08-09
latest 2023-10-13
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 33%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
328.14
last 3 Backyard vs avg 328.14 (-0.00)
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
3
best run (overall)
Consistency
±4.61
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 163.71 · weakest Chicken (161.69)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
24%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1533)
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
328.14 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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 strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Bone Suckin' Good BBQ in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.2 years, then back at Maryland State BBQ Bash (2021-10-15).
- last seen 2019-08-09
- back 2021-10-15
Announced themselves early
3rd
at their very first contest
Finished 3 of 30 at their very first tracked contest, Maryland State BBQ Bash (2019-08-09).
- 2019-08-09
- 30-team field
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Capt. Blue BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Alchemy BBQ has 4 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 71 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.
#2089 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before Alchemy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2090 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1534
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2097 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1539
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Alchemy BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#2088 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
Level with Alchemy BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1534
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 9 years before Alchemy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2095 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 22%
- Peak
- 1547
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 22% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 156.5944 | 161.69 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 166.2972 | 160.6172 | 163.71 | top 29% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland State BBQ Bash | 4 | 3 | 0 | top 33% | 2023-10-13 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.2 yrs
2019-08-09 → 2023-10-13
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 163.71 · weakest Chicken (161.69)
Walk rate
75%
a top-10 call in 3 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
75%
3 of 4 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight contests
Backyard average
328.14
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
163
197–58 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1533
average field rating faced — tougher than 24% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$50,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.2 yrs
2019-08-09 → 2021-10-15
Power rating
1534
peak 1536 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First call Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First overall top-10 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- First overall podium Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2021
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.4400 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best overall score331.4400 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.2972 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2022
- Peak power rating (1536) Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2023
- Most recent contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2019-08-09 |
| +11.4 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2022-10-14 |
| +9.1 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2021-10-15 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -1.5 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2023-10-13 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 92% | 92% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-13 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 16 / 23 (321.6116) | 19 (159.9428) | 12 (161.6688) | — | — |
| 2022-10-14 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 6 / 30 (331.3600) | 13 (165.0972) | 8 (166.2628) | — | — |
| 2021-10-15 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 8 / 25 (331.4400) | 14 (165.1428) | 7 (166.2972) | — | — |
| 2019-08-09 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 3 / 30 (317.2116) | 12 (156.5944) | 3 (160.6172) | — | — |