High-water mark
671.8856
career-best overall
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.8856 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 93.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-05-04
FIRE KEEPERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1503 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2018-05-04
latest 2019-05-03
Best ToY finish
#1954
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 68%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.53 · weakest Brisket (160.23)
Road miles
16
mi across 3 mapped stops
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
654.42 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
The comeback
3.5 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3.5 years, then back at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2018-05-04).
- last seen 2014-10-18
- back 2018-05-04
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.
FIRE KEEPERS 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 117 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.
#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after FIRE KEEPERS did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Level with FIRE KEEPERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before FIRE KEEPERS'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 153.1084 | 164.17 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 161.6800 | 163.02 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 166.2400 | 168.53 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 155.9312 | 160.23 | top 70% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 68% | 2019-05-03 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2018-05-04 → 2019-05-03
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.53 · weakest Brisket (160.23)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
654.42
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
148
61–120 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
16
3 mapped stops
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.5 yrs
2014-10-18 → 2018-05-04
Power rating
1496
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- First call I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series)
- 2018
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score671.8856 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best overall score671.8856 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2019
- Most recent contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-03 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 46 / 54 (636.9596) | 52 (153.1084) | 41 (161.6800) | 28 (166.2400) | 41 (155.9312) |
| 2018-05-04 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 31 / 61 (671.8856) | 15 (173.7028) | 42 (162.8228) | 18 (170.8228) | 39 (164.5372) |
| 2014-10-18 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 10 (165.7028) | 8 (164.5600) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #2010 (60 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #1780 (110 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #1846 (95 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |