The comeback
5.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 5.2 years, then back at Maryland State BBQ Bash (2022-10-14).
- last seen 2017-08-11
- back 2022-10-14
Four Roses BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1508 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-08-11
latest 2022-10-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 150.78 · weakest Pork Ribs (130.24)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
312.50 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
281.02 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
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.
Four Roses 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 122 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.
#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
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#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Four Roses BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3461 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Level with Four Roses BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Four Roses BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3432 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 9 years before Four Roses 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.7772 | 150.7772 | 150.78 | top 103% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 130.2396 | 130.2396 | 130.24 | top 130% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 130% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 30% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 80% | 2022-10-14 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
5.2 yrs
2017-08-11 → 2022-10-14
Busiest season
2022
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
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 150.78 · weakest Pork Ribs (130.24)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
312.50
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
281.02
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
155
70–94 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$12,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
5.2 yrs
2017-08-11 → 2022-10-14
Power rating
1494
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2017
- Career-best overall score312.5032 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2022
- Career-best single call (Chicken)150.7772 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Maryland 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 130% | 78.1% | 78.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 30% | 43.4% | 43.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-14 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 39 / 30 (281.0168) | 31 (150.7772) | 39 (130.2396) | — | — |
| 2017-08-11 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 14 / 47 (312.5032) | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-09 | 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |