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Four Alarm Smoker

Four Alarm Smoker is a competition barbecue team with 11 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2017 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 15th of 15 at the Smokin' for Down Syndrome (2023). They are ranked #6322 of 6,476 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#6,322
of 6,476 rated · rankings

Rating

1405
peak 1405 · rated over 11 contests

Contests

11
in the data

First seen

Mar 31, 2017
latest Sep 27, 2024 · 7.5 years on the trail

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

0
0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
0% of 11 contests

Avg finish

top 95%
overall standings

Best overall

649.1660 / 720
Master · Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest

Perfect 180s

0

Current form

619.44 ▼
last 5 Master vs avg 624.36 (-4.93)

Walk rate

9%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

169.7600
Pork · TN River BBQ Fest

Consistency

±11.56
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork
avg 162.79 · weakest Brisket (148.07)

Road miles

916
across 11 mapped stops · furthest 101 mi

Schedule strength

76%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1599)

Purse competed for

$47K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries

Master avg

624.36 / 720
11 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (5 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

A tough matchup

8–0 behind in the head-to-head

ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN ahead in 100% of their meetings

ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN has come out ahead in 8 of their 8 shared contests.

The weak link

−14.7 points behind their best meat

Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 14.73 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 9%.

  • Brisket avg 148.07
  • Pork avg 162.79
  • 0 calls in 11 entries

The comeback

2.2 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 2.2 years, then back at TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest (Sep 25, 2020).

  • last seen Jul 20, 2018
  • back Sep 25, 2020

Pork nemesis

8 of 8 shared pork entries lost

ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN ahead 100% of the time

Even in their strongest meat, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN has out-cooked them in 8 of 8 shared pork entries.

The metronome

±1.61% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±1.61% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

  • averages 86.7% of a perfect score
  • 11 contests

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GCs
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Top-10s
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Contests
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GCs
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Top-10s
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Contests
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GCs
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Top-10s
0%
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1406 ▲ 1 power rating
Contests
12
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
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#6,325 of the rated field
1404 ▼ 1 power rating
Contests
12
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN 8 0 8 0% ⚔ compare
TENNESSEE SMOKE SHOWIN 7 1 6 14% ⚔ compare
Organizer Portal 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
Q-BONES BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
HOGG LEGG SMOKERS 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
RAZORRACKS 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
JANKY LEG BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
MEMPHIS ORIGINAL BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 11 0 0 0 166.8344 145.6800 157.22 top 86%
Pork Ribs 11 0 0 0 164.5944 143.9772 156.28 top 87%
Pork 11 1 0 0 169.7600 155.3828 162.79 top 79%
Brisket 11 0 0 0 161.6684 138.7544 148.07 top 93%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Small (<20 teams)20top 100%
Medium (20–39)60top 95%
Large (40+)30top 92%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
TN100top 95%
AR10top 100%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival 2 23 0 top 91% Jun 2, 2023
TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest 2 27 0 top 95% Sep 25, 2020
BBQ-Fest Cooking Contest 2 24 0 top 98% Jul 20, 2018

More numbers

Busiest season 2017 3 contests
Contests a season 1.6 across 7 seasons in the data
Most contests held in TN 10 of 11 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited 8 3 of them more than once
Opponents faced 230 finished ahead 19 times, behind 317
Longest layoff 2.2 yrs Jul 20, 2018 → Sep 25, 2020

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20243 milestones
  1. First call TN River BBQ Fest
  2. Career-best single call (Pork)169.7600 TN River BBQ Fest
  3. Most recent contest TN River BBQ Fest
20231 milestone
  1. 10th tracked contest Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival
20174 milestones
  1. First tracked contest Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest
  2. First overall past 90% of a perfect score649.1660 Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest
  3. Career-best overall score649.1660 Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest
  4. Peak power rating (1494) Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-12.2BBQ-Fest Cooking ContestJul 28, 2017
-12.2Great American BBQ FestivalAug 25, 2017
-10.5TN River BBQ Battle & Music FestApr 13, 2018
-10.4BBQ-Fest Cooking ContestJul 20, 2018
-9.3Great Americana BBQ FestivalAug 27, 2021

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20241000 100% top 100% 86.3% 86.3%
20232000 0% top 96% 87.7% 86.4%
20221000 0% top 89% 85.2% 85.2%
20211000 0% top 96% 85.8% 85.8%
20201000 0% top 94% 88.1% 88.1%
20182000 0% top 96% 86.8% 86.6%
20173000 0% top 94% 90.2% 87.5%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Sep 27, 2024 TN River BBQ Fest 🏅 Saltillo, TN 17 / 17 (621.1204) 17 (145.6800) 15 (160.0116) 9 (169.7600) 16 (145.6688)
Jun 2, 2023 Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival 🏅 Covington, TN 23 / 25 (613.4860) 16 (166.8344) 23 (151.3600) 22 (156.5372) 25 (138.7544)
Mar 31, 2023 Smokin' for Down Syndrome 🏅 Marion, AR 15 / 15 (631.3600) 15 (152.5372) 13 (163.9428) 13 (165.1428) 15 (149.7372)
Jun 3, 2022 Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival 🏅 Covington, TN 25 / 28 (613.5204) 24 (154.8116) 17 (164.5488) 26 (155.3828) 27 (138.7772)
Aug 27, 2021 Great Americana BBQ Festival 🏅 Franklin, TN 24 / 25 (617.7028) 20 (152) 22 (156.5828) 17 (162.8456) 23 (146.2744)
Sep 25, 2020 TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest 🏅 Savannah, TN 44 / 47 (634.0912) 43 (158.7884) 45 (151.9544) 41 (161.6800) 37 (161.6684)
Jul 20, 2018 BBQ-Fest Cooking Contest Dyersburg, TN 24 / 25 (622.7428) 22 (155.9544) 21 (154.2284) 21 (163.4628) 23 (149.0972)
Apr 13, 2018 TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest Savannah, TN 27 / 28 (624.9600) 25 (159.4056) 26 (157.6804) 21 (162.8112) 27 (145.0628)
Aug 25, 2017 Great American BBQ Festival Franklin, TN 39 / 40 (633.6688) 28 (165.7372) 39 (150.2516) 34 (162.2400) 36 (155.4400)
Jul 28, 2017 BBQ-Fest Cooking Contest Dyersburg, TN 26 / 26 (606.1948) 25 (154.2400) 26 (143.9772) 18 (164.0116) 25 (143.9660)
Mar 31, 2017 Blues Hog BBQ & Music Fest Savannah, TN 41 / 48 (649.1660) 40 (163.4284) 33 (164.5944) 37 (166.8456) 41 (154.2976)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

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