A multi-meat day
1
contest with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) (Mar 22, 2019).
- Pork Ribs 1st
- Pork 1st
4th Little Pig
4th Little Pig is a competition barbecue team with 6 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2019. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) (2019).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1530
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 2
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
Mar 22, 2019
latest Jul 26, 2019
Grand champs
1
0 reserve · wins it all 17% of the time
Category wins
2
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
33% of 6 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 12%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.70 · weakest Pork Ribs (172.00)
Road miles
438
across 6 mapped stops · furthest 125 mi
Purse competed for
$9,475
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Backyard avg
345.70 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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4th Little Pig has 2 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 76 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,229 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 67%
- Peak
- 1540
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,238 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1530
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before 4th Little Pig's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,239 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1530
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before 4th Little Pig's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,221 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1530
Level with 4th Little Pig on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,231 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1536
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,226 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1530
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 170.8456 | 173.70 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.2972 | 165.7032 | 172.00 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 6% |
“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
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 1 | top 6% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 19% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2019
2 contests · 1 GC
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 6 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
First title
Mar 22, 2019
Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
Opponents faced
70
finished ahead 66 times, behind 8
Longest layoff
2.3 yrs
May 15, 2015 → Aug 25, 2017
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
201910 milestones
- First call Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First multi-meat day Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score349.1428 Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score349.1428 Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)178.2972 Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off
20141 milestone
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest
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
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% | top 12% | 97% | 96% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2019 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Hartselle, AL | 5 / 27 (342.2632) | 2 (176.5600) | 13 (165.7032) | — | — |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) Brookwood, AL | 1 / 17 (349.1428) | 6 (170.8456) | 1 (178.2972) | 1 (173.1200) | — |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Great American BBQ Festival Franklin, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 15, 2015 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 16, 2014 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |