Belgisch Barbecue Weekend - Day 4
2024-06-01 – 2024-06-02 · Boom, 2850 · BELGIUM · 📍 Kapelstraat 145
Reps: MARIANNE VAN GALEN, MAYCO VAN GALEN
Grand Champion: BBQ Team Laurentius (691.3712) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BACKCORNER BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧹 A double category winner
BBQ Team Laurentius won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 4–5: BUNCH OF SWINES and The BBQ Ranch tied on 170.8344 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: ROASTING ROMANS edged Barbecoa BBQ Team by 0.0116. Brisket places 9–10: COOKLOUNGE BBQ edged BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q by 0.0116.
🃏 An upset on the books
BBQ Team Laurentius came in rated below the field's top team, COOKLOUNGE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
Score distribution
Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)
Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 170.8456 | 166.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 170.8344 | 166.2400 |
| Pork | 175.4400 | 169.7372 | 165.6916 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 167.3944 | 164.5372 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
16 entries · top 691.3712 · median 666.4800
Chicken
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 169.4058
Pork
16 entries · top 175.4400 · median 168.2686
Brisket
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 165.1086
Ancillary categories
Run by the organizers alongside the sanctioned contest. These are judged on their own terms and do not count toward the overall score, so they're kept out of the meat stats above.
Ancillary — Dessert
5 entries · top 177.7028 · median 173.1544
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE | |
| 2 | BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q | |
| 3 | BBQ Team Laurentius | |
| 4 | Osdorp Grillers (NL) | |
| 5 | It's spice that meats you |