BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia
2025-08-15 – 2025-08-16 · Saue, 76505 · ESTONIA · 📍 Vanamoisa
Reps: MANUELA SELIGER, STEPHAN SELIGER
Grand Champion: Dreamfire BBQ Team (686.2512) · 11 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Insomnia BBQ Team
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Came back for more
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧹 A double category winner
No Name won Chicken, Pork — a double.
📸 Photo finishes
Pork places 2–3: Insomnia BBQ Team and Mäxitralli tied on 173.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 5–6: Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team and No Name tied on 165.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 5–6: Grillfy edged BBQ Symphony by 0.0116.
🃏 An upset on the books
Dreamfire BBQ Team came in rated below the field's top team, BBQ+, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 25-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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | Saue Parish, 76505 | Vanamoisa | 16 | 703.3944 | 3BBQ | Dreamfire BBQ Team |
| 2025-08-15 ← this one | Saue, 76505 | Vanamoisa | 11 | 686.2512 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | Insomnia BBQ Team |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 173.7028 | 166.2400 | 149.1316 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.1084 | 167.9884 | 161.6684 |
| Pork | 173.7372 | 171.9772 | 162.2856 |
| Brisket | 174.8572 | 165.1428 | 153.0856 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
11 entries · top 686.2512 · median 669.5656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 2 | Insomnia BBQ Team | |
| 3 | BBQ+ | |
| 4 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 5 | No Name | |
| 6 | Mäxitralli | |
| 7 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 8 | Piiripealsed | |
| 9 | Grillfy | |
| 10 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 11 | BBQ Rüütlid |
Chicken
11 entries · top 173.7028 · median 162.8572
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Name | |
| 2 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 3 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 4 | BBQ+ | |
| 5 | Mäxitralli | |
| 6 | Insomnia BBQ Team | |
| 7 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 8 | Piiripealsed | |
| 9 | Grillfy | |
| 10 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 11 | BBQ Rüütlid |
Pork Ribs
11 entries · top 173.1084 · median 167.9656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insomnia BBQ Team | |
| 2 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 3 | Grillfy | |
| 4 | Piiripealsed | |
| 5 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 6 | BBQ+ | |
| 7 | Mäxitralli | |
| 8 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 9 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 10 | No Name | |
| 11 | BBQ Rüütlid |
Pork
11 entries · top 173.7372 · median 171.9656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Name | |
| 2 | Insomnia BBQ Team | |
| 3 | Mäxitralli | |
| 4 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 5 | Grillfy | |
| 6 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 7 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 8 | BBQ+ | |
| 9 | Piiripealsed | |
| 10 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 11 | BBQ Rüütlid |
Brisket
11 entries · top 174.8572 · median 165.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insomnia BBQ Team | |
| 2 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 3 | BBQ+ | |
| 4 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 5 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 6 | No Name | |
| 7 | Piiripealsed | |
| 8 | Mäxitralli | |
| 9 | Grillfy | |
| 10 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 11 | BBQ Rüütlid |
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 — Fantasy
7 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1772 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BBQ Symphony | |
| 2 | Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team | |
| 3 | Dreamfire BBQ Team | |
| 4 | No Name | |
| 5 | Sleeping Beauties of BBQ | |
| 6 | BBQ Rüütlid | |
| 7 | Grillfy |