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Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 1) 2025
Sep 12–13, 2025
· Dongen, Netherlands
· NETHERLANDS
· 📍 Vaartweg 131
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695.3716 · Master Series — Overall
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693.1544 · Master Series — Overall
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689.6228 · Master Series — Overall
BUNCH OF SWINES Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 1) on September 12, 2025 in Dongen, 5106NC at Vaartweg 131, scoring 695.3716 in a field of 16 teams. BBQ+ Just wing it BBQ team BBQ+ BBQ+ The Antwerp Smokers 2025 .
The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)
How the field scored
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
644.39
median 671.58
695.37 🏆
How the meats cooked
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Chicken
177.70
Pork Ribs
177.14
Pork
178.86
Brisket
173.70
155.42
178.86
Winning score by edition
What it has taken to win here, 2025 to 2026 — this edition picked out.
2025-09-12 — 695.3716 (Bunch of Swines) 2025-09-13 — 689.0512 (BBQ+) 2026-09-11 — 687.9428 (BBQ) 2026-09-12 — 709.7144 (The Antwerp Smokers) 695.37
2025
2026
Entries 16
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Winning margin 2.2172
GC over RC
Field average 671.21
644.39 695.37
median 671.58 · last place to winner
Tightest race Brisket
3.4172 pts across the top 5
Top-10 cutoff 666.7200
644.39 695.37
10th place overall
Field spread 50.9832
winner to last place
Most consistent avg finish 3.25 across 4 meats
Double threats 6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls
Widest winning margin Pork Ribs
How hot was the win? Top 53%
beats 47% of 4711 Master Series wins in the data
Form held Strong
ρ = -0.64 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength 1,599
avg power rating going in · stronger than 77% of contests
Top-rated in the field rated 1825 pre-contest
Storylines (4 found in this contest's numbers)
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
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Won without a category win
4 of 4
meats called to the stage
BUNCH OF SWINES
Chicken 3rd Pork Ribs 5th Pork 2nd Brisket 3rd
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A dynasty in the making
2×
wins at this contest
2 of 4 tracked editions
BBQ+ 2 times across its 4 tracked editions.
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Photo finishes
Tie
closest of 4 calls decided inside half a point
Chicken places 8–9: It's spice that meats you Twisted Oliver Barbeque 168.5372 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: It's spice that meats you Insomnia BBQ Team 0.0116 . Pork Ribs places 7–8: Insomnia BBQ Team Twisted Oliver Barbeque 0.0116 .
Chicken 8–9 · tie Pork Ribs 6–7 · 0.0116 Pork Ribs 7–8 · 0.0116 Brisket 6–7 · 0.0572
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A double category winner
BBQ+ Pork Ribs, Pork — a double.
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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)
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
Category 1st 5th 10th
Chicken 177.7028 173.1316 167.4172 Pork Ribs 177.1428 170.8344 164.5600 Pork 178.8572 173.1200 166.2400 Brisket 173.7028 170.2856 166.8112
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Master Series
Overall
16 entries · top 695.3716 · median 671.5770
Chicken
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 168.5372
Pork Ribs
16 entries · top 177.1428 · median 167.3828
Pork
16 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.4000
Brisket
16 entries · top 173.7028 · median 168.2514
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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 — Tropical Dessert
9 entries · top 180 · median 174.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
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