Jun 20–21, 2015 · Percorso Verde, Perugia, Italy · ITALY
BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL won Grand Champion at the Italian Barbecue Championship 2015 on June 20, 2015 in Percorso Verde, Perugia,, scoring 670.8800 in a field of 24 teams. BBQ4ALL DEFENDERS took Reserve Grand Champion with 667.9772. Category winners: Chicken — BARBECUE COMPANION (169.1428); Pork Ribs — Torino Ribs (172.5944); Pork — Smoking Bad BBQ Team (172.6056); Brisket — MISS PIGGY'S U.K. (171.9772). This is the 1st of 3 editions of this contest on record; the next was held in 2016.
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
What it has taken to win here, 2015 to 2017 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 3rd tracked contest.
2 of 3 tracked editions
BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
SMOKING BAD BBQ TEAM finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Chicken places 6–7: MISS PIGGY'S U.K. edged BBQ4ALL Amazons by 0.0116. Pork Ribs places 3–4: BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL edged Southern BBQ by 0.0344. Pork places 8–9: BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL edged Southern BBQ by 0.0344.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2015 ← this one | Percorso Verde, Perugia | Percorso Verde, Perugia, | 24 | 670.8800 | BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL | BBQ4ALL DEFENDERS |
| Jun 11, 2016 | Perugia, Italy | Percorso Verde | 29 | 693.6568 | BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM | BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS |
| Sep 9, 2017 | Perugia | Percorso Verde | 15 | 683.3832 | BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM | STICKY FINGERS BARBECUE TEAM |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 169.1428 | 165.1772 | 162.8228 |
| Pork Ribs | 172.5944 | 170.8572 | 164.5600 |
| Pork | 172.6056 | 167.3828 | 164.5828 |
| Brisket | 171.9772 | 165.7028 | 161.1084 |
24 entries · top 670.8800 · median 638.5656
24 entries · top 169.1428 · median 161.1428
24 entries · top 172.5944 · median 162.8628
24 entries · top 172.6056 · median 163.9886
24 entries · top 171.9772 · median 159.4058
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.
17 entries · top 180 · median 161.6456 · 🔥 perfect 180
18 entries · top 180 · median 170.8458 · 🔥 perfect 180
19 entries · top 172.5944 · median 158.8456