2015-09-25 – 2015-09-27 · Herten, NRW, · GERMANY · 📍 Herten, NRW,
Grand Champion: SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ (678.3312) · 67 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 MISS PIGGY'S U.K.
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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 86% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.6396 points — closer than 86% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 71 times in 100
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, THE BBQ GURU, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 12th tracked contest.
Chicken places 6–7: BBQ WIESEL and Smaakmakers BBQ Team Belgium tied on 169.7256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: Q-Kidz-Turbo and BBQ+ tied on 169.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 9–10: Smaakmakers BBQ Team Belgium and BUTTRUBBERS (NL) tied on 169.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Bigger than 95% of the 5,410 contests in the data
67 teams made this a bigger field than 95% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 174.2972 | 170.8456 | 169.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 172.0000 | 169.1084 | 167.4400 |
| Pork | 174.8456 | 170.8572 | 169.7028 |
| Brisket | 176.5600 | 173.1316 | 169.1544 |
67 entries · top 678.3312 · median 638.7432
67 entries · top 174.2972 · median 163.9656
67 entries · top 172.0000 · median 158.3200
66 entries · top 174.8456 · median 159.4514
66 entries · top 176.5600 · median 157.6858
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.
67 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.1772 · 🔥 perfect 180
46 entries · top 172.5828 · median 157.4516