Jan 29–30, 2016 · Sydney, Australia · AUSTRALIA
Bad Ass BBQ won Grand Champion at The Yaks Sydney Barbecue Festival on January 29, 2016 in Sydney, AU, scoring 653.6344 in a field of 17 teams. EUREKA SMOKE took Reserve Grand Champion with 637.1084. Category winners: Chicken — Bad Ass BBQ (169.7144); Pork Ribs — NATURAL BORN GRILLERS (170.3200); Pork — MEAT SWEATS AUSTRALIA (161.6912); Brisket — Bad Ass BBQ (169.7028).
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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 71 times in 100
Bad Ass BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, BUTTRUB.COM, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Bad Ass BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 3rd tracked contest.
Wider than 97% of the 4,714 championships in the data
The champion won by 16.5260 points — a wider margin than 97% of championships in the data.
BLVD Restaurant BBQ finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork places 4–5: Bad Ass BBQ edged BLVD Restaurant BBQ by 0.0232.
Bad Ass BBQ won Chicken, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
Bad Ass BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 9th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 169.7144 | 161.7372 | 149.1540 |
| Pork Ribs | 170.3200 | 161.2000 | 154.8344 |
| Pork | 161.6912 | 157.1084 | 145.1772 |
| Brisket | 169.7028 | 154.2516 | 143.3372 |
17 entries · top 653.6344 · median 596.8912
17 entries · top 169.7144 · median 152.5256
17 entries · top 170.3200 · median 157.0856
17 entries · top 161.6912 · median 145.7028
17 entries · top 169.7028 · median 146.2744
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.
13 entries · top 163.9772 · median 153.1316