Feb 5–6, 2016 · Melbourne, Australia · AUSTRALIA
HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE won Grand Champion at The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival on February 5, 2016 in Melbourne, AU, scoring 669.2116 in a field of 34 teams. MEAT SWEATS AUSTRALIA took Reserve Grand Champion with 668.4912. Category winners: Chicken — Bovinian Rhapsody (172.0116); Pork Ribs — HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE (175.4628); Pork — HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE (179.4400); Brisket — Meat Friends Bbq (176.0228).
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 85% of the 4,714 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.7204 points — closer than 85% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE came in rated below the field's top team, BUTTRUB.COM, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 2nd tracked contest.
BULLY BBQ finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Chicken places 4–5: BIG BOY BBQ Australia edged Yoder Smokers AUS by 0.0116. Pork places 3–4: BULLY BBQ edged SMOKEM' IF YOU GOTEM by 0.0116. Pork places 6–7: MEAT SWEATS AUSTRALIA edged BIG BOY BBQ Australia by 0.0116.
HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
HECTOR'S SMOKE HOUSE took the title on 2 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was brisket at 13th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 172.0116 | 165.6800 | 162.2860 |
| Pork Ribs | 175.4628 | 162.8228 | 156.5488 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 169.7716 | 161.1084 |
| Brisket | 176.0228 | 165.7256 | 159.9772 |
34 entries · top 669.2116 · median 610.2858
34 entries · top 172.0116 · median 156.0058
34 entries · top 175.4628 · median 153.4686
34 entries · top 179.4400 · median 155.4458
34 entries · top 176.0228 · median 150.5600
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.
26 entries · top 167.9884 · median 155.1142