2016-06-11 – 2016-06-12 · Perugia, IT · ITALY · 📍 Percorso Verde
Grand Champion: BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM (693.6568) · 29 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS
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.
Closer than 75% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.6796 points — closer than 75% of every championship in the data.
693.6568 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 670.8800 BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL set in 2015.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 67 times in 100
BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM came in rated below the field's top team, BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 33-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM'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.
Pork Ribs places 8–9: GRILLKUNST and SMOKE'N'FIRE BBQ TEAM tied on 173.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: GRILLER UNCHAINED and S.P.Q.R. Grillers tied on 171.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 7–8: KILL GRILL and BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS tied on 171.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
I LUNA PORK BBQ TEAM turned in 178.8800 in brisket — past the 171.9772 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL (won 2015).
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-20 | Percorso Verde, Perugia, | Percorso Verde, Perugia, | 24 | 670.8800 | BBQ4ALL INTERNATIONAL | BBQ4ALL DEFENDERS |
| 2016-06-11 ← this one | Perugia, IT | Percorso Verde | 29 | 693.6568 | BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM | BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS |
| 2017-09-09 | Perugia, 06129 | Percorso Verde | 15 | 683.3832 | BRIGBOYS BBQ TEAM | STICKY FINGERS BARBECUE TEAM |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.0344 | 175.4172 | 172.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0116 | 174.2972 | 172.5828 |
| Pork | 177.7372 | 174.8572 | 171.4056 |
| Brisket | 178.8800 | 173.1428 | 169.7028 |
29 entries · top 693.6568 · median 675.3832
29 entries · top 176.0344 · median 169.7256
29 entries · top 176.0116 · median 169.7256
29 entries · top 177.7372 · median 169.1428
29 entries · top 178.8800 · median 167.9772
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.
23 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.7028 · 🔥 perfect 180
23 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
27 entries · top 176.5828 · median 170.8112