2017-09-16 – 2017-09-17 · Sint Niklaas, 9100 · BELGIUM · 📍 Crote Market
Grand Champion: SMOKING FINNS FI (694.3084) · 31 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BUNCH OF SWINES
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 80 times in 100
SMOKING FINNS FI came in rated below the field's top team, BUNCH OF SWINES, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 20-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Pork places 6–7: BBQ+ edged BUNCH OF SWINES by 0.0112. Chicken places 7–8: SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE edged ROASTING ROMANS by 0.0116. Brisket places 1–2: SMOKING FINNS FI edged DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM by 0.0228.
SMOKING FINNS FI won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
SMOKING FINNS FI took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 9th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5600 | 171.9656 | 170.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0000 | 168.0000 | 163.4172 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 172.5828 | 168.5256 |
| Brisket | 173.1428 | 169.6800 | 161.6800 |
31 entries · top 694.3084 · median 649.6228
31 entries · top 176.5600 · median 164.5600
31 entries · top 176.0000 · median 160.5372
31 entries · top 178.2972 · median 163.9656
31 entries · top 173.1428 · median 158.8344
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.
18 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.4286 · 🔥 perfect 180