Aug 18–19, 2017 · Vanamõisa, Saue Parish, Estonia · ESTONIA · 📍 Mae 3 Kuusalu
SMOKING FINNS FI won Grand Champion at the BBQ Festival 2017 on August 18, 2017 in Vanamõisa, Saue Parish, at Mae 3 Kuusalu, scoring 676.6744 in a field of 15 teams. BBQ SYMPHONY took Reserve Grand Champion with 663.9200. Category winners: Chicken — Faeton BBQ (176.0000); Pork Ribs — BBQ SYMPHONY (173.7028); Pork — BBQ SYMPHONY (172.0228); Brisket — Insomnia BBQ Team (170.8456).
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.
SMOKING FINNS FI won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was SMOKING FINNS FI's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 5th tracked contest.
Wider than 93% of the 4,722 championships in the data
The champion won by 12.7544 points — a wider margin than 93% of championships in the data.
Multivac finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork Ribs places 5–6: Multivac and Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team tied on 164.5372 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: Türi Pritsumehed edged Transmark by 0.0116. Pork Ribs places 4–5: Insomnia BBQ Team edged Multivac by 0.0228.
BBQ SYMPHONY won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176 | 162.2972 | 153.1084 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.7028 | 164.5372 | 154.3316 |
| Pork | 172.0228 | 165.1428 | 151.4400 |
| Brisket | 170.8456 | 160.5144 | 152.5828 |
15 entries · top 676.6744 · median 631.3712
15 entries · top 176 · median 155.4400
15 entries · top 173.7028 · median 160
15 entries · top 172.0228 · median 154.8228
15 entries · top 170.8456 · median 157.7256
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.
14 entries · top 171.4628 · median 158.2742
12 entries · top 173.1428 · median 161.4686