2017-09-02 – 2017-09-03 · Zeewolde Flevoland, · NETHERLANDS · 📍 Erkemederweg 79/3896
Grand Champion: BOHEMIAN BBQ (699.4284) · 32 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 IQ - NETHERLANDS
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
BOHEMIAN BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, MISS PIGGY'S U.K., and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was BOHEMIAN BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 37th tracked contest.
Wider than 90% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 11.4624 points — a wider margin than 90% of championships in the data.
Chicken places 8–9: SEA SIDE SMOKERS and DE FILOUS tied on 171.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 4–5: IQ - NETHERLANDS and DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM tied on 172.0116 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: BBQ MEESTERS and BBQ-Express Team Lunteren tied on 168.0344 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
BOHEMIAN BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 4th.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8800 | 173.1428 | 170.8800 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.5828 | 172.0116 | 168.0344 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 172.5600 | 168.5600 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 169.1428 | 164.5256 |
32 entries · top 699.4284 · median 643.3830
32 entries · top 178.8800 · median 164.3086
32 entries · top 176.5828 · median 161.4058
32 entries · top 180.0000 · median 162.2914 · 🔥 perfect 180
32 entries · top 178.8572 · median 156.2514
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 170.8286 · 🔥 perfect 180