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Het Belgisch Barbecue Weekend 8the Edition

2026-05-23 – 2026-05-24 · Boom, 2850 · BELGIUM · 📍 Kapelstraat 145

Reps: MARIANNE VAN GALEN, MAYCO VAN GALEN

Grand Champion: Keij Smokin' Hot (696.5488) · 18 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 BUNCH OF SWINES

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Keij Smokin' Hot
696.5488 · Master Series — Overall
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BUNCH OF SWINES
694.8116 · Master Series — Overall
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The Antwerp Smokers
689.6228 · Master Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 174.85
  • Pork Ribs 176.56
  • Pork 180.00 🔥
  • Brisket 173.71
154.79 180.00

Entries

18
4 judged meats

Top score

696.5488

Winning margin

1.7372
GC over RC

Field average

672.97
650.80696.55
median 675.35 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

1 🔥
It's spice that meats you (Pork)

Tightest race

Brisket
0.5944 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

671.9316
650.80696.55
10th place overall

Field spread

45.7484
winner to last place

Most consistent

Keij Smokin' Hot
avg finish 2.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 4.5712 pts — It's spice that meats you

How hot was the win?

Top 46%
beats 54% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.64 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1561
avg power rating going in · stronger than 47% of contests

Top-rated in the field

BUNCH OF SWINES
rated 1789 pre-contest

Storylines (6 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

16-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 84 times in 100

Keij Smokin Hot came in rated below the field's top team, BUNCH OF SWINES, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 16-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1500
  • top seed 1789

A first Grand Championship

1 title in the data

This was Keij Smokin' Hot's first Grand Championship in the data.

A rookie on the podium

1st at their first tracked contest

Keij Smokin Hot finished 1st overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 15 calls decided inside half a point

Pork Ribs places 4–5: ROASTING ROMANS and Keij Smokin' Hot tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: Grate Expectations and Osdorp Grillers (NL) tied on 168.5372 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 3–4: BUNCH OF SWINES and Osdorp Grillers (NL) tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Pork Ribs 4–5 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 9–10 · tie
  • Pork 3–4 · tie
  • Brisket 1–2 · tie

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

Keij Smokin' Hot took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 5th.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork Ribs 5th
  • Pork 2nd
  • Brisket 3rd

A perfect score on the table

1 perfect 180s

1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • It's spice that meats you · Pork

Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)

Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)

Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)

Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken174.8456172.5484169.6684
Pork Ribs176.5600172.5600168.5372
Pork180.0000173.1316167.9772
Brisket173.7144173.1200169.1200

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

18 entries · top 696.5488 · median 675.3544

#TeamScore
1 Keij Smokin' Hot 696.5488
2 BUNCH OF SWINES 694.8116
3 The Antwerp Smokers 689.6228
4 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 685.6456
5 Barbecoa BBQ Team 682.2632
6 It's spice that meats you 681.6224
7 Click & Q 681.0628
8 ROASTING ROMANS 681.0628
9 Just wing it BBQ team 678.7772
10 Grate Expectations 671.9316
11 Osdorp Grillers (NL) 667.2568
12 VH BBQ 666.7544
13 SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE 663.3944
14 BBQ Brothers 656.9716
15 BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q 655.8972
16 ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM 654.8228
17 RIVERLAND SMOKERS 654.1944
18 This'll do it BBQ 650.8004

Chicken

18 entries · top 174.8456 · median 169.9656

#TeamScore
1 Keij Smokin' Hot 174.8456
2 ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM 173.1544
3 It's spice that meats you 173.1428
4 VH BBQ 172.5600
5 Just wing it BBQ team 172.5484
6 BUNCH OF SWINES 171.9772
7 Click & Q 171.9656
8 Barbecoa BBQ Team 170.3200
9 ROASTING ROMANS 170.2628
10 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 169.6684
11 The Antwerp Smokers 169.6684
12 Osdorp Grillers (NL) 169.6684
13 Grate Expectations 169.1316
14 BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q 169.1200
15 RIVERLAND SMOKERS 167.4056
16 BBQ Brothers 165.6800
17 This'll do it BBQ 163.4400
18 SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE 162.8228

Pork Ribs

18 entries · top 176.5600 · median 168.5372

#TeamScore
1 The Antwerp Smokers 176.5600
2 BUNCH OF SWINES 174.8572
3 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 172.5716
4 ROASTING ROMANS 172.5600
5 Keij Smokin' Hot 172.5600
6 SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE 171.4400
7 Just wing it BBQ team 171.4172
8 Barbecoa BBQ Team 169.6916
9 Grate Expectations 168.5372
10 Osdorp Grillers (NL) 168.5372
11 Click & Q 167.9772
12 BBQ Brothers 163.9428
13 BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q 160.5600
14 This'll do it BBQ 159.9888
15 It's spice that meats you 159.3712
16 RIVERLAND SMOKERS 158.8572
17 VH BBQ 158.8000
18 ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM 158.2972

Pork

18 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.5486 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 It's spice that meats you 180.0000 🔥
2 Keij Smokin' Hot 175.4288
3 BUNCH OF SWINES 174.2628
4 Osdorp Grillers (NL) 174.2628
5 Just wing it BBQ team 173.1316
6 The Antwerp Smokers 170.2744
7 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 169.6912
8 Barbecoa BBQ Team 169.1316
9 ROASTING ROMANS 169.1200
10 Click & Q 167.9772
11 SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE 166.8572
12 BBQ Brothers 166.8228
13 VH BBQ 166.2744
14 Grate Expectations 164.5600
15 This'll do it BBQ 163.9428
16 ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM 159.3828
17 BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q 158.8000
18 RIVERLAND SMOKERS 157.1088

Brisket

18 entries · top 173.7144 · median 169.1200

#TeamScore
1 BUNCH OF SWINES 173.7144
2 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 173.7144
3 Keij Smokin' Hot 173.7144
4 Click & Q 173.1428
5 Barbecoa BBQ Team 173.1200
6 The Antwerp Smokers 173.1200
7 RIVERLAND SMOKERS 170.8228
8 Grate Expectations 169.7028
9 ROASTING ROMANS 169.1200
10 VH BBQ 169.1200
11 It's spice that meats you 169.1084
12 BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q 167.4172
13 ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM 163.9884
14 This'll do it BBQ 163.4288
15 SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE 162.2744
16 Just wing it BBQ team 161.6800
17 BBQ Brothers 160.5260
18 Osdorp Grillers (NL) 154.7884

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