2018-10-13 – 2018-10-14 · L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 84800 · FRANCE · 📍 871 Rout Dapt
Grand Champion: GECKO BBQ (661.0284) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ
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.
Closer than 88% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5944 points — closer than 88% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100
GECKO BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, MISS PIGGY'S U.K., and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
GECKO BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was GECKO BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 18th tracked contest.
Chicken places 3–4: GECKO BBQ and Smoking Bad BBQ Team tied on 168.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 3–4: ALLSEASONED DUTCH BBQ TEAM and GECKO BBQ tied on 163.3828 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 4–5: GECKO BBQ and BM Grils & Smokers tied on 163.3828 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ won Chicken, Pork — a double.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 172.5484 | 166.2628 | 150.8228 |
| Pork Ribs | 167.4400 | 160.5600 | 151.9316 |
| Pork | 169.1428 | 163.3828 | 152.5484 |
| Brisket | 170.3200 | 158.2512 | 147.9428 |
16 entries · top 661.0284 · median 619.0114
16 entries · top 172.5484 · median 153.3998
16 entries · top 167.4400 · median 154.2572
16 entries · top 169.1428 · median 154.8114
16 entries · top 170.3200 · median 153.9484
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.
8 entries · top 172.5944 · median 150.7942
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smoking Bad BBQ Team | |
| 2 | SPIT-ROAST | |
| 3 | FINE YOUNG CARNIVORES | |
| 4 | UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q | |
| 5 | MISS PIGGY'S U.K. | |
| 6 | Beef Pub | |
| 7 | Meatic BBQ | |
| 8 | lagrille |