A statement win
18.2512
points clear of the field
Wider than 98% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 18.2512 points — a wider margin than 98% of championships in the data.
4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition
2019-04-06 – 2019-04-07 · Wels, 4600 · AUSTRIA · 📍 Messegelaende
Grand Champion: Bunch of Swines (703.3712) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 GRILLSPITZ BBQ HUNTERS
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.
647.38
median 669.10
703.37 🏆
How the meats cooked
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
- Chicken 179.44
- Pork Ribs 175.44
- Pork 180.00 🔥
- Brisket 177.70
149.15
180.00
Entries
16
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Top score
703.3712
Winning margin
18.2512
GC over RC
Field average
671.66
647.38703.37
median 669.10 · last place to winner
Tightest race
Chicken
5.7372 pts across the top 5
Top-10 cutoff
666.8344
647.38703.37
10th place overall
Field spread
55.9884
winner to last place
Double threats
4
teams with 2+ top-5 calls
How hot was the win?
Top 20%
beats 80% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data
Form held
Moderate
ρ = -0.37 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1560
avg power rating going in · stronger than 47% of contests
Storylines (5 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.
Photo finishes
Tie
closest of 9 calls decided inside half a point
Pork Ribs places 3–4: UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q and GRILLSPITZ BBQ HUNTERS tied on 170.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: SAUWALD BBQ edged BALDICUE by 0.0112. Chicken places 3–4: SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ edged BUNCH OF SWINES by 0.0116.
- Pork Ribs 3–4 · tie
- Pork Ribs 8–9 · 0.0112
- Chicken 3–4 · 0.0116
- Brisket 7–8 · 0.0116
A double category winner
2
category wins in a day
BUNCH OF SWINES won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
- Pork 1st
- Brisket 1st
How the title was won
4 of 4
meats called to the stage
BUNCH OF SWINES took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 4th.
- Chicken 4th
- Pork Ribs 2nd
- Pork 1st
- Brisket 1st
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.
- BUNCH OF SWINES · 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)
Score distribution
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)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 173.7028 | 169.6916 |
| Pork Ribs | 175.4400 | 168.5716 | 165.1200 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 173.1084 | 167.3828 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 169.7144 | 166.8800 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
16 entries · top 703.3712 · median 669.0972
Chicken
16 entries · top 179.4400 · median 169.9942
Pork Ribs
16 entries · top 175.4400 · median 167.4228
Pork
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.8514 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 168.2570
Ancillary categories
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.
Ancillary — Dessert
5 entries · top 178.8572 · median 175.4056
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQ | |
| 2 | COOKLOUNGE BBQ | |
| 3 | EGGHEAD-BARBECUE | |
| 4 | KNOCKSTONE BBQ TEAM AUSTRIA | |
| 5 | FEHER NYUL BBQ TEAM |