Transylvanian BBQ Festival
2019-05-18 – 2019-05-19 · Covasna County, 520008 · ROMANIA · 📍 Olteni(RO)/Oltszem(HU)
Reps: HAYMO GUTWENIGER, PETRA REBENSTORF
Grand Champion: IQ BBQ (684.5940) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
💪 A statement win
The champion won by 8.6284 points — a wider margin than 87% of championships in the data.
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 4–5: UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q and IQ - NETHERLANDS tied on 169.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: Carpathian BBQ edged Onkel Felix BBQ by 0.0112. Pork places 3–4: UNCLE TONY'S COCKNEY Q edged WHITE SQUIRREL BBQ by 0.0228.
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)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 174.2856 | 168.5600 | 163.4628 |
| Pork Ribs | 172.0344 | 169.1428 | 153.7144 |
| Pork | 170.8456 | 165.1084 | 161.6800 |
| Brisket | 178.2972 | 165.1428 | 158.8344 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
17 entries · top 684.5940 · median 642.2860
Chicken
17 entries · top 174.2856 · median 165.6800
Pork Ribs
17 entries · top 172.0344 · median 154.2172
Pork
17 entries · top 170.8456 · median 162.2516
Brisket
17 entries · top 178.2972 · median 161.0856
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 — Mystery Box
6 entries · top 174.2628 · median 166.5486
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BBQ Bertis Family | |
| 2 | MASTERS OF FIRE | |
| 3 | Bodrog Smokers BBQ Team | |
| 4 | Hope Sped & Saint Georgius Barbecue Team | |
| 5 | Bobo's BBQ | |
| 6 | Barbecue Brothers |