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BBQ Festival 2020

Aug 21–22, 2020 · Saue Parish, Estonia · ESTONIA · 📍 Vanamoisa

Reps: Haymo Gutweniger, Luca Famigli

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Sweaty Hogs
685.0512 · Master Series — Overall
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BBQ Symphony
681.0972 · Master Series — Overall
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Insomnia BBQ Team
672.4572 · Master Series — Overall

Sweaty Hogs won Grand Champion at the BBQ Festival 2020 on August 21, 2020 in Saue Parish, at Vanamoisa, scoring 685.0512 in a field of 13 teams. BBQ Symphony took Reserve Grand Champion with 681.0972. Category winners: Chicken — BBQ Symphony (176.0000); Pork Ribs — Sweaty Hogs (178.8572); Pork — BBQ Symphony (173.7028); Brisket — Sweaty Hogs (174.8572). This is the 2nd of 2 editions of this contest on record; the 2018 edition was won by Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team.

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 176
  • Pork Ribs 178.86
  • Pork 173.70
  • Brisket 174.86
146.78 178.86

Entries

13
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

685.0512

Winning margin

3.9540
GC over RC

Field average

643.51
500.56685.05
median 654.18 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Brisket
6.8916 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

636.5596
500.56685.05
10th place overall

Field spread

184.4916
winner to last place

Most consistent

BBQ Symphony
avg finish 3.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

7
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork Ribs
won by 6.2744 pts — Sweaty Hogs

How hot was the win?

Top 82%
beats 18% of 4711 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

30%
3 of 10 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Moderate
ρ = -0.55 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1,503
avg power rating going in · stronger than 3% of contests

Top-rated in the field

Insomnia BBQ Team
rated 1528 pre-contest

Storylines (8 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.

A new contest record

685.0512 highest overall ever cooked here

685.0512 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 662.3544 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team set in 2018.

  • old record 662.3544
  • set 2018 by Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team

A first Grand Championship

5 tracked contests to get there

This was Sweaty Hogs's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 5th tracked contest.

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 2 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 6–7: Piiripealsed and Sweaty Hogs tied on 166.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 6–7: Insomnia BBQ Team edged Sweaty Hogs by 0.0232.

  • Chicken 6–7 · tie
  • Pork 6–7 · 0.0232

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

BBQ Symphony won Chicken, Pork — a double.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork 1st

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

Sweaty Hogs took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 7th.

  • Chicken 7th
  • Pork Ribs 1st
  • Pork 7th
  • Brisket 1st

A contest record in pork

173.7028 best pork ever cooked here

BBQ Symphony turned in 173.7028 in pork — past the 165.6800 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.

  • old best 165.6800
  • across 1 past editions

Back to defend

1 past champions back in the field

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team (won 2018).

  • Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team · 2018

The contest returns

2 yrs since the last edition

This contest was away for 2 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2018-08-17.

  • previous edition 2018-08-17

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
Aug 17, 2018 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish Vanamõisa, Saue Parish, 13522 10 662.3544 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team Insomnia BBQ Team
Aug 21, 2020 ← this one Saue Parish Vanamoisa 13 685.0512 Sweaty Hogs BBQ Symphony

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken176167.4172162.8456
Pork Ribs178.8572169.1656154.8228
Pork173.7028165.7028160.5716
Brisket174.8572167.9656158.8572

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

13 entries · top 685.0512 · median 654.1828

#TeamScore
1 Sweaty Hogs 685.0512
2 BBQ Symphony 681.0972
3 Insomnia BBQ Team 672.4572
4 Dreamfire BBQ Team 671.9884
5 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 668.0572
6 Piiripealsed 665.1084
7 Savujullit BBQ 654.1828
8 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 650.2172
9 UQ BBQ ja Grill 638.2856
10 BBQ Rüütlid 636.5596
11 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 631.8968
12 Kellu ja grill 610.2060
13 Kaupmees ja KO tiim 500.5596

Chicken

13 entries · top 176 · median 166.2628

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Symphony 176
2 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 174.8800
3 Savujullit BBQ 172.5828
4 Dreamfire BBQ Team 170.8456
5 Insomnia BBQ Team 167.4172
6 Piiripealsed 166.2628
7 Sweaty Hogs 166.2628
8 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 165.1544
9 Kaupmees ja KO tiim 163.9884
10 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 162.8456
11 Kellu ja grill 158.8912
12 BBQ Rüütlid 156.5484
13 UQ BBQ ja Grill 153.1428

Pork Ribs

13 entries · top 178.8572 · median 162.8800

#TeamScore
1 Sweaty Hogs 178.8572
2 Piiripealsed 172.5828
3 Insomnia BBQ Team 171.4056
4 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 169.7256
5 Kaupmees ja KO tiim 169.1656
6 BBQ Symphony 163.4288
7 Dreamfire BBQ Team 162.8800
8 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 156.5600
9 BBQ Rüütlid 155.4512
10 UQ BBQ ja Grill 154.8228
11 Savujullit BBQ 152.5488
12 Kellu ja grill 150.8572
13 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 148.5144

Pork

13 entries · top 173.7028 · median 165.0740

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Symphony 173.7028
2 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 169.1312
3 Dreamfire BBQ Team 168.5600
4 Kaupmees ja KO tiim 167.4056
5 BBQ Rüütlid 165.7028
6 Insomnia BBQ Team 165.0972
7 Sweaty Hogs 165.0740
8 Savujullit BBQ 164.5140
9 UQ BBQ ja Grill 164
10 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 160.5716
11 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 158.2856
12 Piiripealsed 154.8112
13 Kellu ja grill 153.6800

Brisket

12 entries · top 174.8572 · median 166.8686

#TeamScore
1 Sweaty Hogs 174.8572
2 Piiripealsed 171.4516
3 Dreamfire BBQ Team 169.7028
4 Insomnia BBQ Team 168.5372
5 BBQ Symphony 167.9656
6 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 167.4172
7 UQ BBQ ja Grill 166.3200
8 Savujullit BBQ 164.5372
9 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 162.8800
10 BBQ Rüütlid 158.8572
11 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 154.2056
12 Kellu ja grill 146.7776

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 — Fantasy Halloumi Cheese

8 entries · top 180 · median 169.6914 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Symphony 180 🔥
2 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 178.2972
3 Sweaty Hogs 174.8456
4 Homefy Grillimaailma BBQ Team 174.2972
5 Sleeping Beauties Of BBQ 165.0856
6 Dreamfire BBQ Team 164.5828
7 Savujullit BBQ 158.8344
8 Kellu ja grill 157.7372

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