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Cars & BBQ Festival 2026

2026-08-14 – 2026-08-15 · Tallinn, 15026 · ESTONIA · 📍 Kloostrimetsa street 58a

Reps: MANUELA SELIGER, STEPHAN SELIGER

Grand Champion: BBQ Symphony (708.5716) · 17 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Kamado BONO

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708.5716 · Master Series — Overall
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703.9888 · Master Series — Overall
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701.1200 · 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 178.86
  • Pork Ribs 180.00 🔥
  • Pork 180.00 🔥
  • Brisket 177.71
154.21 180.00

Entries

17
4 judged meats

Top score

708.5716

Winning margin

4.5828
GC over RC

Field average

680.98
642.27708.57
median 683.93 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

3 🔥

Tightest race

Pork
1.7028 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

678.1944
642.27708.57
10th place overall

Field spread

66.2976
winner to last place

Most consistent

avg finish 3.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 1.7144 pts — Dreamfire BBQ Team

How hot was the win?

Top 5%
beats 95% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.77 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1537
avg power rating going in · stronger than 27% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1763 pre-contest

Storylines (4 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

27-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 73 times in 100

BBQ Symphony came in rated below the field's top team, COOKLOUNGE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 27-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1594
  • top seed 1763

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

BBQ Symphony won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 3rd
  • Pork Ribs 2nd
  • Pork 4th
  • Brisket 4th

A day of perfect scores

3 perfect 180s

3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • Sleeping Beauty of BBQ · Pork
  • Dreamfire BBQ Team · Pork
  • BBQ Hot Yard · Pork Ribs

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 6 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 9–10: Exleegid and No Name BBQ Team tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: BBQ Symphony and Kamado BONO tied on 178.2972 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 1–2: Sleeping Beauty of BBQ and Dreamfire BBQ Team tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

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

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
Chicken178.8572173.7028170.2628
Pork Ribs180.0000176.0000170.8460
Pork180.0000178.2972169.6800
Brisket177.7144173.1200169.1200

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

17 entries · top 708.5716 · median 683.9312

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Symphony 708.5716
2 Kamado BONO 703.9888
3 BBQ Hot Yard 701.1200
4 Dreamfire BBQ Team 698.8000
5 SMOKY COTTE 697.6456
6 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 689.6688
7 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 687.3604
8 Kuldi Smokehouse 684.4800
9 Piiripealsed 683.9312
10 Mäxitrallid 678.1944
11 Sleeping Beauty of BBQ 672.4684
12 GrilliFy 670.2400
13 No Name BBQ Team 669.5656
14 Perekond Mattisen 667.9428
15 AlltimeBBQ 662.7544
16 Exleegid 657.6460
17 BBQ Rüütlid 642.2740

Chicken

17 entries · top 178.8572 · median 170.2628

#TeamScore
1 Dreamfire BBQ Team 178.8572
2 Kamado BONO 177.1428
3 BBQ Symphony 176.0000
4 AlltimeBBQ 174.2972
5 GrilliFy 173.7028
6 Perekond Mattisen 173.1200
7 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 171.9772
8 SMOKY COTTE 170.8228
9 Exleegid 170.2628
10 No Name BBQ Team 170.2628
11 BBQ Hot Yard 169.7144
12 Kuldi Smokehouse 169.1200
13 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 168.5484
14 Mäxitrallid 168.5372
15 Sleeping Beauty of BBQ 165.6684
16 Piiripealsed 165.1084
17 BBQ Rüütlid 156.5600

Pork Ribs

17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.5944 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Hot Yard 180.0000 🔥
2 BBQ Symphony 178.2972
3 Kamado BONO 178.2972
4 Piiripealsed 176.5600
5 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 176.0000
6 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 174.2744
7 Kuldi Smokehouse 174.2628
8 SMOKY COTTE 173.7028
9 Sleeping Beauty of BBQ 172.5944
10 Exleegid 170.8460
11 No Name BBQ Team 169.6800
12 Mäxitrallid 168.5600
13 Perekond Mattisen 168.0000
14 Dreamfire BBQ Team 167.9772
15 BBQ Rüütlid 163.9884
16 GrilliFy 160.5372
17 AlltimeBBQ 158.2628

Pork

17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Sleeping Beauty of BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 Dreamfire BBQ Team 180.0000 🔥
3 Kamado BONO 178.8572
4 BBQ Symphony 178.8572
5 Mäxitrallid 178.2972
6 SMOKY COTTE 176.5600
7 Kuldi Smokehouse 174.8572
8 BBQ Hot Yard 174.2628
9 AlltimeBBQ 173.1200
10 Piiripealsed 169.6800
11 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 168.5372
12 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 167.4060
13 BBQ Rüütlid 165.1772
14 GrilliFy 162.8800
15 Exleegid 161.1428
16 Perekond Mattisen 160.5944
17 No Name BBQ Team 160.5028

Brisket

17 entries · top 177.7144 · median 169.6916

#TeamScore
1 COOKLOUNGE BBQ 177.7144
2 BBQ Hot Yard 177.1428
3 SMOKY COTTE 176.5600
4 BBQ Symphony 175.4172
5 GrilliFy 173.1200
6 Piiripealsed 172.5828
7 Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 172.5716
8 Dreamfire BBQ Team 171.9656
9 Kamado BONO 169.6916
10 No Name BBQ Team 169.1200
11 Kuldi Smokehouse 166.2400
12 Perekond Mattisen 166.2284
13 Mäxitrallid 162.8000
14 AlltimeBBQ 157.0744
15 BBQ Rüütlid 156.5484
16 Exleegid 155.3944
17 Sleeping Beauty of BBQ 154.2056

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