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Smoke in the North (Day 2)

2026-08-22 – 2026-08-23 · Boras, 50113 · SWEDEN · 📍 Boras Camping

Reps: MANUELA SELIGER, STEPHAN SELIGER

Grand Champion: BBQ Hot Yard (697.6572) · 26 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Kamado BONO

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697.6572 · Master Series — Overall
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694.2512 · Master Series — Overall
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694.2400 · 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 176.56
  • Pork Ribs 179.44
  • Pork 177.71
  • Brisket 178.30
149.07 179.44

Entries

26
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

697.6572

Winning margin

3.4060
GC over RC

Field average

669.51
642.19697.66
median 666.13 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Chicken
1.1544 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

675.3372
642.19697.66
10th place overall

Field spread

55.4624
winner to last place

Most consistent

avg finish 5.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 1.1544 pts — Bunch of Swines

How hot was the win?

Top 43%
beats 57% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

93%
26 of 28 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Moderate
ρ = -0.53 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1534
avg power rating going in · stronger than 25% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1828 pre-contest

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.

An upset on the books

20-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 80 times in 100

BBQ Hot Yard came in rated below the field's top team, BBQ+, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 20-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1587
  • top seed 1828

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

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

  • Chicken 9th
  • Pork Ribs 2nd
  • Pork 7th
  • Brisket 3rd

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 10 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 1–2: Badboy Butchers BBQ and BBQ+ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: GRILLY.EU and Bunch of Swines tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: Bunch of Swines and Kamado BONO tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 1–2 · tie
  • Chicken 4–5 · tie
  • Chicken 5–6 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 6–7 · tie

Back to defend

1 past champions back in the field

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Barbecoa BBQ Team (won 2026).

  • Barbecoa BBQ Team · 2026

They keep coming back

93% of last edition’s field returned

26 of 28 teams from 2026-08-21 came back

26 of the 28 teams that cooked the previous edition came back for this one — a contest people put on the calendar.

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
2026-08-21 Boras, 50113 Boras Camping 28 699.9772 Barbecoa BBQ Team Bunch of Swines
2026-08-22 ← this one Boras, 50113 Boras Camping 26 697.6572 BBQ Hot Yard Kamado BONO

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken176.5600175.4056172.5484
Pork Ribs179.4400173.1316168.5600
Pork177.7144170.8456168.5372
Brisket178.2972175.4056170.8572

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

26 entries · top 697.6572 · median 666.1312

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Hot Yard 697.6572
2 Kamado BONO 694.2512
3 No Name 694.2400
4 Bunch of Swines 689.0628
5 Barbecoa BBQ Team 687.8624
6 GRILLY.EU 686.8000
7 BBQ+ 685.6112
8 El Gusto BBQ Team 683.3828
9 This'll do it BBQ 681.6344
10 Badboy Butchers BBQ 675.3372
11 Lingon & Dill 674.8000
12 HellYeah BBQ 673.6916
13 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 666.6856
14 The Housewives BBQ 665.5768
15 Lone Star Pork Force 664.4228
16 Smoke Barn BBQ 661.6576
17 AlltimeBBQ 661.6344
18 Burnt BBQ 659.4060
19 Alpha-BBQ 657.0060
20 Gubbens BBQ 654.1260
21 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 652.9720
22 Kott & Blod BBQ 652.3996
23 Side By Side BBQ 650.1604
24 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 648.9600
25 Team Double Smoke 645.6344
26 Magi BBQ 642.1948

Chicken

26 entries · top 176.5600 · median 169.4000

#TeamScore
1 Badboy Butchers BBQ 176.5600
2 BBQ+ 176.5600
3 El Gusto BBQ Team 175.4288
4 GRILLY.EU 175.4056
5 Bunch of Swines 175.4056
6 Kamado BONO 175.4056
7 Barbecoa BBQ Team 174.2628
8 Alpha-BBQ 173.7144
9 BBQ Hot Yard 173.1200
10 No Name 172.5484
11 Kott & Blod BBQ 171.9772
12 Burnt BBQ 170.2744
13 Gubbens BBQ 170.2628
14 This'll do it BBQ 168.5372
15 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 168.5256
16 Lingon & Dill 168.0000
17 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 167.9656
18 AlltimeBBQ 166.2628
19 Side By Side BBQ 163.3944
20 The Housewives BBQ 162.8112
21 Smoke Barn BBQ 161.7144
22 Team Double Smoke 161.6688
23 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 160.5144
24 Lone Star Pork Force 160.5144
25 Magi BBQ 159.9660
26 HellYeah BBQ 158.8000

Pork Ribs

26 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.2802

#TeamScore
1 Kamado BONO 179.4400
2 BBQ Hot Yard 178.8572
3 El Gusto BBQ Team 176.5600
4 HellYeah BBQ 175.4744
5 No Name 173.1316
6 GRILLY.EU 172.5716
7 This'll do it BBQ 172.5716
8 Barbecoa BBQ Team 171.9656
9 BBQ+ 170.8228
10 The Housewives BBQ 168.5600
11 Team Double Smoke 167.4400
12 Lingon & Dill 167.4172
13 Gubbens BBQ 167.3944
14 Burnt BBQ 165.1660
15 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 165.0972
16 Bunch of Swines 165.0856
17 Badboy Butchers BBQ 164.5600
18 Smoke Barn BBQ 164.5372
19 AlltimeBBQ 163.9888
20 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 163.9660
21 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 163.9544
22 Magi BBQ 161.7144
23 Kott & Blod BBQ 159.3940
24 Lone Star Pork Force 157.0740
25 Side By Side BBQ 156.5372
26 Alpha-BBQ 151.9316

Pork

26 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.9714

#TeamScore
1 Bunch of Swines 177.7144
2 This'll do it BBQ 176.5600
3 AlltimeBBQ 175.4056
4 No Name 173.1544
5 GRILLY.EU 170.8456
6 Barbecoa BBQ Team 169.6684
7 BBQ Hot Yard 169.1200
8 Badboy Butchers BBQ 169.1200
9 Side By Side BBQ 168.5600
10 Lone Star Pork Force 168.5372
11 HellYeah BBQ 168.0000
12 Kamado BONO 167.9884
13 Lingon & Dill 167.9772
14 El Gusto BBQ Team 167.9656
15 Kott & Blod BBQ 167.9656
16 Gubbens BBQ 167.3944
17 Smoke Barn BBQ 166.8572
18 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 166.2400
19 Magi BBQ 165.7028
20 Alpha-BBQ 165.0972
21 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 163.9544
22 BBQ+ 161.0856
23 The Housewives BBQ 158.7884
24 Burnt BBQ 157.6800
25 Team Double Smoke 155.4056
26 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 152.5028

Brisket

26 entries · top 178.2972 · median 166.8342

#TeamScore
1 Lone Star Pork Force 178.2972
2 BBQ+ 177.1428
3 BBQ Hot Yard 176.5600
4 The Housewives BBQ 175.4172
5 No Name 175.4056
6 Barbecoa BBQ Team 171.9656
7 Kamado BONO 171.4172
8 HellYeah BBQ 171.4172
9 Lingon & Dill 171.4056
10 Bunch of Swines 170.8572
11 Smoke Barn BBQ 168.5488
12 GRILLY.EU 167.9772
13 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 167.3828
14 Burnt BBQ 166.2856
15 Alpha-BBQ 166.2628
16 Badboy Butchers BBQ 165.0972
17 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 164.5488
18 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 163.9656
19 This'll do it BBQ 163.9656
20 El Gusto BBQ Team 163.4284
21 Side By Side BBQ 161.6688
22 Team Double Smoke 161.1200
23 AlltimeBBQ 155.9772
24 Magi BBQ 154.8116
25 Kott & Blod BBQ 153.0628
26 Gubbens BBQ 149.0744

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 — Meat Balls

12 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.4342 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Side By Side BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 Swedish BBQ Syndicate 178.8572
3 The Housewives BBQ 174.8572
4 SMOKING ACES BBQ SWEDEN 172.5600
5 Lingon & Dill 171.4056
6 Burnt BBQ 170.9028
7 AlltimeBBQ 167.9656
8 Smoke Barn BBQ 166.8340
9 Alpha-BBQ 166.8228
10 HellYeah BBQ 166.8112
11 NO BRAINER BBQ TEAM 163.3828
12 Lone Star Pork Force 161.6456

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