Sep 10–11, 2022 · Dongen, Netherlands · NETHERLANDS · 📍 Vaartweg 131
Reps: Marianne Van Galen, Mayco Van Galen
PARKSTAD SMOKERS won Grand Champion at the Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" BBQ Contest on September 10, 2022 in Dongen, 5106NC at Vaartweg 131, scoring 685.0632 in a field of 28 teams. SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 683.9200. Category winners: Chicken — BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q (176.5828); Pork Ribs — LOWLAND SMOKERS (174.8572); Pork — PARKSTAD SMOKERS (176.5716); Brisket — PARKSTAD SMOKERS (175.4172). This is the 3rd of 3 editions of this contest on record; the 2019 edition was won by IQ.
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
What it has taken to win here, 2018 to 2022 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 80% of the 4,722 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1432 points — closer than 80% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
PARKSTAD SMOKERS came in rated below the field's top team, SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Chicken places 3–4: PARKSTAD SMOKERS and SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 6–7: IQ - NETHERLANDS and The Popes White Smoke tied on 166.8344 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 7–8: It's spice that meats you edged The Antwerp Smokers by 0.0112.
PARKSTAD SMOKERS won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
PARKSTAD SMOKERS took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 19th.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: BBQ+ (won 2018).
This contest was away for 3 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2019-09-07.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2018 | Dongen | Vaartweg 131 | 40 | 693.1544 | BBQ+ | IQ - NETHERLANDS |
| Sep 7, 2019 | Dongen | Vaartweg 131 | 38 | 693.7484 | IQ | BBQ+ |
| Sep 10, 2022 ← this one | Dongen | Vaartweg 131 | 28 | 685.0632 | parkstad smokers | SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5828 | 173.1200 | 169.1428 |
| Pork Ribs | 174.8572 | 167.4056 | 165.1772 |
| Pork | 176.5716 | 172.0116 | 170.2744 |
| Brisket | 175.4172 | 171.9656 | 160.5256 |
28 entries · top 685.0632 · median 645.5596
28 entries · top 176.5828 · median 165.9770
28 entries · top 174.8572 · median 159.6686
28 entries · top 176.5716 · median 165.9772
28 entries · top 175.4172 · median 155.6628
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.
7 entries · top 180 · median 166.2748 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's spice that meats you | |
| 2 | BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q | |
| 3 | Dutch BBQ Friends - Netherlands | |
| 4 | Badboy Butchers BBQ | |
| 5 | BUGHOUSE SMOKERS | |
| 6 | ALLSEASONED DUTCH BBQ TEAM | |
| 7 | LOWLAND SMOKERS |