Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2020
2022-09-17 – 2022-09-18 · Sint Niklaas, 9100 · BELGIUM · 📍 Grote Markt 1
Reps: MARIANNE VAN GALEN, MAYCO VAN GALEN
Grand Champion: Bunch of Swines (674.7656) · 25 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BBQ+
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 dynasty in the making
Bunch of Swines has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1540 points — closer than 79% of every championship in the data.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 5–6: The Antwerp Smokers and DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM tied on 168.5484 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: WHITE SQUIRREL BBQ and DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM tied on 168.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 7–8: SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ and BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q tied on 165.6684 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🃏 An upset on the books
BUNCH OF SWINES 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.
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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-17 ← this one | Sint Niklaas, 9100 | Grote Markt 1 | 25 | 674.7656 | Bunch of Swines | BBQ+ |
| 2023-09-16 | Sint Niklaas, 9100 | Grote Markt 1 | 14 | 683.3600 | Bunch of Swines | It's spice that meats you |
| 2023-09-16 | Sint Niklaas, 9100 | Grote Markt 1 | 13 | 167.9888 | Backcorner BBQ | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 172.5828 | 168.5484 | 167.3828 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.7144 | 167.9772 | 162.2856 |
| Pork | 173.1200 | 166.2284 | 162.8456 |
| Brisket | 175.4056 | 165.0972 | 162.2400 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
25 entries · top 674.7656 · median 646.7540
Chicken
25 entries · top 172.5828 · median 165.1200
Pork Ribs
25 entries · top 173.7144 · median 160.5716
Pork
25 entries · top 173.1200 · median 161.6800
Brisket
25 entries · top 175.4056 · median 158.8456
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 — One Bite (Chefs Choice)
13 entries · top 177.7372 · median 166.8456