May 10–11, 2025 · Targu Mures, Romania · ROMANIA · 📍 Medieval Fortress Targu Mures str. Avram lancu no 2
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FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ won Grand Champion at the Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp on May 10, 2025 in Targu Mures, 540088 at Medieval Fortress Targu Mures str. Avram lancu no 2, scoring 714.2628 in a field of 10 teams. Szendo Smoke BBQ Team took Reserve Grand Champion with 702.8228. Category winners: Chicken — Jack's Smokey BBQ (178.8572); Pork Ribs — FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ (180.0000); Pork — FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ (180.0000); Brisket — FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ (180.0000).
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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ holds the KCBS record for most perfect 180s in one day — 3 180s at a single contest, Brisket, Pork, Pork Ribs, set right here. Nobody has beaten it since.
Wider than 91% of the 4,710 championships in the data
The champion won by 11.4400 points — a wider margin than 91% of championships in the data.
FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ won Pork Ribs, Pork, Brisket — a hat-trick, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
4 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Jack's Smokey BBQ finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork places 1–2: FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ and Jack's Smokey BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 2–3: Bobo's BBQ edged Szendo Smoke BBQ Team by 0.0116. Pork Ribs places 8–9: Roni Q edged Restaurant Chicago by 0.0228.
FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 3 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 3rd.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 170.2512 | 161.1084 |
| Pork Ribs | 180 | 171.4056 | 159.9656 |
| Pork | 180 | 173.7028 | 158.8228 |
| Brisket | 180 | 166.8800 | 145.0628 |
10 entries · top 714.2628 · median 672.5142
10 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.6856
10 entries · top 180 · median 170.5428 · 🔥 perfect 180
10 entries · top 180 · median 171.4228 · 🔥 perfect 180
10 entries · top 180 · median 165.4344 · 🔥 perfect 180