Transylvanian Grill & BBQ Camp
2025-05-10 – 2025-05-11 · Targu Mures, 540088 · ROMANIA · 📍 Medieval Fortress Targu Mures str. Avram lancu no 2
Reps: HAYMO GUTWENIGER, LUCA FAMIGLI
Grand Champion: Food'Venture (714.2628) · 10 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Szendo Smoke BBQ Team
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 statement win
The champion won by 11.4400 points — a wider margin than 93% of championships in the data.
🔥 A day of perfect scores
4 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
🧹 A hat-trick of category wins
FOOD'VENTURE GRILL & BBQ won Pork Ribs, Pork, Brisket — a hat-trick, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
📸 Photo finishes
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.
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 170.2512 | 161.1084 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 171.4056 | 159.9656 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 173.7028 | 158.8228 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 166.8800 | 145.0628 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
10 entries · top 714.2628 · median 672.5142
Chicken
10 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.6856
Pork Ribs
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.5428 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.4228 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.4344 · 🔥 perfect 180