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Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest 2023
Sep 9–10, 2023
· Dongen, Netherlands
· NETHERLANDS
· 📍 Vaartweg 131
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691.9544 · Master Series — Overall
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686.8000 · Master Series — Overall
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681.6688 · Master Series — Overall
IQ - NETHERLANDS Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest on September 9, 2023 in Dongen, 5106NC at Vaartweg 131, scoring 691.9544 in a field of 13 teams. BACKCORNER BBQ BBQ+ The BBQ Ranch The Antwerp Smokers BACKCORNER BBQ 2021 edition was won by Southern Dutch BBQ 2023 .
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.
593.44
median 660.48
691.95 🏆
How the meats cooked
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Chicken
176.59
Pork Ribs
173.14
Pork
177.15
Brisket
172.56
120.39
177.15
Winning score by edition
What it has taken to win here, 2021 to 2024 — this edition picked out.
2021-09-11 — 695.3828 (Southern Dutch BBQ) 2023-09-09 — 691.9544 (iQ BBQ) 2023-09-10 — 687.9428 (Backcorner BBQ) 2024-09-06 — 683.3600 (Dutch BBQ Smokers) 2024-09-07 — 690.8116 (Backcorner BBQ) 691.95
2021
2024
Entries 13
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Winning margin 5.1544
GC over RC
Field average 658.53
593.44 691.95
median 660.48 · last place to winner
Tightest race Pork
2.8800 pts across the top 5
Top-10 cutoff 647.3372
593.44 691.95
10th place overall
Field spread 98.5148
winner to last place
Most consistent avg finish 2.75 across 4 meats
Double threats 5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls
Widest winning margin Chicken
How hot was the win? Top 65%
beats 35% of 4711 Master Series wins in the data
Came back for more 21%
6 of 29 teams from the previous edition returned
Form held Strong
ρ = -0.64 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength 1,644
avg power rating going in · stronger than 94% of contests
Top-rated in the field rated 1874 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.
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Won without a category win
4 of 4
meats called to the stage
IQ - NETHERLANDS
Chicken 2nd Pork Ribs 6th Pork 2nd Brisket 2nd
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A dynasty in the making
2×
wins at this contest
2 of 5 tracked editions
Backcorner BBQ 2 times across its 5 tracked editions.
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A stacked field
1644
average power rating going in
Stronger than 94% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1644 power rating going in — stronger than 94% of every contest tracked.
top seed IQ - NETHERLANDS (1874) 13 rated teams
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Photo finishes
Tie
closest of 7 calls decided inside half a point
Chicken places 5–6: BACKCORNER BBQ RIVERLAND SMOKERS 166.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: Barbecoa BBQ Team BBQ+ 170.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q IQ - NETHERLANDS 169.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Chicken 5–6 · tie Pork Ribs 3–4 · tie Pork Ribs 5–6 · tie Pork 1–2 · tie
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A contest record in chicken
176.5944
best chicken ever cooked here
BBQ+ 176.5944 in chicken — past the 174.2628 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
old best 174.2628 across 1 past editions
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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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
Category 1st 5th 10th
Chicken 176.5944 166.8228 163.4056 Pork Ribs 173.1428 169.1200 160.5600 Pork 177.1544 174.2744 163.3944 Brisket 172.5600 166.2400 157.0856
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Master Series
Overall
13 entries · top 691.9544 · median 660.4796
Chicken
13 entries · top 176.5944 · median 166.2400
Pork Ribs
13 entries · top 173.1428 · median 164.5944
Pork
13 entries · top 177.1544 · median 170.2744
Brisket
13 entries · top 172.5600 · median 162.8344
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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 — Dessert Roze
3 entries · top 176.5600 · median 174.8572
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