2023-09-16 – 2023-09-17 · Sint Niklaas, 9100 · BELGIUM · 📍 Grote Markt 1
Reps: MARIANNE VAN GALEN, MAYCO VAN GALEN
Grand Champion: Bunch of Swines (683.3600) · 14 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 It's spice that meats you
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, 2022 to 2023 — 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.
683.3600 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 674.7656 Bunch of Swines set in 2022.
Bunch of Swines won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.
Wider than 85% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 9.6800 points — a wider margin than 85% of championships in the data.
2 of 3 tracked editions
Bunch of Swines has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
Chicken places 2–3: BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q and It's spice that meats you tied on 170.2856 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: The Antwerp Smokers edged Just wing it BBQ team by 0.0116. Brisket places 3–4: The Antwerp Smokers edged SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE by 0.0116.
BUNCH OF SWINES won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
BUNCH OF SWINES took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork at 3rd.
The Antwerp Smokers turned in 175.4172 in pork — past the 173.1200 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Bunch of Swines (won 2022).
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-17 | Sint Niklaas, 9100 | Grote Markt 1 | 25 | 674.7656 | Bunch of Swines | BBQ+ |
| 2023-09-16 ← this one | 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 | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 170.8344 | 168.5256 | 160.0228 |
| Pork Ribs | 171.9772 | 168.5372 | 161.1312 |
| Pork | 175.4172 | 166.2744 | 158.8344 |
| Brisket | 170.8228 | 161.0972 | 150.7888 |
14 entries · top 683.3600 · median 649.3372
14 entries · top 170.8344 · median 165.1028
14 entries · top 171.9772 · median 165.6914
14 entries · top 175.4172 · median 162.5660
14 entries · top 170.8228 · median 156.5656
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.
6 entries · top 176.5600 · median 168.2972
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q | |
| 2 | It's spice that meats you | |
| 3 | SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE | |
| 4 | ROASTING ROMANS | |
| 5 | WETTELS ON FIRE | |
| 6 | Just wing it BBQ team |