- Contests
- 19
- Teams
- 239
- Avg field
- 31
- Avg win
- 686.71
KCBS in Newfoundland and Labrador NL
11 tracked contests over 3.4 years, 132 teams on the scoresheets — the 69th busiest of 96 regions on file.
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At a glance
Contests
This season
Teams competed
Typical field
Avg winning score
Avg category score
Perfect 180s
Grand champions
Towns
Seasons on record
How Newfoundland and Labrador stacks up (against all 96 regions on file)
The bar is NL's standing on that measure: a full bar is the region that leads it, an empty one is the region that trails it. Rate-based measures need a minimum body of results before a region is ranked at all, so a single hot weekend can't buy a place. The median is the middle region, not the average — one huge region would drag an average somewhere no region actually is.
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Contests held11 #69 of 96 ▼ median 34.5
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Teams competing132 #60 of 92 ▼ median 249
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Field depth33 teams #31 of 72 ▲ median 30 teams
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Judging severity (lowest average category score = toughest room)162.58 #27 of 70 ▼ median 163.34
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Perfect-180 rate3.4 /1k #47 of 70 ▼ median 5.5 /1k
Regions like this one
Matched on the shape of the scene — how many contests it runs, how deep the fields get, how the room scores and how often it hands out a 180 — not on the map. Counts are compared on a log scale, because 5 contests to 15 is a different scene while 300 to 310 is the same one.
- Contests
- 13
- Teams
- 181
- Avg field
- 34
- Avg win
- 685.07
- Contests
- 12
- Teams
- 98
- Avg field
- 25
- Avg win
- 690.63
- Contests
- 28
- Teams
- 380
- Avg field
- 30
- Avg win
- 688.22
Season by season
Click a column heading to re-sort. Winning score is the Master overall (of 720); a season with no scored Master contest leaves it blank.
| Season | Contests | Teams | Avg field | Biggest | Avg win | Best | 180s | State champs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8 | 131 | 35 | 65 | 691.91 | 707.45 | 4 | — | events → |
| 2015 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 686.26 | 686.26 | — | — | events → |
| 2013 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | events → |
Contests per season
When they cook (month of year)
Field depth over time (average teams per contest, and teams out that season)
What it took to win (average Master winning score, and 180s scored)
How the room scores (every judged meat, against the sport as a whole)
A lower average means a harder room. “vs sport” is this region's average minus the same meat's average everywhere KCBS is scored. Newfoundland and Labrador marks brisket hardest — 2.16 points below the rest of the sport.
Top teams who cook here (by power rating)
| # | Team | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQ | 1911 |
| 29 | IQ - NETHERLANDS | 1863 |
| 70 | BBQ+ | 1825 |
| 82 | White Squirrel BBQ | 1817 |
| 90 | BUNCH OF SWINES | 1811 |
| 130 | Backcorner BBQ | 1787 |
| 231 | MISS PIGGY'S U.K. | 1745 |
| 245 | THE BBQ GURU | 1741 |
| 311 | DRAGON BBQ | 1720 |
| 365 | BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS | 1708 |
| 375 | BBQ WIESEL | 1706 |
| 612 | DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM | 1656 |
| 627 | 010 BRAAI | 1654 |
| 667 | BBQ Team Laurentius | 1646 |
| 763 | DE FILOUS | 1631 |
The regulars (most contests cooked in NL)
| Team | Contests | GCs | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| IQ - NETHERLANDS | 7 | 3 | 2016-10-08 |
| BUNCH OF SWINES | 7 | 1 | 2016-10-08 |
| BBQ+ | 7 | 1 | 2016-09-10 |
| DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM | 7 | 1 | 2016-10-08 |
| BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS | 7 | 1 | 2016-09-10 |
| PUREBBQ | 7 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| SEA SIDE SMOKERS | 7 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| DE FILOUS | 7 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| Turnpike Smokers | 7 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| LOWLAND SMOKERS | 6 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| ROKENDE REGAHS | 6 | — | 2016-10-08 |
| 010 BRAAI | 6 | — | 2016-10-08 |
Highest scores in NL (Master · /720)
| Score | Team | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 707.4516 | IQ - NETHERLANDS | Farm Meat 2016-09-10 |
| 701.0972 | IQ - NETHERLANDS | 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off 2016-10-08 |
| 697.1200 | DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM | Regahfest 2016 2016-08-27 |
| 696.5484 | BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS | Vuur en Vlees (Fire and Meat) 2016-06-04 |
| 695.9424 | DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM | Vuur en Vlees (Fire and Meat) 2016-06-04 |
| 693.7032 | IQ - NETHERLANDS | Regahfest 2016 2016-08-27 |
| 692.5028 | BUNCH OF SWINES | Vuur en Vlees (Fire and Meat) 2016-06-04 |
| 691.3712 | MISS PIGGY'S U.K. | 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off 2016-10-08 |
| 689.1316 | BUNCH OF SWINES | 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off 2016-10-08 |
| 688.6172 | Rubmaster BBQ-Team | 4th Annual BBQ Society Cook-off 2016-10-08 |
Most GCs in NL
| Team | GCs |
|---|---|
| IQ - NETHERLANDS | 3 |
| BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS | 1 |
| MISS PIGGY'S U.K. | 1 |
| DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER BBQ-TEAM | 1 |
| FLAMING PIG BBQ (SE) | 1 |
| BBQ+ | 1 |
| BUNCH OF SWINES | 1 |
Where it happens (towns in NL)
| Town | Contests | Seasons | Avg field | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deurne, The Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 18 | 2016-06-04 |
| Hoofddorp | 2 | 1 | — | 2013-05-17 |
| Hoofddorp. Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 46 | 2016-10-08 |
| Dongen | 1 | 1 | 27 | 2016-09-10 |
| Den Hagg | 1 | 1 | 35 | 2016-08-27 |
| Delft | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2016-06-18 |
| Hoofddorp Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 65 | 2016-05-14 |
| Hoofdorp | 1 | 1 | 34 | 2016-04-23 |
| Enschede | 1 | 1 | 33 | 2016-03-19 |
Where else these teams cook
Of the 130 teams with a recorded finish in NL, this is where else they turn up — the honest picture of which scenes share a travelling field. Follow one to open it up.
| Region | Shared teams | Share of NL's field | Contests they cooked there | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium BE | 40 | 31% | 2 | compare → |
| Delaware DE | 39 | 30% | 13 | compare → |
| United States EU | 34 | 26% | 4 | compare → |
| Italy IT | 25 | 19% | 5 | compare → |
| Italy BZ | 20 | 15% | 8 | compare → |
| Germany NR | 17 | 13% | 1 | compare → |
| Tennessee TN | 16 | 12% | 16 | compare → |
| Sweden SE | 16 | 12% | 1 | compare → |