Riding a hot streak
Currently on a 21-contest overall top-10 run.
- career best 21
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Currently on a 21-contest overall top-10 run.
Came within 1.7028 points of the Grand Championship at Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 2025 (Day 2) (2025-06-28).
In the top 5% of every rated team in the data
A power rating of 1721 puts them #304 of 6,413 rated teams — the top 5% of the field.
2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 80 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Vuur en Vlees (2024-09-21) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 20-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Backcorner BBQ.
Their power rating has climbed 63 points across 11 contests since 2025-08-22 — from 1658 up to 1721.
Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 2) is their spot: an average finish in the top 14% across 2 visits.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 3 times — the best of them 2 category wins at Spitsbroek on Fire III (2026-04-24).
A call in 49 of 54 contests
A top-10 category call in 91% of their 54 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
96.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 693.6572 at Spitsbroek on Fire III — 96.3% of a perfect 720.
BUNCH OF SWINES has finished one call ahead of The Antwerp Smokers 6 times — their closest competition in the data.
2025 was the year it came together: 14 contests, 1 Grand Championship and 7 category wins, at an average finish in the top 19%.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.95 points below their pork, and turns into a call 56% of the time against 80%.
Ahead in 85% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM in 22 of their 26 shared contests.
BBQ+ ahead 62% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, BBQ+ has out-cooked them in 16 of 26 shared pork entries.
Runner-up for the whole thing 6 times against 3 Grand Championships — close enough to touch it, over and over.
The BBQ Ranch has landed one call behind them 6 times.
Something about August: average finish in the top 22% across 3 contests, versus top 40% the rest of the year.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 7,375 miles across 54 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 716 miles to UK Barbecue Championships at Hayles Fruit Farm.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Careers of much the same size, 42 contests to 54, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 37 contests, alongside a 59% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1755 at their best, 34 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before The Antwerp Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before The Antwerp Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Antwerp Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbecoa BBQ Team | 38 | 23 | 15 | 61% | ⚔ compare |
| It's spice that meats you | 35 | 20 | 15 | 57% | ⚔ compare |
| The BBQ Ranch | 34 | 21 | 13 | 62% | ⚔ compare |
| BELGIAN BBQ TEAM FIVE Q | 33 | 16 | 17 | 48% | ⚔ compare |
| Just wing it BBQ team | 29 | 19 | 10 | 66% | ⚔ compare |
| Osdorp Grillers (NL) | 29 | 19 | 10 | 66% | ⚔ compare |
| BUNCH OF SWINES | 27 | 6 | 21 | 22% | ⚔ compare |
| ANTWERPS BBQ-TEAM | 26 | 22 | 4 | 85% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ+ | 26 | 9 | 17 | 35% | ⚔ compare |
| COOKLOUNGE BBQ | 26 | 8 | 18 | 31% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKE ON THE WILD SIDE | 25 | 13 | 12 | 52% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ Team Laurentius | 23 | 7 | 16 | 30% | ⚔ compare |
| RIVERLAND SMOKERS | 22 | 14 | 8 | 64% | ⚔ compare |
| Backcorner BBQ | 20 | 4 | 16 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| VH BBQ | 18 | 16 | 2 | 89% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 49 | 33 | 3 | 12 | 180.0000 🔥 | 146.2400 | 168.63 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 50 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 177.7028 | 140.4800 | 162.76 | top 54% |
| Pork | 49 | 39 | 12 | 17 | 180.0000 🔥 | 153.1544 | 169.70 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 50 | 32 | 4 | 15 | 177.7028 | 133.6344 | 164.35 | top 45% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| GL | 1 | 0 | top 43% |
| BZ | 1 | 0 | top 12% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 26 | 3 | top 38% |
| Medium (20–39) | 21 | 0 | top 44% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 12% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) | 4 | 3 | 0 | top 46% | 2024-09-07 |
| Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 2025 (Day 2) | 3 | 1 | 1 | top 24% | 2025-06-28 |
| Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | top 47% | 2023-04-08 |
| Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 2) | 2 | 2 | 0 | top 14% | 2025-09-13 |
| KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees | 2 | 11 | 0 | top 86% | 2023-09-23 |
| Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2023 | 2 | 3 | 0 | top 53% | 2023-09-16 |
| Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 44% | 2023-06-24 |
| Meetjesland International BBQ Contest | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 60% | 2023-04-29 |
| Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 56% | 2023-04-07 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +17.9 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 2 | 2023-04-08 |
| +15.8 | Spring Break BBQ Contest 4 | 2023-03-25 |
| +15.7 | Vuur en Vlees | 2024-09-21 |
| +15.3 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 2025 (Day 1) | 2025-06-27 |
| +15.2 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) | 2023-09-10 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.3 | Spring Break BBQ Contest III | 2022-03-26 |
| -10.8 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ-Contest II | 2022-05-21 |
| -9.5 | KCBS International BBQ contest Vuur en Vlees | 2021-10-23 |
| -8.4 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest | 2022-05-14 |
| -8.1 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2022-Day 2 | 2022-04-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 100% | top 21% | 96.3% | 95.6% |
| 2025 | 14 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 100% | top 19% | 96.1% | 94.5% |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 100% | top 39% | 95.1% | 92.7% |
| 2023 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 100% | top 39% | 94.1% | 92% |
| 2022 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 64% | top 74% | 91.8% | 88.3% |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 63% | 91.3% | 89.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-11 | No Smoke, No Glory (ONE MEAT BRISKET) Zagreb, 10000 | — | — | — | — | 4 (169.6800) |
| 2026-07-11 | No Smoke, No Glory (ONE MEAT RIBS) Zagreb, 10000 | — | — | 2 (177.7028) | — | — |
| 2026-07-10 | No Smoke, No Glory Zagreb, 10000 | 7 / 16 (686.7772) | 5 (175.4172) | 12 (168.5256) | 7 (174.2744) | 7 (168.5600) |
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | 5 / 25 (693.5996) | 10 (173.1084) | 13 (169.6800) | 6 (175.4056) | 4 (175.4056) |
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | 3 (176.5600) | — | — | — |
| 2026-06-20 | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) Peschiera del Garda, 37019 | — | — | 10 (167.4172) | — | — |
| 2026-05-23 | Het Belgisch Barbecue Weekend 8the Edition Boom, 2850 | 3 / 18 (689.6228) | 11 (169.6684) | 1 (176.5600) | 6 (170.2744) | 6 (173.1200) |
| 2026-05-22 | Het Belgisch Barbecue Weekend 7the Edition Boom, 2850 | 3 / 13 (675.2800) | 5 (167.3828) | 3 (169.6916) | 1 (177.7028) | 10 (160.5028) |
| 2026-04-25 | Spitsbroek on Fire IV Eede Holland, 4529 PW | 3 / 15 (688.4684) | 4 (171.9656) | 3 (173.1200) | 4 (173.7144) | 5 (169.6684) |
| 2026-04-24 | Spitsbroek on Fire III Eede Holland, 4529 PW | 1 / 11 (693.6572) | 6 (169.6916) | 3 (169.1200) | 1 (177.7028) | 1 (177.1428) |
| 2026-04-11 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge PARMA, 43126 | 5 / 42 (690.7656) | 29 (167.9656) | 6 (171.9772) | 8 (174.2628) | 2 (176.5600) |
| 2025-09-13 | Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 2) Dongen, 5106NC | 2 / 23 (684.4224) | 4 (170.8228) | 7 (170.8112) | 1 (176.5600) | 9 (166.2284) |
| 2025-09-12 | Vaartse Hoeve BBQ Contest (Day 1) Dongen, 5106NC | 3 / 16 (689.6228) | 2 (176.5600) | 9 (166.2400) | 5 (173.1200) | 1 (173.7028) |
| 2025-08-29 | Vuur en Vlees Deurne, 5753 SG | 2 / 13 (685.6000) | 3 (171.9656) | 3 (167.3944) | 1 (176.5600) | 6 (169.6800) |
| 2025-08-22 | Smoke in the North Rolfstorp, | 4 / 31 (670.7428) | 12 (164.5372) | 4 (166.8228) | 5 (169.1200) | 3 (170.2628) |
| 2025-06-28 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 2025 (Day 2) Dodewaard, 6669 BZ | 2 / 18 (691.9428) | 5 (174.8572) | 8 (169.6800) | 1 (175.4056) | 2 (172.0000) |
| 2025-06-27 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 2025 (Day 1) Dodewaard, 6669 BZ | 1 / 13 (689.6456) | 9 (165.6684) | 3 (172.5716) | 1 (177.1428) | 1 (174.2628) |
| 2025-06-07 | UK Barbecue Championships at Hayles Fruit Farm Cheltenham, GL | 3 / 7 (681.0400) | 2 (171.9772) | 3 (163.9428) | 3 (168.5372) | 2 (176.5828) |
| 2025-05-24 | Het Belgisch Barbecue Weekend 6the Edition Boom, 2850 | 2 / 20 (687.3944) | 4 (173.7028) | 9 (169.1660) | 10 (166.8228) | 2 (177.7028) |
| 2025-05-23 | Het Belgisch Barbecue Weekend 5the Edition Boom, 2850 | 5 / 16 (655.3600) | 2 (171.9656) | 13 (150.8688) | 10 (159.9772) | 3 (172.5484) |
| 2025-05-17 | Muehlviertler BBQ Festival Freistadt, Os 4240 | 5 / 15 (672.4568) | 9 (163.9884) | 8 (165.6800) | 4 (168.5256) | 1 (174.2628) |
| 2025-05-17 | Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT BRISKET) Freistadt, Os 4240 | — | — | — | — | 2 (170.8228) |
| 2025-05-17 | Muehlviertler BBQ Festival (ONE MEAT PORK) Freistadt, Os 4240 | — | — | — | 2 (174.2628) | — |
| 2025-04-26 | Spitsbroek on Fire Pt. 2 Eede Holland, 4529 PW | 2 / 15 (674.1600) | 2 (174.2628) | 10 (155.3716) | 2 (177.7028) | 5 (166.8228) |
| 2025-03-29 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge Brescia, 25125 | 8 / 30 (686.2288) | 28 (162.8000) | 4 (175.4288) | 11 (171.9772) | 2 (176.0228) |
| 2024-09-21 | Vuur en Vlees Deurne, 5752 5C | 1 / 10 (672.4228) | 3 (169.6800) | 8 (162.2400) | 1 (175.4172) | 3 (165.0856) |
| 2024-09-07 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) Dongen, 5106NC | 9 / 24 (670.7776) | 9 (171.4056) | 14 (163.9660) | 10 (167.4172) | 8 (167.9888) |
| 2024-09-06 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 1) Dongen, 5106NC | 13 / 16 (650.0576) | 1 (177.7028) | 15 (143.8516) | 3 (171.4172) | 12 (157.0860) |
| 2024-06-22 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 6669 BZ Dodewaard, | 12 / 23 (666.7084) | 15 (165.6568) | 13 (163.9888) | 4 (171.9772) | 12 (165.0856) |
| 2024-04-20 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ Contest 2024 Terneuzen, 4538AP | 13 / 23 (658.1372) | 11 (168.5256) | 20 (153.6572) | 6 (170.8344) | 13 (165.1200) |
| 2024-03-23 | Spitsbroek on Fire Eede Holland, R523 PW | 5 / 22 (671.9084) | 1 (174.2628) | 1 (173.7028) | 19 (155.9200) | 6 (168.0228) |
| 2024-02-24 | W.E.S.T. Winter Extreme South Tyrol Rein in Taufers, BZ | 3 / 26 (684.5372) | 1 (180.0000) | 19 (161.6800) | 2 (180.0000) | 14 (162.8572) |
| 2023-09-23 | KCBS International BBQ Contest Vuur en Vlees Deurne, 5752 5C | 11 / 13 (622.1024) | 9 (159.3712) | 10 (154.2628) | 7 (165.0856) | 12 (143.3828) |
| 2023-09-16 | Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2023 Sint Niklaas, 9100 | 3 / 14 (665.6348) | 4 (168.5372) | 12 (154.8232) | 1 (175.4172) | 3 (166.8572) |
| 2023-09-10 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest (Day 2) Dongen, 5106NC | 3 / 23 (677.1088) | 4 (174.8456) | 7 (164.0000) | 4 (174.8688) | 9 (163.3944) |
| 2023-09-09 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" Barbeque Contest Dongen, 5106NC | 7 / 13 (660.4796) | 12 (158.1824) | 7 (164.5944) | 1 (177.1544) | 8 (160.5484) |
| 2023-06-24 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 6669 MH Dodewaard, | 10 / 26 (664.4228) | 5 (173.7028) | 19 (157.6572) | 6 (169.6684) | 12 (163.3944) |
| 2023-04-29 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest Aalter, 9880 | 7 / 20 (662.7544) | 8 (167.3828) | 14 (158.2744) | 1 (173.1200) | 8 (163.9772) |
| 2023-04-08 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 2 MEERBEKE, 9402 | 2 / 13 (673.0972) | 5 (169.1084) | 8 (164.5488) | 1 (174.8572) | 5 (164.5828) |
| 2023-04-07 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 1 MEERBEKE, 9402 | 7 / 10 (655.8968) | 6 (166.2512) | 2 (169.7144) | 7 (159.9428) | 8 (159.9884) |
| 2023-03-25 | Spring Break BBQ Contest 4 Lommel, 3920 | 3 / 18 (677.5884) | 14 (163.3828) | 3 (169.6916) | 6 (171.9656) | 5 (172.5484) |
| 2022-12-03 | Holiday in Hell Helshoven, | 8 / 15 (661.0744) | 11 (166.8344) | 10 (165.1544) | 1 (173.1200) | 13 (155.9656) |
| 2022-12-02 | Burn in Hell - When Hell Freezes Over Helshoven, | 12 / 15 (640.4228) | 5 (171.4056) | 13 (162.2628) | 4 (173.1200) | 15 (133.6344) |
| 2022-09-17 | Het BBQkampioenschap van het Waasland 2020 Sint Niklaas, 9100 | 21 / 25 (630.1144) | 5 (168.5484) | 23 (147.3944) | 6 (165.6916) | 20 (148.4800) |
| 2022-09-10 | Farm Meat "De Vaartse Hoeve" BBQ Contest Dongen, 5106NC | 18 / 28 (633.5772) | 20 (162.2856) | 27 (150.8116) | 8 (170.8344) | 21 (149.6456) |
| 2022-06-25 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest 6669 MH Dodewaard, | 11 / 22 (659.3032) | 11 (169.6800) | 17 (160.5372) | 12 (165.0972) | 12 (163.9888) |
| 2022-06-03 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition Hoofddorp, 2134CG | 29 / 38 (627.7260) | 17 (166.2400) | 27 (154.7772) | 28 (157.0860) | 27 (149.6228) |
| 2022-05-21 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ-Contest II Terneuzen, 4538AP | 18 / 18 (618.6288) | 18 (157.0628) | 13 (156.5488) | 12 (164.5372) | 18 (140.4800) |
| 2022-05-14 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest Aalter, 9880 | 16 / 19 (633.6688) | 2 (171.9884) | 18 (154.2400) | 17 (153.1544) | 16 (154.2860) |
| 2022-04-16 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2022-Day 2 MEERBEKE, 9402 | 21 / 24 (635.8400) | 20 (162.8228) | 22 (150.7888) | 10 (167.4056) | 20 (154.8228) |
| 2022-04-15 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2022-Day 1 MEERBEKE, 9402 | 8 / 19 (661.0288) | 2 (176.5600) | 13 (156.5144) | 13 (163.9544) | 11 (164.0000) |
| 2022-03-26 | Spring Break BBQ Contest III Lommel, 3920 | 28 / 31 (592.9260) | 29 (146.2400) | 27 (140.4800) | 23 (153.6800) | 21 (152.5260) |
| 2021-10-23 | KCBS International BBQ contest Vuur en Vlees Liesselseweg, Deurne, 5752 SC | 26 / 30 (625.4740) | 29 (151.3484) | 25 (155.9084) | 22 (159.9772) | 24 (158.2400) |
| 2021-08-14 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2020-Day 2 MEERBEKE, 9402 | 10 / 26 (657.1316) | 7 (169.1428) | 6 (163.9772) | 19 (153.6572) | 3 (170.3544) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #35 (1781 pts) | #62 (1454 pts) | #15 (1982 pts) | #35 (1626 pts) | #24 (1798 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #24 (2272 pts) | #35 (1976 pts) | #91 (1726 pts) | #11 (2291 pts) | #5 (2453 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #179 (1114 pts) | #116 (1374 pts) | #286 (859 pts) | #130 (1289 pts) | #228 (949 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #149 (1220 pts) | #167 (1125 pts) | #202 (1095 pts) | #76 (1595 pts) | #201 (1010 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #302 (766 pts) | #180 (1166 pts) | #383 (666 pts) | #234 (971 pts) | #315 (751 pts) |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | #750 (181 pts) | #742 (211 pts) | #738 (221 pts) | #866 (151 pts) | #607 (286 pts) |