Date-Clash Checker

Teams can only be in one place on a Saturday. Pick the weekend you are thinking about and where you are, and this shows every sanctioned contest within range that would be competing for the same field — how hard each one pulls, and which weekends either side are quieter.

Type a contest town, a state, or a ZIP — or leave it empty to see the whole country. 600 contest towns autocomplete in the box.

Quieter than the weekends around it Saturday, March 30, 2013 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Slidell BBQ Challenge

In the window

±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.

The weekend of Mar 2 is the quietest in range: 4 contests. The biggest thing on it is Smokin in the Square.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Mar 30, 2013 Your weekend	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Laurie, MO	Same day	—
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Slidell BBQ Challenge	Slidell, LA	1 day before	44
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off	Benton, KY	1 day before	40
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Firelake BBQ Cook-off	Shawnee, OK	1 day before	38
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Thornton, CO	1 day before	30
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Rod Gray	Coachella, CA	1 day before	—
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Kelly Wertz	Great Bend, KS	1 day before	—
Mar 29, 2013 Your weekend	Rob 'Rub' Bagby	Hoffman Estates, IL	1 day before	—
Mar 28, 2013	Silverton BBQ Throwdown Cancelled	Las Vegas, NV	2 days before	—
Apr 5, 2013	Smokin' On Big Creek	Pleasant Hill, MO	6 days after	74
Apr 5, 2013	Stillwater Elks 25th Annual Blazathon	Stillwater, OK	6 days after	52
Apr 5, 2013	1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out	Evansville, IN	6 days after	50
Apr 5, 2013	The Ultimate BBQ Showdown East vs. West IV	Wildomar, CA	6 days after	48
Apr 5, 2013	Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff	Kennett, MO	6 days after	44
Apr 5, 2013	Smokin on the River Chattooga's BBQ Cook-Off (GBC Qualifier)	Summerville, GA	6 days after	41
Apr 5, 2013	Third Annual Bull Moose BBQ Contest	Somerville, TN	6 days after	29
Apr 5, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Salt Lake City, UT	6 days after	29
Mar 24, 2013	Chris Marks	Sellersburg, IN	6 days before	—
Apr 5, 2013	Diva Q - Danielle Dimovski	Greencastle, PA	6 days after	—
Apr 5, 2013	Paul Kirk	Nahunta, GA	6 days after	—
Apr 5, 2013	Rod Gray	Cresskill, NJ	6 days after	—
Apr 6, 2013	Kings of the Que BBQ Championship	Woodland, CA	7 days after	33
Mar 23, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class Registration Deadline 3/15/13	Okoboji, IA	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Table Captain Class	San Diego, CA	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	San Diego, CA	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Table Captain Class	Gettysburg, PA	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Gettysburg, PA	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Chris Marks	Sellersburg, IN	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Table Captain Class	Artesia, NM	7 days before	—
Mar 23, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Artesia, NM	7 days before	—
Apr 6, 2013	Chris Marks	Little Rock, AR	7 days after	—
Apr 6, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Morton, IL	7 days after	—
Apr 6, 2013	Chris Capell	Fairfax, VA	7 days after	—
Apr 6, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Anoka, MN	7 days after	—
Mar 22, 2013	Best of the Basin Barbeque Championship	Midland, TX	8 days before	59
Mar 22, 2013	Hammond Blues and BBQ	Hammond, LA	8 days before	50
Mar 22, 2013	Heatin' Up the Bricks	Kearney, NE	8 days before	40
Mar 22, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Tucson, AZ	8 days before	30
Mar 22, 2013	Jack's Old South	Unadilla, GA	8 days before	—
Apr 12, 2013	Smoke In The Spring	Osage City, KS	13 days after	71
Apr 12, 2013	The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake	Smithville, MO	13 days after	48
Apr 12, 2013	Smoke on the Falls	Gadsden, AL	13 days after	34
Apr 12, 2013	Grilling on the River '13	Columbus, MS	13 days after	31
Apr 12, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Renton, WA	13 days after	29
Apr 12, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	New Holland, PA	13 days after	—
Mar 16, 2013	Table Captain Class	Owatonna, MN	14 days before	—
Mar 16, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Owatonna, MN	14 days before	—
Mar 16, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Covington, VA	14 days before	—
Apr 13, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Denmark	14 days after	—
Apr 13, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Bakersfield, CA	14 days after	—
Mar 15, 2013	Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel	Tupelo, MS	15 days before	100
Mar 15, 2013	NKC MO State BBQ Championship	N. Kansas City, MO	15 days before	79
Mar 15, 2013	2nd Annual Santa Anita Winners' Circle BBQ Championship	Arcadia, CA	15 days before	57
Mar 15, 2013	Smokin' At The Run Miami, OK	Miami, OK	15 days before	55
Mar 15, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Albuquerque, NM	15 days before	20
Apr 14, 2013	Paul Kirk	Sumner, WA	15 days after	—
Mar 14, 2013	Certified BBQ Judging Class	North Kansas City, MO	16 days before	—

Pull is a rough estimate of how much of your potential field a contest takes: its field size, halved for roughly every 150 miles a team would have to drive past your gate to get there. It is a comparison aid, not a forecast. Field is the published team count where there is one, and otherwise the average of that contest’s own past editions.

This is the whole country. Put a town, state or ZIP in the Near box and every number above narrows to the teams who could actually reach you.

Only contests already sanctioned and listed at kcbs.us can show up here, so a quiet weekend on this page is not a guarantee — the next organiser to sanction one might be looking at the same square on the calendar. Nothing you type into this page is stored or sent anywhere: towns and ZIPs are matched against the contest listings themselves.