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.
About average for this stretch Saturday, April 6, 2013 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 6 Feb 23
- 4 Mar 2
- 13 Mar 9
- 9 Mar 16
- 14 Mar 23
- 8 Mar 30
- 16 Apr 6
- 9 Apr 13
- 19 Apr 20
- 24 Apr 27
- 19 May 4
- 18 May 11
- 20 May 18
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2013 Your weekend |
Kings of the Que BBQ Championship | Woodland, CA | Same day | 33 |
| Apr 6, 2013 Your weekend |
Chris Marks | Little Rock, AR | Same day | — |
| Apr 6, 2013 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Morton, IL | Same day | — |
| Apr 6, 2013 Your weekend |
Chris Capell | Fairfax, VA | Same day | — |
| Apr 6, 2013 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Anoka, MN | Same day | — |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Smokin' On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | 1 day before | 74 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Stillwater Elks 25th Annual Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | 1 day before | 52 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | Evansville, IN | 1 day before | 50 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
The Ultimate BBQ Showdown East vs. West IV | Wildomar, CA | 1 day before | 48 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff | Kennett, MO | 1 day before | 44 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Smokin on the River Chattooga's BBQ Cook-Off (GBC Qualifier) | Summerville, GA | 1 day before | 41 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Third Annual Bull Moose BBQ Contest | Somerville, TN | 1 day before | 29 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Salt Lake City, UT | 1 day before | 29 |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Diva Q - Danielle Dimovski | Greencastle, PA | 1 day before | — |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Paul Kirk | Nahunta, GA | 1 day before | — |
| Apr 5, 2013 Your weekend |
Rod Gray | Cresskill, NJ | 1 day before | — |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Smoke In The Spring | Osage City, KS | 6 days after | 71 |
| Apr 12, 2013 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | 6 days after | 48 |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Smoke on the Falls | Gadsden, AL | 6 days after | 34 |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Grilling on the River '13 | Columbus, MS | 6 days after | 31 |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Renton, WA | 6 days after | 29 |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | New Holland, PA | 6 days after | — |
| Mar 30, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurie, MO | 7 days before | — |
| Apr 13, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Denmark | 7 days after | — |
| Apr 13, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Bakersfield, CA | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Slidell BBQ Challenge | Slidell, LA | 8 days before | 44 |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off | Benton, KY | 8 days before | 40 |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Firelake BBQ Cook-off | Shawnee, OK | 8 days before | 38 |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Thornton, CO | 8 days before | 30 |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Rod Gray | Coachella, CA | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Kelly Wertz | Great Bend, KS | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Rob 'Rub' Bagby | Hoffman Estates, IL | 8 days before | — |
| Apr 14, 2013 | Paul Kirk | Sumner, WA | 8 days after | — |
| Mar 28, 2013 | Silverton BBQ Throwdown Cancelled | Las Vegas, NV | 9 days before | — |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | 12 days after | — |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Pork in the Park Barbeque Festival | Salisbury, MD | 13 days after | 106 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | 5th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge (FULL) | Overland Park, KS | 13 days after | 73 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival | Springfield, MO | 13 days after | 68 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | 8th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 13 days after | 63 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 13 days after | 60 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Kings Mountain Firehouse BBQ Cook-off | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 days after | 55 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest | Washington, MO | 13 days after | 50 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Smoke Over Veishea | Ames, IA | 13 days after | 36 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festivals (GBC Qualifier) | Cornelia, GA | 13 days after | 36 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | New York City BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 13 days after | 33 |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | Las Vegas, NV | 13 days after | 30 |
| Mar 24, 2013 | Chris Marks | Sellersburg, IN | 13 days before | — |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Table Captain Class | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 20, 2013 | High Desert BBQ Showdown | Victorville, CA | 14 days after | 32 |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class Registration Deadline 3/15/13 | Okoboji, IA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Table Captain Class | San Diego, CA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | San Diego, CA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Table Captain Class | Gettysburg, PA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gettysburg, PA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Chris Marks | Sellersburg, IN | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Table Captain Class | Artesia, NM | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 23, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Artesia, NM | 14 days before | — |
| Apr 20, 2013 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 20, 2013 | Bob Oldfield | Morrison, CO | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Best of the Basin Barbeque Championship | Midland, TX | 15 days before | 59 |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Hammond Blues and BBQ | Hammond, LA | 15 days before | 50 |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Heatin' Up the Bricks | Kearney, NE | 15 days before | 40 |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Tucson, AZ | 15 days before | 30 |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Jack's Old South | Unadilla, GA | 15 days before | — |
| Apr 21, 2013 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 15 days after | — |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Table Captain Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 16 days after | — |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 17 days after | — |
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.