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 · everywhere, because no place is set
That weekend
In the window
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 | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-04-06 Your weekend | Kings of the Que BBQ Championship | Woodland, CA | 0 | 33 |
| 2013-04-06 Your weekend | Chris Marks | Little Rock, AR | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-06 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Morton, IL | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-06 Your weekend | Chris Capell | Fairfax, VA | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-06 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Anoka, MN | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Smokin' On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | -1 | 74 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Stillwater Elks 25th Annual Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | -1 | 52 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | 1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | Evansville, IN | -1 | 50 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | The Ultimate BBQ Showdown East vs. West IV | Wildomar, CA | -1 | 48 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff | Kennett, MO | -1 | 44 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Smokin on the River Chattooga's BBQ Cook-Off (GBC Qualifier) | Summerville, GA | -1 | 41 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Third Annual Bull Moose BBQ Contest | Somerville, TN | -1 | 29 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Salt Lake City, UT | -1 | 29 |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Diva Q - Danielle Dimovski | Greencastle, PA | -1 | — |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Paul Kirk | Nahunta, GA | -1 | — |
| 2013-04-05 Your weekend | Rod Gray | Cresskill, NJ | -1 | — |
| 2013-04-12 | Smoke In The Spring | Osage City, KS | 6 | 71 |
| 2013-04-12 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | 6 | 48 |
| 2013-04-12 | Smoke on the Falls | Gadsden, AL | 6 | 34 |
| 2013-04-12 | Grilling on the River '13 | Columbus, MS | 6 | 31 |
| 2013-04-12 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Renton, WA | 6 | 29 |
| 2013-04-12 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | New Holland, PA | 6 | — |
| 2013-03-30 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurie, MO | -7 | — |
| 2013-04-13 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | DENMARK, | 7 | — |
| 2013-04-13 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Bakersfield, CA | 7 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Slidell BBQ Challenge | Slidell, LA | -8 | 44 |
| 2013-03-29 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off | Benton, KY | -8 | 40 |
| 2013-03-29 | Firelake BBQ Cook-off | Shawnee, OK | -8 | 38 |
| 2013-03-29 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Thornton, CO | -8 | 30 |
| 2013-03-29 | Rod Gray | Coachella, CA | -8 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Kelly Wertz | Great Bend, KS | -8 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Rob 'Rub' Bagby | Hoffman Estates, IL | -8 | — |
| 2013-04-14 | Paul Kirk | Sumner, WA | 8 | — |
| 2013-03-28 | Silverton BBQ Throwdown Cancelled | Las Vegas, NV | -9 | — |
| 2013-04-18 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | 12 | — |
| 2013-04-19 | Pork in the Park Barbeque Festival | Salisbury, MD | 13 | 106 |
| 2013-04-19 | 5th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge (FULL) | Overland Park, KS | 13 | 73 |
| 2013-04-19 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival | Springfield, MO | 13 | 68 |
| 2013-04-19 | 8th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 13 | 63 |
| 2013-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 13 | 60 |
| 2013-04-19 | Kings Mountain Firehouse BBQ Cook-off | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 | 55 |
| 2013-04-19 | Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest | Washington, MO | 13 | 50 |
| 2013-04-19 | Smoke Over Veishea | Ames, IA | 13 | 36 |
| 2013-04-19 | Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festivals (GBC Qualifier) | Cornelia, GA | 13 | 36 |
| 2013-04-19 | New York City BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 13 | 33 |
| 2013-04-19 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | Las Vegas, NV | 13 | 30 |
| 2013-03-24 | Chris Marks | Sellersburg, IN | -13 | — |
| 2013-04-19 | Table Captain Class | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 | — |
| 2013-04-20 | High Desert BBQ Showdown | Victorville, CA | 14 | 32 |
| 2013-03-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class Registration Deadline 3/15/13 | Okoboji, IA | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Table Captain Class | San Diego, CA | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | San Diego, CA | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Table Captain Class | Gettysburg, PA | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gettysburg, PA | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Chris Marks | Sellersburg, IN | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Table Captain Class | Artesia, NM | -14 | — |
| 2013-03-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Artesia, NM | -14 | — |
| 2013-04-20 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-20 | Bob Oldfield | Morrison, CO | 14 | — |
| 2013-03-22 | Best of the Basin Barbeque Championship | Midland, TX | -15 | 59 |
| 2013-03-22 | Hammond Blues and BBQ | Hammond, LA | -15 | 50 |
| 2013-03-22 | Heatin' Up the Bricks | Kearney, NE | -15 | 40 |
| 2013-03-22 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Tucson, AZ | -15 | 30 |
| 2013-03-22 | Jack's Old South | Unadilla, GA | -15 | — |
| 2013-04-21 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 15 | — |
| 2013-04-22 | Table Captain Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 16 | — |
| 2013-04-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 17 | — |
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. Days off counts from your date, so a negative number is before it.
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.