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, April 13, 2013 · everywhere, because no place is set
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 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
- 19 May 25
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-04-13 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | DENMARK, | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-13 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Bakersfield, CA | 0 | — |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | Smoke In The Spring | Osage City, KS | -1 | 71 |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | -1 | 48 |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | Smoke on the Falls | Gadsden, AL | -1 | 34 |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | Grilling on the River '13 | Columbus, MS | -1 | 31 |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Renton, WA | -1 | 29 |
| 2013-04-12 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | New Holland, PA | -1 | — |
| 2013-04-14 Your weekend | Paul Kirk | Sumner, WA | 1 | — |
| 2013-04-18 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | 5 | — |
| 2013-04-19 | Pork in the Park Barbeque Festival | Salisbury, MD | 6 | 106 |
| 2013-04-19 | 5th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge (FULL) | Overland Park, KS | 6 | 73 |
| 2013-04-19 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival | Springfield, MO | 6 | 68 |
| 2013-04-19 | 8th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 6 | 63 |
| 2013-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 6 | 60 |
| 2013-04-19 | Kings Mountain Firehouse BBQ Cook-off | Kings Mountain, NC | 6 | 55 |
| 2013-04-19 | Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest | Washington, MO | 6 | 50 |
| 2013-04-19 | Smoke Over Veishea | Ames, IA | 6 | 36 |
| 2013-04-19 | Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festivals (GBC Qualifier) | Cornelia, GA | 6 | 36 |
| 2013-04-19 | New York City BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 6 | 33 |
| 2013-04-19 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | Las Vegas, NV | 6 | 30 |
| 2013-04-19 | Table Captain Class | Kings Mountain, NC | 6 | — |
| 2013-04-06 | Kings of the Que BBQ Championship | Woodland, CA | -7 | 33 |
| 2013-04-20 | High Desert BBQ Showdown | Victorville, CA | 7 | 32 |
| 2013-04-06 | Chris Marks | Little Rock, AR | -7 | — |
| 2013-04-06 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Morton, IL | -7 | — |
| 2013-04-06 | Chris Capell | Fairfax, VA | -7 | — |
| 2013-04-06 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Anoka, MN | -7 | — |
| 2013-04-20 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 7 | — |
| 2013-04-20 | Bob Oldfield | Morrison, CO | 7 | — |
| 2013-04-05 | Smokin' On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | -8 | 74 |
| 2013-04-05 | Stillwater Elks 25th Annual Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | -8 | 52 |
| 2013-04-05 | 1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | Evansville, IN | -8 | 50 |
| 2013-04-05 | The Ultimate BBQ Showdown East vs. West IV | Wildomar, CA | -8 | 48 |
| 2013-04-05 | Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff | Kennett, MO | -8 | 44 |
| 2013-04-05 | Smokin on the River Chattooga's BBQ Cook-Off (GBC Qualifier) | Summerville, GA | -8 | 41 |
| 2013-04-05 | Third Annual Bull Moose BBQ Contest | Somerville, TN | -8 | 29 |
| 2013-04-05 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Salt Lake City, UT | -8 | 29 |
| 2013-04-05 | Diva Q - Danielle Dimovski | Greencastle, PA | -8 | — |
| 2013-04-05 | Paul Kirk | Nahunta, GA | -8 | — |
| 2013-04-05 | Rod Gray | Cresskill, NJ | -8 | — |
| 2013-04-21 | Chris Marks | Austin, TX | 8 | — |
| 2013-04-22 | Table Captain Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 9 | — |
| 2013-04-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Sugar Creek, MO | 10 | — |
| 2013-04-24 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gothenburg, NE | 11 | — |
| 2013-04-25 | Chris Marks | Lisle, IL | 12 | — |
| 2013-04-25 | Table Captain Class | Gothenburg, NE | 12 | — |
| 2013-04-26 | BBQ Capital Cook-Off | Lexington, NC | 13 | 71 |
| 2013-04-26 | Pony Express BBQ Challenge | Gothenburg, NE | 13 | 47 |
| 2013-04-26 | Smokin' In The Creek | Sugar Creek, MO | 13 | 41 |
| 2013-04-26 | Wabash Ribber Fest Barbecue Championship | Mt. Carmel, IL | 13 | 36 |
| 2013-04-26 | Smokin' in the Ozarks | Rogers, AR | 13 | 34 |
| 2013-04-26 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Overland Park, KS | 13 | 30 |
| 2013-04-26 | Char-Broil Pig Bowl (GBC Qualifier) | Columbus, GA | 13 | 26 |
| 2013-04-26 | Smokin 'n' the Ville | Edwardsville, KS | 13 | 26 |
| 2013-04-26 | R'Kansas City State BBQ Championship | Arkansas City, KS | 13 | 25 |
| 2013-04-26 | BBQ Boogie & Blues | Calhoun, GA | 13 | 25 |
| 2013-04-26 | Savannah BBQ Fest & Bone Marrow Drive (CANCELLED- BBQ EVENT ONLY) | Savannah, MO | 13 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | 7th Stagecoach BBQ Fest | Indio, CA | 14 | 30 |
| 2013-03-30 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurie, MO | -14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Mankato, MN | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Chris Marks | St. Charles, IL | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Table Captain Class | Bardstown, KY | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Bardstown, KY | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Bob Snelson | Kansas City, KS | 14 | — |
| 2013-04-27 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Stillwater, OK | 14 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Slidell BBQ Challenge | Slidell, LA | -15 | 44 |
| 2013-03-29 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off | Benton, KY | -15 | 40 |
| 2013-03-29 | Firelake BBQ Cook-off | Shawnee, OK | -15 | 38 |
| 2013-03-29 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Thornton, CO | -15 | 30 |
| 2013-03-29 | Rod Gray | Coachella, CA | -15 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Kelly Wertz | Great Bend, KS | -15 | — |
| 2013-03-29 | Rob 'Rub' Bagby | Hoffman Estates, IL | -15 | — |
| 2013-04-28 | Chris Marks | St. Charles, IL | 15 | — |
| 2013-04-28 | Southern Hot Wing Contest | Memphis, TN | 15 | — |
| 2013-03-28 | Silverton BBQ Throwdown Cancelled | Las Vegas, NV | -16 | — |
| 2013-04-30 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Estonia, | 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.