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 5, 2014 · 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.
- 8 Feb 22
- 8 Mar 1
- 10 Mar 8
- 18 Mar 15
- 9 Mar 22
- 9 Mar 29
- 17 Apr 5
- 16 Apr 12
- 7 Apr 19
- 22 Apr 26
- 26 May 3
- 19 May 10
- 17 May 17
The weekend of Apr 19 is the quietest in range: 7 contests. The biggest thing on it is High on the Hog Festival.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-05 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | Owatonna, MN | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-05 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Owatonna, MN | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Smokin On Big Creek - Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief | Pleasant Hill, MO | -1 | 75 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off (Teams Full) | Cedar Park, TX | -1 | 50 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Rockahock's Pickin' and Pullin' Festival | Lanexa, VA | -1 | 41 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | -1 | 40 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | 'Que at the View | Gulfport, MS | -1 | 36 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Fourth Annual Bull Moose | Somerville, TN | -1 | 31 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Renton, WA | -1 | 30 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff | Kennett, MO | -1 | 22 |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Lang BBQ Smokers | Nahunta, GA | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Competition BBQ Class | Loveland, CO | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-04 Your weekend | Lotta Bull U Technique Cooking Class | Greenwood, SC | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kookoff Cancelled | Benton, KY | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-03 Your weekend | 2nd Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | Evansville, IN | -2 | 64 |
| 2014-04-03 Your weekend | Smokin on the River (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) | Summerville, GA | -2 | 30 |
| 2014-04-03 Your weekend | Grill Class | Loveland, CO | -2 | — |
| 2014-04-03 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gulfport, MS | -2 | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair | Harrington, DE | 6 | 109 |
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke In The Spring | Osage City, KS | 6 | 73 |
| 2014-04-11 | 9th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 6 | 64 |
| 2014-04-11 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | 6 | 54 |
| 2014-04-11 | 6th Annual Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest | Washington, MO | 6 | 46 |
| 2014-04-11 | New York City BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 6 | 37 |
| 2014-04-11 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest | Gadsden, AL | 6 | 34 |
| 2014-04-11 | Jammin' Pig BBQ Musice Festival | Winston-Salem, NC | 6 | 30 |
| 2014-04-11 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Salt Lake City, UT | 6 | 29 |
| 2014-03-30 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | -6 | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Myron Mixon | Unadilla, GA | 6 | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | New Holland, PA | 6 | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Kings of the Que BBQ Championship Cancelled | Woodland, CA | 6 | — |
| 2014-03-29 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Omaha, NE | -7 | — |
| 2014-03-29 | Chris Cappell's Competition Barbecue Class | Fairfax, VA | -7 | — |
| 2014-03-29 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Garden City, KS | -7 | — |
| 2014-04-12 | BBQ 101 | Diamond Bar, CA | 7 | — |
| 2014-04-12 | BBQ Chicken & Ribs | Murfreesboro, TN | 7 | — |
| 2014-04-12 | Ribs and Chicken | Plano, TX | 7 | — |
| 2014-04-12 | BBQ 101 - Hosted by Firin' up the Fox | St. Charles, IL | 7 | — |
| 2014-03-28 | Firelake BBQ Cook-off | Shawnee, OK | -8 | 43 |
| 2014-03-28 | Grills Gone Wild BBQ Festival | London, KY | -8 | 42 |
| 2014-03-28 | Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash (SBBQA) | Ashburn, GA | -8 | 35 |
| 2014-03-28 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Sacramento, CA | -8 | 29 |
| 2014-04-13 | BBQ 102 - Hosted by Firin' up the Fox | St. Charles, IL | 8 | — |
| 2014-03-27 | BBQ Throw Down 2014 @ Windcreek | Atmore, AL | -9 | 21 |
| 2014-04-16 | Brisket Class | Hutchinson, KS | 11 | — |
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 13 | 62 |
| 2014-04-18 | 17th Annual Firehouse BBQ Cook-off | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 | 55 |
| 2014-04-18 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Denver, CO | 13 | 30 |
| 2014-04-18 | Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festival (SBBQA) | Cornelia, GA | 13 | 27 |
| 2014-04-18 | Smokin' In The Creek BBQ Cook-off Cancelled | Sugar Creek, MO | 13 | — |
| 2014-03-22 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Woodward, OK | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-22 | Chris Marks & Hal Wagner | Sellersburg, IN | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-22 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Floyd, VA | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-22 | Table Captain Class | Gettysburg, PA | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-22 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gettysburg, PA | -14 | — |
| 2014-04-19 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Mankato, MN | 14 | — |
| 2014-04-19 | BBQ 101 | Diamond Bar, CA | 14 | — |
| 2014-03-21 | 3rd Annual Santa Anita Winners' Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | -15 | 69 |
| 2014-03-21 | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | -15 | 61 |
| 2014-03-21 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Tucson, AZ | -15 | 30 |
| 2014-03-21 | Competition BBQ Class | Great Bend, KS | -15 | — |
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.