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 12, 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 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
- 16 May 24
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-12 Your weekend | BBQ 101 | Diamond Bar, CA | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-12 Your weekend | BBQ Chicken & Ribs | Murfreesboro, TN | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-12 Your weekend | Ribs and Chicken | Plano, TX | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-12 Your weekend | BBQ 101 - Hosted by Firin' up the Fox | St. Charles, IL | 0 | — |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair | Harrington, DE | -1 | 109 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Smoke In The Spring | Osage City, KS | -1 | 73 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | 9th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | -1 | 64 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | -1 | 54 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | 6th Annual Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest | Washington, MO | -1 | 46 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | New York City BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | -1 | 37 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest | Gadsden, AL | -1 | 34 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Jammin' Pig BBQ Musice Festival | Winston-Salem, NC | -1 | 30 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Salt Lake City, UT | -1 | 29 |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Myron Mixon | Unadilla, GA | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-11 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | New Holland, PA | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-11 | Kings of the Que BBQ Championship Cancelled | Woodland, CA | -1 | — |
| 2014-04-13 Your weekend | BBQ 102 - Hosted by Firin' up the Fox | St. Charles, IL | 1 | — |
| 2014-04-16 | Brisket Class | Hutchinson, KS | 4 | — |
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 6 | 62 |
| 2014-04-18 | 17th Annual Firehouse BBQ Cook-off | Kings Mountain, NC | 6 | 55 |
| 2014-04-18 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Denver, CO | 6 | 30 |
| 2014-04-18 | Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festival (SBBQA) | Cornelia, GA | 6 | 27 |
| 2014-04-18 | Smokin' In The Creek BBQ Cook-off Cancelled | Sugar Creek, MO | 6 | — |
| 2014-04-05 | Table Captain Class | Owatonna, MN | -7 | — |
| 2014-04-05 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Owatonna, MN | -7 | — |
| 2014-04-19 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Mankato, MN | 7 | — |
| 2014-04-19 | BBQ 101 | Diamond Bar, CA | 7 | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Smokin On Big Creek - Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief | Pleasant Hill, MO | -8 | 75 |
| 2014-04-04 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off (Teams Full) | Cedar Park, TX | -8 | 50 |
| 2014-04-04 | Rockahock's Pickin' and Pullin' Festival | Lanexa, VA | -8 | 41 |
| 2014-04-04 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | -8 | 40 |
| 2014-04-04 | 'Que at the View | Gulfport, MS | -8 | 36 |
| 2014-04-04 | Fourth Annual Bull Moose | Somerville, TN | -8 | 31 |
| 2014-04-04 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Renton, WA | -8 | 30 |
| 2014-04-04 | Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff | Kennett, MO | -8 | 22 |
| 2014-04-04 | Lang BBQ Smokers | Nahunta, GA | -8 | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Competition BBQ Class | Loveland, CO | -8 | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Lotta Bull U Technique Cooking Class | Greenwood, SC | -8 | — |
| 2014-04-04 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kookoff Cancelled | Benton, KY | -8 | — |
| 2014-04-03 | 2nd Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | Evansville, IN | -9 | 64 |
| 2014-04-03 | Smokin on the River (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) | Summerville, GA | -9 | 30 |
| 2014-04-03 | Grill Class | Loveland, CO | -9 | — |
| 2014-04-03 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gulfport, MS | -9 | — |
| 2014-04-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gothenburg, NE | 11 | — |
| 2014-04-23 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | 11 | — |
| 2014-04-24 | Table Captain Class | Overland Park, KS | 12 | — |
| 2014-04-24 | Table Captain Class | Gothenburg, NE | 12 | — |
| 2014-04-25 | VFW Post 846 6th Annual BBQ Challenge (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE) | Overland Park, KS | 13 | 65 |
| 2014-04-25 | Bynum Schools Best of the Basin BBQ Championship | Midland, TX | 13 | 62 |
| 2014-04-25 | BBQ Capital Cookoff | Lexington, NC | 13 | 62 |
| 2014-04-25 | Wabash Ribberfest Barbecue Championship | Mt. Carmel, IL | 13 | 50 |
| 2014-04-25 | Central Iowa Expo BBQ, Cruise & Brew | Boone, IA | 13 | 45 |
| 2014-04-25 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | Las Vegas, NV | 13 | 30 |
| 2014-04-25 | BBQ Boogie & Blues (SBBQA) | Calhoun, GA | 13 | 29 |
| 2014-04-25 | Pony Express BBQ Challenge | Gothenburg, NE | 13 | 28 |
| 2014-04-25 | Smokin' N the Ville | Edwardsville, KS | 13 | 27 |
| 2014-04-25 | Washington State Spring BBQ Championship | Monroe, WA | 13 | 22 |
| 2014-03-30 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Overland Park, KS | -13 | — |
| 2014-04-25 | Competition BBQ | Huron, SD | 13 | — |
| 2014-04-25 | Smokin' in the Ozarks Cancelled | Rogers, AR | 13 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Smokin In Mesquite BBQ Championship | Mesquite, NV | 14 | 51 |
| 2014-04-26 | Central Iowa Expo BBQ, Cruise & Brew | Boone, IA | 14 | 39 |
| 2014-03-29 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Omaha, NE | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-29 | Chris Cappell's Competition Barbecue Class | Fairfax, VA | -14 | — |
| 2014-03-29 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Garden City, KS | -14 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Southern Hotwing Festival | Memphis, TN | 14 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Introduction to Real Barbeque | Lansdale, PA | 14 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Wicked Que | Amsterdam, | 14 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Monroe, WA | 14 | — |
| 2014-04-26 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Stillwater, OK | 14 | — |
| 2014-03-28 | Firelake BBQ Cook-off | Shawnee, OK | -15 | 43 |
| 2014-03-28 | Grills Gone Wild BBQ Festival | London, KY | -15 | 42 |
| 2014-03-28 | Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash (SBBQA) | Ashburn, GA | -15 | 35 |
| 2014-03-28 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Sacramento, CA | -15 | 29 |
| 2014-03-27 | BBQ Throw Down 2014 @ Windcreek | Atmore, AL | -16 | 21 |
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.