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 19, 2014 · everywhere, because no place is set

That weekend

sanctioned contests

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±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	Days off	Field
2014-04-19 Your weekend	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Mankato, MN	0	—
2014-04-19 Your weekend	BBQ 101	Diamond Bar, CA	0	—
2014-04-18 Your weekend	High on the Hog Festival	Winchester, TN	-1	62
2014-04-18 Your weekend	17th Annual Firehouse BBQ Cook-off	Kings Mountain, NC	-1	55
2014-04-18 Your weekend	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Denver, CO	-1	30
2014-04-18 Your weekend	Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Festival (SBBQA)	Cornelia, GA	-1	27
2014-04-18	Smokin' In The Creek BBQ Cook-off Cancelled	Sugar Creek, MO	-1	—
2014-04-16 Your weekend	Brisket Class	Hutchinson, KS	-3	—
2014-04-23	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Gothenburg, NE	4	—
2014-04-23	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Overland Park, KS	4	—
2014-04-24	Table Captain Class	Overland Park, KS	5	—
2014-04-24	Table Captain Class	Gothenburg, NE	5	—
2014-04-25	VFW Post 846 6th Annual BBQ Challenge (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE)	Overland Park, KS	6	65
2014-04-25	Bynum Schools Best of the Basin BBQ Championship	Midland, TX	6	62
2014-04-25	BBQ Capital Cookoff	Lexington, NC	6	62
2014-04-25	Wabash Ribberfest Barbecue Championship	Mt. Carmel, IL	6	50
2014-04-25	Central Iowa Expo BBQ, Cruise & Brew	Boone, IA	6	45
2014-04-25	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional)	Las Vegas, NV	6	30
2014-04-25	BBQ Boogie & Blues (SBBQA)	Calhoun, GA	6	29
2014-04-25	Pony Express BBQ Challenge	Gothenburg, NE	6	28
2014-04-25	Smokin' N the Ville	Edwardsville, KS	6	27
2014-04-25	Washington State Spring BBQ Championship	Monroe, WA	6	22
2014-04-13	BBQ 102 - Hosted by Firin' up the Fox	St. Charles, IL	-6	—
2014-04-25	Competition BBQ	Huron, SD	6	—
2014-04-25	Smokin' in the Ozarks Cancelled	Rogers, AR	6	—
2014-04-26	Smokin In Mesquite BBQ Championship	Mesquite, NV	7	51
2014-04-26	Central Iowa Expo BBQ, Cruise & Brew	Boone, IA	7	39
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	—
2014-04-26	Southern Hotwing Festival	Memphis, TN	7	—
2014-04-26	Introduction to Real Barbeque	Lansdale, PA	7	—
2014-04-26	Wicked Que	Amsterdam,	7	—
2014-04-26	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Monroe, WA	7	—
2014-04-26	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Stillwater, OK	7	—
2014-04-11	Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair	Harrington, DE	-8	109
2014-04-11	Smoke In The Spring	Osage City, KS	-8	73
2014-04-11	9th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ	Enid, OK	-8	64
2014-04-11	The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake	Smithville, MO	-8	54
2014-04-11	6th Annual Main Street BBQ & Bluesfest	Washington, MO	-8	46
2014-04-11	New York City BBQ Cookoff	Staten Island, NY	-8	37
2014-04-11	Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest	Gadsden, AL	-8	34
2014-04-11	Jammin' Pig BBQ Musice Festival	Winston-Salem, NC	-8	30
2014-04-11	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Salt Lake City, UT	-8	29
2014-04-11	Myron Mixon	Unadilla, GA	-8	—
2014-04-11	Certified BBQ Judging Class	New Holland, PA	-8	—
2014-04-11	Kings of the Que BBQ Championship Cancelled	Woodland, CA	-8	—
2014-05-01	Smoke on the Water NEVADA BBQ Championship	Laughlin, NV	12	18
2014-05-02	Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival	Bixby, OK	13	80
2014-05-02	The Masters in May	Fremont, WI	13	62
2014-05-02	The WhistleStop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (JUDGES SIGN UP STARTS DECEMBER 2, 2013)	Huntsville, AL	13	62
2014-05-02	Naptown barBAYq Contest & Music Festival	Annapolis, MD	13	59
2014-05-02	Battle of Brandon BBQ Challenge	Brandon, MS	13	40
2014-05-02	Smokelawn	Hot Springs, AR	13	39
2014-05-02	Columbia Elks Lodge #594 BBQ Contest	Columbia, MO	13	35
2014-05-02	2nd Annual Show Low BBQ Throwdown	Show Low, AZ	13	35
2014-05-02	Apple Blossom Barbecue Contest	St. Joseph, MO	13	33
2014-05-02	Elk Grove Western Festival & BBQ Championship	Elk Grove, CA	13	33
2014-05-02	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Overland Park, KS	13	29
2014-05-02	Truman Heritage Festival (10 TEAM SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE)	Grandview, MO	13	28
2014-05-02	Best of the Best BBQ Championship & Boat Show	Lake Elsinore, CA	13	27
2014-05-02	Brew, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cook-Off	Lansing, KS	13	26
2014-05-02	North Platte Honky Tonk BBQ Festival	North Platte, NE	13	25
2014-05-02	Nassau Bahamas Smokin' Hot BBQ	Nassau Bahamas, 00907	13	24
2014-05-02	George County Firefighters Association BBQ Challenge	Lucedale, MS	13	15
2014-05-02	R Barbecue Contest Cancelled	Lawrence, KS	13	—
2014-05-02	Chris Marks Barbeque Class	Cleveland, OH	13	—
2014-05-02	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	13	—
2014-05-03	Smokin' On The Water	Liberty, IN	14	43
2014-05-03	Ridgefield Gone Country BBQ Festival	Ridgefield, CT	14	17
2014-04-05	Table Captain Class	Owatonna, MN	-14	—
2014-04-05	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Owatonna, MN	-14	—
2014-05-03	Chris Marks Barbeque Class	Cleveland, OH	14	—
2014-04-04	Smokin On Big Creek - Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief	Pleasant Hill, MO	-15	75
2014-04-04	Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off (Teams Full)	Cedar Park, TX	-15	50
2014-04-04	Rockahock's Pickin' and Pullin' Festival	Lanexa, VA	-15	41
2014-04-04	Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon	Stillwater, OK	-15	40
2014-04-04	'Que at the View	Gulfport, MS	-15	36
2014-04-04	Fourth Annual Bull Moose	Somerville, TN	-15	31
2014-04-04	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Renton, WA	-15	30
2014-04-04	Kennett Jaycee's Show Me State BBQ Cookoff	Kennett, MO	-15	22
2014-04-04	Lang BBQ Smokers	Nahunta, GA	-15	—
2014-04-04	Competition BBQ Class	Loveland, CO	-15	—
2014-04-04	Lotta Bull U Technique Cooking Class	Greenwood, SC	-15	—
2014-04-04	Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kookoff Cancelled	Benton, KY	-15	—
2014-05-04	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Gothenburg, Sweden,	15	—
2014-05-04	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Maynard, MA	15	—
2014-05-04	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Annapolis, MD	15	—
2014-04-03	2nd Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out	Evansville, IN	-16	64
2014-04-03	Smokin on the River (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier)	Summerville, GA	-16	30
2014-04-03	Grill Class	Loveland, CO	-16	—
2014-04-03	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Gulfport, MS	-16	—

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.