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, July 18, 2015 · everywhere, because no place is set
That weekend
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 21 Jun 6
- 18 Jun 13
- 26 Jun 20
- 28 Jun 27
- 10 Jul 4
- 17 Jul 11
- 13 Jul 18
- 17 Jul 25
- 17 Aug 1
- 21 Aug 8
- 14 Aug 15
- 16 Aug 22
- 21 Aug 29
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-18 Your weekend | Eric Burkhart - Hot & Fast Drum Competition Class | Eugene, MO | 0 | — |
| 2015-07-18 Your weekend | Chris Marks - BBQ 102 Brisket & Pork | Manhattan, KS | 0 | — |
| 2015-07-18 Your weekend | Chris Capell - Dizzy Pig's Big Green Egg Class | Manassas, VA | 0 | — |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | 11th Annual WildBlue BBQ | Burlington, KS | -1 | 48 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | RiverFest Red White and Que | Bellevue, NE | -1 | 45 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Wine, Brew & Bar-B-Que Too! | New Palestine, IN | -1 | 44 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | BBQ'Loo & Blues Too! | Waterloo, IA | -1 | 39 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Cookin' on Kampeska | Watertown, SD | -1 | 38 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Wakefield Rotary Campus Cook Off | Kingston, RI | -1 | 37 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Smoke on the Mountain - VA State BBQ Championship | Galax, VA | -1 | 29 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Griller's Cup | Laramie, WY | -1 | 29 |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Auburn Hills, MI | -1 | 28 |
| 2015-07-17 | Cajun BBQ Bash Cancelled | Lafayette, LA | -1 | — |
| 2015-07-17 Your weekend | Johnny Trigg - Smokin' Triggers | Hammond, LA | -1 | — |
| 2015-07-13 | David Bouska - Restaurant & Catering Cooking Class | Ponca City, OK | -5 | — |
| 2015-07-24 | Racing for the BBQ | Lees Summit, MO | 6 | 63 |
| 2015-07-24 | 7th Annual Vista BBQ Classic | Vista, CA | 6 | 54 |
| 2015-07-24 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash | Mason City, IA | 6 | 54 |
| 2015-07-24 | WNC BBQ Festival | Maggie Valley, NC | 6 | 49 |
| 2015-07-24 | 5th Annual Morton BBQ Throwdown | Morton, IL | 6 | 47 |
| 2015-07-24 | BBQ-Fest Cooking Contest | Dyersburg, TN | 6 | 35 |
| 2015-07-24 | Dodge City Days Barbeque Cook-Off | Dodge City, KS | 6 | 35 |
| 2015-07-24 | Hot Pursuit BBQ Cookoff | Shawnee, OK | 6 | 32 |
| 2015-07-24 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Woodbury, MN | 6 | 30 |
| 2015-07-24 | Chattahoochee River BBQ Competition | Carrollton, GA | 6 | 28 |
| 2015-07-24 | Arvada on Tap - A Craft Beer & BBQ Fest | Arvada, CO | 6 | 26 |
| 2015-07-24 | Smokin Hot Cars & BBQ | Iola, KS | 6 | 26 |
| 2015-07-24 | Effing-Ham-Jam State BBQ Championship | Effingham, IL | 6 | 18 |
| 2015-07-24 | Days of 47 BBQ Rib & Rodeo | Salt Lake City, UT | 6 | 17 |
| 2015-07-24 | Malcom Reed - Barbecue Live Competition BBQ Class | Memphis, TN | 6 | — |
| 2015-07-25 | Harpoon Championships of New England BBQ | Windsor, VT | 7 | 35 |
| 2015-07-25 | Illinois BBQ Fest at Hillcrest Event Center | Orion, IL | 7 | 15 |
| 2015-07-11 | STBBQ Fundamentals | Smyrna, GA | -7 | — |
| 2015-07-10 | Gold Ribbin' BBQ Fest of Greater Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | -8 | 80 |
| 2015-07-10 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship | North Wildwood, NJ | -8 | 65 |
| 2015-07-10 | 14th Annual Bordertown Bash | Fort Smith, AR | -8 | 44 |
| 2015-07-10 | 9th Ohio Veterans BBQ Cookoff | Kettering, OH | -8 | 39 |
| 2015-07-10 | Wine Country Big Q | Rohnert Park, CA | -8 | 38 |
| 2015-07-10 | Johnson County Fair BBQ | Warrensburg, MO | -8 | 33 |
| 2015-07-10 | 8th Annual Wellsville BBQ Cookoff | Wellsville, MO | -8 | 31 |
| 2015-07-10 | Sauce & Cycles | Falls City, NE | -8 | 31 |
| 2015-07-10 | Holbrook | Holbrook, AZ | -8 | 29 |
| 2015-07-10 | Troy Pig Out Cancelled | Troy, NY | -8 | 29 |
| 2015-07-10 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Indianapolis, IN | -8 | 28 |
| 2015-07-10 | Drayton Kinsmen Smoke and Sounds Festval | Drayton, ON | -8 | 18 |
| 2015-07-10 | Chillin & Grillin in the Glades | Wise, VA | -8 | 18 |
| 2015-07-10 | Smoke on the Waterfall | REDWOOD FALLS, MN | -8 | 16 |
| 2015-07-10 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Drayton, ON | -8 | — |
| 2015-07-09 | SC Festival of Discovery (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) | Greenwood, SC | -9 | 90 |
| 2015-07-31 | Dillard Bluegrass & Barbeque Festival (GBC Qualifier) | Dillard, GA | 13 | 55 |
| 2015-07-31 | Southern Maryland Brew & BBQ | Leonardtown, MD | 13 | 54 |
| 2015-07-31 | Rossville Tall Corn Festival BBQ Contest | Rossville, KS | 13 | 46 |
| 2015-07-31 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ | Laurie, MO | 13 | 38 |
| 2015-07-31 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) | New Hope, AL | 13 | 32 |
| 2015-07-31 | Pigs & Pedals | Asheboro, NC | 13 | 31 |
| 2015-07-31 | Badger Brews & Que | Manitowoc, WI | 13 | 30 |
| 2015-07-31 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Des Moines, IA | 13 | 30 |
| 2015-07-31 | SLV Beat the Heat - Barbeque, Brews and Chili | Alamosa, CO | 13 | 29 |
| 2015-07-31 | Oaktown Throwdown | Oakland, CA | 13 | 27 |
| 2015-07-31 | Great Northern BBQ | Brainerd, MN | 13 | 26 |
| 2015-07-31 | Lynch Livestock Pig Stampede Cancelled | Waucoma, IA | 13 | 21 |
| 2015-07-31 | Smokin on Route 66 | Miami, OK | 13 | 17 |
| 2015-08-01 | 8th Annual Smokin at the Maples | Manorville, NY | 14 | 32 |
| 2015-08-01 | Smoke in the North | Gunnilse/Gothenburg, | 14 | 26 |
| 2015-07-04 | Prime UVE Invitational Barbecue Championship | Gaiarine Italy, | -14 | 15 |
| 2015-08-01 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Shawnee, KS | 14 | — |
| 2015-08-01 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Gunnilse/Gothenburg, | 14 | — |
| 2015-08-01 | STBBQ Fundamentals | Smyrna, GA | 14 | — |
| 2015-07-03 | Blues Hog Barbecue, Music & Craft Festival | Jackson, TN | -15 | 51 |
| 2015-07-03 | Pork & Brew BBQ State Championship State championship | Rio Rancho, NM | -15 | 44 |
| 2015-07-03 | HutchFest BBQ Cook-Off | Hutchinson, KS | -15 | 31 |
| 2015-07-03 | I Love Barbecue & Music Festival | Lake Placid, NY | -15 | 31 |
| 2015-07-03 | Montana BBQ Cook-Off | Absarokee, MT | -15 | 29 |
| 2015-07-03 | Liberty 4th Fest BBQ Contest | Liberty, MO | -15 | 27 |
| 2015-07-03 | Back to Mayberry BBQ | Whiting, IA | -15 | 25 |
| 2015-07-02 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Rio Rancho, NM | -16 | — |
| 2015-07-02 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lake Placid, NY | -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.