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, October 24, 2015 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

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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.

The weekend of Nov 28 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Oct 24, 2015 Your weekend	Oktoberfeast BBQ & Brews Festival	Las Vegas, NV	Same day	34
Oct 24, 2015 Your weekend	Chris Capell - Dizzy Pig's Competition Class	Manassas, VA	Same day	—
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	93
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook off	Union Grove, WI	1 day before	44
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD - JUDGES FULL)	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	41
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Border War BBQ	Osawatomie, KS	1 day before	35
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Hillbilly Hog BBQ Throwdown & Fall Festival	Cleveland, GA	1 day before	27
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Smokin' the Fort - BBQ & Bluegrass Festival	Fort Gibson, OK	1 day before	26
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Fountains Blaze off & Senior Q	Independence, MO	1 day before	22
Oct 23, 2015 Your weekend	Certified BBQ Judging Class - CLASS FULL	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	—
Oct 22, 2015 Your weekend	Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (Competitor's Series)	Richardson, TX	2 days before	9
Oct 28, 2015	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Cincinnati, OH	4 days after	—
Oct 30, 2015	Boo B Que By the Sea	Rehobeth Beach, DE	6 days after	59
Oct 17, 2015	Chris Capell - Dizzy Pig's Chicken	Manassas, VA	7 days before	—
Oct 16, 2015	Grills and Grilles	Broken Arrow, OK	8 days before	38
Oct 16, 2015	Shenandoah Valley BBQ Fest	Woodstock, VA	8 days before	37
Oct 16, 2015	Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival	Lenoir, NC	8 days before	37
Oct 16, 2015	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Nelsonville, OH	8 days before	36
Oct 16, 2015	10th Annual Lambs Farm Barn Burner Bar-B-Q	Libertyville, IL	8 days before	35
Oct 16, 2015	Harper County Bullseye BBQ	Harper, KS	8 days before	34
Oct 16, 2015	Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-Off	Munfordville, KY	8 days before	34
Oct 16, 2015	Mid-South Barbecue Festival	Mount Pleasant, TN	8 days before	31
Oct 16, 2015	Balloons Bikes Blues and Barbeque	Parsons, KS	8 days before	25
Oct 16, 2015	Rod Gray - Pellet Envy	Overland Park, KS	8 days before	—
Oct 16, 2015	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	8 days before	—
Nov 3, 2015	World Food Championships	Kissimmee, FL	10 days after	58
Oct 14, 2015	Holmes Drywall BBQ Cookoff 2015 (BACKYARD-INVITATIONAL)	Kansas City, MO	10 days before	12
Nov 6, 2015	Hog Happnin'	Shelby, NC	13 days after	60
Nov 6, 2015	When Pigs Fly South	Lakeland, FL	13 days after	35
Nov 6, 2015	MVH BBQ BIVOUAC (Armed Forces Tribute)	St. James, MO	13 days after	26
Nov 6, 2015	Flags are Flying	Winder, GA	13 days after	21
Nov 6, 2015	2015 Fall Q-School Cooking Classes with Chef Paul Kirk	Hoboken, GA	13 days after	—
Nov 6, 2015	Que'n in the Park- CANCELLED	Bryant, AR	13 days after	—
Oct 10, 2015	3rd Annual BBQ Society Cook Off	Hoofddorp, Netherlands	14 days before	42
Nov 7, 2015	MVH BBQ BIVOUAC (POW/MIA Tribute)	St. James, MO	14 days after	18
Nov 7, 2015	Hangout Oyster Cook-off & Craft Beer Weekend (Competitor's Series)	Gulf Shores, AL	14 days after	—
Nov 7, 2015	STBBQ Fundamentals	Smyrna, GA	14 days after	—
Oct 9, 2015	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Championship	Bentonville, AR	15 days before	50
Oct 9, 2015	Eastern Carolina BBQ ThrowDown	Rocky Mount, NC	15 days before	49
Oct 9, 2015	Central Illinois Bragging Rights	Arthur, IL	15 days before	48
Oct 9, 2015	Smokin Hot Atlantic City BBQ Championship $15,000	Atlantic City, NJ	15 days before	46
Oct 9, 2015	The River Grill before the Big Chill	Cincinnati, OH	15 days before	45
Oct 9, 2015	Bliss, Brews & Que	Fort Bliss, TX	15 days before	40
Oct 9, 2015	Cookin on the Kaw	DeSoto, KS	15 days before	36
Oct 9, 2015	Smoke on the Water	Topeka, KS	15 days before	33
Oct 9, 2015	Waxhaw Grill'n & Chill'n	Waxhaw, NC	15 days before	28
Oct 9, 2015	Chillin and Grillin	Sand Springs, OK	15 days before	28
Oct 9, 2015	The Real Squeal (GBC Qualifier)	Lyons, GA	15 days before	27
Oct 9, 2015	Downtown BBQ Showdown	Hattiesburg, MS	15 days before	26
Oct 9, 2015	Rock'n Ribville	Lawrenceville, GA	15 days before	26
Oct 9, 2015	Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival	Greenfield, MA	15 days before	25
Oct 9, 2015	Slab O Rama Barbeque Challenge	Bullhead City, AZ	15 days before	20
Oct 9, 2015	Anchor City Cook Off	Centralia, MO	15 days before	20
Oct 9, 2015	Donny Bray - Tell All Class - CANCELLED	Bowling Green, KY	15 days before	—
Oct 8, 2015	BBQ and Blues on the Levee	Helena, AR	16 days before	25
Oct 8, 2015	Certified BBQ Judge Class- CLASS FULL	Ft. Bliss, TX	16 days before	—
Oct 8, 2015	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Cincinnati, OH	16 days before	—
Oct 7, 2015	Certified BBQ Judge Class	Bentonville, AR	17 days before	—
Nov 10, 2015	KCBS TEST CONTEST----DO NOT APPLY---ONLY A TEST	Kansas City, MO	17 days after	—

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.

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.