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, December 12, 2015 · 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.
- 3 Oct 31
- 10 Nov 7
- 5 Nov 14
- 8 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
- 6 Dec 5
- 4 Dec 12
- 1 Dec 19
- 0 Dec 26
- 0 Jan 2
- 3 Jan 9
- 5 Jan 16
- 2 Jan 23
The weekend of Nov 28 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-11 Your weekend | 2015 Downtown Barbecue Throwdown | Las Vegas, NV | -1 | 30 |
| 2015-12-11 Your weekend | King of the Smoker Invitational (JUDGES FULL) | La Quinta, CA | -1 | 24 |
| 2015-12-11 Your weekend | Kelly Wertz - Sausage Making 101 | Great Bend, KS | -1 | — |
| 2015-12-11 Your weekend | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -1 | — |
| 2015-12-17 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Cary, NC | 5 | — |
| 2015-12-05 | Chris Capell - Dizzy Pig' Big Green Egg Class | Manassas, VA | -7 | — |
| 2015-12-05 | STBBQ Fundamentals | Smyrna, GA | -7 | — |
| 2015-12-04 | Calhoun KOA's Smokin Up the Campground (GBC Qualifier) | Calhoun, GA | -8 | 39 |
| 2015-12-04 | * Christmas on the River State Championship BBQ State championship | Demopolis, AL | -8 | 36 |
| 2015-12-04 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Ponca City, OK | -8 | — |
| 2015-12-04 | Ed Maurin - Fast Eddy's Championship Cooking Class | Ponca City, OK | -8 | — |
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.