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.
A clear weekend Saturday, November 26, 2016 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 11 Oct 15
- 12 Oct 22
- 6 Oct 29
- 6 Nov 5
- 10 Nov 12
- 6 Nov 19
- 0 Nov 26
- 7 Dec 3
- 3 Dec 10
- 0 Dec 17
- 0 Dec 24
- 0 Dec 31
- 1 Jan 7
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2016 | When Pigs Fly South | Lakeland, FL | 6 days after | 36 |
| Dec 2, 2016 | Christmas on the River | Demopolis, AL | 6 days after | 34 |
| Dec 2, 2016 | The Smithfield King of the Smoker (INVITATIONAL) (Judges Full) | Rancho Mirage, CA | 6 days after | 24 |
| Dec 2, 2016 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Ponca City, OK | 6 days after | — |
| Dec 2, 2016 | Ed Maurin - Fast Eddy's Competition Cooking Class | Ponca City, OK | 6 days after | — |
| Nov 19, 2016 | Que'n in Cumming (Day 2) | Cumming, GA | 7 days before | 37 |
| Dec 3, 2016 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Tokyo, Japan | 7 days after | — |
| Dec 3, 2016 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Nunspeet, Netherlands | 7 days after | — |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Que'n in Cumming (Day 1) | Cumming, GA | 8 days before | 47 |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Plant City Pig Jam | Plant City, FL | 8 days before | 38 |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Bar-B-Cure | Knoxville, TN | 8 days before | 29 |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Mission Q (BACKYARD) | Tuscumbia, AL | 8 days before | 18 |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Al Bahr Shrine Blues Brews & BBQ's Cancelled | Oceanside, CA | 8 days before | — |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 8 days before | — |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Down Town Throw Down Barbecue Championships | Las Vegas, NV | 13 days after | 28 |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Table Captain Class | Humble, TX | 13 days after | — |
| Nov 12, 2016 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Salt Lake City, UT | 14 days before | — |
| Nov 12, 2016 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 14 days before | — |
| Nov 12, 2016 | Six Flags Great Adventure Thrillin' & Grillin' BBQ Competition Cancelled | Jackson, NJ | 14 days before | — |
| Dec 10, 2016 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Humble, TX | 14 days after | — |
| Nov 11, 2016 | World Barbecue Championship | Orange Beach, AL | 15 days before | 89 |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival ( Judges Full) | Indio, CA | 15 days before | 38 |
| Nov 11, 2016 | 2nd Annual Brew B-Q | Nashville, TN | 15 days before | 25 |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Town of Mt. Pleasant Fall Festival & First Annual Polar Pig Cook-Off | Mt. Pleasant, NC | 15 days before | 25 |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown | Mt. Pleasant, SC | 15 days before | 25 |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Tuffy Stone - Cool Smoke Cooking School - CLASS FULL | Richmond, VA | 15 days before | — |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 15 days before | — |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Rod Gray - Pellet Envy Cooking Class | Overland Park, KS | 15 days before | — |
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.