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, January 7, 2017 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 0 Nov 26
- 7 Dec 3
- 3 Dec 10
- 0 Dec 17
- 0 Dec 24
- 0 Dec 31
- 1 Jan 7
- 5 Jan 14
- 3 Jan 21
- 6 Jan 28
- 8 Feb 4
- 1 Feb 11
- 4 Feb 18
The weekend of Nov 26 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2017 Your weekend |
National Western BBQ Throwdown | Denver, CO | 1 day before | 38 |
| Jan 13, 2017 | 1st Annual Collard Green Festival (BACKYARD) | Evergreen, AL | 6 days after | — |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Atlanta, GA | 6 days after | — |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Sand in Taufers, Italy | 6 days after | — |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Tuffy Stone - Cool Smoke Cooking School | Richmond, VA | 6 days after | — |
| Jan 14, 2017 | W.E.S.T.Winter Extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest | Rein in Taufers, Italy | 7 days after | 30 |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge | Bullhead City, AZ | 13 days after | 40 |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 13 days after | — |
| Jan 21, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Humble, TX | 14 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.