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, February 25, 2017 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 5 Jan 14
- 3 Jan 21
- 6 Jan 28
- 8 Feb 4
- 1 Feb 11
- 4 Feb 18
- 9 Feb 25
- 8 Mar 4
- 11 Mar 11
- 8 Mar 18
- 15 Mar 25
- 17 Apr 1
- 16 Apr 8
The weekend of Feb 11 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Certified BBQ Judging Class - CANCELLED.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2017 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | San Jose, Costa Rica | Same day | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 Your weekend |
Table Captain Class | Lunteren, Netherlands | Same day | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Westmont, IL | Same day | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 Your weekend |
Table Captain Class | Laurens, SC | Same day | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lunteren, Netherlands | Same day | — |
| Feb 24, 2017 Your weekend |
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Daphne, AL | 1 day before | 28 |
| Feb 24, 2017 Your weekend |
Bud & BBQ (JUDGING IS FULL) | Meridian, MS | 1 day before | 22 |
| Feb 24, 2017 Your weekend |
Donny Teel - Buffalo's BBQ | Sperry, OK | 1 day before | — |
| Feb 24, 2017 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurens, SC | 1 day before | — |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | 6 days after | 63 |
| Mar 3, 2017 | The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | 6 days after | 50 |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | 6 days after | 47 |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Shreveport, LA | 6 days after | 29 |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Bodagetta BBQ | Auburn, AL | 6 days after | 25 |
| Feb 18, 2017 | Smoking Hot BBQ CoCo Beach | Rio Grande, PR | 7 days before | 23 |
| Mar 4, 2017 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Costa Rica | 7 days after | 18 |
| Mar 4, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Peoria, IL | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 4, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Peoria, IL | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 17, 2017 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig | Indio, CA | 8 days before | 49 |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Downtown BBQ Throwdown | Boca Raton, FL | 8 days before | 26 |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown (JUDGES FULL) | Huntsville, TX | 9 days before | 41 |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Big 12 Big Q (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 11 days after | 13 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 13 days after | 67 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 13 days after | 62 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off | Great Bend, KS | 13 days after | 34 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | White Settlement, TX | 13 days after | 30 |
| Feb 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class - CANCELLED | Cedar Park, TX | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judgin Class - CANCELLED | Owatonna, MN | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class - CANCELLED | Bixby, OK | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Fergolicious BBQ - Competition Pitmaster Class | Collinsville, IL | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Riverside, CA | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Pete Warner - BBQ Fundamentals | Marietta, GA | 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.