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, March 4, 2017 · 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 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
- 9 Apr 15
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 | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-04 Your weekend | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Costa Rica, | 0 | 18 |
| 2017-03-04 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | Peoria, IL | 0 | — |
| 2017-03-04 Your weekend | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Peoria, IL | 0 | — |
| 2017-03-03 Your weekend | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | -1 | 63 |
| 2017-03-03 Your weekend | The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | -1 | 50 |
| 2017-03-03 Your weekend | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | -1 | 47 |
| 2017-03-03 Your weekend | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Shreveport, LA | -1 | 29 |
| 2017-03-03 Your weekend | *Bodagetta BBQ | Auburn, AL | -1 | 25 |
| 2017-03-08 | Big 12 Big Q (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 4 | 13 |
| 2017-03-10 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 6 | 67 |
| 2017-03-10 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 6 | 62 |
| 2017-03-10 | *Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off | Great Bend, KS | 6 | 34 |
| 2017-03-10 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | White Settlement, TX | 6 | 30 |
| 2017-02-25 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | San Jose, | -7 | — |
| 2017-02-25 | Table Captain Class | Lunteren, | -7 | — |
| 2017-02-25 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Westmont, IL | -7 | — |
| 2017-02-25 | Table Captain Class | Laurens, SC | -7 | — |
| 2017-02-25 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lunteren, | -7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Certified BBQ Judgin Class - CANCELLED | Owatonna, MN | 7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Certified BBQ Judging Class - CANCELLED | Bixby, OK | 7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Fergolicious BBQ - Competition Pitmaster Class | Collinsville, IL | 7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Riverside, CA | 7 | — |
| 2017-03-11 | Pete Warner - BBQ Fundamentals | Marietta, GA | 7 | — |
| 2017-02-24 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Daphne, AL | -8 | 28 |
| 2017-02-24 | *Bud & BBQ (JUDGING IS FULL) | Meridian, MS | -8 | 22 |
| 2017-02-24 | Donny Teel - Buffalo's BBQ | Sperry, OK | -8 | — |
| 2017-02-24 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurens, SC | -8 | — |
| 2017-03-17 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 1 | Tupelo, MS | 13 | 68 |
| 2017-03-17 | Smokin in the Square | Pensacola, FL | 13 | 38 |
| 2017-03-17 | *Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD)(TEAMS FULL) | Hartselle, AL | 13 | 33 |
| 2017-03-17 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Tucson, AZ | 13 | 29 |
| 2017-03-17 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 13 | — |
| 2017-03-18 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 2 | Tupelo, MS | 14 | 45 |
| 2017-02-18 | Smoking Hot BBQ CoCo Beach | Rio Grande, 00745 | -14 | 23 |
| 2017-03-18 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 14 | — |
| 2017-03-18 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lee's Summit, MO | 14 | — |
| 2017-02-17 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig | Indio, CA | -15 | 49 |
| 2017-02-17 | Downtown BBQ Throwdown | Boca Raton, FL | -15 | 26 |
| 2017-02-16 | * Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown(JUDGES FULL) | Huntsville, TX | -16 | 41 |
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.