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 · 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.
- 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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2017 Your weekend |
BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Costa Rica | Same day | 18 |
| Mar 4, 2017 Your weekend |
Table Captain Class | Peoria, IL | Same day | — |
| Mar 4, 2017 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class | Peoria, IL | Same day | — |
| Mar 3, 2017 Your weekend |
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | 1 day before | 63 |
| Mar 3, 2017 Your weekend |
The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | 1 day before | 50 |
| Mar 3, 2017 Your weekend |
Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | 1 day before | 47 |
| Mar 3, 2017 Your weekend |
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Shreveport, LA | 1 day before | 29 |
| Mar 3, 2017 Your weekend |
Bodagetta BBQ | Auburn, AL | 1 day before | 25 |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Big 12 Big Q (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 4 days after | 13 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 6 days after | 67 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 6 days after | 62 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Kansas Winter Q and Chest to Chest National Cook Off | Great Bend, KS | 6 days after | 34 |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | White Settlement, TX | 6 days after | 30 |
| Feb 25, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | San Jose, Costa Rica | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Lunteren, Netherlands | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Westmont, IL | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Laurens, SC | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 25, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lunteren, Netherlands | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judgin Class - CANCELLED | Owatonna, MN | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class - CANCELLED | Bixby, OK | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Fergolicious BBQ - Competition Pitmaster Class | Collinsville, IL | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Riverside, CA | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 11, 2017 | Pete Warner - BBQ Fundamentals | Marietta, GA | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Daphne, AL | 8 days before | 28 |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Bud & BBQ (JUDGING IS FULL) | Meridian, MS | 8 days before | 22 |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Donny Teel - Buffalo's BBQ | Sperry, OK | 8 days before | — |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Laurens, SC | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 1 | Tupelo, MS | 13 days after | 68 |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Smokin in the Square | Pensacola, FL | 13 days after | 38 |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD) (TEAMS FULL) | Hartselle, AL | 13 days after | 33 |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | Tucson, AZ | 13 days after | 29 |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 13 days after | — |
| Mar 18, 2017 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 2 | Tupelo, MS | 14 days after | 45 |
| Feb 18, 2017 | Smoking Hot BBQ CoCo Beach | Rio Grande, PR | 14 days before | 23 |
| Mar 18, 2017 | Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 18, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lee's Summit, MO | 14 days after | — |
| Feb 17, 2017 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig | Indio, CA | 15 days before | 49 |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Downtown BBQ Throwdown | Boca Raton, FL | 15 days before | 26 |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown (JUDGES FULL) | Huntsville, TX | 16 days before | 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.
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.