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, October 28, 2017 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

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±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.

The weekend of Nov 25 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Oct 28, 2017 Your weekend	Third Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Dallas, TX	Same day	—
Oct 27, 2017 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	95
Oct 27, 2017 Your weekend	Border War Barbeque	Osawatomie, KS	1 day before	46
Oct 27, 2017 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD)	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	42
Oct 27, 2017 Your weekend	Smokin the Fort BBQ & Blue Grass Festival	Fort Gibson, OK	1 day before	32
Oct 27, 2017 Your weekend	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Lynchburg, TN	1 day before	—
Nov 3, 2017	Dickson County Smoke Fest Cancelled	Dickson, TN	6 days after	40
Nov 3, 2017	Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival ( JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	6 days after	35
Oct 21, 2017	Ocean Sate BBQ Championship	West Kingston, RI	7 days before	24
Oct 21, 2017	15th Annual Conecuh Sausage Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)	Evergreen, AL	7 days before	—
Oct 20, 2017	Boo-B-Que	Rehobeth Beach, DE	8 days before	69
Oct 20, 2017	Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off	Union Grove, WI	8 days before	52
Oct 20, 2017	Harper County Bullseye BBQ	Harper, KS	8 days before	47
Oct 20, 2017	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Nelsonville, OH	8 days before	39
Oct 20, 2017	Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival	Lenoir, NC	8 days before	39
Oct 20, 2017	Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-off	Munfordville, KY	8 days before	36
Oct 20, 2017	Mid-South BBQ Festival	Mount Pleasant, TN	8 days before	28
Oct 20, 2017	2017 Greenbriar Blaze Off and Senior Q	Independence, MO	8 days before	25
Oct 20, 2017	Downtown BBQ Showdown	Hattiesburg, MS	8 days before	19
Oct 20, 2017	Logandale Fall Festival	Logandale, NV	8 days before	18
Oct 20, 2017	Willis BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Willis, TX	8 days before	—
Nov 8, 2017	World Barbecue Championship	Orange Beach, AL	11 days after	93
Nov 10, 2017	Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL)	Concord, NC	13 days after	47
Nov 10, 2017	Bar-B-Cure Cancelled	Knoxville, TN	13 days after	32
Nov 10, 2017	Brew B Q	Nashville, TN	13 days after	26
Nov 10, 2017	Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown (PALMETTO BBQ SERIES)	Mt. Pleasant, SC	13 days after	25
Oct 14, 2017	Tallya BBQ Fesztival	Tallya, Hungary	14 days before	40
Oct 14, 2017	Bay State BBQ Championship	Monson, MA	14 days before	30
Oct 14, 2017	Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que (JUDGES FULL) (OKBS Qulifyer )	Muskogee, OK	14 days before	18
Oct 14, 2017	Nile Beer-B-Q	Billings, MT	14 days before	17
Oct 14, 2017	West Texas King of Meat BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Odessa, TX	14 days before	—
Oct 14, 2017	Table Captain Class	Muskogee, OK	14 days before	—
Oct 14, 2017	Blues,Brew & BBQ (BACKYARD) Cancelled	Prince Fredrick, MD	14 days before	—
Nov 11, 2017	Swamp Boys Q School	Winter Haven, FL	14 days after	—
Nov 11, 2017	Sticky Jar Open Sauce Contest by Original Juan Specialty Foods	Kansas City, MO	14 days after	—
Oct 13, 2017	Dana Point State BBQ Championship Cancelled	Dana Point, CA	15 days before	90
Oct 13, 2017	OC BBQ Competition	Costa Messa, CA	15 days before	56
Oct 13, 2017	14th Annual Cookin on the Kaw	Desoto, KS	15 days before	55
Oct 13, 2017	Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down	Rocky Mount, NC	15 days before	50
Oct 13, 2017	CIBR-BBQ Central Illinois Bragging Right BBQ	Arthur, IL	15 days before	41
Oct 13, 2017	Smoke & Ale Fall Festival	Chelsea, MI	15 days before	32
Oct 13, 2017	Shenandoah Valley BBQ Fest	Woodstock, VA	15 days before	30
Oct 13, 2017	Grillin & chillin BBQ cook-off	Waxhaw, NC	15 days before	29
Oct 13, 2017	The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)	Lyons, GA	15 days before	29
Oct 13, 2017	Anchor City Cook Off	Centralia, MO	15 days before	27
Oct 13, 2017	Smokin' Blues & BBQ Festival	Duncanville, TX	15 days before	18
Oct 13, 2017	Table Captain Class	Tallya, Hungary	15 days before	—
Oct 13, 2017	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Tallya, Hungary	15 days before	—
Oct 13, 2017	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Muskogee, OK	15 days before	—
Oct 11, 2017	Holmes Drywall Supply, Inc (BACKYARD ONLY INVITE ONLY)	Kansas City, MO	17 days before	8

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.