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 · everywhere, because no place is set

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	Days off	Field
2017-10-28 Your weekend	Third Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship(COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Dallas, TX	0	—
2017-10-27 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)	Lynchburg, TN	-1	95
2017-10-27 Your weekend	Border War Barbeque	Osawatomie, KS	-1	46
2017-10-27 Your weekend	Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD)	Lynchburg, TN	-1	42
2017-10-27 Your weekend	Smokin the Fort BBQ & Blue Grass Festival	Fort Gibson, OK	-1	32
2017-10-27 Your weekend	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Lynchburg, TN	-1	—
2017-11-03	*Dickson County Smoke Fest Cancelled	Dickson, TN	6	40
2017-11-03	*Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival( JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	6	35
2017-10-21	Ocean Sate BBQ Championship	West Kingston, RI	-7	24
2017-10-21	15th Annual Conecuh Sausage Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)	Evergreen, AL	-7	—
2017-10-20	Boo-B-Que	Rehobeth Beach, DE	-8	69
2017-10-20	Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off	Union Grove, WI	-8	52
2017-10-20	*Harper County Bullseye BBQ	Harper, KS	-8	47
2017-10-20	*Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Nelsonville, OH	-8	39
2017-10-20	Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival	Lenoir, NC	-8	39
2017-10-20	*Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-off	Munfordville, KY	-8	36
2017-10-20	Mid-South BBQ Festival	Mount Pleasant, TN	-8	28
2017-10-20	2017 Greenbriar Blaze Off and Senior Q	Independence, MO	-8	25
2017-10-20	*Downtown BBQ Showdown	Hattiesburg, MS	-8	19
2017-10-20	*Logandale Fall Festival	Logandale, NV	-8	18
2017-10-20	*Willis BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Willis, TX	-8	—
2017-11-08	World Barbecue Championship	Orange Beach, AL	11	93
2017-11-10	Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL)	Concord, NC	13	47
2017-11-10	*Bar-B-Cure Cancelled	Knoxville, TN	13	32
2017-11-10	Brew B Q	Nashville, TN	13	26
2017-11-10	Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown(PALMETTO BBQ SERIES)	Mt. Pleasant, SC	13	25
2017-10-14	*Tallya BBQ Fesztival	Tallya,	-14	40
2017-10-14	Bay State BBQ Championship	Monson, MA	-14	30
2017-10-14	*Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que(JUDGES FULL) (OKBS Qulifyer )	Muskogee, OK	-14	18
2017-10-14	*Nile Beer-B-Q	Billings, MT	-14	17
2017-10-14	*West Texas King of Meat BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Odessa, TX	-14	—
2017-10-14	Table Captain Class	Muskogee, OK	-14	—
2017-10-14	Blues,Brew & BBQ(BACKYARD) Cancelled	Prince Fredrick, MD	-14	—
2017-11-11	Swamp Boys Q School	Winter Haven, FL	14	—
2017-11-11	*Sticky Jar Open Sauce Contest by Original Juan Specialty Foods	Kansas City, MO	14	—
2017-10-13	Dana Point State BBQ Championship Cancelled	Dana Point, CA	-15	90
2017-10-13	*OC BBQ Competition	Costa Messa, CA	-15	56
2017-10-13	14th Annual Cookin on the Kaw	Desoto, KS	-15	55
2017-10-13	Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down	Rocky Mount, NC	-15	50
2017-10-13	CIBR-BBQ Central Illinois Bragging Right BBQ	Arthur, IL	-15	41
2017-10-13	*Smoke & Ale Fall Festival	Chelsea, MI	-15	32
2017-10-13	*Shenandoah Valley BBQ Fest	Woodstock, VA	-15	30
2017-10-13	*Grillin & chillin BBQ cook-off	Waxhaw, NC	-15	29
2017-10-13	The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier)	Lyons, GA	-15	29
2017-10-13	Anchor City Cook Off	Centralia, MO	-15	27
2017-10-13	*Smokin' Blues & BBQ Festival	Duncanville, TX	-15	18
2017-10-13	Table Captain Class	Tallya,	-15	—
2017-10-13	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Tallya,	-15	—
2017-10-13	Certified BBQ Judging Class	Muskogee, OK	-15	—
2017-10-11	Holmes Drywall Supply, Inc(BACKYARD ONLY INVITE ONLY)	Kansas City, MO	-17	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. 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.