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.
Quieter than the weekends around it Saturday, November 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.
- 23 Sep 23
- 14 Sep 30
- 19 Oct 7
- 19 Oct 14
- 12 Oct 21
- 6 Oct 28
- 1 Nov 4
- 6 Nov 11
- 5 Nov 18
- 0 Nov 25
- 4 Dec 2
- 0 Dec 9
- 1 Dec 16
The weekend of Nov 25 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2017 | Dickson County Smoke Fest Cancelled | Dickson, TN | 1 day before | 40 |
| Nov 3, 2017 Your weekend |
Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival ( JUDGES FULL) | Indio, CA | 1 day before | 35 |
| Nov 8, 2017 | World Barbecue Championship | Orange Beach, AL | 4 days after | 93 |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL) | Concord, NC | 6 days after | 47 |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Bar-B-Cure Cancelled | Knoxville, TN | 6 days after | 32 |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Brew B Q | Nashville, TN | 6 days after | 26 |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown (PALMETTO BBQ SERIES) | Mt. Pleasant, SC | 6 days after | 25 |
| Oct 28, 2017 | Third Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Dallas, TX | 7 days before | — |
| Nov 11, 2017 | Swamp Boys Q School | Winter Haven, FL | 7 days after | — |
| Nov 11, 2017 | Sticky Jar Open Sauce Contest by Original Juan Specialty Foods | Kansas City, MO | 7 days after | — |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 8 days before | 95 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Border War Barbeque | Osawatomie, KS | 8 days before | 46 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) | Lynchburg, TN | 8 days before | 42 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Smokin the Fort BBQ & Blue Grass Festival | Fort Gibson, OK | 8 days before | 32 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lynchburg, TN | 8 days before | — |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 1) | Cumming, GA | 13 days after | 62 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 1) Duel | Cumming, GA | 13 days after | 58 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Suncoast Credit Union Plant City Pig Jam | Plant City, FL | 13 days after | 42 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Mission-Q (BACKYARD ONLY) | Tuscumbia, AL | 13 days after | 18 |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 2) | Cumming, GA | 14 days after | 58 |
| Oct 21, 2017 | Ocean Sate BBQ Championship | West Kingston, RI | 14 days before | 24 |
| Oct 21, 2017 | 15th Annual Conecuh Sausage Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Evergreen, AL | 14 days before | — |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Boo-B-Que | Rehobeth Beach, DE | 15 days before | 69 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off | Union Grove, WI | 15 days before | 52 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ | Harper, KS | 15 days before | 47 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival | Nelsonville, OH | 15 days before | 39 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival | Lenoir, NC | 15 days before | 39 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-off | Munfordville, KY | 15 days before | 36 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Mid-South BBQ Festival | Mount Pleasant, TN | 15 days before | 28 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | 2017 Greenbriar Blaze Off and Senior Q | Independence, MO | 15 days before | 25 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Downtown BBQ Showdown | Hattiesburg, MS | 15 days before | 19 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Logandale Fall Festival | Logandale, NV | 15 days before | 18 |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Willis BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled | Willis, TX | 15 days before | — |
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.