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, November 11, 2017 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 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
- 0 Dec 23
The weekend of Nov 25 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2017 Your weekend |
Swamp Boys Q School | Winter Haven, FL | Same day | — |
| Nov 11, 2017 Your weekend |
Sticky Jar Open Sauce Contest by Original Juan Specialty Foods | Kansas City, MO | Same day | — |
| Nov 10, 2017 Your weekend |
Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (JUDGES FULL) | Concord, NC | 1 day before | 47 |
| Nov 10, 2017 | Bar-B-Cure Cancelled | Knoxville, TN | 1 day before | 32 |
| Nov 10, 2017 Your weekend |
Brew B Q | Nashville, TN | 1 day before | 26 |
| Nov 10, 2017 Your weekend |
Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown (PALMETTO BBQ SERIES) | Mt. Pleasant, SC | 1 day before | 25 |
| Nov 8, 2017 Your weekend |
World Barbecue Championship | Orange Beach, AL | 3 days before | 93 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 1) | Cumming, GA | 6 days after | 62 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 1) Duel | Cumming, GA | 6 days after | 58 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Suncoast Credit Union Plant City Pig Jam | Plant City, FL | 6 days after | 42 |
| Nov 17, 2017 | Mission-Q (BACKYARD ONLY) | Tuscumbia, AL | 6 days after | 18 |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Que'n In Cumming (DAY 2) | Cumming, GA | 7 days after | 58 |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Dickson County Smoke Fest Cancelled | Dickson, TN | 8 days before | 40 |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival ( JUDGES FULL) | Indio, CA | 8 days before | 35 |
| Oct 28, 2017 | Third Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Dallas, TX | 14 days before | — |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 15 days before | 95 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Border War Barbeque | Osawatomie, KS | 15 days before | 46 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) | Lynchburg, TN | 15 days before | 42 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Smokin the Fort BBQ & Blue Grass Festival | Fort Gibson, OK | 15 days before | 32 |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Certified BBQ Judging Class | Lynchburg, TN | 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.