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.
Busier than the weekends around it Saturday, February 17, 2018 · everywhere, because no place is set
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.
- 1 Jan 6
- 3 Jan 13
- 2 Jan 20
- 4 Jan 27
- 5 Feb 3
- 3 Feb 10
- 6 Feb 17
- 7 Feb 24
- 8 Mar 3
- 8 Mar 10
- 3 Mar 17
- 11 Mar 24
- 3 Mar 31
The weekend of Jan 6 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is National Western BBQ Throwdown.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-17 Your weekend | Meat, Smoke & Beer Festival- BBQ on Ice | Weissensee, 9762 | 0 | 17 |
| 2018-02-17 Your weekend | Fergolicious University of Que Competition Class | Lincoln, NE | 0 | — |
| 2018-02-16 Your weekend | *Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown | Huntsville, TX | -1 | 38 |
| 2018-02-16 Your weekend | *Dirty South-KOD | Powder Springs, GA | -1 | 16 |
| 2018-02-16 Your weekend | Mark Lambert - Barbecue Live Cooking Class | Memphis, TN | -1 | — |
| 2018-02-16 Your weekend | Smokin' Triggers Cooking Class | Hammond, LA | -1 | — |
| 2018-02-23 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig (JUDGES FULL) | Coachella, CA | 6 | 47 |
| 2018-02-23 | Polar Bear BBQ Challenge | Kingdom City, MO | 6 | 29 |
| 2018-02-23 | *D'Iberville BBQ Throw down Kids Q & Festival (JUDGES FULL) | D'Iberville, MS | 6 | 27 |
| 2018-02-23 | Donny Teel - Buffalo's BBQ | Sperry, OK | 6 | — |
| 2018-02-24 | *D'Iberville BBQ Throw down Kids Q & Festival (BACKYARD)(JUDGES FULL) | D'Iberville, MS | 7 | 27 |
| 2018-02-10 | Sydney Barbeque Festival | Sydney, 8008 | -7 | 19 |
| 2018-02-10 | Table Captain Class - CANCELLED | Joppa, AL | -7 | — |
| 2018-02-24 | Jason Day - Burnt Finger BBQ Brisket Boot Camp | Lee's Summit, MO | 7 | — |
| 2018-02-24 | Table Captain Class | Barnseville, GA | 7 | — |
| 2018-02-09 | *Bud & BBQ Cancelled | Meridian, MS | -8 | — |
| 2018-02-09 | Table Captain Class | Gosford, | -8 | — |
| 2018-03-02 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | 13 | 59 |
| 2018-03-02 | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | 13 | 57 |
| 2018-03-02 | Sonny's Smokin Showdown (INVITATIONAL ONLY) | Orlando, FL | 13 | 49 |
| 2018-03-02 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | Cheney, KS | 13 | 47 |
| 2018-03-02 | *Jack Town Throw Down | Ridgeland, MS | 13 | 31 |
| 2018-03-02 | *The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | 13 | 29 |
| 2018-03-02 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 13 | — |
| 2018-03-03 | *Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 | Cheney, KS | 14 | 42 |
| 2018-02-03 | Melbourne Barbecue Festival | Melbourn, 8008 | -14 | 26 |
| 2018-02-02 | *Humble Rodeo and BBQ | Humble, TX | -15 | 145 |
| 2018-02-02 | Brasstown Valley Resort BBQ Throwdown (JUDGES FULL) | Young Harris, GA | -15 | 35 |
| 2018-02-02 | Table Captain Class | Humble, TX | -15 | — |
| 2018-02-02 | Table Captain Class | Melbourne, | -15 | — |
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.