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, March 3, 2018 · 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.
- 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
- 17 Apr 7
- 10 Apr 14
The weekend of Jan 20 is the quietest in range: 2 contests. The biggest thing on it is Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2018 Your weekend |
Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 | Cheney, KS | Same day | 42 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | 1 day before | 59 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | 1 day before | 57 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Sonny's Smokin Showdown (INVITATIONAL ONLY) | Orlando, FL | 1 day before | 49 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | Cheney, KS | 1 day before | 47 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Jack Town Throw Down | Ridgeland, MS | 1 day before | 31 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | 1 day before | 29 |
| Mar 2, 2018 Your weekend |
Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 1 day before | — |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas CIty, MO | 4 days after | 14 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 6 days after | 87 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 6 days after | 42 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD) (TEAMS FULL) (JUDGES FULL) | Hartselle, AL | 6 days after | 33 |
| Feb 24, 2018 | D'Iberville BBQ Throw down Kids Q & Festival (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) | D'Iberville, MS | 7 days before | 27 |
| Mar 10, 2018 | White Street Barbeque Experience (BACKYARD ONLY) | Wake Forest, NC | 7 days after | 10 |
| Feb 24, 2018 | Jason Day - Burnt Finger BBQ Brisket Boot Camp | Lee's Summit, MO | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 24, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Barnseville, GA | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Ashboro, NC | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Fergolicious University of Que Backyard Class | Gardner, KS | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 23, 2018 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig (JUDGES FULL) | Coachella, CA | 8 days before | 47 |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Polar Bear BBQ Challenge | Kingdom City, MO | 8 days before | 29 |
| Feb 23, 2018 | D'Iberville BBQ Throw down Kids Q & Festival (JUDGES FULL) | D'Iberville, MS | 8 days before | 27 |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Donny Teel - Buffalo's BBQ | Sperry, OK | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | 13 days after | 49 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | 13 days after | 36 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | 13 days after | 26 |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Meat, Smoke & Beer Festival- BBQ on Ice | Weissensee, Austria | 14 days before | 17 |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Fergolicious University of Que Competition Class | Lincoln, NE | 14 days before | — |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown | Huntsville, TX | 15 days before | 38 |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Dirty South-KOD | Powder Springs, GA | 15 days before | 16 |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Mark Lambert - Barbecue Live Cooking Class | Memphis, TN | 15 days before | — |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Smokin' Triggers Cooking Class | Hammond, LA | 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.