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, March 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.
- 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
- 19 Apr 21
- 16 Apr 28
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-16 Your weekend | Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | -1 | 49 |
| 2018-03-16 Your weekend | *Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | -1 | 36 |
| 2018-03-16 Your weekend | *Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | -1 | 26 |
| 2018-03-23 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 6 | 84 |
| 2018-03-23 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | 6 | 78 |
| 2018-03-23 | BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | 6 | 75 |
| 2018-03-23 | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | 6 | 48 |
| 2018-03-23 | *Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | 6 | 39 |
| 2018-03-23 | Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | 6 | 29 |
| 2018-03-24 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 7 | 79 |
| 2018-03-24 | Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel Belgium , 3920 | 7 | 39 |
| 2018-03-24 | The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, 30020 | 7 | 18 |
| 2018-03-10 | *White Street Barbeque Experience(BACKYARD ONLY) | Wake Forest, NC | -7 | 10 |
| 2018-03-10 | Table Captain Class | Ashboro, NC | -7 | — |
| 2018-03-10 | Fergolicious University of Que Backyard Class | Gardner, KS | -7 | — |
| 2018-03-10 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | -7 | — |
| 2018-03-24 | Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | 7 | — |
| 2018-03-24 | Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | 7 | — |
| 2018-03-09 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | -8 | 87 |
| 2018-03-09 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | -8 | 42 |
| 2018-03-09 | *Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD)(TEAMS FULL)(JUDGES FULL) | Hartselle, AL | -8 | 33 |
| 2018-03-07 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas CIty, MO | -10 | 14 |
| 2018-03-30 | Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | 13 | — |
| 2018-03-03 | *Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 | Cheney, KS | -14 | 42 |
| 2018-03-31 | Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, 9400 | 14 | 33 |
| 2018-03-31 | Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | 14 | — |
| 2018-03-02 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | -15 | 59 |
| 2018-03-02 | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | -15 | 57 |
| 2018-03-02 | Sonny's Smokin Showdown (INVITATIONAL ONLY) | Orlando, FL | -15 | 49 |
| 2018-03-02 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | Cheney, KS | -15 | 47 |
| 2018-03-02 | *Jack Town Throw Down | Ridgeland, MS | -15 | 31 |
| 2018-03-02 | *The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | -15 | 29 |
| 2018-03-02 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | -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.