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 · 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.
- 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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2018 Your weekend |
Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | 1 day before | 49 |
| Mar 16, 2018 Your weekend |
Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | 1 day before | 36 |
| Mar 16, 2018 Your weekend |
Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | 1 day before | 26 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 6 days after | 84 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | 6 days after | 78 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | 6 days after | 75 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | 6 days after | 48 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | 6 days after | 39 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | 6 days after | 29 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 7 days after | 79 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel, Belgium | 7 days after | 39 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, Italy | 7 days after | 18 |
| Mar 10, 2018 | White Street Barbeque Experience (BACKYARD ONLY) | Wake Forest, NC | 7 days before | 10 |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Ashboro, NC | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Fergolicious University of Que Backyard Class | Gardner, KS | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 8 days before | 87 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 8 days before | 42 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD) (TEAMS FULL) (JUDGES FULL) | Hartselle, AL | 8 days before | 33 |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas CIty, MO | 10 days before | 14 |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | 13 days after | — |
| Mar 3, 2018 | Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 | Cheney, KS | 14 days before | 42 |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, Belgium | 14 days after | 33 |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival | Lawrenceville, GA | 15 days before | 59 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship | Onamia, MN | 15 days before | 57 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Sonny's Smokin Showdown (INVITATIONAL ONLY) | Orlando, FL | 15 days before | 49 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | Cheney, KS | 15 days before | 47 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Jack Town Throw Down | Ridgeland, MS | 15 days before | 31 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | The Great Brunswick BBQ Throwdown | Brunswick, MD | 15 days before | 29 |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 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.