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, March 24, 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.
- 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
- 25 May 5
The weekend of Feb 10 is the quietest in range: 3 contests. The biggest thing on it is Sydney Barbeque Festival.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2018 Your weekend |
Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | Same day | 79 |
| Mar 24, 2018 Your weekend |
Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel, Belgium | Same day | 39 |
| Mar 24, 2018 Your weekend |
The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, Italy | Same day | 18 |
| Mar 24, 2018 Your weekend |
Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | Same day | — |
| Mar 24, 2018 Your weekend |
Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | Same day | — |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 1 day before | 84 |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | 1 day before | 78 |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | 1 day before | 75 |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | 1 day before | 48 |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | 1 day before | 39 |
| Mar 23, 2018 Your weekend |
Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | 1 day before | 29 |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | 6 days after | — |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, Belgium | 7 days after | 33 |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | 8 days before | 49 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | 8 days before | 36 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | 8 days before | 26 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Smoke in the Spring | Osage City, KS | 13 days after | 103 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off | Cedar Park, TX | 13 days after | 69 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | 13 days after | 60 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | CCS Fest | Indianapolis, IN | 13 days after | 49 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Eighth Annual Bull Moose (JUDGE'S FULL) | Somerville, TN | 13 days after | 40 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | NYC BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 13 days after | 36 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Chillin N Grillin BBQ Festival ( CANCELLED) | Sands Springs, OK | 13 days after | 33 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | 13 days after | 26 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | City of Springs BBQ Championship | Sulphur, OK | 13 days after | 17 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Brunswick BBQ Beach Bash Cancelled | Brunswick, GA | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Smoke on the Border | Gravette, AR | 14 days after | 33 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | 2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018 | Wels, Austria | 14 days after | 17 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Circuito Parrillero by BBQ Fest Etapo 1 2018 | San Jose, Costa Rica | 14 days after | 16 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Rockin Rib Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Selma, AL | 14 days after | 12 |
| Mar 10, 2018 | White Street Barbeque Experience (BACKYARD ONLY) | Wake Forest, NC | 14 days before | 10 |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Ashboro, NC | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Fergolicious University of Que Backyard Class | Gardner, KS | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | 14 days before | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Smoke by Cucina e Tavola Cancelled | Winterhur, Switzerland | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Clayton, CA | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | The BBQ Maestros BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | La Crescent, MN | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Cary, NC | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | 15 days before | 87 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | 15 days before | 42 |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD) (TEAMS FULL) (JUDGES FULL) | Hartselle, AL | 15 days before | 33 |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas CIty, MO | 17 days before | 14 |
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.