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 · everywhere, because no place is set
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 | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-24 Your weekend | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 0 | 79 |
| 2018-03-24 Your weekend | Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel Belgium , 3920 | 0 | 39 |
| 2018-03-24 Your weekend | The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, 30020 | 0 | 18 |
| 2018-03-24 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | 0 | — |
| 2018-03-24 Your weekend | Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | 0 | — |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | -1 | 84 |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | -1 | 78 |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | -1 | 75 |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | -1 | 48 |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | *Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | -1 | 39 |
| 2018-03-23 Your weekend | Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | -1 | 29 |
| 2018-03-30 | Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | 6 | — |
| 2018-03-31 | Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, 9400 | 7 | 33 |
| 2018-03-31 | Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | 7 | — |
| 2018-03-16 | Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | -8 | 49 |
| 2018-03-16 | *Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | -8 | 36 |
| 2018-03-16 | *Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | -8 | 26 |
| 2018-04-06 | Smoke in the Spring | Osage City, KS | 13 | 103 |
| 2018-04-06 | *Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off | Cedar Park, TX | 13 | 69 |
| 2018-04-06 | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | 13 | 60 |
| 2018-04-06 | *CCS Fest | Indianapolis, IN | 13 | 49 |
| 2018-04-06 | Eighth Annual Bull Moose (JUDGE'S FULL) | Somerville, TN | 13 | 40 |
| 2018-04-06 | NYC BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 13 | 36 |
| 2018-04-06 | Chillin N Grillin BBQ Festival( CANCELLED) | Sands Springs, OK | 13 | 33 |
| 2018-04-06 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | 13 | 26 |
| 2018-04-06 | City of Springs BBQ Championship | Sulphur, OK | 13 | 17 |
| 2018-04-06 | *Brunswick BBQ Beach Bash Cancelled | Brunswick, GA | 13 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | *Smoke on the Border | Gravette, AR | 14 | 33 |
| 2018-04-07 | 2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018 | Wels, 4600 | 14 | 17 |
| 2018-04-07 | Circuito Parrillero by BBQ Fest Etapo 1 2018 | San Jose, 1000 | 14 | 16 |
| 2018-04-07 | *Rockin Rib Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Selma, AL | 14 | 12 |
| 2018-03-10 | *White Street Barbeque Experience(BACKYARD ONLY) | Wake Forest, NC | -14 | 10 |
| 2018-03-10 | Table Captain Class | Ashboro, NC | -14 | — |
| 2018-03-10 | Fergolicious University of Que Backyard Class | Gardner, KS | -14 | — |
| 2018-03-10 | Table Captain Class | Riverside, CA | -14 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | Smoke by Cucina e Tavola Cancelled | Winterhur, 8400 | 14 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | Table Captain Class | Clayton, CA | 14 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | The BBQ Maestros BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 14 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | Table Captain Class | La Crescent, MN | 14 | — |
| 2018-04-07 | Table Captain Class | Cary, NC | 14 | — |
| 2018-03-09 | Smoke on the Shores | Nashville, TN | -15 | 87 |
| 2018-03-09 | Flames on the Flint | Bainbridge, GA | -15 | 42 |
| 2018-03-09 | *Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD)(TEAMS FULL)(JUDGES FULL) | Hartselle, AL | -15 | 33 |
| 2018-03-07 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas CIty, MO | -17 | 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. 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.