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 31, 2018 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 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
- 16 May 12
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2018 Your weekend |
Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, Belgium | Same day | 33 |
| Mar 31, 2018 Your weekend |
Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | Same day | — |
| Mar 30, 2018 Your weekend |
Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | 1 day before | — |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Smoke in the Spring | Osage City, KS | 6 days after | 103 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off | Cedar Park, TX | 6 days after | 69 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | 6 days after | 60 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | CCS Fest | Indianapolis, IN | 6 days after | 49 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Eighth Annual Bull Moose (JUDGE'S FULL) | Somerville, TN | 6 days after | 40 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | NYC BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | 6 days after | 36 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Chillin N Grillin BBQ Festival ( CANCELLED) | Sands Springs, OK | 6 days after | 33 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | 6 days after | 26 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | City of Springs BBQ Championship | Sulphur, OK | 6 days after | 17 |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Brunswick BBQ Beach Bash Cancelled | Brunswick, GA | 6 days after | — |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 7 days before | 79 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel, Belgium | 7 days before | 39 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Smoke on the Border | Gravette, AR | 7 days after | 33 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, Italy | 7 days before | 18 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | 2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018 | Wels, Austria | 7 days after | 17 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Circuito Parrillero by BBQ Fest Etapo 1 2018 | San Jose, Costa Rica | 7 days after | 16 |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Rockin Rib Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Selma, AL | 7 days after | 12 |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | 7 days before | — |
| Mar 24, 2018 | Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | 7 days before | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Smoke by Cucina e Tavola Cancelled | Winterhur, Switzerland | 7 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Clayton, CA | 7 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | The BBQ Maestros BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 7 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | La Crescent, MN | 7 days after | — |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Cary, NC | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 8 days before | 84 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | 8 days before | 78 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | 8 days before | 75 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | 8 days before | 48 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | 8 days before | 39 |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | 8 days before | 29 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | 13 days after | 51 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Smoke on the Falls | Gadsden, AL | 13 days after | 38 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest | Savannah, TN | 13 days after | 28 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Grilln N Chilln Memorial (BACKYARD ONLY) | Gurley, AL | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Jim Beam BBQ World Invitational Cancelled | Clermont, KY | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Meat The East | Hengelo, Netherlands | 14 days after | 34 |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Wild King BBQ Competition | Tirol, Austria | 14 days after | 23 |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Fergolicious University of Que Competition Class | Osage City, KS | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 14, 2018 | BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Perth Barbecue Festival Cancelled | Perth, Australia | 14 days after | — |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Stephan Franklin - Simply Marvelous BBQ - Competition Class | Irvine, CA | 14 days after | — |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Smokin In the Square | Pensacola, FL | 15 days before | 49 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Hog Wild BBQ Contest | Corinth, MS | 15 days before | 36 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Pork-A-Palooza | Weatherford, OK | 15 days before | 26 |
| Apr 15, 2018 | Table Captain Class | North Grosvenordale, CT | 15 days after | — |
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.