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, April 7, 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.
- 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
- 15 May 19
The weekend of Mar 17 is the quietest in range: 3 contests. The biggest thing on it is Smokin In the Square.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | *Smoke on the Border | Gravette, AR | 0 | 33 |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | 2nd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition Wels 2018 | Wels, 4600 | 0 | 17 |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | Circuito Parrillero by BBQ Fest Etapo 1 2018 | San Jose, 1000 | 0 | 16 |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | *Rockin Rib Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Selma, AL | 0 | 12 |
| 2018-04-07 | Smoke by Cucina e Tavola Cancelled | Winterhur, 8400 | 0 | — |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | Clayton, CA | 0 | — |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | The BBQ Maestros BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 0 | — |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | La Crescent, MN | 0 | — |
| 2018-04-07 Your weekend | Table Captain Class | Cary, NC | 0 | — |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | Smoke in the Spring | Osage City, KS | -1 | 103 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | *Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off | Cedar Park, TX | -1 | 69 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | -1 | 60 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | *CCS Fest | Indianapolis, IN | -1 | 49 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | Eighth Annual Bull Moose (JUDGE'S FULL) | Somerville, TN | -1 | 40 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | NYC BBQ Cookoff | Staten Island, NY | -1 | 36 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | Chillin N Grillin BBQ Festival( CANCELLED) | Sands Springs, OK | -1 | 33 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon | Stillwater, OK | -1 | 26 |
| 2018-04-06 Your weekend | City of Springs BBQ Championship | Sulphur, OK | -1 | 17 |
| 2018-04-06 | *Brunswick BBQ Beach Bash Cancelled | Brunswick, GA | -1 | — |
| 2018-04-13 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | Smithville, MO | 6 | 51 |
| 2018-04-13 | Smoke on the Falls | Gadsden, AL | 6 | 38 |
| 2018-04-13 | TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest | Savannah, TN | 6 | 28 |
| 2018-04-13 | *Grilln N Chilln Memorial (BACKYARD ONLY) | Gurley, AL | 6 | — |
| 2018-04-13 | Jim Beam BBQ World Invitational Cancelled | Clermont, KY | 6 | — |
| 2018-04-14 | Meat The East | Hengelo, 7534 HK | 7 | 34 |
| 2018-03-31 | Eastern BBQ Contest | Ninove, 9400 | -7 | 33 |
| 2018-04-14 | Wild King BBQ Competition | Tirol, A-6380 | 7 | 23 |
| 2018-03-31 | Table Captain Class | Johnston, IA | -7 | — |
| 2018-04-14 | Fergolicious University of Que Competition Class | Osage City, KS | 7 | — |
| 2018-04-14 | BBQ Boot Camp | Indianapolis, IN | 7 | — |
| 2018-04-14 | Perth Barbecue Festival Cancelled | Perth, 8008 | 7 | — |
| 2018-04-14 | Stephan Franklin - Simply Marvelous BBQ - Competition Class | Irvine, CA | 7 | — |
| 2018-03-30 | Victory Lane BBQ Tell-All Class | Crossville, IL | -8 | — |
| 2018-04-15 | Table Captain Class | North Grosvenordale, CT | 8 | — |
| 2018-04-20 | *Interstate BBQ Festival | Hagerstown, MD | 13 | 67 |
| 2018-04-20 | *Interstate BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Hagerstown, MD | 13 | 60 |
| 2018-04-20 | 13th Annual Hanor Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 13 | 49 |
| 2018-04-20 | Lodi Beerfest & BBQ Championship | Lodi, CA | 13 | 48 |
| 2018-04-20 | 10th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge | Overland Park, KS | 13 | 46 |
| 2018-04-20 | Rock'n N Ribs BBQ Festival | Springfield, MO | 13 | 43 |
| 2018-04-20 | High on the Hog Festival | Winchester, TN | 13 | 42 |
| 2018-04-20 | Q for a Cause | Papillion, NE | 13 | 41 |
| 2018-04-20 | *Main Street BBQ & Blues Fest | Washington, MO | 13 | 40 |
| 2018-04-20 | *22nd Annual Firehouse BBQ Cookoff | Kings Mountain, NC | 13 | 33 |
| 2018-04-20 | *Cornelia Apple Blossom BBQ Competition | Cornelia, GA | 13 | 26 |
| 2018-04-20 | *Barnesville BBQ & Blues | Barnesville, GA | 13 | 25 |
| 2018-04-20 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown (DAY1) CAMPGROUND BBQ SEREIES | Plymouth, MA | 13 | 25 |
| 2018-04-20 | Wild Wild West BBQ Showdown Cancelled | Wildomar, CA | 13 | — |
| 2018-04-20 | *Pig and Swig (COMPETITORS SERIES) Competition Cancelled | Kansas City, MO | 13 | — |
| 2018-03-24 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | -14 | 79 |
| 2018-03-24 | Springbreak BBQ Contest | Lommel Belgium , 3920 | -14 | 39 |
| 2018-04-21 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown (DAY 2) CAMPGROUND BBQ SEREIES | Plymouth, MA | 14 | 25 |
| 2018-04-21 | *Fire N Up in the Flint Hills | Council Grove, KS | 14 | 21 |
| 2018-04-21 | Smokin in the City | Perth, 6929 | 14 | 20 |
| 2018-04-21 | *Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY) | Chelsea, AL | 14 | 20 |
| 2018-03-24 | The War of Barbeque | Noventa di Piave, 30020 | -14 | 18 |
| 2018-04-21 | Bardo-Q BBQ Competition | Bardonecchia, 10098 | 14 | 15 |
| 2018-03-24 | Table Captain Class | Duncanville, TX | -14 | — |
| 2018-03-24 | Eatapedia BBQ Pitmaster and Competition Class | Ottawa, ON | -14 | — |
| 2018-04-21 | *Southern Hot Wing Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Memphis, TN | 14 | — |
| 2018-03-23 | Fire Lake BBQ Cook-off Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | -15 | 84 |
| 2018-03-23 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship | Arcadia, CA | -15 | 78 |
| 2018-03-23 | BBQ Gives Back | Urbanna, VA | -15 | 75 |
| 2018-03-23 | Hammond BBQ | Hammond, LA | -15 | 48 |
| 2018-03-23 | *Smokin On Big Creek | Pleasant Hill, MO | -15 | 39 |
| 2018-03-23 | Dickson County Smokefest | Dickson, TN | -15 | 29 |
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.