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.

About average for this stretch Saturday, October 20, 2018 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Boo-B-Que

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±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.

The weekend of Nov 24 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Table Captain Class.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Oct 20, 2018 Your weekend	Ocean Sate BBQ Championship-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES	West Kingston, RI	Same day	37
Oct 20, 2018 Your weekend	SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN	Goldschlagiplatz, Switzerland	Same day	20
Oct 20, 2018 Your weekend	3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES)	Olivette, MO	Same day	9
Oct 20, 2018 Your weekend	Holy Cow Kosher BBQ & Festival (KOSHER SERIES)	Garden City, NY	Same day	—
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Boo-B-Que	Rehoboth Beach, DE	1 day before	73
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival	Westminster, CO	1 day before	48
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off	Union Grove, WI	1 day before	42
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival	Lenoir, NC	1 day before	35
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Harper County Bullseye BBQ	Harper, KS	1 day before	33
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-Off	Munfordville, KY	1 day before	29
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Nelsonville, OH	1 day before	28
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Mid-South BBQ Festival	Mount Pleasant, TN	1 day before	22
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Guts Glory Ram BBQ Showdown	Lebanon, MO	1 day before	21
Oct 19, 2018	2018 Greenbriar Blaze Off and Senior Q Cancelled	Independence, MO	1 day before	20
Oct 19, 2018	Logandale Fall Festival Cancelled	Logandale, NV	1 day before	18
Oct 19, 2018 Your weekend	Clarksville BBQ Bash (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (JUDGES FULL)	Clarksville, TN	1 day before	15
Oct 19, 2018	Smokin' Blues & BBQ Festival Cancelled	Duncanville, TX	1 day before	—
Oct 19, 2018	BarnBQ Cancelled	Topeka, KS	1 day before	—
Oct 26, 2018	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)	Lynchburg, TN	6 days after	102
Oct 26, 2018	Border War Barbeque	Osawatomie, KS	6 days after	56
Oct 26, 2018	Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL)	Lynchburg, TN	6 days after	41
Oct 26, 2018	10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival	Fort Gibson, OK	6 days after	27
Oct 26, 2018	October BBQ Contest (Test)	Lebanon, MO	6 days after	—
Oct 26, 2018	October BBQ Contest (test) - JUDGING	Oswego, IL	6 days after	—
Oct 26, 2018	BBQ Boot Camp 102 (Butts & Briskets)	Indianapolis, IN	6 days after	—
Oct 13, 2018	Tallya BBQ Festival	Tallya, Hungary	7 days before	38
Oct 13, 2018	Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que	Muskogee, OK	7 days before	26
Oct 13, 2018	Back to BAYsics Primitive Contest-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES ( DAY 2)	Monson, MA	7 days before	18
Oct 13, 2018	NILE Beer B Q Cancelled	Billings, MT	7 days before	17
Oct 13, 2018	Bataille Sur La Sorgue	L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France	7 days before	16
Oct 13, 2018	Smoke & Ale Fall Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)	Chelsea, MI	7 days before	13
Oct 27, 2018	Fourth Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)	Dallas, TX	7 days after	—
Oct 27, 2018	Holiday Meat Class	Indianapolis, IN	7 days after	—
Oct 12, 2018	15th Annual Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest	Desoto, KS	8 days before	69
Oct 12, 2018	Temecula State BBQ Championship	Temecula, CA	8 days before	46
Oct 12, 2018	CIBR-BBQ Central Illinois Bragging Right BBQ	Arthur, IL	8 days before	45
Oct 12, 2018	Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down	Rocky Mount, NC	8 days before	39
Oct 12, 2018	Smoke & Ale Fall Festival	Chelsea, MI	8 days before	38
Oct 12, 2018	Shenandoah Valley BBQ Fest Cancelled	Woodstock, VA	8 days before	36
Oct 12, 2018	Anchor City Cook Off	Centralia, MO	8 days before	33
Oct 12, 2018	Pigs in the Pit	Alton, VA	8 days before	30
Oct 12, 2018	Grills N Grills Cancelled	Penn Valley, CA	8 days before	27
Oct 12, 2018	The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival	Lyons, GA	8 days before	26
Oct 12, 2018	Waxhaw Grillin & Chillin BBQ cook-off	Waxhaw, NC	8 days before	26
Oct 12, 2018	Bay State BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1)	Monson, MA	8 days before	26
Oct 12, 2018	Smoke the Town Cancelled	Leon, IA	8 days before	16
Oct 12, 2018	Butler Fest 2018	Butler, AL	8 days before	13
Nov 2, 2018	Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 1 (JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	13 days after	33
Nov 2, 2018	Currituck Heritage Festival	Currituck, NC	13 days after	25
Nov 2, 2018	Beach Boogie and BBQ Festival Cancelled	Myrtle Beach, SC	13 days after	23
Nov 2, 2018	Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake	Summerville, SC	13 days after	15
Nov 2, 2018	Roarin Lions Smokin BBQ Cancelled	Statham, GA	13 days after	—
Oct 6, 2018	Rib's and Bibs	Topeka, KS	14 days before	37
Nov 3, 2018	Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 2 (JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	14 days after	33
Nov 3, 2018	Smokin on the Water	Bayswater, Australia	14 days after	23
Oct 6, 2018	Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)	Winthrop Harbor, IL	14 days before	7
Oct 6, 2018	Pete Warner - Que University BBQ Cooking School	Marietta, GA	14 days before	—
Nov 3, 2018	Westland All American BBQ Throwdown	Westland, MI	14 days after	—
Oct 5, 2018	Independence Fire & Ice BBQ	Independence, MO	15 days before	56
Oct 5, 2018	Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship State championship	Harrisburg, PA	15 days before	42
Oct 5, 2018	Jim Beam BBQ Classic	Springfield, KY	15 days before	42
Oct 5, 2018	SMOKEToBERFEST	Ottumwa, IA	15 days before	40
Oct 5, 2018	Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival	Greenfield, MA	15 days before	31
Oct 5, 2018	Harbor-Que	Winthrop Harbor, IL	15 days before	28
Oct 5, 2018	Squealin in the Square	Laurens, SC	15 days before	27
Oct 5, 2018	Go Hog Wild Arkansas BBQ Championship	Sheridan, AR	15 days before	26
Oct 5, 2018	Wisconsin Colorfest & BBQ Bash	Turtle Lake, WI	15 days before	26
Oct 5, 2018	Que & Cruz	Louisa, VA	15 days before	25
Oct 5, 2018	BBQ & Blues on the Levee (JUDGES FULL)	Helena, AR	15 days before	25
Oct 5, 2018	Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)	Decatur, IL	15 days before	—
Oct 5, 2018	Smoke On Water St. BBQ Championship Cancelled	Henderson, NV	15 days before	—
Oct 5, 2018	Smoke on the Water (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Guntersville, AL	15 days before	—
Oct 5, 2018	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	15 days before	—
Nov 5, 2018	Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars	Cranbourne Victoria, Australia	16 days after	21

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.