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 · everywhere, because no place is set

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	Days off	Field
2018-10-20 Your weekend	Ocean Sate BBQ Championship-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES	West Kingston, RI	0	37
2018-10-20 Your weekend	SMOKE IN SCHLIEREN	Goldschlagiplatz, 5735	0	20
2018-10-20 Your weekend	*3rd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ Competition (KOSHER SERIES)	Olivette, MO	0	9
2018-10-20 Your weekend	*Holy Cow Kosher BBQ & Festival (KOSHER SERIES)	Garden City, NY	0	—
2018-10-19 Your weekend	Boo-B-Que	Rehoboth Beach, DE	-1	73
2018-10-19 Your weekend	Meat Scream BBQ Competition at Halloween Harvest Festival	Westminster, CO	-1	48
2018-10-19 Your weekend	*Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off	Union Grove, WI	-1	42
2018-10-19 Your weekend	Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition And Festival	Lenoir, NC	-1	35
2018-10-19 Your weekend	*Harper County Bullseye BBQ	Harper, KS	-1	33
2018-10-19 Your weekend	Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-Off	Munfordville, KY	-1	29
2018-10-19 Your weekend	*Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Nelsonville, OH	-1	28
2018-10-19 Your weekend	*Mid-South BBQ Festival	Mount Pleasant, TN	-1	22
2018-10-19 Your weekend	Guts Glory Ram BBQ Showdown	Lebanon, MO	-1	21
2018-10-19	2018 Greenbriar Blaze Off and Senior Q Cancelled	Independence, MO	-1	20
2018-10-19	Logandale Fall Festival Cancelled	Logandale, NV	-1	18
2018-10-19 Your weekend	*Clarksville BBQ Bash (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)(JUDGES FULL)	Clarksville, TN	-1	15
2018-10-19	*Smokin' Blues & BBQ Festival Cancelled	Duncanville, TX	-1	—
2018-10-19	*BarnBQ Cancelled	Topeka, KS	-1	—
2018-10-26	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)	Lynchburg, TN	6	102
2018-10-26	*Border War Barbeque	Osawatomie, KS	6	56
2018-10-26	Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL)	Lynchburg, TN	6	41
2018-10-26	*10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival	Fort Gibson, OK	6	27
2018-10-26	October BBQ Contest (Test)	Lebanon, MO	6	—
2018-10-26	October BBQ Contest (test) - JUDGING	Oswego, IL	6	—
2018-10-26	BBQ Boot Camp 102 (Butts & Briskets)	Indianapolis, IN	6	—
2018-10-13	*Tallya BBQ Festival	Tallya, 1125	-7	38
2018-10-13	*Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que	Muskogee, OK	-7	26
2018-10-13	Back to BAYsics Primitive Contest-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES ( DAY 2)	Monson, MA	-7	18
2018-10-13	*NILE Beer B Q Cancelled	Billings, MT	-7	17
2018-10-13	*Bataille Sur La Sorgue	L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 84800	-7	16
2018-10-13	*Smoke & Ale Fall Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)	Chelsea, MI	-7	13
2018-10-27	Fourth Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship(KOSHER SERIES)	Dallas, TX	7	—
2018-10-27	Holiday Meat Class	Indianapolis, IN	7	—
2018-10-12	*15th Annual Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest	Desoto, KS	-8	69
2018-10-12	*Temecula State BBQ Championship	Temecula, CA	-8	46
2018-10-12	CIBR-BBQ Central Illinois Bragging Right BBQ	Arthur, IL	-8	45
2018-10-12	Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down	Rocky Mount, NC	-8	39
2018-10-12	*Smoke & Ale Fall Festival	Chelsea, MI	-8	38
2018-10-12	*Shenandoah Valley BBQ Fest Cancelled	Woodstock, VA	-8	36
2018-10-12	*Anchor City Cook Off	Centralia, MO	-8	33
2018-10-12	*Pigs in the Pit	Alton, VA	-8	30
2018-10-12	Grills N Grills Cancelled	Penn Valley, CA	-8	27
2018-10-12	The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival	Lyons, GA	-8	26
2018-10-12	Waxhaw Grillin & Chillin BBQ cook-off	Waxhaw, NC	-8	26
2018-10-12	Bay State BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1)	Monson, MA	-8	26
2018-10-12	Smoke the Town Cancelled	Leon, IA	-8	16
2018-10-12	*Butler Fest 2018	Butler, AL	-8	13
2018-11-02	*Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 1 (JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	13	33
2018-11-02	*Currituck Heritage Festival	Currituck, NC	13	25
2018-11-02	*Beach Boogie and BBQ Festival Cancelled	Myrtle Beach, SC	13	23
2018-11-02	*Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake	Summerville, SC	13	15
2018-11-02	*Roarin Lions Smokin BBQ Cancelled	Statham, GA	13	—
2018-10-06	*Rib's and Bibs	Topeka, KS	-14	37
2018-11-03	Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 2 (JUDGES FULL)	Indio, CA	14	33
2018-11-03	Smokin on the Water	Bayswater,	14	23
2018-10-06	*Harbor-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)	Winthrop Harbor, IL	-14	7
2018-10-06	Pete Warner - Que University BBQ Cooking School	Marietta, GA	-14	—
2018-11-03	Westland All American BBQ Throwdown	Westland, MI	14	—
2018-10-05	*Independence Fire & Ice BBQ	Independence, MO	-15	56
2018-10-05	Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship State championship	Harrisburg, PA	-15	42
2018-10-05	Jim Beam BBQ Classic	Springfield, KY	-15	42
2018-10-05	*SMOKEToBERFEST	Ottumwa, IA	-15	40
2018-10-05	Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival	Greenfield, MA	-15	31
2018-10-05	*Harbor-Que	Winthrop Harbor, IL	-15	28
2018-10-05	Squealin in the Square	Laurens, SC	-15	27
2018-10-05	*Go Hog Wild Arkansas BBQ Championship	Sheridan, AR	-15	26
2018-10-05	*Wisconsin Colorfest & BBQ Bash	Turtle Lake, WI	-15	26
2018-10-05	Que & Cruz	Louisa, VA	-15	25
2018-10-05	*BBQ & Blues on the Levee(JUDGES FULL)	Helena, AR	-15	25
2018-10-05	*Decatur's Smokin BBQ Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)	Decatur, IL	-15	—
2018-10-05	Smoke On Water St. BBQ Championship Cancelled	Henderson, NV	-15	—
2018-10-05	Smoke on the Water (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled	Guntersville, AL	-15	—
2018-10-05	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	-15	—
2018-11-05	Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars	Cranbourne Victoria, 3977	16	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. 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.