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, November 10, 2018 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
In the window
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 15 Sep 29
- 16 Oct 6
- 16 Oct 13
- 14 Oct 20
- 9 Oct 27
- 7 Nov 3
- 8 Nov 10
- 3 Nov 17
- 1 Nov 24
- 2 Dec 1
- 1 Dec 8
- 1 Dec 15
- 0 Dec 22
The weekend of Dec 22 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2018 Your weekend |
Pete Warner - Que University BBQ Cooking School | Marietta, GA | Same day | — |
| Nov 10, 2018 Your weekend |
Sticky Jar Open Sauce Contest by Spicin Foods (Judges full) | Kansas City, MO | Same day | — |
| Nov 10, 2018 Your weekend |
Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | Same day | — |
| Nov 9, 2018 Your weekend |
Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (Duel A) | Concord, NC | 1 day before | 56 |
| Nov 9, 2018 Your weekend |
Polar Pig BBQ Cook-Off (Duel B) | Concord, NC | 1 day before | 44 |
| Nov 9, 2018 Your weekend |
Smoke EM IF You Got EM | Springfield, MO | 1 day before | 30 |
| Nov 9, 2018 | Oath BBQ Championship Contest Cancelled | Sealy, TX | 1 day before | — |
| Nov 9, 2018 Your weekend |
Paul Kirk - Lang BBQ Smokers Q-School | Hoboken, GA | 1 day before | — |
| Nov 9, 2018 Your weekend |
Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 1 day before | — |
| Nov 5, 2018 | Heat Beads BBQ Turf Wars | Cranbourne Victoria, Australia | 5 days before | 21 |
| Nov 16, 2018 | The National BBQ Cup ( Day 1, Contest B) Cancelled | Cumming, GA | 6 days after | 80 |
| Nov 16, 2018 | The National BBQ Cup ( Day 1, Contest A) Cancelled | Cumming, GA | 6 days after | 80 |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Suncoast Credit Union Plant City Pig Jam | Plant City, FL | 6 days after | 44 |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown | Mt. Pleasant, SC | 6 days after | 25 |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Mission Q (BACKYARD ONLY) | Tuscumbia, AL | 6 days after | 18 |
| Nov 17, 2018 | The National BBQ Cup ( Day 2) Cancelled | Cumming, GA | 7 days after | 80 |
| Nov 3, 2018 | Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 2 (JUDGES FULL) | Indio, CA | 7 days before | 33 |
| Nov 3, 2018 | Smokin on the Water | Bayswater, Australia | 7 days before | 23 |
| Nov 3, 2018 | Westland All American BBQ Throwdown | Westland, MI | 7 days before | — |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival DAY 1 (JUDGES FULL) | Indio, CA | 8 days before | 33 |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Currituck Heritage Festival | Currituck, NC | 8 days before | 25 |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Beach Boogie and BBQ Festival Cancelled | Myrtle Beach, SC | 8 days before | 23 |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Brew & Que on the Shrine Lake | Summerville, SC | 8 days before | 15 |
| Nov 2, 2018 | Roarin Lions Smokin BBQ Cancelled | Statham, GA | 8 days before | — |
| Oct 27, 2018 | Fourth Annual Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES) | Dallas, TX | 14 days before | — |
| Oct 27, 2018 | Holiday Meat Class | Indianapolis, IN | 14 days before | — |
| Nov 24, 2018 | Table Captain Class | Deurne, Netherlands | 14 days after | — |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | Lynchburg, TN | 15 days before | 102 |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Border War Barbeque | Osawatomie, KS | 15 days before | 56 |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) | Lynchburg, TN | 15 days before | 41 |
| Oct 26, 2018 | 10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival | Fort Gibson, OK | 15 days before | 27 |
| Oct 26, 2018 | October BBQ Contest (Test) | Lebanon, MO | 15 days before | — |
| Oct 26, 2018 | October BBQ Contest (test) - JUDGING | Oswego, IL | 15 days before | — |
| Oct 26, 2018 | BBQ Boot Camp 102 (Butts & Briskets) | Indianapolis, IN | 15 days before | — |
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.