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, January 12, 2019 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 2 Dec 1
- 1 Dec 8
- 1 Dec 15
- 0 Dec 22
- 2 Dec 29
- 0 Jan 5
- 1 Jan 12
- 2 Jan 19
- 2 Jan 26
- 3 Feb 2
- 2 Feb 9
- 4 Feb 16
- 2 Feb 23
The weekend of Dec 22 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2019 Your weekend |
National Western BBQ Throwdown State championship | Denver, CO | 1 day before | 38 |
| Jan 18, 2019 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge State championship | Bullhead City, AZ | 6 days after | 63 |
| Jan 19, 2019 | W.E.S.T. Winter Extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest | Rein in Taufers, Italy | 7 days after | 30 |
| Dec 31, 2018 | South Florida's Fired Up Kosher BBQ Battle and Festival (KOSHER SERIES) | Boca Raton, FL | 12 days before | 13 |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Lakeland Pig Festival State championship | Lakeland, FL | 13 days after | 58 |
| Jan 25, 2019 | The Golden State Battle State championship | Santa Ynez, CA | 13 days after | 48 |
| Dec 28, 2018 | Arizona National BBQ Stampede | Phoenix, AZ | 15 days before | 47 |
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.