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, February 23, 2019 · 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.
- 1 Jan 12
- 2 Jan 19
- 2 Jan 26
- 3 Feb 2
- 2 Feb 9
- 4 Feb 16
- 2 Feb 23
- 3 Mar 2
- 3 Mar 9
- 5 Mar 16
- 11 Mar 23
- 5 Mar 30
- 14 Apr 6
The weekend of Jan 12 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is National Western BBQ Throwdown.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Bama Q Capital City Cook-Off State championship | Montgomery, AL | 1 day before | 27 |
| Feb 22, 2019 Your weekend |
D'Iberville BBQ Throw Down Festival State championship | Diberville, MS | 1 day before | 16 |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 6 days after | 62 |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | 6 days after | — | |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | Madison, AL | 6 days after | — |
| Feb 16, 2019 | Austrian BBQ Festival BARBECUE on ICE | Weissensee, Austria | 7 days before | 12 |
| Feb 16, 2019 | Sth East BeerBQ | Tynong Vic, Australia | 7 days before | 10 |
| Feb 15, 2019 | The Smithfield Guinea Pig (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) | Indian Wells, CA | 8 days before | 49 |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown State championship | Huntsville, TX | 8 days before | 33 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Nashville, TN | 13 days after | 67 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo | Atlantic City, NJ | 13 days after | 66 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Harselle, AL | 13 days after | 34 |
| Feb 8, 2019 | KCBS World Invitational Barbeque Championship State championship | Little Rock, AR | 15 days before | 92 |
| Feb 8, 2019 | Smokin' Triggers Cooking Class | Hammond, LA | 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.