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, March 16, 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.
- 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
- 7 Apr 13
- 6 Apr 20
- 19 Apr 27
The weekend of Feb 9 is the quietest in range: 2 contests. The biggest thing on it is KCBS World Invitational Barbeque Championship.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2019 Your weekend |
Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 1 day before | 64 |
| Mar 15, 2019 Your weekend |
Smokin In the Square State championship | Pensacola, FL | 1 day before | 35 |
| Mar 15, 2019 Your weekend |
Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 2 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | 1 day before | 21 |
| Mar 14, 2019 Your weekend |
Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 1 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | 2 days before | 18 |
| Mar 14, 2019 Your weekend |
Big 12 Big Q (NBBQL COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 2 days before | 11 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 1 State championship | Shawnee, OK | 6 days after | 74 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | BBQ Gives Back-III (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 6 days after | 63 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Hammond BBQ State championship | Hammond, LA | 6 days after | 48 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | PigMania Franklin State Championship BBQ Competition State championship | Franklin, IN | 6 days after | 29 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day1 | Torreglia, Italy | 6 days after | 20 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) | Brookwood, AL | 6 days after | 17 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | 6 days after | — | |
| Mar 23, 2019 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 2 State championship | Shawnee, OK | 7 days after | 62 |
| Mar 23, 2019 | BBQ Gives Back-IV (DAY 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 7 days after | 52 |
| Mar 23, 2019 | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2 | Torreglia, Italy | 7 days after | 25 |
| Mar 23, 2019 | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 | San Jose, Costa Rica | 7 days after | 22 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Nashville, TN | 8 days before | 67 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo | Atlantic City, NJ | 8 days before | 66 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Harselle, AL | 8 days before | 34 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 1 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 13 days after | 70 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest State championship | Savannah, TN | 13 days after | 29 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Pellet Envy Cooking Class | 13 days after | — | |
| Mar 30, 2019 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 2 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 14 days after | 47 |
| Mar 30, 2019 | Spring Break BBQ Contest | Lommel, Belgium | 14 days after | 40 |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 15 days before | 62 |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | 15 days before | — | |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | Madison, AL | 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.