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.
Busier than the weekends around it Saturday, March 23, 2019 · everywhere, because no place is set
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 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
- 18 May 4
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 | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-23 Your weekend | Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 2 State championship | Shawnee, OK | 0 | 62 |
| 2019-03-23 Your weekend | BBQ Gives Back-IV (DAY 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 0 | 52 |
| 2019-03-23 Your weekend | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2 | Torreglia, Pa 30027 | 0 | 25 |
| 2019-03-23 Your weekend | BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 | San Jose, 1000 | 0 | 22 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 1 State championship | Shawnee, OK | -1 | 74 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | BBQ Gives Back-III (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | -1 | 63 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | Hammond BBQ State championship | Hammond, LA | -1 | 48 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | PigMania Franklin State Championship BBQ Competition State championship | Franklin, IN | -1 | 29 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day1 | Torreglia, Pa 30027 | -1 | 20 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | Smoke On the Diamond(BACKYARD ONLY) | Brookwood, AL | -1 | 17 |
| 2019-03-22 Your weekend | Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | -1 | — | |
| 2019-03-29 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 1 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 6 | 70 |
| 2019-03-29 | TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest State championship | Savannah, TN | 6 | 29 |
| 2019-03-29 | Pellet Envy Cooking Class | 6 | — | |
| 2019-03-30 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 2 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 7 | 47 |
| 2019-03-30 | Spring Break BBQ Contest | Lommel, | 7 | 40 |
| 2019-03-15 | Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | -8 | 64 |
| 2019-03-15 | Smokin In the Square State championship | Pensacola, FL | -8 | 35 |
| 2019-03-15 | Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 2 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | -8 | 21 |
| 2019-03-14 | Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 1 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | -9 | 18 |
| 2019-03-14 | Big 12 Big Q (NBBQL COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -9 | 11 |
| 2019-04-05 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Cedar Park, TX | 13 | 61 |
| 2019-04-05 | VFW Post 846 Battle of the Pits State championship | Overland Park, KS | 13 | 53 |
| 2019-04-05 | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | 13 | 42 |
| 2019-04-05 | CCSFest State championship | Indianapois, IN | 13 | 40 |
| 2019-04-05 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon State championship | Stillwater, OK | 13 | 34 |
| 2019-04-05 | Operation Stand Down KY II Annual Smoke off State championship | Franklin, KY | 13 | 28 |
| 2019-04-05 | NYC BBQ Cookoff State championship | Staten Island, NY | 13 | 26 |
| 2019-04-05 | 9th Annual Bull Moose State championship | Millington, TN | 13 | 25 |
| 2019-04-05 | Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY) | Chelsea, AL | 13 | 18 |
| 2019-04-05 | 3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition | Wels, 4600 | 13 | 16 |
| 2019-04-05 | Blues Brew & BBQ (NBBQL COMPETITOR Series) | Springfiled, MO | 13 | — |
| 2019-04-06 | Smoke On the Border State championship | Gravette, AR | 14 | 29 |
| 2019-04-06 | Smokin in the city | Perth WA, 6962 | 14 | 19 |
| 2019-04-06 | 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition | Wels, 4600 | 14 | 16 |
| 2019-03-08 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Nashville, TN | -15 | 67 |
| 2019-03-08 | Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo | Atlantic City, NJ | -15 | 66 |
| 2019-03-08 | Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) | Harselle, AL | -15 | 34 |
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.