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 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2019 Your weekend |
Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 2 State championship | Shawnee, OK | Same day | 62 |
| Mar 23, 2019 Your weekend |
BBQ Gives Back-IV (DAY 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | Same day | 52 |
| Mar 23, 2019 Your weekend |
Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day2 | Torreglia, Italy | Same day | 25 |
| Mar 23, 2019 Your weekend |
BBQFest Costa Rica 2019 | San Jose, Costa Rica | Same day | 22 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Firelake BBQ Cook Off Day 1 State championship | Shawnee, OK | 1 day before | 74 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
BBQ Gives Back-III (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 1 day before | 63 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Hammond BBQ State championship | Hammond, LA | 1 day before | 48 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
PigMania Franklin State Championship BBQ Competition State championship | Franklin, IN | 1 day before | 29 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Country Road & BBQ Contest -Day1 | Torreglia, Italy | 1 day before | 20 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Smoke On the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) | Brookwood, AL | 1 day before | 17 |
| Mar 22, 2019 Your weekend |
Smoke Me Silly Cooking Class | 1 day before | — | |
| Mar 29, 2019 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 1 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 6 days after | 70 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | TN River BBQ Battle & Music Fest State championship | Savannah, TN | 6 days after | 29 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Pellet Envy Cooking Class | 6 days after | — | |
| Mar 30, 2019 | 8th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Day 2 State championship | Arcadia, CA | 7 days after | 47 |
| Mar 30, 2019 | Spring Break BBQ Contest | Lommel, Belgium | 7 days after | 40 |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 8 days before | 64 |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Smokin In the Square State championship | Pensacola, FL | 8 days before | 35 |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 2 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | 8 days before | 21 |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Mountain Smoke Barbecue Festival Day 1 State championship | Ruidoso, NM | 9 days before | 18 |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Big 12 Big Q (NBBQL COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 9 days before | 11 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Cedar Park, TX | 13 days after | 61 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | VFW Post 846 Battle of the Pits State championship | Overland Park, KS | 13 days after | 53 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | The Ironman | Greencastle, PA | 13 days after | 42 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | CCSFest State championship | Indianapois, IN | 13 days after | 40 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Stillwater Elks Lodge Blazathon State championship | Stillwater, OK | 13 days after | 34 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Operation Stand Down KY II Annual Smoke off State championship | Franklin, KY | 13 days after | 28 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | NYC BBQ Cookoff State championship | Staten Island, NY | 13 days after | 26 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | 9th Annual Bull Moose State championship | Millington, TN | 13 days after | 25 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | Chelsea, AL | 13 days after | 18 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | 3rd Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition | Wels, Austria | 13 days after | 16 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Blues Brew & BBQ (NBBQL COMPETITOR Series) | Springfiled, MO | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 6, 2019 | Smoke On the Border State championship | Gravette, AR | 14 days after | 29 |
| Apr 6, 2019 | Smokin in the city | Perth WA, Australia | 14 days after | 19 |
| Apr 6, 2019 | 4th Meat Smoke and Beer BBQ Competition | Wels, Austria | 14 days after | 16 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Nashville, TN | 15 days before | 67 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Mid Atlantic BBQ Expo | Atlantic City, NJ | 15 days before | 66 |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Harselle, AL | 15 days before | 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.
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.