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, October 12, 2019 · everywhere, because no place is set
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.
- 11 Aug 31
- 12 Sep 7
- 14 Sep 14
- 14 Sep 21
- 13 Sep 28
- 14 Oct 5
- 13 Oct 12
- 13 Oct 19
- 7 Oct 26
- 6 Nov 2
- 4 Nov 9
- 2 Nov 16
- 2 Nov 23
The weekend of Nov 16 is the quietest in range: 2 contests. The biggest thing on it is Georgia BBQ Championship Throwdown.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-12 Your weekend | Red White & Que: Day 2 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Jackson, NJ | 0 | 30 |
| 2019-10-12 Your weekend | Caput Mundi BBQ Competition | Rome, 00153 | 0 | 8 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Cookin on the Kaw BBQ Contest(JUDGES FULL) State championship | DeSoto, KS | -1 | 51 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Central Illinois Bragging Rights(CIBR-BBQ) State championship | Arthur, IL | -1 | 43 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Jackson, NJ | -1 | 32 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down State championship | Rocky Mount, NC | -1 | 32 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Waxhaw Grillin & Chillin BBQ cook-off State championship | Waxhaw, NC | -1 | 27 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival State championship | Lyons, GA | -1 | 27 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Anchor City Cook off State championship | Centralia, MO | -1 | 25 |
| 2019-10-11 | Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que Cancelled State championship | Muskogee, OK | -1 | 22 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | BBQ & Blues on the Levee State championship | Helena, AR | -1 | 20 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Butlerfest 2019(BACKYARD ONLY) | Butler, AL | -1 | 20 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Smokin' & Stokin' Trussville (BACKYARD ONLY) | Trussville, AL | -1 | 17 |
| 2019-10-11 Your weekend | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | -1 | — |
| 2019-10-17 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival A State championship | Lenoir, NC | 5 | 15 |
| 2019-10-18 | Boo-B-Que State championship | Rehoboth Beach, DE | 6 | 63 |
| 2019-10-18 | Best of the Midwest State championship | Union Grove, WI | 6 | 52 |
| 2019-10-18 | Meat Scream BBQ Competition State championship | Westminster, CO | 6 | 46 |
| 2019-10-18 | Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Roswell, GA | 6 | 32 |
| 2019-10-18 | Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Munfordville, KY | 6 | 31 |
| 2019-10-18 | Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival State championship | Nelsonville, OH | 6 | 28 |
| 2019-10-18 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ State championship | Harper, KS | 6 | 25 |
| 2019-10-18 | Smoking in the Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival B State championship | Lenoir, NC | 6 | 22 |
| 2019-10-18 | Fountains at Greenbriar Blaze Off State championship | Independence, MO | 6 | 13 |
| 2019-10-18 | National Head 2 Head Invitational Top 50 (Competitors Series) | Great Bend, KS | 6 | 7 |
| 2019-10-18 | Mid-South BBQ Festival and Competition Cancelled State championship | Mount Pleasant, TN | 6 | — |
| 2019-10-19 | Rock-N-Q on the planes State championship | Great Bend, KS | 7 | 28 |
| 2019-10-05 | Austrian BBQ Festival- Indian Summer Challenge 2019 | Graz, Messegelande, 8010 | -7 | 16 |
| 2019-10-19 | Uncle Bubs BBQ Cooking Class | Collinsville, IL | 7 | — |
| 2019-10-04 | Smoketoberfest State championship | Ottumwa, IA | -8 | 49 |
| 2019-10-04 | Jim Beam BBQ Classic State championship | Springfield, KY | -8 | 42 |
| 2019-10-04 | Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship State championship | Harrisburg, PA | -8 | 36 |
| 2019-10-04 | Brew N Que-Perth 2019 | Ascot WA, 6104 | -8 | 30 |
| 2019-10-04 | Que & Cruz State championship | Louisa, VA | -8 | 28 |
| 2019-10-04 | Guts Glory Ram BBQ Showdown State championship | Lebanon, MO | -8 | 27 |
| 2019-10-04 | Go Hog Wild Arkansas BBQ Championship State championship | Sheridan, AR | -8 | 26 |
| 2019-10-04 | Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ State championship | Greenfield, MA | -8 | 26 |
| 2019-10-04 | Roast N Boast State championship | Columbus, MS | -8 | 25 |
| 2019-10-04 | Swine At the Shrine Porktobertfest State championship | Savannah, GA | -8 | 24 |
| 2019-10-04 | Squealin on the Square State championship | Laurens, SC | -8 | 19 |
| 2019-10-04 | Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-Off (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Harrodsburg, KY | -8 | 12 |
| 2019-10-04 | Hops and Hogs Festival | Huntersville, NC | -8 | 11 |
| 2019-10-24 | Fifth Annual Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES) | Dallas, TX | 12 | 11 |
| 2019-10-25 | 31st Annual Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue(JUDGES FULL)(COMPETITORS SERIES) | Lynchburg, TN | 13 | 97 |
| 2019-10-25 | Border War Barbeque State championship | Osawatomie, KS | 13 | 44 |
| 2019-10-25 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) | Lynchburg, TN | 13 | 42 |
| 2019-10-25 | Sunshine Coast BBQ Championships | Palmview, Su Qld 4553 | 13 | 26 |
| 2019-10-25 | Smokin' on the Square State championship | El Dorado, AR | 13 | 20 |
| 2019-10-25 | Zom-B-Q(BBQ Wythe US) State championship | Wytheville, VA | 13 | 20 |
| 2019-09-28 | Ocean Sate BBQ Championship-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Hope Valley, RI | -14 | 36 |
| 2019-09-28 | West Bottoms BBQ Contest State championship | Kansas City, MO | -14 | 29 |
| 2019-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship State championship | Shawnee, KS | -15 | 102 |
| 2019-09-27 | Smoke on the Trails State championship | Gardner, KS | -15 | 53 |
| 2019-09-27 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival State championship | Jonesboro, AR | -15 | 43 |
| 2019-09-27 | Smoke in the Park State championship | Lemoyne, PA | -15 | 40 |
| 2019-09-27 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge State championship | Newton, NC | -15 | 37 |
| 2019-09-27 | Mazatzal Grill Masters-BBQ Competition & Testicle Festival State championship | Payson, AZ | -15 | 33 |
| 2019-09-27 | BBQ In The Badlands State championship | Glendive, MT | -15 | 25 |
| 2019-09-27 | New Albany Blues Brews and BBQ Festival State championship | New Albany, IN | -15 | 23 |
| 2019-09-27 | Kincaid Fair Backyard BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Kincaid, KS | -15 | 7 |
| 2019-09-27 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | -15 | — |
| 2019-09-26 | KC Realty Royal (Competitor's Series)-Cancelled | Overland Park, KS | -16 | — |
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.