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 7, 2020 · 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 Jan 25
- 2 Feb 1
- 3 Feb 8
- 2 Feb 15
- 4 Feb 22
- 3 Feb 29
- 3 Mar 7
- 5 Mar 14
- 1 Mar 21
- 1 Mar 28
- 1 Apr 4
- 0 Apr 11
- 1 Apr 18
The weekend of Apr 11 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2020 Your weekend |
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 1 day before | 61 |
| Mar 6, 2020 Your weekend |
Fire it up Frostproof! State championship | Frostproof, FL | 1 day before | 32 |
| Mar 6, 2020 Your weekend |
Corums Building Center BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Hartselle, AL | 1 day before | 32 |
| Mar 13, 2020 | 2nd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 6 days after | 68 |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Speed & Feed BBQ Cook-Off & Car Show State championship | Darlington, SC | 6 days after | 29 |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 6 days after | 23 |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 6 days after | — |
| Mar 14, 2020 | Aporkalypse Now Competition BBQ Class | Havre De Grace, MD | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Best in the Desert Southwest KCBS BBQ Competition State championship | Yuma, AZ | 8 days before | 29 |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Buffalo's BBQ Cooking Class | Sperry, OK | 8 days before | — |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Smokin' Triggers Cooking Class | Hammond, LA | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Smoke on the Diamond (BACKYARD ONLY) - (Postponed) | Brookwood, AL | 13 days after | 17 |
| Feb 22, 2020 | Capital City Cook Off-Judging | Montgomery, AL | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 21, 2020 | Smoke in the Woods-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES- Cancelled State championship | Cuddebackville, NY | 14 days after | — |
| Feb 21, 2020 | The Tyson Guinea Pig, Matt Dalton Memorial State championship | Coachella, CA | 15 days before | 50 |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Capital City Cook Off State championship | Montgomery, AL | 15 days before | 25 |
| Feb 21, 2020 | 4 Legs Up BBQ, The Art & Science of Competition BBQ Class | Lincoln, NE | 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.