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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, July 18, 2020 · 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.
- 1 Jun 6
- 3 Jun 13
- 9 Jun 20
- 9 Jun 27
- 1 Jul 4
- 2 Jul 11
- 10 Jul 18
- 6 Jul 25
- 5 Aug 1
- 6 Aug 8
- 5 Aug 15
- 5 Aug 22
- 6 Aug 29
The weekend of Jun 6 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Kick It In The Sticks (BACKYARD ONLY).
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-18 Your weekend | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 2) State championship | Cameron, MO | 0 | 32 |
| 2020-07-18 Your weekend | Smokin on the Osage (Day 2) State championship | Osceola, MO | 0 | 31 |
| 2020-07-18 Your weekend | CIBBQ Red Devil Edition Day 2 State championship | Eureka, IL | 0 | 25 |
| 2020-07-18 Your weekend | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off Single Meat - Rib Contest | Cameron, MO | 0 | 22 |
| 2020-07-18 | Celtic Smoke Cancelled | Glenarm, Billobo, | 0 | — |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) State championship | Cameron, MO | -1 | 42 |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | Real Squeal BBQ Smoke Off State championship | MARION, IA | -1 | 36 |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | Bordertown BBQ Brawl State championship | Sault Ste Marie, MI | -1 | 31 |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | CIBBQ Red Devil Edition Day 1 State championship | Eureka, IL | -1 | 30 |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) State championship | Osceola, MO | -1 | 29 |
| 2020-07-17 | Piggin in the Park Cancelled | Jasper, GA | -1 | 25 |
| 2020-07-17 Your weekend | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off One Meat Rib Contest | Cameron, MO | -1 | 14 |
| 2020-07-24 | Smoke in the Grove State championship | Spring Grove, PA | 6 | 59 |
| 2020-07-24 | Smokin Hot Cars & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Iola, KS | 6 | 31 |
| 2020-07-24 | Fire on the Mountain State championship | Leburn, KY | 6 | 30 |
| 2020-07-24 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship | Hartselle, AL | 6 | 28 |
| 2020-07-24 | Farm Stock Smoke Off State championship | Lane, KS | 6 | 21 |
| 2020-07-24 | Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 1 | Vienna, 1030 | 6 | 18 |
| 2020-07-24 | Red, White & Blue BBQ Cancelled | Gillette, WY | 6 | — |
| 2020-07-25 | 4th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | 7 | 30 |
| 2020-07-25 | Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 2 | Vienna, 1030 | 7 | 21 |
| 2020-07-25 | Red River Barbecue Cancelled | Winnipeg, MB | 7 | — |
| 2020-07-10 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest State championship | Mayetta, KS | -8 | 61 |
| 2020-07-10 | Harvest On the Fire At the Winery State championship | Marshall, IL | -8 | 53 |
| 2020-07-30 | "Last Chance" KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Blairstown, NJ | 12 | 18 |
| 2020-07-31 | Hawgin On Lanier State championship | Cumming, GA | 13 | 55 |
| 2020-07-31 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 13 | 35 |
| 2020-07-31 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: DAY 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 13 | 28 |
| 2020-07-05 | Front Porch Rib Fest | Kansas City, MO | -13 | 16 |
| 2020-07-31 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 1 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 13 | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Saluting With Smoke-Forreston Cancelled State championship | Forreston, IL | 13 | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Midian Smoking Guns (POSTPONED) State championship | Wichita, KS | 13 | — |
| 2020-08-01 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 2 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 14 | — |
| 2020-07-03 | BBQ an der Burg 2020 Cancelled | Geestland, 27624 | -15 | 26 |
| 2020-07-02 | DC Jam Barbecue Championship Cancelled | Landover, MD | -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.