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 · 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.
- 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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2020 Your weekend |
Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 2) State championship | Cameron, MO | Same day | 32 |
| Jul 18, 2020 Your weekend |
Smokin on the Osage (Day 2) State championship | Osceola, MO | Same day | 31 |
| Jul 18, 2020 Your weekend |
CIBBQ Red Devil Edition Day 2 State championship | Eureka, IL | Same day | 25 |
| Jul 18, 2020 Your weekend |
Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off Single Meat - Rib Contest | Cameron, MO | Same day | 22 |
| Jul 18, 2020 | Celtic Smoke Cancelled | Glenarm, Billobo, Ireland | Same day | — |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) State championship | Cameron, MO | 1 day before | 42 |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
Real Squeal BBQ Smoke Off State championship | Marion, IA | 1 day before | 36 |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
Bordertown BBQ Brawl State championship | Sault Ste Marie, MI | 1 day before | 31 |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
CIBBQ Red Devil Edition Day 1 State championship | Eureka, IL | 1 day before | 30 |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) State championship | Osceola, MO | 1 day before | 29 |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Piggin in the Park Cancelled | Jasper, GA | 1 day before | 25 |
| Jul 17, 2020 Your weekend |
Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off One Meat Rib Contest | Cameron, MO | 1 day before | 14 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Smoke in the Grove State championship | Spring Grove, PA | 6 days after | 59 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Smokin Hot Cars & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Iola, KS | 6 days after | 31 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Fire on the Mountain State championship | Leburn, KY | 6 days after | 30 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship | Hartselle, AL | 6 days after | 28 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Farm Stock Smoke Off State championship | Lane, KS | 6 days after | 21 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 1 | Vienna, Austria | 6 days after | 18 |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Red, White & Blue BBQ Cancelled | Gillette, WY | 6 days after | — |
| Jul 25, 2020 | 4th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | 7 days after | 30 |
| Jul 25, 2020 | Vienna BBQ Days 2020 Day 2 | Vienna, Austria | 7 days after | 21 |
| Jul 25, 2020 | Red River Barbecue Cancelled | Winnipeg, MB | 7 days after | — |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest State championship | Mayetta, KS | 8 days before | 61 |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Harvest On the Fire At the Winery State championship | Marshall, IL | 8 days before | 53 |
| Jul 30, 2020 | "Last Chance" KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Blairstown, NJ | 12 days after | 18 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier State championship | Cumming, GA | 13 days after | 55 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 13 days after | 35 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: DAY 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 13 days after | 28 |
| Jul 5, 2020 | Front Porch Rib Fest | Kansas City, MO | 13 days before | 16 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 1 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 13 days after | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Saluting With Smoke-Forreston Cancelled State championship | Forreston, IL | 13 days after | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Midian Smoking Guns (POSTPONED) State championship | Wichita, KS | 13 days after | — |
| Aug 1, 2020 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 2 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 14 days after | — |
| Jul 3, 2020 | BBQ an der Burg 2020 Cancelled | Geestland, Germany | 15 days before | 26 |
| Jul 2, 2020 | DC Jam Barbecue Championship Cancelled | Landover, MD | 16 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.