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, August 15, 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 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
- 5 Sep 5
- 10 Sep 12
- 9 Sep 19
- 6 Sep 26
The weekend of Jul 4 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Front Porch Rib Fest.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2020 Your weekend |
Slow Joe's Barn Burner | Vedum, Sweden | Same day | 14 |
| Aug 14, 2020 Your weekend |
BBQ & Fly in on the River State championship | Excelsior Springs, MO | 1 day before | 55 |
| Aug 14, 2020 Your weekend |
Big Blue Barbecue State championship | Shelbyville, IN | 1 day before | 50 |
| Aug 14, 2020 Your weekend |
Western Legends Heritage and Music Festival State championship | Kanab, UT | 1 day before | 42 |
| Aug 14, 2020 Your weekend |
Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Aiken State championship | Aiken, SC | 1 day before | 34 |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Hudson Valley Ribfest (POSTPONED) State championship | New Paltz, NY | 6 days after | 56 |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Smoke on the Bricks State championship | Baldwin City, KS | 6 days after | 43 |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest State championship | Hill City, SD | 6 days after | 43 |
| Aug 21, 2020 | BBQ Festival 2020 | Saue Parish, Estonia | 6 days after | 13 |
| Aug 8, 2020 | BBQ WYTHE US DAY 2 State championship | Wythe, VA | 7 days before | 17 |
| Aug 22, 2020 | Summer Daze BBQ Classic - Cancelled | Niagara Falls, Canada | 7 days after | — |
| Aug 7, 2020 | 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ State championship | Enid, OK | 8 days before | 54 |
| Aug 7, 2020 | All American BBQ Throwdown State championship | Westland, MI | 8 days before | 42 |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Smokin' Trackside BBQ Bash State championship | Winston, MO | 8 days before | 30 |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) | Glencoe, AL | 8 days before | 21 |
| Aug 7, 2020 | BBQ WYTHE US DAY 1 State championship | Wythe, VA | 8 days before | 19 |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Minnesota in Mayaugust State championship | Cambridge, MN | 13 days after | 45 |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Nevada Chamber Low and Slow Barbecue cook off State championship | Nevada, MO | 13 days after | 37 |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Roebuck State championship | Roebuck, SC | 13 days after | 34 |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Grillin on the Trail State championship | Council Grove, KS | 13 days after | — |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 | Herron, Australia | 14 days after | 14 |
| Aug 1, 2020 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 2 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 14 days before | — |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 14 days after | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Hawgin On Lanier State championship | Cumming, GA | 15 days before | 55 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 15 days before | 35 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: DAY 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 15 days before | 28 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 1 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | 15 days before | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Saluting With Smoke-Forreston Cancelled State championship | Forreston, IL | 15 days before | — |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Midian Smoking Guns (POSTPONED) State championship | Wichita, KS | 15 days before | — |
| Jul 30, 2020 | "Last Chance" KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Blairstown, NJ | 16 days before | 18 |
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.