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 · 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 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 | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-15 Your weekend | Slow Joe's Barn Burner | Vedum, | 0 | 14 |
| 2020-08-14 Your weekend | BBQ & Fly in on the River State championship | Excelsior Springs, MO | -1 | 55 |
| 2020-08-14 Your weekend | Big Blue Barbecue State championship | Shelbyville, IN | -1 | 50 |
| 2020-08-14 Your weekend | Western Legends Heritage and Music Festival State championship | Kanab, UT | -1 | 42 |
| 2020-08-14 Your weekend | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Aiken State championship | Aiken, SC | -1 | 34 |
| 2020-08-21 | Hudson Valley Ribfest (POSTPONED) State championship | New Paltz, NY | 6 | 56 |
| 2020-08-21 | Smoke on the Bricks State championship | Baldwin City, KS | 6 | 43 |
| 2020-08-21 | Hill City Wine Brew and BBQ Fest State championship | Hill City, SD | 6 | 43 |
| 2020-08-21 | BBQ Festival 2020 | Saue Parish, | 6 | 13 |
| 2020-08-08 | BBQ WYTHE US DAY 2 State championship | WYTHE, VA | -7 | 17 |
| 2020-08-22 | Summer Daze BBQ Classic - Cancelled | Niagara Falls, L2G7H1 | 7 | — |
| 2020-08-07 | 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ State championship | Enid, OK | -8 | 54 |
| 2020-08-07 | All American BBQ Throwdown State championship | Westland, MI | -8 | 42 |
| 2020-08-07 | Smokin' Trackside BBQ Bash State championship | Winston, MO | -8 | 30 |
| 2020-08-07 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD ONLY) | Glencoe, AL | -8 | 21 |
| 2020-08-07 | BBQ WYTHE US DAY 1 State championship | WYTHE, VA | -8 | 19 |
| 2020-08-28 | Minnesota in Mayaugust State championship | Cambridge, MN | 13 | 45 |
| 2020-08-28 | Nevada Chamber Low and Slow Barbecue cook off State championship | Nevada, MO | 13 | 37 |
| 2020-08-28 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Roebuck State championship | Roebuck, SC | 13 | 34 |
| 2020-08-28 | Grillin on the Trail State championship | Council Grove, KS | 13 | — |
| 2020-08-29 | Pitboss Backyarder BBQ Series Round 3 | Herron, 6211 | 14 | 14 |
| 2020-08-01 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 2 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | -14 | — |
| 2020-08-29 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 14 | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Hawgin On Lanier State championship | Cumming, GA | -15 | 55 |
| 2020-07-31 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | -15 | 35 |
| 2020-07-31 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: DAY 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | -15 | 28 |
| 2020-07-31 | 514BBQ-Festival BBQ St-Jerome Day 1 Cancelled | St-Jerome, QC | -15 | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Saluting With Smoke-Forreston Cancelled State championship | Forreston, IL | -15 | — |
| 2020-07-31 | Midian Smoking Guns (POSTPONED) State championship | Wichita, KS | -15 | — |
| 2020-07-30 | "Last Chance" KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | Blairstown, NJ | -16 | 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. 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.