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 13, 2021 · 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 Jan 30
- 1 Feb 6
- 0 Feb 13
- 2 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 2 Mar 6
- 3 Mar 13
- 7 Mar 20
- 4 Mar 27
- 0 Apr 3
- 6 Apr 10
- 8 Apr 17
- 11 Apr 24
The weekend of Feb 13 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2021 Your weekend |
Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pirateland State championship | Myrtle Beach, SC | 1 day before | 39 |
| Mar 12, 2021 Your weekend |
Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 1 day before | 28 |
| Mar 12, 2021 Your weekend |
American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest | Kansas City, MO | 1 day before | 24 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | 3rd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 6 days after | 70 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Smoke on The Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 6 days after | 57 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 6 days after | 56 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Smokin in the Square Cancelled State championship | Pensacola, FL | 6 days after | 42 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off - One Meat Contest Ribs | Shawnee, OK | 6 days after | 31 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club State championship | Summerville, SC | 6 days after | 26 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | "Legends of BBQ" featuring KCBS Lifetime Members Melissa Cookston and Tuffy Stone | Horn Lake, MS | 6 days after | — |
| Mar 20, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 7 days after | 50 |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 8 days before | 81 |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Kickin It Route 66 Barbeque Challenge State championship | St. Roberts, MO | 13 days after | 52 |
| Mar 26, 2021 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 13 days after | 46 |
| Mar 27, 2021 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 14 days after | 40 |
| Mar 27, 2021 | Mother Road BBQ Competition State championship | Waynesville, MO | 14 days after | 32 |
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.