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 20, 2021 · everywhere, because no place is set
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 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
- 10 May 1
The weekend of Feb 13 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-20 Your weekend | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 0 | 50 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | 3rd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | -1 | 70 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | Smoke on The Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | -1 | 57 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | -1 | 56 |
| 2021-03-19 | Smokin in the Square Cancelled State championship | Pensacola, FL | -1 | 42 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | Firelake BBQ Cook Off - One Meat Contest Ribs | Shawnee, OK | -1 | 31 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club State championship | Summerville, SC | -1 | 26 |
| 2021-03-19 Your weekend | "Legends of BBQ" featuring KCBS Lifetime Members Melissa Cookston and Tuffy Stone | Horn Lake, MS | -1 | — |
| 2021-03-26 | Kickin It Route 66 Barbeque Challenge State championship | St. Roberts, MO | 6 | 52 |
| 2021-03-26 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 6 | 46 |
| 2021-03-27 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 7 | 40 |
| 2021-03-27 | Mother Road BBQ Competition State championship | Waynesville, MO | 7 | 32 |
| 2021-03-12 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pirateland State championship | Myrtle Beach, SC | -8 | 39 |
| 2021-03-12 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | -8 | 28 |
| 2021-03-12 | American Royal Backyard and Steak Contest | Kansas City, MO | -8 | 24 |
| 2021-04-02 | Blazathon Cancelled State championship | Stillwater, OK | 13 | — |
| 2021-03-05 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | -15 | 81 |
| 2021-03-05 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South | Undilla, GA | -15 | — |
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.