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.
A clear weekend Saturday, April 3, 2021 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 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
- 5 May 8
- 11 May 15
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2021 | Blazathon Cancelled State championship | Stillwater, OK | 1 day before | — |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke in the Spring State championship | Osage City, KS | 6 days after | 105 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | The Ironman Cancelled State championship | Greencastle, PA | 6 days after | 49 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smokin' For Down Syndrome (Formally Bull Moose) State championship | Collierville, TN | 6 days after | 44 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival State championship | Jacksonville, FL | 6 days after | 40 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Smoke on the Falls State championship | Gadsden, AL | 6 days after | 38 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off | Lubbock, TX | 6 days after | 18 |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Derby, KS | 6 days after | 13 |
| Mar 27, 2021 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 7 days before | 40 |
| Mar 27, 2021 | Mother Road BBQ Competition State championship | Waynesville, MO | 7 days before | 32 |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Kickin It Route 66 Barbeque Challenge State championship | St. Roberts, MO | 8 days before | 52 |
| Mar 26, 2021 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 8 days before | 46 |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | 13 days after | 47 |
| Apr 16, 2021 | The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship | Hollister, CA | 13 days after | 41 |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship | Roebuck, SC | 13 days after | 27 |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship | Linn Valley, KS | 13 days after | — |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 13 days after | — |
| Mar 20, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 2 | Shawnee, OK | 14 days before | 50 |
| Apr 17, 2021 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 2 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | 14 days after | 34 |
| Apr 17, 2021 | The Golden State Battle III - Day 2 State championship | Hollister, CA | 14 days after | 26 |
| Apr 17, 2021 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | Chelsea, AL | 14 days after | 21 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | 3rd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 15 days before | 70 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Smoke on The Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 15 days before | 57 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 1 | Shawnee, OK | 15 days before | 56 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Smokin in the Square Cancelled State championship | Pensacola, FL | 15 days before | 42 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off - One Meat Contest Ribs | Shawnee, OK | 15 days before | 31 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club State championship | Summerville, SC | 15 days before | 26 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | "Legends of BBQ" featuring KCBS Lifetime Members Melissa Cookston and Tuffy Stone | Horn Lake, MS | 15 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.