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 · everywhere, because no place is set

That weekend

sanctioned contests

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±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	Days off	Field
2021-04-02	Blazathon Cancelled State championship	Stillwater, OK	-1	—
2021-04-09	Smoke in the Spring State championship	Osage City, KS	6	105
2021-04-09	The Ironman Cancelled State championship	Greencastle, PA	6	49
2021-04-09	Smokin' For Down Syndrome (Formally Bull Moose) State championship	Collierville, TN	6	44
2021-04-09	Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival State championship	Jacksonville, FL	6	40
2021-04-09	Smoke on the Falls State championship	Gadsden, AL	6	38
2021-04-09	High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off	Lubbock, TX	6	18
2021-04-09	Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)	Derby, KS	6	13
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
2021-03-26	Kickin It Route 66 Barbeque Challenge State championship	St. Roberts, MO	-8	52
2021-03-26	BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship	Urbanna, VA	-8	46
2021-04-16	Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship	Hagerstown, MD	13	47
2021-04-16	The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship	Hollister, CA	13	41
2021-04-16	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship	Roebuck, SC	13	27
2021-04-16	Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship	Linn Valley, KS	13	—
2021-04-16	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	13	—
2021-03-20	Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 2	Shawnee, OK	-14	50
2021-04-17	Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 2 State championship	Hagerstown, MD	14	34
2021-04-17	The Golden State Battle III - Day 2 State championship	Hollister, CA	14	26
2021-04-17	Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)	Chelsea, AL	14	21
2021-03-19	3rd Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship	Olathe, KS	-15	70
2021-03-19	Smoke on The Shores BBQ Championship State championship	Lebanon, TN	-15	57
2021-03-19	Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 1	Shawnee, OK	-15	56
2021-03-19	Smokin in the Square Cancelled State championship	Pensacola, FL	-15	42
2021-03-19	Firelake BBQ Cook Off - One Meat Contest Ribs	Shawnee, OK	-15	31
2021-03-19	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Dorchester Shrine Club State championship	Summerville, SC	-15	26
2021-03-19	"Legends of BBQ" featuring KCBS Lifetime Members Melissa Cookston and Tuffy Stone	Horn Lake, MS	-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.