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, April 10, 2021 · 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.
- 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
- 5 May 22
The weekend of Feb 27 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | Smoke in the Spring State championship | Osage City, KS | -1 | 105 |
| 2021-04-09 | The Ironman Cancelled State championship | Greencastle, PA | -1 | 49 |
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | Smokin' For Down Syndrome (Formally Bull Moose) State championship | Collierville, TN | -1 | 44 |
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival State championship | Jacksonville, FL | -1 | 40 |
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | Smoke on the Falls State championship | Gadsden, AL | -1 | 38 |
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off | Lubbock, TX | -1 | 18 |
| 2021-04-09 Your weekend | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Derby, KS | -1 | 13 |
| 2021-04-16 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | 6 | 47 |
| 2021-04-16 | The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship | Hollister, CA | 6 | 41 |
| 2021-04-16 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship | Roebuck, SC | 6 | 27 |
| 2021-04-16 | Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship | Linn Valley, KS | 6 | — |
| 2021-04-16 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 6 | — |
| 2021-04-17 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 2 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | 7 | 34 |
| 2021-04-17 | The Golden State Battle III - Day 2 State championship | Hollister, CA | 7 | 26 |
| 2021-04-17 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | Chelsea, AL | 7 | 21 |
| 2021-04-02 | Blazathon Cancelled State championship | Stillwater, OK | -8 | — |
| 2021-04-23 | WashMo BBQ & Bluesfest State championship | Washington, MO | 13 | 45 |
| 2021-04-23 | 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | 13 | 41 |
| 2021-04-23 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 13 | 40 |
| 2021-04-23 | Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship | Springfield, MO | 13 | 37 |
| 2021-04-23 | Marietta River City BBQ State championship | Marietta, OH | 13 | 29 |
| 2021-04-23 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) | Florence, AL | 13 | 29 |
| 2021-04-23 | Fuego y Humo 2021 | San Jose, | 13 | 22 |
| 2021-04-23 | New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest | Jackson, NJ | 13 | 18 |
| 2021-04-23 | Mark Twain Casino BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship | LaGrange, MO | 13 | — |
| 2021-04-23 | The Great Wisconsin Tune Up Cancelled State championship | Manawa, WI | 13 | — |
| 2021-03-27 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | -14 | 40 |
| 2021-04-24 | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 14 | 40 |
| 2021-03-27 | Mother Road BBQ Competition State championship | Waynesville, MO | -14 | 32 |
| 2021-04-24 | New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest | Jackson, NJ | 14 | 14 |
| 2021-04-24 | KCBS GREEKFIRE Festival 2021 (POSTPONED) | Reichshof, 51580 | 14 | — |
| 2021-03-26 | Kickin It Route 66 Barbeque Challenge State championship | St. Roberts, MO | -15 | 52 |
| 2021-03-26 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | -15 | 46 |
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.