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 17, 2021 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1

In the window

±2 weeks either side

The weekends around yours

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

The weekend of Apr 3 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Apr 17, 2021 Your weekend	Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 2 State championship	Hagerstown, MD	Same day	34
Apr 17, 2021 Your weekend	The Golden State Battle III - Day 2 State championship	Hollister, CA	Same day	26
Apr 17, 2021 Your weekend	Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)	Chelsea, AL	Same day	21
Apr 16, 2021 Your weekend	Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship	Hagerstown, MD	1 day before	47
Apr 16, 2021 Your weekend	The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship	Hollister, CA	1 day before	41
Apr 16, 2021 Your weekend	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship	Roebuck, SC	1 day before	27
Apr 16, 2021 Your weekend	Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship	Linn Valley, KS	1 day before	—
Apr 16, 2021 Your weekend	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	1 day before	—
Apr 23, 2021	WashMo BBQ & Bluesfest State championship	Washington, MO	6 days after	45
Apr 23, 2021	16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ	Enid, OK	6 days after	41
Apr 23, 2021	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	6 days after	40
Apr 23, 2021	Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship	Springfield, MO	6 days after	37
Apr 23, 2021	Marietta River City BBQ State championship	Marietta, OH	6 days after	29
Apr 23, 2021	Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)	Florence, AL	6 days after	29
Apr 23, 2021	Fuego y Humo 2021	San Jose, Costa Rica	6 days after	22
Apr 23, 2021	New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest	Jackson, NJ	6 days after	18
Apr 23, 2021	Mark Twain Casino BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship	LaGrange, MO	6 days after	—
Apr 23, 2021	The Great Wisconsin Tune Up Cancelled State championship	Manawa, WI	6 days after	—
Apr 24, 2021	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	7 days after	40
Apr 24, 2021	New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest	Jackson, NJ	7 days after	14
Apr 24, 2021	KCBS GREEKFIRE Festival 2021 (POSTPONED)	Reichshof, Germany	7 days after	—
Apr 9, 2021	Smoke in the Spring State championship	Osage City, KS	8 days before	105
Apr 9, 2021	The Ironman Cancelled State championship	Greencastle, PA	8 days before	49
Apr 9, 2021	Smokin' For Down Syndrome (Formally Bull Moose) State championship	Collierville, TN	8 days before	44
Apr 9, 2021	Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival State championship	Jacksonville, FL	8 days before	40
Apr 9, 2021	Smoke on the Falls State championship	Gadsden, AL	8 days before	38
Apr 9, 2021	High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off	Lubbock, TX	8 days before	18
Apr 9, 2021	Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)	Derby, KS	8 days before	13
Apr 30, 2021	NYC BBQ Cookoff Cancelled State championship	Staten Island, NY	13 days after	35
Apr 30, 2021	8th Annual BBQ Throwdown Cancelled State championship	Show low, AZ	13 days after	—
May 1, 2021	Route 66 Smoke Out State championship	Dwight, IL	14 days after	44
May 1, 2021	Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff State championship	Columbia, MO	14 days after	39
May 1, 2021	Hog Wild BBQ Cook off, Kids Que and Family Festival State championship	Brookhaven, MS	14 days after	38
May 1, 2021	39th Annual Kennett Jaycees Show Me State BBQ Cook Off State championship	Kennett, MO	14 days after	32
May 1, 2021	Smoke on the Water State championship	Liberty, IN	14 days after	27
May 1, 2021	Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A	Buckhannon, WV	14 days after	16
May 1, 2021	Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest B	Buckhannon, WV	14 days after	15
May 1, 2021	City Of Springs BBQ Championship State championship	Sulphur, OK	14 days after	14
Apr 2, 2021	Blazathon Cancelled State championship	Stillwater, OK	15 days before	—
May 2, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	15 days after	—
May 4, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	17 days after	—

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.