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, April 24, 2021 · everywhere, because no place is set
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 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
- 8 May 29
- 12 Jun 5
The weekend of Apr 3 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-24 Your weekend | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | 0 | 40 |
| 2021-04-24 Your weekend | New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest | Jackson, NJ | 0 | 14 |
| 2021-04-24 Your weekend | KCBS GREEKFIRE Festival 2021 (POSTPONED) | Reichshof, 51580 | 0 | — |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | WashMo BBQ & Bluesfest State championship | Washington, MO | -1 | 45 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | 16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | Enid, OK | -1 | 41 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Blairstown, NJ | -1 | 40 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship | Springfield, MO | -1 | 37 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | Marietta River City BBQ State championship | Marietta, OH | -1 | 29 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) | Florence, AL | -1 | 29 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | Fuego y Humo 2021 | San Jose, | -1 | 22 |
| 2021-04-23 Your weekend | New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest | Jackson, NJ | -1 | 18 |
| 2021-04-23 | Mark Twain Casino BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship | LaGrange, MO | -1 | — |
| 2021-04-23 | The Great Wisconsin Tune Up Cancelled State championship | Manawa, WI | -1 | — |
| 2021-04-30 | NYC BBQ Cookoff Cancelled State championship | Staten Island, NY | 6 | 35 |
| 2021-04-30 | 8th Annual BBQ Throwdown Cancelled State championship | Show low, AZ | 6 | — |
| 2021-05-01 | Route 66 Smoke Out State championship | Dwight, IL | 7 | 44 |
| 2021-05-01 | Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff State championship | Columbia, MO | 7 | 39 |
| 2021-05-01 | Hog Wild BBQ Cook off, Kids Que and Family Festival State championship | Brookhaven, MS | 7 | 38 |
| 2021-04-17 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 2 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | -7 | 34 |
| 2021-05-01 | 39th Annual Kennett Jaycees Show Me State BBQ Cook Off State championship | Kennett, MO | 7 | 32 |
| 2021-05-01 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Liberty, IN | 7 | 27 |
| 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 |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A | Buckhannon, WV | 7 | 16 |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest B | Buckhannon, WV | 7 | 15 |
| 2021-05-01 | City Of Springs BBQ Championship State championship | Sulphur, OK | 7 | 14 |
| 2021-04-16 | Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship | Hagerstown, MD | -8 | 47 |
| 2021-04-16 | The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship | Hollister, CA | -8 | 41 |
| 2021-04-16 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship | Roebuck, SC | -8 | 27 |
| 2021-04-16 | Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship | Linn Valley, KS | -8 | — |
| 2021-04-16 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -8 | — |
| 2021-05-02 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 8 | — |
| 2021-05-04 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 10 | — |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May State championship | Cambridge, MN | 13 | 60 |
| 2021-05-07 | Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival State championship | Bixby, OK | 13 | 53 |
| 2021-05-07 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Lamar, CO | 13 | 35 |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May - One Meat Contest - Ribs | Cambridge, MN | 13 | 29 |
| 2021-05-07 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Franklin State championship | Franklin, NC | 13 | 17 |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke in the Spring State championship | Osage City, KS | -15 | 105 |
| 2021-04-09 | The Ironman Cancelled State championship | Greencastle, PA | -15 | 49 |
| 2021-04-09 | Smokin' For Down Syndrome (Formally Bull Moose) State championship | Collierville, TN | -15 | 44 |
| 2021-04-09 | Boss of the Sauce BBQ Festival State championship | Jacksonville, FL | -15 | 40 |
| 2021-04-09 | Smoke on the Falls State championship | Gadsden, AL | -15 | 38 |
| 2021-04-09 | High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off | Lubbock, TX | -15 | 18 |
| 2021-04-09 | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Derby, KS | -15 | 13 |
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.