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, May 1, 2021 · everywhere, because no place is set

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Route 66 Smoke Out

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	Days off	Field
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Route 66 Smoke Out State championship	Dwight, IL	0	44
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff State championship	Columbia, MO	0	39
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Hog Wild BBQ Cook off, Kids Que and Family Festival State championship	Brookhaven, MS	0	38
2021-05-01 Your weekend	39th Annual Kennett Jaycees Show Me State BBQ Cook Off State championship	Kennett, MO	0	32
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Smoke on the Water State championship	Liberty, IN	0	27
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A	Buckhannon, WV	0	16
2021-05-01 Your weekend	Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest B	Buckhannon, WV	0	15
2021-05-01 Your weekend	City Of Springs BBQ Championship State championship	Sulphur, OK	0	14
2021-04-30	NYC BBQ Cookoff Cancelled State championship	Staten Island, NY	-1	35
2021-04-30	8th Annual BBQ Throwdown Cancelled State championship	Show low, AZ	-1	—
2021-05-02 Your weekend	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	1	—
2021-05-04 Your weekend	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	3	—
2021-05-07	Minnesota in May State championship	Cambridge, MN	6	60
2021-05-07	Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival State championship	Bixby, OK	6	53
2021-05-07	Wild West BBQ Cook-Off State championship	Lamar, CO	6	35
2021-05-07	Minnesota in May - One Meat Contest - Ribs	Cambridge, MN	6	29
2021-05-07	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Franklin State championship	Franklin, NC	6	17
2021-04-24	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	-7	40
2021-04-24	New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest	Jackson, NJ	-7	14
2021-04-24	KCBS GREEKFIRE Festival 2021 (POSTPONED)	Reichshof, 51580	-7	—
2021-04-23	WashMo BBQ & Bluesfest State championship	Washington, MO	-8	45
2021-04-23	16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ	Enid, OK	-8	41
2021-04-23	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	-8	40
2021-04-23	Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship	Springfield, MO	-8	37
2021-04-23	Marietta River City BBQ State championship	Marietta, OH	-8	29
2021-04-23	Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)	Florence, AL	-8	29
2021-04-23	Fuego y Humo 2021	San Jose,	-8	22
2021-04-23	New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest	Jackson, NJ	-8	18
2021-04-23	Mark Twain Casino BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship	LaGrange, MO	-8	—
2021-04-23	The Great Wisconsin Tune Up Cancelled State championship	Manawa, WI	-8	—
2021-05-14	Twin Valley Fire and Smoke State championship	Morgantown, PA	13	46
2021-05-14	Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF State championship	Waynesboro, GA	13	42
2021-05-14	Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 State championship	Warsaw, IN	13	41
2021-05-14	Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1) State championship	Plainview, TX	13	33
2021-05-14	Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 - One Meat Rib Contest	Warsaw, IN	13	32
2021-05-14	Obion County Barbeque Cook Off State championship	Union City, TN	13	31
2021-05-14	Sunset Hill Kansas City Barbecue Competition Cancelled State championship	Valparaiso, IN	13	20
2021-05-14	Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 1 State championship	Mannington, WV	13	18
2021-05-15	Rockin' BBQ - Day 2 State championship	Warsaw, IN	14	39
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
2021-05-15	Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 2) State championship	Plainview, TX	14	22
2021-04-17	Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)	Chelsea, AL	-14	21
2021-05-15	Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 2	Mannington, WV	14	15
2021-05-15	Transylvanian BBQ Festival 2nd Edition (POSTPONED)	Olteni, Covasna County, 520008	14	—
2021-04-16	Interstate BBQ Festival - Day 1 State championship	Hagerstown, MD	-15	47
2021-04-16	The Golden State Battle III - Day 1 State championship	Hollister, CA	-15	41
2021-04-16	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Pine Ridge State championship	Roebuck, SC	-15	27
2021-04-16	Smoke in the Valley (POSTPONED) State championship	Linn Valley, KS	-15	—
2021-04-16	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	-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.