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.

Quieter than the weekends around it Saturday, May 8, 2021 · everywhere, because no place is set

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Minnesota in May

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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.

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

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	Days off	Field
2021-05-07 Your weekend	Minnesota in May State championship	Cambridge, MN	-1	60
2021-05-07 Your weekend	Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival State championship	Bixby, OK	-1	53
2021-05-07 Your weekend	Wild West BBQ Cook-Off State championship	Lamar, CO	-1	35
2021-05-07 Your weekend	Minnesota in May - One Meat Contest - Ribs	Cambridge, MN	-1	29
2021-05-07 Your weekend	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Franklin State championship	Franklin, NC	-1	17
2021-05-04	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	-4	—
2021-05-14	Twin Valley Fire and Smoke State championship	Morgantown, PA	6	46
2021-05-14	Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF State championship	Waynesboro, GA	6	42
2021-05-14	Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 State championship	Warsaw, IN	6	41
2021-05-14	Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1) State championship	Plainview, TX	6	33
2021-05-14	Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 - One Meat Rib Contest	Warsaw, IN	6	32
2021-05-14	Obion County Barbeque Cook Off State championship	Union City, TN	6	31
2021-05-14	Sunset Hill Kansas City Barbecue Competition Cancelled State championship	Valparaiso, IN	6	20
2021-05-14	Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 1 State championship	Mannington, WV	6	18
2021-05-02	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES)	Kansas City, MO	-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
2021-05-15	Rockin' BBQ - Day 2 State championship	Warsaw, IN	7	39
2021-05-01	Hog Wild BBQ Cook off, Kids Que and Family Festival State championship	Brookhaven, MS	-7	38
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
2021-05-15	Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 2) State championship	Plainview, TX	7	22
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
2021-05-15	Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 2	Mannington, WV	7	15
2021-05-01	City Of Springs BBQ Championship State championship	Sulphur, OK	-7	14
2021-05-15	Transylvanian BBQ Festival 2nd Edition (POSTPONED)	Olteni, Covasna County, 520008	7	—
2021-04-30	NYC BBQ Cookoff Cancelled State championship	Staten Island, NY	-8	35
2021-04-30	8th Annual BBQ Throwdown Cancelled State championship	Show low, AZ	-8	—
2021-05-21	BBQ, Boots & Brew State championship	Perris, CA	13	25
2021-05-21	Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY)	Meridian, MS	13	22
2021-05-21	GA - BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 State championship	Evans, GA	13	21
2021-05-21	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Undilla, GA	13	—
2021-04-24	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 2-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	-14	40
2021-05-22	GA - BBQ Shoot Out Day 2 State championship	Evans, GA	14	21
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	—
2021-04-23	WashMo BBQ & Bluesfest State championship	Washington, MO	-15	45
2021-04-23	16th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ	Enid, OK	-15	41
2021-04-23	New Jersey KnoQ-out: Day 1-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Blairstown, NJ	-15	40
2021-04-23	Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship	Springfield, MO	-15	37
2021-04-23	Marietta River City BBQ State championship	Marietta, OH	-15	29
2021-04-23	Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY)	Florence, AL	-15	29
2021-04-23	Fuego y Humo 2021	San Jose,	-15	22
2021-04-23	New Jersey KnoQ-out - One Meat Rib Contest	Jackson, NJ	-15	18
2021-04-23	Mark Twain Casino BBQ Cook-Off Cancelled State championship	LaGrange, MO	-15	—
2021-04-23	The Great Wisconsin Tune Up Cancelled State championship	Manawa, WI	-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.