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, May 15, 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.
- 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
- 14 Jun 12
- 15 Jun 19
- 8 Jun 26
The weekend of Apr 3 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-15 Your weekend | Rockin' BBQ - Day 2 State championship | Warsaw, IN | 0 | 39 |
| 2021-05-15 Your weekend | Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 2) State championship | Plainview, TX | 0 | 22 |
| 2021-05-15 Your weekend | Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 2 | Mannington, WV | 0 | 15 |
| 2021-05-15 Your weekend | Transylvanian BBQ Festival 2nd Edition (POSTPONED) | Olteni, Covasna County, 520008 | 0 | — |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke State championship | Morgantown, PA | -1 | 46 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-OFF State championship | Waynesboro, GA | -1 | 42 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 State championship | Warsaw, IN | -1 | 41 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Mark Marley's Go Big or Go Home BBQ Bash (DAY 1) State championship | Plainview, TX | -1 | 33 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Rockin' BBQ - Day 1 - One Meat Rib Contest | Warsaw, IN | -1 | 32 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Obion County Barbeque Cook Off State championship | Union City, TN | -1 | 31 |
| 2021-05-14 | Sunset Hill Kansas City Barbecue Competition Cancelled State championship | Valparaiso, IN | -1 | 20 |
| 2021-05-14 Your weekend | Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 1 State championship | Mannington, WV | -1 | 18 |
| 2021-05-21 | BBQ, Boots & Brew State championship | Perris, CA | 6 | 25 |
| 2021-05-21 | Twin States Barbecue Showdown (BACKYARD ONLY) | Meridian, MS | 6 | 22 |
| 2021-05-21 | GA - BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 State championship | Evans, GA | 6 | 21 |
| 2021-05-21 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Undilla, GA | 6 | — |
| 2021-05-22 | GA - BBQ Shoot Out Day 2 State championship | Evans, GA | 7 | 21 |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May State championship | Cambridge, MN | -8 | 60 |
| 2021-05-07 | Bixby Rotary BBQ'N Blues Festival State championship | Bixby, OK | -8 | 53 |
| 2021-05-07 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Lamar, CO | -8 | 35 |
| 2021-05-07 | Minnesota in May - One Meat Contest - Ribs | Cambridge, MN | -8 | 29 |
| 2021-05-07 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Franklin State championship | Franklin, NC | -8 | 17 |
| 2021-05-04 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -11 | — |
| 2021-05-28 | 9th Annual Valley Veterans BBQ Competition State championship | Valley, NE | 13 | 46 |
| 2021-05-28 | Brew'n'Q Open Cancelled | Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 2QJ | 13 | 34 |
| 2021-05-28 | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships State championship | Big Bear Lake, CA | 13 | 27 |
| 2021-05-28 | The Best Dam Barbeque State championship | Boulder City, NV | 13 | 26 |
| 2021-05-02 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -13 | — |
| 2021-05-28 | 9th Annual Smokin on the Lake (POSTPONED) State championship | Monroe City, MO | 13 | — |
| 2021-05-28 | The Great Georgia BBQ Festival (POSTPONED) State championship | Cumming, GA | 13 | — |
| 2021-05-28 | Hadi ShrinersFest Cancelled State championship | Evansville, IN | 13 | — |
| 2021-05-01 | Route 66 Smoke Out State championship | Dwight, IL | -14 | 44 |
| 2021-05-01 | Columbia Elks BBQ Cookoff State championship | Columbia, MO | -14 | 39 |
| 2021-05-01 | Hog Wild BBQ Cook off, Kids Que and Family Festival State championship | Brookhaven, MS | -14 | 38 |
| 2021-05-01 | 39th Annual Kennett Jaycees Show Me State BBQ Cook Off State championship | Kennett, MO | -14 | 32 |
| 2021-05-01 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Liberty, IN | -14 | 27 |
| 2021-05-29 | Brew'n'Q Invitational Cancelled | Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 2QJ | 14 | 26 |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest A | Buckhannon, WV | -14 | 16 |
| 2021-05-01 | Almost Heaven Rib Fest - One Meat Rib Contest B | Buckhannon, WV | -14 | 15 |
| 2021-05-01 | City Of Springs BBQ Championship State championship | Sulphur, OK | -14 | 14 |
| 2021-04-30 | NYC BBQ Cookoff Cancelled State championship | Staten Island, NY | -15 | 35 |
| 2021-05-30 | Helping U BBQ Triple Bone - One Meat Rib Contest A | Omaha, NE | 15 | 21 |
| 2021-05-30 | Helping U BBQ Triple Bone - One Meat Rib Contest B | Omaha, NE | 15 | 20 |
| 2021-05-30 | Helping U BBQ Triple Bone - One Meat Rib Contest C | Omaha, NE | 15 | 18 |
| 2021-04-30 | 8th Annual BBQ Throwdown Cancelled State championship | Show low, AZ | -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.