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, June 26, 2021 · everywhere, because no place is set
That weekend
In the window
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 11 May 15
- 5 May 22
- 8 May 29
- 12 Jun 5
- 14 Jun 12
- 15 Jun 19
- 8 Jun 26
- 1 Jul 3
- 8 Jul 10
- 16 Jul 17
- 10 Jul 24
- 6 Jul 31
- 9 Aug 7
The weekend of Jul 3 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Minonk I-39 Smoke Off (POSTPONED).
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-26 Your weekend | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day Two) State championship | Belvidere, IL | 0 | 43 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship State championship | Lenexa, KS | -1 | 145 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown (Day one) State championship | Belvidere, IL | -1 | 49 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | Blount County BBQ Bash State championship | Maryville, TN | -1 | 32 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | Miles City Cowtown Cook Off State championship | Miles City, MT | -1 | 25 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | Back the Blue State championship | Brookhaven, MS | -1 | 16 |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | 28th Annual Giant National Capital BBQ Battle (In-Person Postponed to 2022) State championship | Washington, DC | -1 | — |
| 2021-06-25 Your weekend | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown - One Meat ribs | Belvidere, IL | -1 | — |
| 2021-06-19 | Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 2 State championship | Franklin, IN | -7 | 37 |
| 2021-06-19 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 2 State championship | Holdrege, NE | -7 | 36 |
| 2021-06-19 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sioux City, IA | -7 | 22 |
| 2021-06-19 | Central Maine BBQ Cook Off State championship | Skowhegan, ME | -7 | 15 |
| 2021-07-03 | Minonk I-39 Smoke Off (POSTPONED) State championship | Minonk, IL | 7 | — |
| 2021-06-18 | Silicon Valley BBQ Championship (POSTPONED) State championship | Santa Clara, CA | -8 | 56 |
| 2021-06-18 | Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1 State championship | Franklin, IN | -8 | 51 |
| 2021-06-18 | DeSoto Shrine Club 13th Annual BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Nesbit, MS | -8 | 48 |
| 2021-06-18 | York County BBQ Festival State championship | Delta, PA | -8 | 41 |
| 2021-06-18 | Central Plains Ribfest Day 1 State championship | Holdrege, NE | -8 | 40 |
| 2021-06-18 | Knights Of Columbus BBQ Smoke Off 4 Life State championship | Kansas City, KS | -8 | 37 |
| 2021-06-18 | Rose Festival KCBS BBQ Competition State championship | State Center, IA | -8 | 32 |
| 2021-06-18 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash State championship | Roanoke, WV | -8 | 28 |
| 2021-06-18 | Barbourville BBQ Cook-Off & Festival Cancelled | Barbourville, KY | -8 | 25 |
| 2021-06-18 | Ayr Charity BBQ Cancelled | Ayr, ON | -8 | 21 |
| 2021-06-18 | 27th Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge (POSTPONED) State championship | Frisco, CO | -8 | — |
| 2021-06-18 | GLR No Bull BBQ (POSTPONED) State championship | Gwinn, MI | -8 | — |
| 2021-06-18 | Black Silo Swine in the Vine (POSTPONED) State championship | Trenton, MO | -8 | — |
| 2021-07-09 | SC Festival of Discovery State championship | Greenwood, SC | 13 | 81 |
| 2021-07-09 | New Jersey State BBQ Championship State championship | North Wildwood, NJ | 13 | 59 |
| 2021-07-09 | Keepers of the Fire BBQ Contest State championship | Mayetta, KS | 13 | 43 |
| 2021-07-09 | Harvest On the Fire At the Winery State championship | Marshall, IL | 13 | 38 |
| 2021-07-09 | Sand Creek Summer Daze Saucy & Glazed BBQ Competition State championship | Newton, KS | 13 | 21 |
| 2021-07-09 | Gold Ribbin BBQ Fest-Day1 Cancelled State championship | Green Bay, WI | 13 | — |
| 2021-07-09 | Craig Reunites 2021 (BACKYARD) (POSTPONED) | Craig, MO | 13 | — |
| 2021-06-12 | Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 2 State championship | West Salem, WI | -14 | 45 |
| 2021-06-12 | Granite State BBQ Championship State championship | Hancock, NH | -14 | 32 |
| 2021-07-10 | Smoke, Wind & Fire | Lethbridge, T1J4R3 | 14 | 16 |
| 2021-07-10 | Smoke of the West- Competitor's Series (POSTPONED) | Goondiwindi, Queensland, 4104 | 14 | — |
| 2021-07-10 | Gold Ribbin BBQ Fest-Day 2 Cancelled State championship | Green Bay, WI | 14 | — |
| 2021-06-11 | Bring'n Home the Bacon - Day 1 State championship | West Salem, WI | -15 | 52 |
| 2021-06-11 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest State championship | Wynne, AR | -15 | 38 |
| 2021-06-11 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | -15 | 31 |
| 2021-06-11 | BBQ Jamboree State championship | Fredericksburg, VA | -15 | 30 |
| 2021-06-11 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest State championship | Derby, KS | -15 | 28 |
| 2021-06-11 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Roebuck State championship | Roebuck, SC | -15 | 28 |
| 2021-06-11 | Montana BBQ Cook-off State championship | Absarokee, MT | -15 | 27 |
| 2021-06-11 | Beats, Brews, & BBQ State championship | Wagoner, OK | -15 | 25 |
| 2021-06-11 | The Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Springfield, TN | -15 | 20 |
| 2021-06-11 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest - One Meat Contest - Ribs | Derby, KS | -15 | 17 |
| 2021-06-11 | City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off State championship | Welch, WV | -15 | 15 |
| 2021-06-11 | Separation Day Colonial BBQ Cancelled State championship | New Castle, DE | -15 | — |
| 2021-06-11 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Undilla, 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.