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, July 31, 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.
- 15 Jun 19
- 8 Jun 26
- 1 Jul 3
- 8 Jul 10
- 16 Jul 17
- 10 Jul 24
- 6 Jul 31
- 9 Aug 7
- 9 Aug 14
- 21 Aug 21
- 11 Aug 28
- 12 Sep 4
- 15 Sep 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-30 Your weekend | Smoke in the Grove State championship | Spring Grove, PA | -1 | 54 |
| 2021-07-30 Your weekend | GBC Summer Showdown State championship | Cumming, GA | -1 | 39 |
| 2021-07-30 Your weekend | 5th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | -1 | 35 |
| 2021-07-30 Your weekend | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 1 State championship | Dodge City, KS | -1 | 27 |
| 2021-08-01 Your weekend | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition-Day 2 State championship | Dodge City, KS | 1 | 26 |
| 2021-07-30 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Murphy Cancelled State championship | Marble, NC | -1 | 22 |
| 2021-07-30 Your weekend | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Competition - One Meat Rib Contest | Dodge City, KS | -1 | 18 |
| 2021-08-05 | RBC County Fair Backyard Cookoff (POSTPONED) | Meeker, CO | 5 | — |
| 2021-08-06 | SLV Beat the Heat BBQ State championship | Alamosa, CO | 6 | 42 |
| 2021-08-06 | All American BBQ Throwdown State championship | Westland, MI | 6 | 32 |
| 2021-08-06 | Smoke in the Park (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | Glencoe, AL | 6 | 31 |
| 2021-08-06 | Laurie Hillbilly BBQ State championship | Laurie, MO | 6 | 26 |
| 2021-08-06 | Swine At the Shrine State championship | Savannah, GA | 6 | 25 |
| 2021-07-24 | Smokin on the Osage - Day 2 State championship | Osceola, MO | -7 | 25 |
| 2021-08-07 | B-Dale BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Roseville, MN | 7 | 21 |
| 2021-07-24 | Vienna Alps BBQ Days - Day 2 | Reichenau an der Rax, 2651 | -7 | 10 |
| 2021-08-07 | Battle River BBQ Showdown (POSTPONED) | Camrose, AB | 7 | — |
| 2021-08-07 | Beech Mountain BBQ Cook Off (Backyard) (POSTPONED) | Beech Mountain, NC | 7 | — |
| 2021-07-23 | Bone Suckin Sauce Peak City Pig Fest State championship | Apex, NC | -8 | 30 |
| 2021-07-23 | Effingham -Jam State championship | Effingham, IL | -8 | 29 |
| 2021-07-23 | Smokin' Hot Cars & BBQ State championship | Iola, KS | -8 | 28 |
| 2021-07-23 | Smokin on the Osage - Day 1 State championship | Osceola, MO | -8 | 25 |
| 2021-07-23 | Smoke on the Mountain BBQ Championship State championship | Galax, VA | -8 | 17 |
| 2021-07-23 | Hot Summer Nights Smoke n Sauce BBQ-(BACKYARD ONLY) | Bloomington, IN | -8 | 14 |
| 2021-07-23 | Vienna Alps BBQ Days - Day 1 | Reichenau an der Rax, 2651 | -8 | 9 |
| 2021-07-23 | Smokin' Deltana BBQ Challenge | Delta Junction, AK | -8 | 6 |
| 2021-08-13 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ State championship | Huntsville, AL | 13 | 49 |
| 2021-08-13 | Milliken BBQ Beef N Bean Day State championship | Milliken, CO | 13 | 42 |
| 2021-08-13 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Aiken Cancelled State championship | Aiken, SC | 13 | 34 |
| 2021-08-13 | Big Blue Barbecue State championship | Shelbyville, IN | 13 | 30 |
| 2021-08-13 | GOBS Que (DAY 1) State championship | Arlington, NE | 13 | 26 |
| 2021-08-13 | Smokin' Trackside BBQ Bash State championship | Winston, MO | 13 | 25 |
| 2021-08-13 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2020-Day 1 | MEERBEKE, 9402 | 13 | 19 |
| 2021-08-14 | Eastern BBQ Contest 2020-Day 2 | MEERBEKE, 9402 | 14 | 26 |
| 2021-07-17 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off Day 2 State championship | Cameron, MO | -14 | 25 |
| 2021-08-14 | GOBS Que (DAY 2) State championship | Arlington, NE | 14 | 25 |
| 2021-08-14 | Porkapalooza BBQ Festival | SHERWOOD PARK, AB | 14 | 25 |
| 2021-07-17 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown Day 2 State championship | Eureka, IL | -14 | 19 |
| 2021-07-17 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 2 State championship | Morgantown, WV | -14 | 15 |
| 2021-07-17 | Pig Mania Deerfield State Championship BBQ Cancelled State championship | Deerfield Township, OH | -14 | — |
| 2021-07-16 | Cookin On Kampeska Cancelled State championship | Watertown, SD | -15 | 37 |
| 2021-07-16 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off Day 1 State championship | Cameron, MO | -15 | 33 |
| 2021-07-16 | KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off State championship | Worthington, MN | -15 | 33 |
| 2021-07-16 | Bordertown BBQ Brawl State championship | Sault Ste Marie, MI | -15 | 27 |
| 2021-07-16 | Real Squeal BBQ Smokeoff State championship | Cedar Rapids, IA | -15 | 26 |
| 2021-07-16 | Chillin & Grillin In the Glades State championship | Wise, VA | -15 | 25 |
| 2021-07-16 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown Day 1 State championship | Eureka, IL | -15 | 25 |
| 2021-07-16 | Bordertown BBQ Brawl - One Meat Rib Contest | Sault Ste Marie, MI | -15 | 21 |
| 2021-07-16 | Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown - Zooland State championship | Asheboro, NC | -15 | 19 |
| 2021-07-16 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown - One Meat Rib Contest | Eureka, IL | -15 | 18 |
| 2021-07-16 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Day 1 State championship | Morgantown, WV | -15 | 18 |
| 2021-07-16 | County Seat Cookoff | Jay, OK | -15 | 15 |
| 2021-07-16 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off One Meat Rib Contest | Cameron, MO | -15 | 14 |
| 2021-07-16 | KTD Smokin' Gobbler Cook-off - One Meat Rib Contest | Worthington, MN | -15 | 10 |
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.