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, October 2, 2021 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

Permain Basin Barbeque Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY)

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 Nov 6 is the quietest in range: 3 contests. The biggest thing on it is Indio California State BBQ Championship & Festival.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	vs. your date	Field
Oct 2, 2021 Your weekend	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 2	Casper, WY	Same day	26
Oct 2, 2021 Your weekend	Green Mountain BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Braintree, VT	Same day	16
Oct 2, 2021 Your weekend	Gruenenwalds BBQ Battle	Bremen, Germany	Same day	16
Oct 2, 2021 Your weekend	Green Mountain BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES - One Meat Rib Contest	Braintree, VT	Same day	8
Oct 1, 2021	Jim Beam BBQ Classic Cancelled State championship	Springfield, KY	1 day before	43
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Go Hog Wild BBQ Cook-Off State championship	Sheridan, AR	1 day before	30
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Smoke & Soul Fest - Day 1 State championship	Casper, WY	1 day before	27
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD)	Tahlequah, OK	1 day before	20
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Squealin on the Square State championship	Laurens, SC	1 day before	17
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	BBQ On The Hill (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (Postponed)	Blue Island, IL	1 day before	—
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Road To OZ BBQ Challenge (POSTPONED) State championship	Wamego, KS	1 day before	—
Oct 1, 2021 Your weekend	Inaugural Hawg Harvest - Lindsay Fall Fest - One Meat Rib Contest (POSTPONED)	Lindsay, OK	1 day before	—
Sep 29, 2021 Your weekend	Permain Basin Barbeque Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY)	Midland, TX	3 days before	54
Oct 8, 2021	32nd Annual Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)	Lynchburg, TN	6 days after	70
Oct 8, 2021	Cookin' on the Kaw BBQ Contest (POSTPONED) State championship	De Soto, KS	6 days after	51
Oct 8, 2021	Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)	Scottsboro, AL	6 days after	31
Oct 8, 2021	Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship State championship	Harrisburg, PA	6 days after	27
Oct 8, 2021	Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down State championship	Rocky Mount, NC	6 days after	26
Oct 8, 2021	Waxhaw Grill'n & Chill'n BBQ Cook-off State championship	Waxhaw, NC	6 days after	26
Oct 8, 2021	The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival State championship	Lyons, GA	6 days after	26
Oct 8, 2021	17th Annual Burnt Offerings BBQ Contest (COMPETITORS SERIES)	Riverside, CA	6 days after	19
Oct 8, 2021	Anchor City Cook Off State championship	Centralia, MO	6 days after	19
Oct 8, 2021	All American Smokers - Steak Contest Cancelled	Bonifay, FL	6 days after	—
Oct 8, 2021	Cookin' on the Kaw BBQ Contest - One Meat Rib Contest (POSTPONED)	De Soto, KS	6 days after	—
Sep 25, 2021	Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown State championship	Southwick, MA	7 days before	26
Sep 25, 2021	De Vliegende Hollander BBQ	Terneuzen, Netherlands	7 days before	21
Sep 25, 2021	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown at Americamps - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY)	Ashland, VA	7 days before	18
Sep 25, 2021	FO.G & SMOKE	Modena, Italy	7 days before	16
Sep 25, 2021	Ocean State BBQ Championship-CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Cancelled State championship	Hope Vally, RI	7 days before	—
Sep 25, 2021	Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - One Meat Rib Contest (Saturday Night) Cancelled	Southwick, MA	7 days before	—
Sep 24, 2021	Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) State championship	Shawnee, KS	8 days before	86
Sep 24, 2021	Praise the Lard Murphysboro BBQ Cook-Off State championship	Murphysboro, IL	8 days before	39
Sep 24, 2021	Ottumwa 4th Annual Smoketoberfest State championship	Ottumwa, IA	8 days before	35
Sep 24, 2021	Smoke in the Park State championship	Lemoyne, PA	8 days before	31
Sep 24, 2021	Rumble on the River Presented by TheBBQSuperStore.com State championship	Grand Haven, MI	8 days before	28
Sep 24, 2021	BBQ Boogie & Blues State championship	Calhoun, GA	8 days before	27
Sep 24, 2021	Pigmaster's BBQ Challenge State championship	Rutherford College, NC	8 days before	27
Sep 24, 2021	Smokin' in the Hills State championship	Hillsboro, OH	8 days before	26
Sep 24, 2021	Rufus Teague BBQ Throwdown at Americamps - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)	Ashland, VA	8 days before	19
Sep 24, 2021	TN River BBQ Battle State championship	Savannah, TN	8 days before	10
Sep 24, 2021	Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Cancelled State championship	Newton, NC	8 days before	—
Sep 24, 2021	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Undilla, GA	8 days before	—
Sep 24, 2021	Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - Day 1 Cancelled State championship	Southwick, MA	8 days before	—
Sep 24, 2021	Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - One Meat Rib Contest (Friday Night) Cancelled	Southwick, MA	8 days before	—
Sep 24, 2021	Delta Roots Backyard Grillin' Contest (BACKYARD) (POSTPONED)	Helena, AR	8 days before	—
Oct 15, 2021	Bring'n Home the Bacon II Day 1 (BACKYARD)	West Salem, WI	13 days after	40
Oct 15, 2021	Royal Oak Invitational Only (COMPETITOR SERIES)	Roswell, GA	13 days after	34
Oct 15, 2021	Smokin In the Creek BBQ Contest State championship	Sugar Creek, MO	13 days after	27
Oct 15, 2021	Hartford Rib Off (POSTPONED) State championship	Hartford, CT	13 days after	27
Oct 15, 2021	Big Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook-Off State championship	Munfordville, KY	13 days after	27
Oct 15, 2021	Maryland State BBQ Bash State championship	Belair, MD	13 days after	25
Oct 15, 2021	Smoke on the Water State championship	Topeka, KS	13 days after	25
Oct 15, 2021	Harper County Bullseye BBQ State championship	Harper, KS	13 days after	16
Oct 15, 2021	Nightmare Before Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague State championship	Galax, VA	13 days after	15
Oct 15, 2021	Lassen Annual BBQ Cook-off State championship	Susanville, CA	13 days after	11
Oct 16, 2021	Bring'n Home the Bacon II Day 2 (BACKYARD)	West Salem, WI	14 days after	36
Oct 16, 2021	Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague State championship	Galax, VA	14 days after	15
Sep 18, 2021	Downtown Madtown BBQ Showdown - One Meat Rib Contest	Madison, AL	14 days before	9
Sep 17, 2021	Grillin and Chillin BBQ State championship	Owensboro, KY	15 days before	31
Sep 17, 2021	Tri City BBQ Fest State championship	Denison, IA	15 days before	20
Sep 17, 2021	Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship	Kearney, MO	15 days before	16
Sep 17, 2021	Rhythm & Ribs - One Meat Rib Contest	Wichita, KS	15 days before	5
Sep 17, 2021	Rhythm & Ribs - One Meat Chicken Contest	Wichita, KS	15 days before	4
Sep 16, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST State championship	Kansas City, KS	16 days before	467
Sep 16, 2021	American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST State championship	Kansas City, KS	16 days before	185

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.

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.