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, January 29, 2022 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
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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 Dec 18
- 0 Dec 25
- 0 Jan 1
- 2 Jan 8
- 1 Jan 15
- 2 Jan 22
- 2 Jan 29
- 4 Feb 5
- 0 Feb 12
- 2 Feb 19
- 3 Feb 26
- 3 Mar 5
- 5 Mar 12
The weekend of Dec 18 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2022 Your weekend |
Certified BBQ Judging Class - Rome, Italy | Rome, Italy | Same day | — |
| Jan 28, 2022 Your weekend |
Lakeland Pig Festival State championship | Lakeland, FL | 1 day before | 60 |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Contest Cooking Class - Kelly Wertz | Lee's Summit, MO | 6 days after | — |
| Jan 22, 2022 | The Golden State Battle IV - Day 2 State championship | Santa Barbara, CA | 7 days before | 25 |
| Feb 5, 2022 | Outdoor Cooking BBQ Championship State championship | Puyallup, WA | 7 days after | 22 |
| Jan 21, 2022 | The Golden State Battle IV - Day 1 State championship | Santa Barbara, CA | 8 days before | 30 |
| Jan 21, 2022 | The Golden State Battle IV (Steak) Cancelled | Santa Barbara, CA | 8 days before | — |
| Feb 6, 2022 | Sausage Class - Kelly Wertz | Lee's Summit, MO | 8 days after | — |
| Feb 6, 2022 | Certified BBQ Judging Class - Western Australia (POSTPONED) | Western, Australia | 8 days after | — |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge State championship | Bullhead City, AZ | 15 days before | 59 |
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.