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, May 28, 2022 · everywhere, because no place is set
That weekend
8
sanctioned contests
In the window
73
±2 weeks either side
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 3 Apr 16
- 15 Apr 23
- 14 Apr 30
- 12 May 7
- 19 May 14
- 13 May 21
- 8 May 28
- 15 Jun 4
- 12 Jun 11
- 18 Jun 18
- 17 Jun 25
- 11 Jul 2
- 6 Jul 9
The weekend of Apr 16 is the quietest in range: 3 contests. The biggest thing on it is Pork-A-Palooza.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-28 Your weekend | Porkapalooza BBQ Festival | SHERWOOD PARK, AB | 0 | 39 |
| 2022-05-28 Your weekend | Westmont Red White & BBQ Backyard BBQ Cook-Off 2022 (BACKYARD ONLY) | Westmont, IL | 0 | 28 |
| 2022-05-28 Your weekend | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay State championship | North Bend, OR | 0 | 27 |
| 2022-05-28 Your weekend | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships (Day 2) State championship | Big Bear Lake, CA | 0 | 25 |
| 2022-05-28 | S.T.A.R Brews & Q Cancelled State championship | Lake City, CO | 0 | 19 |
| 2022-05-27 Your weekend | Bombers & BBQ State championship | Hot Springs, AR | -1 | 28 |
| 2022-05-27 Your weekend | Best Dam Barbeque State championship | Boulder City, NV | -1 | 26 |
| 2022-05-27 Your weekend | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championships (Day 1) State championship | Big Bear Lake, CA | -1 | 25 |
| 2022-05-27 | Country Roads BBQ Clash Cancelled State championship | Morgantown, WV | -1 | — |
| 2022-05-27 Your weekend | Giant BBQ Battle Virtual Junior Chef Competition - Entries Accepted Starting May 27, 2022 - June 17, 2022 | Bowie, MD | -1 | — |
| 2022-06-02 | Original SD BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) | Huron, SD | 5 | 29 |
| 2022-06-03 | Original SD BBQ Championship State championship | Huron, SD | 6 | 46 |
| 2022-06-03 | Kelley Wilson Memorial BBQ Competition State championship | Kansas City, MO | 6 | 41 |
| 2022-06-03 | Tony Stone BBQ Competition | Hoofddorp, 2134CG | 6 | 38 |
| 2022-06-03 | Horse Town Brew N Que Festival State championship | Norco, CA | 6 | 37 |
| 2022-06-03 | Smokin in Steele (Master & Backyard Contest) State championship | Owatonna, MN | 6 | 33 |
| 2022-06-03 | Greeley Blues Jam (Day 1) State championship | Greeley, CO | 6 | 33 |
| 2022-06-03 | Small Town Smoke Down Bassano Alberta | Bassano, AB | 6 | 31 |
| 2022-06-03 | McLouth BBQ Blowout 31st Annual State championship | McLouth, KS | 6 | 30 |
| 2022-06-03 | Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival State championship | Covington, TN | 6 | 28 |
| 2022-06-03 | Big Blue BBQ Championship State championship | Marysville, KS | 6 | 25 |
| 2022-06-03 | Honeybee BBQ Competition State championship | Lafayette, GA | 6 | 25 |
| 2022-06-03 | Country Invasion (POSTPONED) State championship | Wilmington, OH | 6 | — |
| 2022-06-03 | 3rd Annual Ironstone Throwdown in the Vineyards Cancelled State championship | Murphys, CA | 6 | — |
| 2022-05-21 | Capital BBQ Festival Cancelled | Ottawa, ON | -7 | 43 |
| 2022-06-04 | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Merrimack, NH | 7 | 37 |
| 2022-06-04 | Greeley Blues Jam (Day 2) State championship | Greeley, CO | 7 | 34 |
| 2022-05-21 | De Vliegende Hollander BBQ-Contest II | Terneuzen, 4538AP | -7 | 18 |
| 2022-05-21 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 State championship | Mannington, WV | -7 | 13 |
| 2022-05-21 | Country Smoke House Roadside BBQ Challenge (BACKYARD ONLY) (POSTPONED) | Almont, MI | -7 | — |
| 2022-05-20 | Kings of Q BBQ Cook-Off and Festival State championship | Ayden, NC | -8 | 32 |
| 2022-05-20 | Sevierville's Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass Festival State championship | Sevierville, TN | -8 | 30 |
| 2022-05-20 | The High on the Hog Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) State championship | Winchester, TN | -8 | 29 |
| 2022-05-20 | City of Springs BBQ Championship State championship | Sulphur, OK | -8 | 25 |
| 2022-05-20 | Forks of the Buffalo BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 State championship | Mannington, WV | -8 | 14 |
| 2022-05-20 | City of Springs BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs 2) | Sulphur, OK | -8 | 7 |
| 2022-05-20 | City of Springs BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) | Sulphur, OK | -8 | 6 |
| 2022-05-20 | Thrills N Grills (Master & Backyard) POSTPONED | Cambridge, MD | -8 | — |
| 2022-05-20 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -8 | — |
| 2022-05-18 | Certified BBQ Judging & Table Captain Class - Kansas City, MO | Kansas City, MO | -10 | — |
| 2022-05-17 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -11 | — |
| 2022-06-10 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | 13 | 39 |
| 2022-06-10 | Made for KC BBQ Championship (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | 13 | 36 |
| 2022-06-10 | Delta Smoke BBQ Contest State championship | Wynne, AR | 13 | 33 |
| 2022-06-10 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest State championship | Derby, KS | 13 | 29 |
| 2022-06-10 | Montana BBQ Cook-off State championship | Absarokee, MT | 13 | 27 |
| 2022-06-10 | The Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Springfield, TN | 13 | 26 |
| 2022-06-10 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | 13 | 23 |
| 2022-06-10 | Bourbon Capital BBQ Challenge & Distillers' Row Invitational State championship | New Haven, KY | 13 | 17 |
| 2022-06-10 | WV Coalfields Cookoff State championship | Welch, WV | 13 | 15 |
| 2022-06-10 | Cushing Chamber Annual BBQ and Blues Festival (INVITE ONLY) | Cushing, OK | 13 | 6 |
| 2022-05-15 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue Rub Contest (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -13 | — |
| 2022-06-10 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 13 | — |
| 2022-06-10 | Pineridge Campground - BBQ Competition #2 Cancelled State championship | Roebuck, SC | 13 | — |
| 2022-06-11 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | 14 | 37 |
| 2022-05-14 | Jiggy With The Piggy-Day 2 Cancelled State championship | Kannapolis, NC | -14 | 29 |
| 2022-05-14 | 8th Annual Rockin' BBQ (Day 2) State championship | Warsaw, IN | -14 | 25 |
| 2022-05-14 | 2nd Annual Obion County Fair BBQ Cook Off - Day 2 State championship | Union City, TN | -14 | 23 |
| 2022-05-14 | Meetjesland International BBQ Contest | Aalter, 9880 | -14 | 19 |
| 2022-05-14 | Longhorn BBQ | Broerup, 6650 | -14 | 14 |
| 2022-05-14 | BBQ, BLESSINGS & THE VFW (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Oconomowoc, WI | -14 | 10 |
| 2022-05-14 | Certified BBQ Judging - Isanit, MN | Isanit, MN | -14 | — |
| 2022-05-13 | Minnesota in May (Masters) State championship | Cambridge, MN | -15 | 59 |
| 2022-05-13 | Jiggy With The Piggy State championship | Kannapolis, NC | -15 | 46 |
| 2022-05-13 | Boss Hog State Championship Cook-Off State championship | Waynesboro, GA | -15 | 42 |
| 2022-05-13 | Twin Valley Fire and Smoke State championship | Morgantown, PA | -15 | 39 |
| 2022-05-13 | Minnesota in May (Backyard) | Cambridge, MN | -15 | 38 |
| 2022-05-13 | 8th Annual Rockin' BBQ (Day 1) State championship | Warsaw, IN | -15 | 36 |
| 2022-05-13 | 8th Annual Rockin' BBQ (One Meat Ribs) | Warsaw, IN | -15 | 30 |
| 2022-05-13 | Bernard BBQ Battle (Formerly Brew,Blues & Bar-B-Q) State championship | Lansing, KS | -15 | 28 |
| 2022-05-13 | 2nd Annual Obion County Fair BBQ Cook Off - Day 1 State championship | Union City, TN | -15 | 25 |
| 2022-05-13 | Minnesota in May (One Meat Ribs) | Cambridge, MN | -15 | 22 |
| 2022-05-13 | Alva Police Department Cars, Concerts and BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Alva, OK | -15 | 4 |
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.