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, March 4, 2023 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 3 Jan 21
- 8 Jan 28
- 1 Feb 4
- 1 Feb 11
- 1 Feb 18
- 4 Feb 25
- 3 Mar 4
- 4 Mar 11
- 6 Mar 18
- 11 Mar 25
- 6 Apr 1
- 6 Apr 8
- 10 Apr 15
The weekend of Feb 4 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Budweiser Smoke on the Water.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2023 Your weekend |
Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Eureka, IL | Eureka, IL | Same day | — |
| Mar 3, 2023 Your weekend |
Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 1 day before | 65 |
| Mar 3, 2023 Your weekend |
The Golden State Battle V State championship | Hollister, CA | 1 day before | 28 |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Big Butt Strutt BBQ Showdown (One Meat Ribs) Cancelled | Anderson, SC | 5 days after | — |
| Mar 10, 2023 | BBQ & Brew Fest - Best in the Southwest State championship | Yuma, AZ | 6 days after | 32 |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 6 days after | 31 |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Sausage 101 - Kelly Wertz | Gardner, KS | 6 days before | — |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Big Butt Strutt BBQ Showdown Cancelled State championship | Anderson, SC | 6 days after | — |
| Feb 25, 2023 | W.E.S.T. Winter Extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest | Rein in Taufers, Italy | 7 days before | 23 |
| Mar 11, 2023 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Cameron, MO | Cameron, MO | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Mission Farm's King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | 8 days before | 33 |
| Feb 24, 2023 | The Art and Science of BBQ 301 - Kelly Wertz | Gardner, KS | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 12, 2023 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Lodi, CA | Lodi, CA | 8 days after | — |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 13 days after | 80 |
| Mar 17, 2023 | 5th Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship State championship | Olathe, KS | 13 days after | 68 |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (One Meat Ribs) | Lebanon, TN | 13 days after | 59 |
| Mar 17, 2023 | Belgisch Barbecue Weekend - Day 1 | Boom, Belgium | 13 days after | 13 |
| Feb 19, 2023 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Toano, VA | Toano, VA | 13 days before | — |
| Mar 18, 2023 | Belgisch Barbecue Weekend - Day 2 | Boom, Belgium | 14 days after | 13 |
| Mar 18, 2023 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, Iowa | Johnston, IA | 14 days after | — |
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.