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, April 8, 2023 · everywhere, because no place is set

That weekend

sanctioned contests

Biggest that weekend

103

Smoke in the Spring

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 Mar 4 is the quietest in range: 3 contests. The biggest thing on it is Sip & Swine BBQ Festival.

Contests within ±2 weeks

Date	Contest	Where	Days off	Field
2023-04-08 Your weekend	Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 2	MEERBEKE, 9402	0	13
2023-04-07 Your weekend	Smoke in the Spring State championship	Osage City, KS	-1	103
2023-04-07 Your weekend	Smoke on the Falls State championship	Gadsden, AL	-1	39
2023-04-07 Your weekend	The Ironman State championship	Greencastle, PA	-1	30
2023-04-07 Your weekend	Jimbo's Annual BBQ Competition State championship	Stem, NC	-1	28
2023-04-07 Your weekend	Eastern BBQ Contest 2023 - Day 1	MEERBEKE, 9402	-1	10
2023-04-14	Bone Suckin' Sauce Peak City Pig Fest State championship	Apex, NC	6	32
2023-04-14	The Downtown BBQ Showdown State championship	Lake City, FL	6	32
2023-04-14	11th Annual Bull Moose BBQ State championship	Somerville, TN	6	25
2023-04-14	Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) State championship	Chelsea, AL	6	17
2023-04-14	Philly BBQ Contest & Spring Fling Cancelled State championship	Philadelphia, MS	6	—
2023-04-15	Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship	Bristol, CT	7	43
2023-04-15	BBQ Fest Costa Rica 2023	San Jose,	7	26
2023-04-15	Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)	Bristol, CT	7	22
2023-04-01	DelMarVa BBQ Battle (Day 2) Cancelled	Whaleyville, MD	-7	—
2023-04-01	DelMarVa BBQ Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled	Whaleyville, MD	-7	—
2023-04-15	Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Bel Air, MD	Bel Air, MD	7	—
2023-04-15	Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Derby, KS	Derby, KS	7	—
2023-04-15	Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Calgary, Canada	Calgary,	7	—
2023-03-31	Cedar Fest BBQ Cookoff State championship	Cedar Park, TX	-8	57
2023-03-31	Iowa State BBQ Championship State championship	Altoona, IA	-8	47
2023-03-31	Lake Views & BBQ (formerly Beats, Brew & BBQ) State championship	Wagoner, OK	-8	29
2023-03-31	Swampfest State championship	Waycross, GA	-8	28
2023-03-31	Swampfest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled	Waycross, GA	-8	28
2023-03-31	Smokin' for Down Syndrome State championship	Marion, AR	-8	15
2023-03-31	DelMarVa BBQ Battle (Day 1) Cancelled	Whaleyville, MD	-8	—
2023-03-31	DelMarVa BBQ Battle (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Cancelled	Whaleyville, MD	-8	—
2023-03-31	Montana Outlaw BBQ Tell-All Competition BBQ Class	Billings, MT	-8	—
2023-04-21	Smokin in the Creek BBQ State championship	Sugar Creek, MO	13	51
2023-04-21	New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) State championship	Blairstown, NJ	13	36
2023-04-21	Southaven Springfest State championship	Southaven, MS	13	34
2023-04-21	Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Flyin BBQ Competition State championship	Derby, KS	13	28
2023-04-21	WV Hunting Heroes BBQ Throwdown State championship	Cottageville, WV	13	15
2023-04-21	New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)	Blairstown, NJ	13	12
2023-04-21	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	13	—
2023-03-25	BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) State championship	Urbanna, VA	-14	46
2023-04-22	New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) State championship	Blairstown, NJ	14	30
2023-03-25	Kickin' It Route 66 BBQ (Day 2) State championship	St. Robert, MO	-14	25
2023-03-25	Spring Break BBQ Contest 4	Lommel, 3920	-14	18
2023-04-22	New Jersey KnoQ-out - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS)	Blairstown, NJ	14	9
2023-03-25	Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Dodge City, KS Cancelled	Dodge City, KS	-14	—
2023-04-22	Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - New Lenox, IL	New Lenox, IL	14	—
2023-04-22	Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Bensalem, PA	Bensalem, PA	14	—
2023-03-24	BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) State championship	Urbanna, VA	-15	53
2023-03-24	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Backyard Contest	Kansas City, MO	-15	37
2023-03-24	BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Ribs)	Urbanna, VA	-15	33
2023-03-24	BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Chicken)	Urbanna, VA	-15	33
2023-03-24	Kickin' It Route 66 BBQ (Day 1) State championship	St. Robert, MO	-15	26
2023-03-24	Kickin' It Route 66 BBQ (One Meat Ribs)	St. Robert, MO	-15	20
2023-03-24	American Royal World Series of Barbecue Steak Cook-Off	Kansas City, MO	-15	11
2023-03-24	Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class	Unadilla, GA	-15	—

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.