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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, June 10, 2023 · everywhere, because no place is set
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.
- 17 Apr 29
- 14 May 6
- 10 May 13
- 14 May 20
- 8 May 27
- 12 Jun 3
- 22 Jun 10
- 10 Jun 17
- 9 Jun 24
- 10 Jul 1
- 8 Jul 8
- 13 Jul 15
- 9 Jul 22
The weekend of May 27 is the quietest in range: 8 contests. The biggest thing on it is Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-10 Your weekend | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | 0 | 40 |
| 2023-06-10 Your weekend | Hoosier BBQ Classic #2 State championship | Franklin, IN | 0 | 28 |
| 2023-06-10 Your weekend | Full Throttle BBQ and Music Festival | Buttai, | 0 | — |
| 2023-06-10 Your weekend | WV Coalfields Cookoff - Judging | Welch, WV | 0 | — |
| 2023-06-10 Your weekend | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Nova Scotia, Canada | Upper Onslow, N. | 0 | — |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Made for KC BBQ Championship (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Kansas City, MO | -1 | 44 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | -1 | 43 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Hoosier BBQ Classic #1 State championship | Franklin, IN | -1 | 38 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Montana BBQ Cookoff State championship | Absarokee, MT | -1 | 36 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest State championship | Derby, KS | -1 | 32 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Ozarks BBQ Fest State championship | Springfield, MO | -1 | 30 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Springfield, TN | -1 | 30 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Bring'n Home the Bacon (ONE MEAT RIBS) | West Salem, WI | -1 | 29 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | -1 | 26 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Hayden West's Delta Smoke BBQ Contest State championship | Wynne, AR | -1 | 26 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | WV Coalfields Cookoff State championship | Welch, WV | -1 | 16 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | GMG NorUt State BBQ Championship State championship | Ogden, UT | -1 | 16 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Hoosier BBQ Classic (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Franklin, IN | -1 | 15 |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -1 | — |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | copy of Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Springfield, TN | -1 | — |
| 2023-06-09 Your weekend | copy of Robertson County Fair Assoc. Barbeque Throwdown (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Springfield, TN | -1 | — |
| 2023-06-08 Your weekend | Pipeline Appreciation BBQ N Blues Contest (INVITE ONLY) (ONE MEAT BRISKET) | Cushing, OK | -2 | 3 |
| 2023-06-16 | Colorado BBQ Challenge State championship | Frisco, CO | 6 | 42 |
| 2023-06-16 | Knights of Columbus BBQ Smoke Off "4 Life" State championship | Kansas City, KS | 6 | 29 |
| 2023-06-16 | York County BBQ Festival State championship | Delta, PA | 6 | 29 |
| 2023-06-16 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash State championship | Buckhannon, WV | 6 | 28 |
| 2023-06-16 | Rose Festival 22nd Annual KCBS BBQ Competition State championship | State Center, IA | 6 | 27 |
| 2023-06-16 | Miles City Cowtown Cookoff State championship | Miles City, MT | 6 | 22 |
| 2023-06-16 | Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Logansport, IN | 6 | 21 |
| 2023-06-16 | Father's Day Smoke n' Bones BBQ | Regina, SK | 6 | 16 |
| 2023-06-16 | Santa's Summer Solstice BBQ (KCBS Masters) Cancelled | North Pole, AK | 6 | — |
| 2023-06-03 | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES State championship | Merrimack, NH | -7 | 39 |
| 2023-06-17 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Morris, IL | 7 | 33 |
| 2023-06-03 | Small Town Smoke Down | Bassano, AB | -7 | 23 |
| 2023-06-17 | Stuttering John's Smokehouse BBQ Competition | Seagrave, ON | 7 | 15 |
| 2023-06-03 | Chingawassa Days BBQ Competition State championship | Marion, KS | -7 | 5 |
| 2023-06-17 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Ontario, Canada Cancelled | Seagrave, ON | 7 | — |
| 2023-06-02 | Horse Town Brew n Que Festival State championship | Norco, CA | -8 | 43 |
| 2023-06-02 | Original SD BBQ Championships State championship | Huron, SD | -8 | 39 |
| 2023-06-02 | McLouth BBQ Blowout 32nd Annual State championship | McLouth, KS | -8 | 36 |
| 2023-06-02 | Smokin in Steele State championship | Owatonna, MN | -8 | 29 |
| 2023-06-02 | Big Blue BBQ Championship State championship | Marysville, KS | -8 | 28 |
| 2023-06-02 | Covington Cork & Pork Festival State championship | Covington, VA | -8 | 27 |
| 2023-06-02 | Honeybee BBQ Competition State championship | Lafayette, GA | -8 | 27 |
| 2023-06-02 | Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival State championship | Covington, TN | -8 | 25 |
| 2023-06-01 | Original SD BBQ Championships (One Meat Ribs) | Huron, SD | -9 | 24 |
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship State championship | Lenexa, KS | 13 | 167 |
| 2023-06-23 | Big BBQ Bash State championship | Maryville, TN | 13 | 36 |
| 2023-06-23 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sioux City, IA | 13 | 15 |
| 2023-06-23 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Washington, DC (CLASS FULL) | Washington, DC | 13 | — |
| 2023-06-23 | Nashville Superspeedway BBQ Showdown (COMPETITOR SERIES) Cancelled State championship | Lebanon, TN | 13 | — |
| 2023-05-27 | Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest State championship | Castle Rock, CO | -14 | 37 |
| 2023-05-27 | Westmont Red White & BBQ (BACKYARD ONLY) | Westmont, IL | -14 | 34 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle State championship | Washington, DC | 14 | 29 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Washington, DC | 14 | 27 |
| 2023-06-24 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest | 6669 MH Dodewaard, | 14 | 26 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Washington, DC | 14 | 26 |
| 2023-05-27 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay State championship | North Bend, OR | -14 | 25 |
| 2023-05-27 | Jack 9 Memorial | La Salette, ON | -14 | 19 |
| 2023-06-24 | Frog Alley BREW-B-QUE Cookoff | Schenectady, NY | 14 | 19 |
| 2023-05-26 | Best Dam Barbeque State championship | Boulder City, NV | -15 | 27 |
| 2023-05-26 | Big Bear Grill & Chill BBQ Championship State championship | Big Bear Lake, CA | -15 | 19 |
| 2023-05-26 | Roaring Camp BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Felton, CA | -15 | 19 |
| 2023-05-26 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Ontario, Canada | Delhi, ON | -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.