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, July 1, 2023 · everywhere, because no place is set
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.
- 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
- 10 Jul 29
- 11 Aug 5
- 15 Aug 12
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-01 Your weekend | Icebox Cookoff State championship | Sweet Home, OR | 0 | 38 |
| 2023-07-01 Your weekend | The War of Barbeque (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Isola della Scala (VR), 300257 | 0 | 22 |
| 2023-07-01 Your weekend | The War of Barbeque | Isola della Scala (VR), 300257 | 0 | 15 |
| 2023-06-30 Your weekend | Art of Barbeque State championship | Sterling, CO | -1 | 35 |
| 2023-06-30 Your weekend | Happy Basset 3rd Annual BBQ Competition State championship | Topeka, KS | -1 | 33 |
| 2023-06-30 Your weekend | Ditmars Red White & Blue BBQ State championship | Council Bluffs, IA | -1 | 22 |
| 2023-06-30 Your weekend | K.S. Que (BACKYARD ONLY) | Kennett Square, PA | -1 | 12 |
| 2023-06-30 Your weekend | Kenai River BBQ Competition | Soldotna, AK | -1 | 9 |
| 2023-06-30 | When Pigs Fly, Ford City BBQ Cook Off Cancelled | Ford City, PA | -1 | — |
| 2023-07-02 Your weekend | Magic City Summer Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) (POSTPONED) | Birmingham, AL | 1 | — |
| 2023-06-29 Your weekend | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Soldotna, AK | Soldonta, AK | -2 | — |
| 2023-07-06 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery State championship | Greenwood, SC | 5 | 76 |
| 2023-07-06 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Delta Junction, AK Cancelled | Delta Junction, AK | 5 | — |
| 2023-07-07 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off State championship | Cameron, MO | 6 | 30 |
| 2023-07-07 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Cameron, MO | 6 | 30 |
| 2023-07-07 | Art of the Que State championship | Spencer, IA | 6 | 28 |
| 2023-07-07 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook Off (BACKYARD 2) | Cameron, MO | 6 | 12 |
| 2023-07-07 | Smoky Hayes BBQ Competition & Cook-Off | Delta Junction, AK | 6 | 6 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle State championship | Washington, DC | -7 | 29 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Washington, DC | -7 | 27 |
| 2023-06-24 | Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest | 6669 MH Dodewaard, | -7 | 26 |
| 2023-06-24 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Washington, DC | -7 | 26 |
| 2023-06-24 | Frog Alley BREW-B-QUE Cookoff | Schenectady, NY | -7 | 19 |
| 2023-07-08 | Smokin with Weemala (One Meat Chicken) | Carmel , 6076 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023-07-08 | Smokin with Weemala (One Meat Ribs) | Carmel , 6076 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship State championship | Lenexa, KS | -8 | 167 |
| 2023-06-23 | Big BBQ Bash State championship | Maryville, TN | -8 | 36 |
| 2023-06-23 | Camp High Hopes Rib Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sioux City, IA | -8 | 15 |
| 2023-06-23 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Washington, DC (CLASS FULL) | Washington, DC | -8 | — |
| 2023-06-23 | Nashville Superspeedway BBQ Showdown (COMPETITOR SERIES) Cancelled State championship | Lebanon, TN | -8 | — |
| 2023-07-13 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captian Class - Butler, MO | Butler, MO | 12 | — |
| 2023-07-14 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship State championship | North Wildwood, NJ | 13 | 64 |
| 2023-07-14 | KTD Smokin Gobbler Cook-off State championship | Worthington, MN | 13 | 39 |
| 2023-07-14 | Chillin & Grillin in the Glades State championship | Wise, VA | 13 | 36 |
| 2023-07-14 | Smokin in the Electric City (Day 1) State championship | Butler, MO | 13 | 27 |
| 2023-07-14 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown State championship | Eureka, IL | 13 | 25 |
| 2023-07-14 | Smokin in the Electric City (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Butler, MO | 13 | 23 |
| 2023-07-14 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash State championship | Oshkosh, WI | 13 | 19 |
| 2023-07-14 | KTD Smokin Gobbler Cook-of (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Worthington, MN | 13 | 17 |
| 2023-07-14 | Central Illinois BBQ Throwdown (One Meat Ribs) | Eureka, IL | 13 | 15 |
| 2023-07-14 | BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Oshkosh, WI | 13 | 15 |
| 2023-06-17 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Morris, IL | -14 | 33 |
| 2023-07-15 | Smokin in the Electric City (Day 2) State championship | Butler, MO | 14 | 21 |
| 2023-07-15 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Dowagiac, MI | 14 | 16 |
| 2023-06-17 | Stuttering John's Smokehouse BBQ Competition | Seagrave, ON | -14 | 15 |
| 2023-06-17 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Ontario, Canada Cancelled | Seagrave, ON | -14 | — |
| 2023-06-16 | Colorado BBQ Challenge State championship | Frisco, CO | -15 | 42 |
| 2023-06-16 | Knights of Columbus BBQ Smoke Off "4 Life" State championship | Kansas City, KS | -15 | 29 |
| 2023-06-16 | York County BBQ Festival State championship | Delta, PA | -15 | 29 |
| 2023-06-16 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash State championship | Buckhannon, WV | -15 | 28 |
| 2023-06-16 | Rose Festival 22nd Annual KCBS BBQ Competition State championship | State Center, IA | -15 | 27 |
| 2023-06-16 | Miles City Cowtown Cookoff State championship | Miles City, MT | -15 | 22 |
| 2023-06-16 | Squeal on the Eel Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Logansport, IN | -15 | 21 |
| 2023-06-16 | Father's Day Smoke n' Bones BBQ | Regina, SK | -15 | 16 |
| 2023-06-16 | Santa's Summer Solstice BBQ (KCBS Masters) Cancelled | North Pole, AK | -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.