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 1, 2025 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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.
- 3 Jan 18
- 9 Jan 25
- 0 Feb 1
- 1 Feb 8
- 1 Feb 15
- 2 Feb 22
- 5 Mar 1
- 4 Mar 8
- 6 Mar 15
- 11 Mar 22
- 7 Mar 29
- 3 Apr 5
- 9 Apr 12
The weekend of Feb 1 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2025 Your weekend |
Vienna Pet Fair BBQ | Vienna, Austria | Same day | 4 |
| Mar 1, 2025 Your weekend |
Vienna Pet Fair BBQ (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Vienna, Austria | Same day | 4 |
| Mar 1, 2025 Your weekend |
Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Kansas City, MO | Kansas City, MO | Same day | — |
| Feb 28, 2025 Your weekend |
Mission Farms - King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | 1 day before | 26 |
| Feb 28, 2025 Your weekend |
Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 1 day before | — |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 6 days after | 45 |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 6 days after | 30 |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA IBS Judging Class | Johnston, IA | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Eureka, IL Cancelled | Eureka, IL | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Fire on Ice BBQ Championship State championship | Onamia, MN | 8 days before | 42 |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Best in the Southwest State championship | Yuma, AZ | 8 days before | 29 |
| Mar 9, 2025 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Lodi, CA | Lodi, CA | 8 days after | — |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 13 days after | 100 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Lebanon, TN | 13 days after | 72 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 13 days after | 28 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Dinuba's BBQ & Brew Fest State championship | Dinuba, CA | 13 days after | 26 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Masters BBQ Challenge CR | San Jose, Costa Rica | 13 days after | 17 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds State championship | Dover, FL | 13 days after | 15 |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Ribs on the Ridge State championship | Haines City, FL | 15 days before | 16 |
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.