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 19, 2025 · 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.
- 15 Jun 7
- 15 Jun 14
- 14 Jun 21
- 20 Jun 28
- 1 Jul 5
- 14 Jul 12
- 10 Jul 19
- 11 Jul 26
- 9 Aug 2
- 13 Aug 9
- 15 Aug 16
- 11 Aug 23
- 8 Aug 30
The weekend of Jul 5 is the quietest in range: 1 contest. The biggest thing on it is Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-19 Your weekend | Sutherlin Throwdown State championship | Sutherlin, OR | 0 | 35 |
| 2025-07-19 Your weekend | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2) State championship | Osceola, MO | 0 | 28 |
| 2025-07-19 Your weekend | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Dowagiac, MI | 0 | 17 |
| 2025-07-19 Your weekend | The Great Atlantic BBQ Competition | Bible Hill, NS | 0 | 11 |
| 2025-07-19 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Nova Scotia, Canada Cancelled | Bible Hill, NS | 0 | — |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Buckeye BBQ Classic State championship | Hillsboro, OH | -1 | 40 |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Chillin & Grillin in the Glades State championship | Wise, VA | -1 | 34 |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1) State championship | Osceola, MO | -1 | 32 |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Shenandoah ShenDig State championship | Shenandoah, IA | -1 | 30 |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Blaze of 47 State championship | Salt Lake City, UT | -1 | 26 |
| 2025-07-18 Your weekend | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Osceola, MO | -1 | 9 |
| 2025-07-25 | Smoke on the Mountain State championship | Galax, VA | 6 | 37 |
| 2025-07-25 | 9th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | 6 | 31 |
| 2025-07-25 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) State championship | New Freedom, PA | 6 | 30 |
| 2025-07-25 | Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Laramie, WY | 6 | 26 |
| 2025-07-25 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) State championship | Dodge City, KS | 6 | 18 |
| 2025-07-25 | Curley Que Classic State championship | Honolulu, HI | 6 | 12 |
| 2025-07-25 | Fire on the Mountain BBQ State championship | Leburn, KY | 6 | 10 |
| 2025-07-12 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship State championship | North Wildwood, NJ | -7 | 63 |
| 2025-07-26 | Didsbury Lions BBQ | Didsbury, AB | 7 | 32 |
| 2025-07-26 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main State championship | Collinsville, IL | 7 | 32 |
| 2025-07-12 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge State championship | Somers, CT | -7 | 30 |
| 2025-07-26 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) State championship | New Freedom, PA | 7 | 27 |
| 2025-07-26 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) State championship | Dodge City, KS | 7 | 19 |
| 2025-07-12 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Miles, IA | -7 | 16 |
| 2025-07-12 | K.S. Que (BACKYARD ONLY) | Kennett Square, PA | -7 | 12 |
| 2025-07-12 | California State Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Sacramento, CA | -7 | 10 |
| 2025-07-12 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Croatia | Zagreb, 10000 | -7 | — |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Cameron, MO | -8 | 36 |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Cameron, MO | -8 | 27 |
| 2025-07-11 | KTD Smokn' Gobbler State championship | Worthington, MN | -8 | 26 |
| 2025-07-11 | Goose's 1st Annual Pitmaster Showdown State championship | Papillion, NE | -8 | 24 |
| 2025-07-11 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Miles, IA | -8 | 18 |
| 2025-07-11 | KTD Smokn' Gobbler (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Worthington, MN | -8 | 10 |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (Backyard 2) | Cameron, MO | -8 | 10 |
| 2025-07-10 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery State championship | Greenwood, SC | -9 | 66 |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown State championship | Westland, MI | 13 | 43 |
| 2025-08-01 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship (Invitational) (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Port Jervis, NY | 13 | 34 |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Westland, MI | 13 | 29 |
| 2025-08-01 | Ditmars Red, White & Blue BBQ Cancelled State championship | Council Bluffs, IA | 13 | 24 |
| 2025-08-01 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Florence, AL | 13 | 23 |
| 2025-08-01 | La Classique What the Pork? | Sainte-Perpetue, QC | 13 | 18 |
| 2025-08-02 | Grand American Barbecue New York State Championship (Open) State championship | Port Jervis, NY | 14 | 47 |
| 2025-07-05 | Dillon Days Blowin' Smoke BBQ Cook Off State championship | Dillon, MT | -14 | 13 |
| 2025-08-02 | Smokin in the Valley | Herne Hill, Western Australia, 6056 | 14 | 12 |
| 2025-08-02 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Kansas City, MO | Kansas City, MO | 14 | — |
| 2025-08-02 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Sweden | Rolfstorp, 432 97 | 14 | — |
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.