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 26, 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 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
- 13 Sep 6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-26 Your weekend | Didsbury Lions BBQ | Didsbury, AB | 0 | 32 |
| 2025-07-26 Your weekend | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main State championship | Collinsville, IL | 0 | 32 |
| 2025-07-26 Your weekend | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) State championship | New Freedom, PA | 0 | 27 |
| 2025-07-26 Your weekend | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2) State championship | Dodge City, KS | 0 | 19 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Smoke on the Mountain State championship | Galax, VA | -1 | 37 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | 9th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | -1 | 31 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) State championship | New Freedom, PA | -1 | 30 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Laramie, WY | -1 | 26 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1) State championship | Dodge City, KS | -1 | 18 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Curley Que Classic State championship | Honolulu, HI | -1 | 12 |
| 2025-07-25 Your weekend | Fire on the Mountain BBQ State championship | Leburn, KY | -1 | 10 |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown State championship | Westland, MI | 6 | 43 |
| 2025-08-01 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship (Invitational) (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Port Jervis, NY | 6 | 34 |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Westland, MI | 6 | 29 |
| 2025-08-01 | Ditmars Red, White & Blue BBQ Cancelled State championship | Council Bluffs, IA | 6 | 24 |
| 2025-08-01 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Florence, AL | 6 | 23 |
| 2025-08-01 | La Classique What the Pork? | Sainte-Perpetue, QC | 6 | 18 |
| 2025-08-02 | Grand American Barbecue New York State Championship (Open) State championship | Port Jervis, NY | 7 | 47 |
| 2025-07-19 | Sutherlin Throwdown State championship | Sutherlin, OR | -7 | 35 |
| 2025-07-19 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 2) State championship | Osceola, MO | -7 | 28 |
| 2025-07-19 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Dowagiac, MI | -7 | 17 |
| 2025-08-02 | Smokin in the Valley | Herne Hill, Western Australia, 6056 | 7 | 12 |
| 2025-07-19 | The Great Atlantic BBQ Competition | Bible Hill, NS | -7 | 11 |
| 2025-07-19 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Nova Scotia, Canada Cancelled | Bible Hill, NS | -7 | — |
| 2025-08-02 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Kansas City, MO | Kansas City, MO | 7 | — |
| 2025-08-02 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Sweden | Rolfstorp, 432 97 | 7 | — |
| 2025-07-18 | Buckeye BBQ Classic State championship | Hillsboro, OH | -8 | 40 |
| 2025-07-18 | Chillin & Grillin in the Glades State championship | Wise, VA | -8 | 34 |
| 2025-07-18 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (Day 1) State championship | Osceola, MO | -8 | 32 |
| 2025-07-18 | Shenandoah ShenDig State championship | Shenandoah, IA | -8 | 30 |
| 2025-07-18 | Blaze of 47 State championship | Salt Lake City, UT | -8 | 26 |
| 2025-07-18 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest and Car Show (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Osceola, MO | -8 | 9 |
| 2025-08-08 | Smoke on the Bricks State championship | Baldwin City, KS | 13 | 53 |
| 2025-08-08 | 3rd Annual Roaring Camp BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) State championship | Felton, CA | 13 | 25 |
| 2025-08-08 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 1) State championship | Doswell, VA | 13 | 25 |
| 2025-08-08 | Smoke in the Orchard, Powered by Sunpoke | Keswick, NB | 13 | 15 |
| 2025-08-08 | Triple Crown BBQ (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Doswell, VA | 13 | 13 |
| 2025-08-08 | Triple Crown BBQ (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Doswell, VA | 13 | 12 |
| 2025-08-08 | Grill in the Ville Cancelled | Hughesville, PA | 13 | — |
| 2025-08-08 | Big Boy BBQ Bash (Day 1) Cancelled | Melbourne, 3000 | 13 | — |
| 2025-07-12 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship State championship | North Wildwood, NJ | -14 | 63 |
| 2025-07-12 | Connecticut Barbecue Challenge State championship | Somers, CT | -14 | 30 |
| 2025-08-09 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 2) State championship | Doswell, VA | 14 | 25 |
| 2025-08-09 | 3rd Annual Roaring Camp BBQ Cook Off (Day 2) State championship | Felton, CA | 14 | 21 |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire | Medvode, 1215 | 14 | 20 |
| 2025-08-09 | Trillium BBQ Throwdown State championship | Canton, MA | 14 | 20 |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Medvode, 1215 | 14 | 19 |
| 2025-08-09 | Wild West Fest on Fire (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Medvode, 1215 | 14 | 19 |
| 2025-08-09 | Smokin Downtown (BACKYARD ONLY) | Warsaw, IN | 14 | 18 |
| 2025-07-12 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Miles, IA | -14 | 16 |
| 2025-07-12 | K.S. Que (BACKYARD ONLY) | Kennett Square, PA | -14 | 12 |
| 2025-07-12 | California State Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Sacramento, CA | -14 | 10 |
| 2025-07-12 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Croatia | Zagreb, 10000 | -14 | — |
| 2025-08-09 | Big Boy BBQ Bash (Day 2) Cancelled | Melbourne, 3000 | 14 | — |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off State championship | Cameron, MO | -15 | 36 |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Cameron, MO | -15 | 27 |
| 2025-07-11 | KTD Smokn' Gobbler State championship | Worthington, MN | -15 | 26 |
| 2025-07-11 | Goose's 1st Annual Pitmaster Showdown State championship | Papillion, NE | -15 | 24 |
| 2025-07-11 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Miles, IA | -15 | 18 |
| 2025-07-11 | KTD Smokn' Gobbler (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Worthington, MN | -15 | 10 |
| 2025-07-11 | Cameron Elks BBQ Cook-Off (Backyard 2) | Cameron, MO | -15 | 10 |
| 2025-07-10 | South Carolina Festival of Discovery State championship | Greenwood, SC | -16 | 66 |
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.