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.
Busier than the weekends around it Saturday, November 22, 2025 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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 Oct 11
- 10 Oct 18
- 14 Oct 25
- 6 Nov 1
- 5 Nov 8
- 2 Nov 15
- 3 Nov 22
- 0 Nov 29
- 2 Dec 6
- 1 Dec 13
- 0 Dec 20
- 0 Dec 27
- 0 Jan 3
The weekend of Nov 29 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2025 Your weekend |
BBQ Jackpot State championship | Las Vegas, NV | 1 day before | 90 |
| Nov 21, 2025 Your weekend |
Plant City Pig Jam State championship | Plant City, FL | 1 day before | 31 |
| Nov 23, 2025 Your weekend |
Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Mexico | Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico | 1 day after | — |
| Nov 15, 2025 | BBQ Fest Palmares (BACKYARD ONLY) | Palmares, Costa Rica | 7 days before | 8 |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic State championship | Cumming, GA | 8 days before | 56 |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off by Daniel Energy Partners (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Houston, TX | 11 days before | 98 |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship (OPEN FORMAT) State championship | Demopolis, AL | 13 days after | 21 |
| Dec 6, 2025 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Mt. Vernon, IN | Mt. Vernon, IN | 14 days after | — |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest State championship | Kansas City, KS | 17 days before | 401 |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 17 days before | 158 |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 17 days before | — |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 17 days before | — |
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.