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, September 26, 2026 · within 300 miles of Jackson, TN (4 contests on record there)
2026-09-25 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-09-26 instead.
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The weekends around yours
The number is how many contests are within range of that Saturday; the bar is their competing pull, so three contests a long drive away can stand shorter than one next door — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 2 Aug 15
- 1 Aug 22
- 0 Aug 29
- 0 Sep 5
- 2 Sep 12
- 3 Sep 19
- 3 Sep 26
- 0 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 2 Oct 17
- 2 Oct 24
- 1 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
The weekend of Aug 29 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 51.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 Your weekend | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 151 mi | 0 | 53 | 26 |
| 2026-09-25 Your weekend | Hub City BBQ Fest State championship | Jackson, TN | 1 mi | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 2026-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Jonesboro, AR | 108 mi | 0 | 30 | 17 |
| 2026-09-25 Your weekend | Big BBQ Bash State championship | Townsend, TN | 284 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 222 mi | -6 | 27 | 11 |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 222 mi | -6 | 27 | 11 |
| 2026-09-18 | Mike Gannon BBQ Cookoff State championship | Columbiana, AL | 210 mi | -7 | — | — |
| 2026-10-09 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 140 mi | 14 | 88 | 46 |
| 2026-09-11 | Smoke on the Water Guntersville (BACKYARD ONLY) Cancelled | Guntersville, AL | 170 mi | -14 | 31 | 15 |
| 2026-10-09 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Scottsboro, AL | 170 mi | 14 | 33 | 15 |
| 2026-09-11 | Smoke on the Ohio State championship | Mt. Vernon, IN | 168 mi | -14 | 24 | 11 |
| 2026-09-11 | Bands & BBQ at the Point State championship | Carrollton, KY | 291 mi | -14 | 31 | 11 |
| 2026-10-09 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN | Lynchburg, TN | 139 mi | 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.
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.