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.
A clear weekend Saturday, October 3, 2026 · within 300 miles of Harrisburg, PA (17 contests on record there)
2026-10-02 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-03 instead.
That weekend
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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.
- 1 Aug 22
- 2 Aug 29
- 0 Sep 5
- 0 Sep 12
- 0 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 1 Oct 3
- 1 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 4 Oct 24
- 0 Oct 31
- 1 Nov 7
- 0 Nov 14
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 Your weekend | Keystone Classic Cookoff State championship | Harrisburg, PA | 0 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-27 | First State BBQ Bash (BACKYARD SUNDAY) | Milford, DE | 124 mi | -5 | 17 | 9 |
| 2026-10-09 | MD State BBQ Bash State championship | Bel Air, MD | 59 mi | 7 | 28 | 20 |
| 2026-09-25 | First State BBQ Bash State championship | Milford, DE | 124 mi | -7 | 17 | 9 |
| 2026-10-16 | The MoCo Smoke Show | Silver Spring, MD | 89 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.