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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, October 10, 2026 · within 300 miles of Scottsboro, AL (7 contests on record there)
2026-10-09 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-10 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.
- 0 Aug 29
- 0 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 2 Sep 19
- 3 Sep 26
- 1 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 2 Oct 17
- 2 Oct 24
- 1 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 0 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
The weekend of Aug 29 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 101.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 Your weekend | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 45 mi | 0 | 88 | 68 |
| 2026-10-09 Your weekend | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Scottsboro, AL | 0 mi | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2026-10-09 Your weekend | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN | Lynchburg, TN | 48 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-10-15 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) | Roswell, GA | 108 mi | 6 | 35 | 20 |
| 2026-10-16 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | 36 mi | 7 | 45 | 36 |
| 2026-10-02 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 213 mi | -7 | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 282 mi | -14 | 53 | 18 |
| 2026-09-25 | Hub City BBQ Fest State championship | Jackson, TN | 170 mi | -14 | 25 | 12 |
| 2026-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Jonesboro, AR | 276 mi | -14 | 30 | 11 |
| 2026-09-25 | Big BBQ Bash State championship | Townsend, TN | 147 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-10-23 | The Butcher's Smoke & Flames Barbeque Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | Cullman, AL | 56 mi | 14 | — | — |
| 2026-10-23 | Foothills Smoke-Off Challenge State championship | Lenoir, NC | 268 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.