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, October 17, 2026 · within 300 miles of Huntsville, AL (24 contests on record there)
2026-10-16 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-17 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 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 2 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 1 Oct 3
- 2 Oct 10
- 2 Oct 17
- 2 Oct 24
- 1 Oct 31
- 1 Nov 7
- 1 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
The weekend of Sep 5 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 61.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 Your weekend |
WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | 7 mi | Same day | 43 | 41 |
| Oct 15, 2026 Your weekend |
Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) | Roswell, GA | 137 mi | 1 day before | 38 | 20 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 43 mi | 7 days before | 99 | 77 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | The Butcher's Smoke & Flames Barbeque Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | Cullman, AL | 34 mi | 7 days after | 24 | 20 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | Foothills Smoke-Off Challenge State championship | Lenoir, NC | 298 mi | 7 days after | 31 | 10 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN | Lynchburg, TN | 46 mi | 7 days before | — | — |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Monticello, KY Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 178 mi | 13 days after | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Spooky Q 1792 Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 178 mi | 14 days after | 23 | 11 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Spooky Q 1792 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 178 mi | 14 days after | 23 | 11 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Roast N Boast State championship | Columbus, MS | 133 mi | 14 days after | 21 | 11 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 233 mi | 14 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.
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.