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 24, 2026 · within 300 miles of Cullman, AL (11 contests on record there)
2026-10-23 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-24 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 Sep 12
- 1 Sep 19
- 3 Sep 26
- 1 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 2 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 1 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 0 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
- 1 Dec 5
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 Your weekend | The Butcher's Smoke & Flames Barbeque Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | Cullman, AL | 4 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-10-29 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Monticello, KY Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 214 mi | 6 | — | — |
| 2026-10-16 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Huntsville, AL | 40 mi | -7 | 45 | 36 |
| 2026-10-30 | Roast N Boast (OPEN FORMAT) State championship | Columbus, MS | 103 mi | 7 | 21 | 12 |
| 2026-10-30 | Spooky Q 1792 Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 214 mi | 7 | 23 | 9 |
| 2026-10-30 | Spooky Q 1792 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 214 mi | 7 | 23 | 9 |
| 2026-10-15 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) | Roswell, GA | 145 mi | -8 | 35 | 18 |
| 2026-10-09 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 80 mi | -14 | 88 | 57 |
| 2026-10-09 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Scottsboro, AL | 57 mi | -14 | 33 | 24 |
| 2026-10-09 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN | Lynchburg, TN | 83 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.