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 24, 2026 · within 300 miles of Lenoir, NC (8 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.
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.
- 2 Sep 12
- 1 Sep 19
- 1 Sep 26
- 1 Oct 3
- 2 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 0 Oct 31
- 2 Nov 7
- 1 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
- 0 Dec 5
The weekend of Oct 3 is the quietest in range: 1 contest, pull 0 against your 31. The biggest thing on it is Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2026 Your weekend |
Foothills Smoke-Off Challenge State championship | Lenoir, NC | 2 mi | Same day | 31 | 31 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Monticello, KY Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 196 mi | 6 days after | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Spooky Q 1792 Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 197 mi | 7 days after | 23 | 10 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Spooky Q 1792 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled | Monticello, KY | 197 mi | 7 days after | 23 | 10 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Hellhole Swamp Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) Cancelled | Jamestown, SC | 208 mi | 7 days before | — | — |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) | Roswell, GA | 204 mi | 8 days before | 38 | 16 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | Lynchburg, TN | 275 mi | 14 days before | 99 | 35 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Scottsboro, AL | 268 mi | 14 days after | 33 | 12 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN | Lynchburg, TN | 275 mi | 14 days before | — | — |
| Nov 6, 2026 | Frosty Butts BBQ Throwdown State championship | New Market, VA | 244 mi | 14 days after | — | — |
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.