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.
About average for this stretch Saturday, December 5, 2026 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
In the window
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 8 Oct 24
- 4 Oct 31
- 4 Nov 7
- 4 Nov 14
- 7 Nov 21
- 1 Nov 28
- 1 Dec 5
- 0 Dec 12
- 0 Dec 19
- 1 Dec 26
- 0 Jan 2
- 1 Jan 9
- 1 Jan 16
The weekend of Dec 12 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 2026 Your weekend |
Christmas on the River State Bar B Q Championship State championship | Demopolis, AL | 1 day before | 16 |
| Nov 28, 2026 | Mid Japan BBQ Showdown & Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Seto City, Japan | 7 days before | — |
| Nov 20, 2026 | BBQ Jackpot State championship | Las Vegas, NV | 15 days before | 82 |
| Nov 20, 2026 | Plant City Pig Jam State championship | Plant City, FL | 15 days before | 35 |
| Nov 20, 2026 | BRRBQ (Day 1) | Middelkerke, Belgium | 15 days before | — |
| Nov 20, 2026 | BRRBQ (Day 2) | Middelkerke, Belgium | 15 days before | — |
| Nov 20, 2026 | King Ranch - Ranch Hand Breakfast BBQ Competition | Downtown Kingsville, TX | 15 days before | — |
| Nov 19, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Kingsville, TX | Kingsville, TX | 16 days before | — |
| Nov 18, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Chile | Colina, Chile | 17 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.
This is the whole country. Put a town, state or ZIP in the Near box and every number above narrows to the teams who could actually reach you.
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.