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, January 30, 2027 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
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The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 0 Dec 19
- 1 Dec 26
- 0 Jan 2
- 1 Jan 9
- 1 Jan 16
- 4 Jan 23
- 2 Jan 30
- 0 Feb 6
- 1 Feb 13
- 5 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 2 Mar 6
- 4 Mar 13
The weekend of Dec 19 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2027 Your weekend |
SJV Winter Rub State championship | Omaha, NE | 1 day before | 32 |
| Jan 29, 2027 Your weekend |
Chiriqui Grill Fest Internacional | Chiriqui, Panama | 1 day before | 31 |
| Jan 23, 2027 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Richmond, VA | Richmond, VA | 7 days before | — |
| Jan 23, 2027 | BBQ Fest Panama | Panama City, Pa, Panama | 7 days before | — |
| Jan 21, 2027 | Lakeland Pig Festival State championship | Lakeland, FL | 9 days before | 56 |
| Jan 21, 2027 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Lakeland, FL | Lakeland, FL | 9 days before | — |
| Feb 12, 2027 | The Great Mississippi Dixie National Barbecue Showdown State championship | Jackson, MS | 13 days after | — |
| Jan 15, 2027 | 12th Annual Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge State championship | Bullhead City, AZ | 15 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.