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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, March 20, 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 Feb 6
- 1 Feb 13
- 5 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 2 Mar 6
- 4 Mar 13
- 6 Mar 20
- 2 Mar 27
- 4 Apr 3
- 0 Apr 10
- 2 Apr 17
- 6 Apr 24
- 1 May 1
The weekend of Feb 6 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2027 Your weekend |
BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | Same day | 40 |
| Mar 20, 2027 Your weekend |
Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | Same day | — |
| Mar 19, 2027 Your weekend |
Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 1 day before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 Your weekend |
Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Lebanon, TN | 1 day before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 Your weekend |
Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Lebanon, TN | 1 day before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 Your weekend |
BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 1 day before | 40 |
| Mar 26, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge State championship | St. Robert, MO | 6 days after | 21 |
| Mar 13, 2027 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 2) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 7 days before | 33 |
| Mar 27, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | St. Robert, MO | 7 days after | 21 |
| Mar 12, 2027 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 1) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 8 days before | 33 |
| Mar 12, 2027 | Speed & Feed BBQ Festival & Car Show State championship | Darlington, SC | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 12, 2027 | Small Town Showdown State championship | Shady Hills, FL | 8 days before | — |
| Apr 2, 2027 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off Cancelled State championship | Cedar Park, TX | 13 days after | 56 |
| Apr 2, 2027 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Athens, AL | 13 days after | 41 |
| Apr 2, 2027 | Dinuba's BBQ & Brew Fest State championship | Dinuba, CA | 13 days after | 27 |
| Apr 2, 2027 | Dinuba's BBQ & Brew Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Dinuba, CA | 13 days after | 27 |
| Apr 3, 2027 | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | Parma, Italy | 14 days after | 42 |
| Mar 5, 2027 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 15 days before | 61 |
| Mar 5, 2027 | Kansas City KCBS Contest State championship | Kansas City, MO | 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.