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.
Nothing on file matching “PARMA, 43126,”, so this is the whole country. Try the nearest town that has hosted a contest, a state, or a ZIP code.
Busier than the weekends around it Saturday, April 3, 2027 · everywhere, because no place is set
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.
- 5 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 1 Mar 6
- 3 Mar 13
- 6 Mar 20
- 0 Mar 27
- 3 Apr 3
- 0 Apr 10
- 2 Apr 17
- 1 Apr 24
- 1 May 1
- 0 May 8
- 3 May 15
The weekend of Feb 27 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-04-03 Your weekend | BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | PARMA, 43126 | 0 | 42 |
| 2027-04-02 Your weekend | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off State championship | Cedar Park, TX | -1 | 56 |
| 2027-04-02 Your weekend | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Athens, AL | -1 | 41 |
| 2027-03-20 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | -14 | 40 |
| 2027-04-17 | Mee(a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck | Innsbruck, 6020 | 14 | 9 |
| 2027-04-17 | Mee(a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Innsbruck, 6020 | 14 | 9 |
| 2027-03-20 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | -14 | — |
| 2027-03-19 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | -15 | 82 |
| 2027-03-19 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Lebanon, TN | -15 | 82 |
| 2027-03-19 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Lebanon, TN | -15 | 82 |
| 2027-03-19 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | -15 | 40 |
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.
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.