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, April 3, 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.
- 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
- 1 May 8
- 6 May 15
The weekend of Feb 27 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2027 Your weekend |
BBQ Expo Master's Challenge | Parma, Italy | Same day | 42 |
| Apr 2, 2027 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cook Off Cancelled State championship | Cedar Park, TX | 1 day before | 56 |
| Apr 2, 2027 Your weekend |
Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Athens, AL | 1 day before | 41 |
| Apr 2, 2027 Your weekend |
Dinuba's BBQ & Brew Fest State championship | Dinuba, CA | 1 day before | 27 |
| Apr 2, 2027 Your weekend |
Dinuba's BBQ & Brew Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Dinuba, CA | 1 day before | 27 |
| Mar 27, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | St. Robert, MO | 7 days before | 21 |
| Mar 26, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge State championship | St. Robert, MO | 8 days before | 21 |
| Mar 20, 2027 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 14 days before | 40 |
| Apr 17, 2027 | Mee (a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck | Innsbruck, Austria | 14 days after | 9 |
| Apr 17, 2027 | Mee (a)t and Fire BBQ Festival Innsbruck (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Innsbruck, Austria | 14 days after | 9 |
| Mar 20, 2027 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | 14 days before | — |
| Mar 19, 2027 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship State championship | Lebanon, TN | 15 days before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Lebanon, TN | 15 days before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 | Smoke on the Shores BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Lebanon, TN | 15 days before | 82 |
| Mar 19, 2027 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) State championship | Urbanna, VA | 15 days before | 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.
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.