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.
Quieter than the weekends around it Saturday, June 19, 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.
- 1 May 8
- 6 May 15
- 0 May 22
- 0 May 29
- 1 Jun 5
- 4 Jun 12
- 1 Jun 19
- 4 Jun 26
- 2 Jul 3
- 5 Jul 10
- 5 Jul 17
- 6 Jul 24
- 1 Jul 31
The weekend of May 22 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2027 Your weekend |
New Lowell True North BBQ Bash | New Lowell, ON | Same day | 16 |
| Jun 25, 2027 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle State championship | Washington, DC | 6 days after | 29 |
| Jun 25, 2027 | Mile High BBQ Fest State championship | Littleton, CO | 6 days after | — |
| Jun 25, 2027 | Knox County Ring of Smoke State championship | Edina, MO | 6 days after | — |
| Jun 12, 2027 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 2 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | 7 days before | 38 |
| Jun 26, 2027 | Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | Washington, DC | 7 days after | 29 |
| Jun 11, 2027 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (MASTER & BACKYARD) State championship | West Salem, WI | 8 days before | 40 |
| Jun 11, 2027 | Bring'n Home the Bacon Day 1 (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | West Salem, WI | 8 days before | 40 |
| Jun 11, 2027 | Smoke on the Plains BBQ & Music Fest State championship | Derby, KS | 8 days before | 40 |
| Jul 3, 2027 | Marchfelder Feuerfest | Orth an der Donau, Austria | 14 days after | 10 |
| Jul 3, 2027 | Marchfelder Feuerfest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Orth an der Donau, Austria | 14 days after | 10 |
| Jun 4, 2027 | Big Blue BBQ Championship State championship | Marysville, KS | 15 days before | 30 |
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.