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.
A clear weekend Saturday, July 24, 2027 · within 300 miles of Emmetsburg, IA (11 contests on record there)
2027-07-23 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2027-07-24 instead.
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The weekends around yours
The number is how many contests are within range of that Saturday; the bar is their competing pull, so three contests a long drive away can stand shorter than one next door — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 3 Jun 12
- 0 Jun 19
- 1 Jun 26
- 0 Jul 3
- 0 Jul 10
- 2 Jul 17
- 4 Jul 24
- 0 Jul 31
- 0 Aug 7
- 0 Aug 14
- 0 Aug 21
- 0 Aug 28
- 0 Sep 4
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2027 Your weekend |
11th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | 23 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Jul 23, 2027 Your weekend |
Revenge of the Pit (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Cannon Falls, MN | 117 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Jul 23, 2027 Your weekend |
Revenge of the Pit (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Cannon Falls, MN | 117 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Jul 24, 2027 Your weekend |
Revenge of the Pit (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Cannon Falls, MN | 117 mi | 1 day after | — | — |
| Jul 17, 2027 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Miles, IA | 211 mi | 6 days before | 20 | 8 |
| Jul 16, 2027 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Miles, IA | 211 mi | 7 days before | 20 | 8 |
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.
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.