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, July 31, 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 Jun 19
- 4 Jun 26
- 2 Jul 3
- 5 Jul 10
- 5 Jul 17
- 6 Jul 24
- 1 Jul 31
- 1 Aug 7
- 2 Aug 14
- 0 Aug 21
- 0 Aug 28
- 0 Sep 4
- 5 Sep 11
The weekend of Aug 21 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2027 Your weekend |
Curley Que Classic State championship | Honolulu, HI | 1 day before | — |
| Jul 24, 2027 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 2) State championship | New Freedom, PA | 7 days before | 34 |
| Jul 24, 2027 | Revenge of the Pit (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Cannon Falls, MN | 7 days before | — |
| Aug 7, 2027 | Meat up North | Manchester, United Kingdom | 7 days after | — |
| Jul 23, 2027 | Smoke on the Rail BBQ Festival (Day 1) State championship | New Freedom, PA | 8 days before | 34 |
| Jul 23, 2027 | 11th Annual E'burg BBQ Contest State championship | Emmetsburg, IA | 8 days before | — |
| Jul 23, 2027 | Revenge of the Pit (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Cannon Falls, MN | 8 days before | — |
| Jul 23, 2027 | Revenge of the Pit (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Cannon Falls, MN | 8 days before | — |
| Aug 13, 2027 | Smoke on the Bricks State championship | Baldwin City, KS | 13 days after | 48 |
| Jul 17, 2027 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 2) State championship | Osceola, MO | 14 days before | 32 |
| Jul 17, 2027 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 2) | Miles, IA | 14 days before | 20 |
| Aug 14, 2027 | Cars & BBQ Festival 2027 | Tallinn, Estonia | 14 days after | 17 |
| Jul 16, 2027 | Smokin on the Osage BBQ Contest (Day 1) State championship | Osceola, MO | 15 days before | 32 |
| Jul 16, 2027 | Chillin & Grillin in the Glades State championship | Wise, VA | 15 days before | 29 |
| Jul 16, 2027 | Great River Threshers BBQ Contest (BACKYARD ONLY) (Day 1) | Miles, IA | 15 days before | 20 |
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.