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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, September 18, 2027 · within 300 miles of New Paltz, NY (16 contests on record there)
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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.
- 0 Aug 7
- 0 Aug 14
- 0 Aug 21
- 0 Aug 28
- 0 Sep 4
- 0 Sep 11
- 4 Sep 18
- 0 Sep 25
- 0 Oct 2
- 0 Oct 9
- 0 Oct 16
- 0 Oct 23
- 0 Oct 30
The weekend of Aug 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 77.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2027 Your weekend |
Grand American Barbecue World Championship Open State championship | New Paltz, NY | 0 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Sep 17, 2027 Your weekend |
Grand American Barbecue World Championship Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) | New Paltz, NY | 0 mi | 1 day before | 43 | 43 |
| Sep 17, 2027 Your weekend |
Grand American Barbecue World Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | New Paltz, NY | 0 mi | 1 day before | 17 | 17 |
| Sep 17, 2027 Your weekend |
Grand American Barbecue World Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | New Paltz, NY | 0 mi | 1 day before | 17 | 17 |
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.