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, February 14, 2026 · everywhere, because no place is set
That weekend
In the window
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 0 Jan 3
- 2 Jan 10
- 2 Jan 17
- 5 Jan 24
- 5 Jan 31
- 1 Feb 7
- 0 Feb 14
- 4 Feb 21
- 4 Feb 28
- 7 Mar 7
- 3 Mar 14
- 12 Mar 21
- 8 Mar 28
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | Ribs on the Ridge State championship | Haines City, FL | 6 | 32 |
| 2026-02-20 | Okefenokee Smoke Cancelled State championship | Waycross, GA | 6 | 26 |
| 2026-02-20 | 2026 KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | 6 | — |
| 2026-02-20 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 6 | — |
| 2026-02-21 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Alajuela, 10903 | 7 | 18 |
| 2026-02-07 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Middleburg Heights, OH | Middleburg Heights, OH | -7 | — |
| 2026-02-06 | Grills Gone Wild Cancelled State championship | Davenport, FL | -8 | 27 |
| 2026-02-27 | Mission Farms - King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | 13 | 33 |
| 2026-02-27 | BBQ & Brew Festival State championship | Yuma, AZ | 13 | 25 |
| 2026-02-01 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Overland Park, KS | Overland Park, KS | -13 | — |
| 2026-02-28 | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest | Vienna, 1030 | 14 | 12 |
| 2026-02-28 | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Vienna, 1030 | 14 | 7 |
| 2026-01-31 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Cherry Valley, IL | Cherry Valley, IL | -14 | — |
| 2026-01-30 | The Golden State Battle VIII State championship | Riverside, CA | -15 | 41 |
| 2026-01-30 | SJV Winter Rub State championship | Omaha, NE | -15 | 38 |
| 2026-01-30 | Sunshine Smokin' BBQ Showdown Cancelled State championship | Labelle, FL | -15 | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Sunshine Smokin' BBQ Showdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled | Labelle, FL | -15 | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -15 | — |
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. Days off counts from your date, so a negative number is before it.
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.