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 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2026 | Ribs on the Ridge State championship | Haines City, FL | 6 days after | 32 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Okefenokee Smoke Cancelled State championship | Waycross, GA | 6 days after | 26 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | 2026 KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | 6 days after | — |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 6 days after | — |
| Feb 21, 2026 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Alajuela, Costa Rica | 7 days after | 18 |
| Feb 7, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Middleburg Heights, OH | Middleburg Heights, OH | 7 days before | — |
| Feb 6, 2026 | Grills Gone Wild Cancelled State championship | Davenport, FL | 8 days before | 27 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mission Farms - King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | 13 days after | 33 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | BBQ & Brew Festival State championship | Yuma, AZ | 13 days after | 25 |
| Feb 1, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Overland Park, KS | Overland Park, KS | 13 days before | — |
| Feb 28, 2026 | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest | Vienna, Austria | 14 days after | 12 |
| Feb 28, 2026 | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Vienna, Austria | 14 days after | 7 |
| Jan 31, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Cherry Valley, IL | Cherry Valley, IL | 14 days before | — |
| Jan 30, 2026 | The Golden State Battle VIII State championship | Riverside, CA | 15 days before | 41 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | SJV Winter Rub State championship | Omaha, NE | 15 days before | 38 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Sunshine Smokin' BBQ Showdown Cancelled State championship | Labelle, FL | 15 days before | — |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Sunshine Smokin' BBQ Showdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled | Labelle, FL | 15 days before | — |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 15 days before | — |
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.