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.
About average for this stretch Saturday, February 28, 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.
- 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
- 5 Apr 4
- 10 Apr 11
The weekend of Feb 14 is the quietest in range: 0 contests.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Days off | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-28 Your weekend | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest | Vienna, 1030 | 0 | 12 |
| 2026-02-28 Your weekend | Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Vienna, 1030 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-02-27 Your weekend | Mission Farms - King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | -1 | 33 |
| 2026-02-27 Your weekend | BBQ & Brew Festival State championship | Yuma, AZ | -1 | 25 |
| 2026-03-06 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 6 | 44 |
| 2026-03-06 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge | Play Jaco, 61101 | 6 | 16 |
| 2026-02-21 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Alajuela, 10903 | -7 | 18 |
| 2026-03-07 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, BZ | 7 | 11 |
| 2026-03-07 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, BZ | 7 | 10 |
| 2026-03-07 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, BZ | 7 | 8 |
| 2026-03-07 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Warsaw, IN | Warsaw, IN | 7 | — |
| 2026-03-07 | Smokecraft BBQ's Tell-All Master's Competition Class | Arlington, VA | 7 | — |
| 2026-02-20 | Ribs on the Ridge State championship | Haines City, FL | -8 | 32 |
| 2026-02-20 | Okefenokee Smoke Cancelled State championship | Waycross, GA | -8 | 26 |
| 2026-02-20 | 2026 KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | -8 | — |
| 2026-02-20 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | -8 | — |
| 2026-03-13 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 13 | 37 |
| 2026-03-13 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 13 | 30 |
| 2026-03-13 | Jeepin 4 Justice State championship | Shady Hills, FL | 13 | 15 |
| 2026-03-14 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Eureka, IL Cancelled | Eureka, IL | 14 | — |
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.