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 · 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.
- 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 | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2026 Your weekend |
Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest | Vienna, Austria | Same day | 12 |
| Feb 28, 2026 Your weekend |
Vienna Pet Fair BBQ Contest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Vienna, Austria | Same day | 7 |
| Feb 27, 2026 Your weekend |
Mission Farms - King of the Farm State championship | Iron Station, NC | 1 day before | 33 |
| Feb 27, 2026 Your weekend |
BBQ & Brew Festival State championship | Yuma, AZ | 1 day before | 25 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival State championship | Lawrenceville, GA | 6 days after | 44 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Jaco Beach BBQ Challenge | Play Jaco, Costa Rica | 6 days after | 16 |
| Feb 21, 2026 | BBQ Fest Costa Rica | Alajuela, Costa Rica | 7 days before | 18 |
| Mar 7, 2026 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, Italy | 7 days after | 11 |
| Mar 7, 2026 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, Italy | 7 days after | 10 |
| Mar 7, 2026 | W.E.S.T. - Winter Extreme South Tyrol (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Muhlwald - Selva di Molini, Italy | 7 days after | 8 |
| Mar 7, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Warsaw, IN | Warsaw, IN | 7 days after | — |
| Mar 7, 2026 | Smokecraft BBQ's Tell-All Master's Competition Class | Arlington, VA | 7 days after | — |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Ribs on the Ridge State championship | Haines City, FL | 8 days before | 32 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Okefenokee Smoke Cancelled State championship | Waycross, GA | 8 days before | 26 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | 2026 KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | 8 days before | — |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class | Unadilla, GA | 8 days before | — |
| Mar 13, 2026 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 13 days after | 37 |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | Foley, AL | 13 days after | 30 |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Jeepin 4 Justice State championship | Shady Hills, FL | 13 days after | 15 |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Eureka, IL Cancelled | Eureka, IL | 14 days after | — |
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.