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, September 5, 2026 · within 300 miles of Burlington, KS (13 contests on record there)
That weekend
Competing pull
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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.
- 2 Jul 25
- 1 Aug 1
- 1 Aug 8
- 1 Aug 15
- 2 Aug 22
- 2 Aug 29
- 2 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 4 Sep 19
- 1 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
The weekend of Aug 1 is the quietest in range: 1 contest, pull 0 against your 50. The biggest thing on it is Meet The Candidates - 2026 KCBS Board of Directors Special Election.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 Your weekend |
Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship | Burlington, KS | 0 mi | Same day | 25 | 25 |
| Sep 4, 2026 Your weekend |
Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship | Burlington, KS | 0 mi | 1 day before | 25 | 25 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 87 mi | 5 days after | 37 | 23 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 56 mi | 6 days after | 33 | 24 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 56 mi | 6 days after | 11 | 8 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Overland Park, KS | Overland Park, KS | 80 mi | 6 days before | — | — |
| Aug 28, 2026 | East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival State championship | Paola, KS | 54 mi | 8 days before | 31 | 23 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 126 mi | 13 days after | 30 | 16 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 111 mi | 13 days after | 26 | 15 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 265 mi | 13 days after | 26 | 9 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 126 mi | 13 days after | 9 | 5 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 115 mi | 13 days after | — | — |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Pleasant Hill, MO | Pleasant Hill, MO | 91 mi | 14 days before | — | — |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Made for KC BBQ Championship 2026 (COMPETITORS SERIES) | Weston, MO | 96 mi | 15 days before | 43 | 26 |
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.