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.
Busier than the weekends around it Saturday, September 12, 2026 · within 300 miles of Lee's Summit, MO (30 contests on record there)
2026-09-10 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-09-12 instead.
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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 Aug 1
- 1 Aug 8
- 3 Aug 15
- 2 Aug 22
- 3 Aug 29
- 2 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 6 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
The weekend of Aug 1 is the quietest in range: 2 contests, pull 9 against your 72. The biggest thing on it is Cruisin' and BBQin'.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 Your weekend |
Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 2 mi | Same day | 37 | 36 |
| Sep 11, 2026 Your weekend |
Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 35 mi | 1 day after | 33 | 27 |
| Sep 11, 2026 Your weekend |
Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 35 mi | 1 day after | 11 | 9 |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship | Burlington, KS | 89 mi | 5 days before | 25 | 16 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship | Burlington, KS | 89 mi | 6 days before | 25 | 16 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 32 mi | 8 days after | 26 | 21 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 213 mi | 8 days after | 30 | 12 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 219 mi | 8 days after | 26 | 11 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 213 mi | 8 days after | 9 | 4 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 29 mi | 8 days after | — | — |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 9 days after | 27 | 10 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 9 days after | 15 | 6 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | Certified Barbeque Judging & Table Captain Class - Overland Park, KS | Overland Park, KS | 15 mi | 11 days before | — | — |
| Aug 28, 2026 | East Central State BBQ Cookoff - Paola Roots Festival State championship | Paola, KS | 36 mi | 13 days before | 31 | 25 |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Up in Smoke on the Square (BACKYARD ONLY) | Lincoln, IL | 281 mi | 13 days before | 16 | 6 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 18 mi | 15 days after | 65 | 58 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 286 mi | 15 days after | 71 | 24 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Jonesboro, AR | 295 mi | 15 days after | 30 | 10 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 13 mi | 16 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.
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.