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 19, 2026 · within 300 miles of Kearney, MO (13 contests on record there)
2026-09-18 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-09-19 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.
- 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
- 2 Oct 31
The weekend of Oct 24 is the quietest in range: 1 contest, pull 12 against your 68. The biggest thing on it is Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 1 mi | Same day | 26 | 26 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 237 mi | Same day | 30 | 12 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 189 mi | Same day | 26 | 12 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 237 mi | Same day | 9 | 3 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 37 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Sep 19, 2026 Your weekend |
Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 1 day after | 27 | 10 |
| Sep 19, 2026 Your weekend |
Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 1 day after | 15 | 5 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 31 mi | 7 days after | 65 | 54 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 55 mi | 7 days before | 33 | 24 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 294 mi | 7 days after | 71 | 24 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 55 mi | 7 days before | 11 | 8 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 31 mi | 8 days before | 37 | 31 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 22 mi | 8 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 days after | 360 | 297 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 days after | 158 | 130 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 days after | — | — |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship | Burlington, KS | 111 mi | 13 days before | 25 | 14 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 16 mi | 14 days after | 19 | 17 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 140 mi | 14 days after | 33 | 17 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship | Burlington, KS | 111 mi | 14 days before | 25 | 14 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 42 mi | 14 days after | 15 | 12 |
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.