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 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.
That weekend
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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
- 7 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 4 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
The weekend of Oct 24 is the quietest in range: 1 contest, pull 5 against your 32. The biggest thing on it is Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 Your weekend | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 189 mi | 0 | 28 | 12 |
| 2026-09-18 Your weekend | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 237 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 Your weekend | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 237 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 Your weekend | Boost & BBQ State championship | Odessa, MO | 37 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 Your weekend | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 1 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-19 Your weekend | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 1 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-09-19 Your weekend | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 259 mi | 1 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-09-25 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 31 mi | 7 | 71 | 59 |
| 2026-09-25 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 294 mi | 7 | 53 | 18 |
| 2026-09-11 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 55 mi | -7 | 19 | 14 |
| 2026-09-11 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 55 mi | -7 | 19 | 14 |
| 2026-09-10 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 31 mi | -8 | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 22 mi | 8 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 | 486 | 401 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 | 215 | 177 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 32 mi | 12 | — | — |
| 2026-09-05 | Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship | Burlington, KS | 111 mi | -13 | 19 | 11 |
| 2026-10-02 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 140 mi | 14 | 39 | 20 |
| 2026-10-02 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 42 mi | 14 | 21 | 16 |
| 2026-09-04 | Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship | Burlington, KS | 111 mi | -14 | 19 | 11 |
| 2026-10-02 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 16 mi | 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.
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.