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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 Odessa, MO (3 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

6
sanctioned contests within 300 miles

Competing pull

64
field size discounted by distance, added up across that weekend

Biggest rival

38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out · 37 miles away

In the window

23
±2 weeks either side

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. 1 Aug 8
  2. 3 Aug 15
  3. 2 Aug 22
  4. 3 Aug 29
  5. 2 Sep 5
  6. 3 Sep 12
  7. 6 Sep 19
  8. 2 Sep 26
  9. 7 Oct 3
  10. 3 Oct 10
  11. 1 Oct 17
  12. 1 Oct 24
  13. 2 Oct 31

The weekend of Oct 24 is the quietest in range: 1 contest, pull 13 against your 64. The biggest thing on it is Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild.

Contests within ±2 weeks

DateContestWhereDistancevs. your dateFieldPull
Sep 18, 2026
Your weekend
38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship Kearney, MO 37 mi Same day 26 21
Sep 18, 2026
Your weekend
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship Ponca City, OK 235 mi Same day 30 12
Sep 18, 2026
Your weekend
Tri City BBQ Fest State championship Denison, IA 222 mi Same day 26 10
Sep 18, 2026
Your weekend
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) Ponca City, OK 235 mi Same day 9 4
Sep 18, 2026 Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship Odessa, MO 1 mi Same day — —
Sep 19, 2026
Your weekend
Trekking for CDH State championship Pierron, IL 232 mi 1 day after 27 11
Sep 19, 2026
Your weekend
Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) Pierron, IL 232 mi 1 day after 15 6
Sep 25, 2026 Shawnee Great Grillers State championship Shawnee, KS 44 mi 7 days after 65 50
Sep 25, 2026 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship Murphysboro, IL 261 mi 7 days after 71 26
Sep 11, 2026 Meat Inferno State championship Edgerton, KS 62 mi 7 days before 33 23
Sep 25, 2026 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship Jonesboro, AR 280 mi 7 days after 30 10
Sep 11, 2026 Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) Edgerton, KS 62 mi 7 days before 11 8
Sep 10, 2026 Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) Lee's Summit, MO 29 mi 8 days before 37 31
Sep 26, 2026 Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship Kansas City, MO 35 mi 8 days after — —
Sep 30, 2026 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest Kansas City, KS 52 mi 12 days after 360 268
Sep 30, 2026 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest Kansas City, KS 52 mi 12 days after 158 118
Sep 30, 2026 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS 52 mi 12 days after — —
Sep 30, 2026 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS 52 mi 12 days after — —
Sep 5, 2026 Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship Burlington, KS 114 mi 13 days before 25 14
Oct 2, 2026 La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship La Belle, MO 131 mi 14 days after 33 18
Oct 2, 2026 Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Gladstone, MO 39 mi 14 days after 19 15
Sep 4, 2026 Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship Burlington, KS 114 mi 14 days before 25 14
Oct 2, 2026 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO 25 mi 14 days after 15 13

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.

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