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 Ponca City, OK (31 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
- 1 Aug 15
- 2 Aug 22
- 2 Aug 29
- 2 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 3 Sep 19
- 1 Sep 26
- 6 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 0 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
The weekend of Oct 17 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 49.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 0 mi | Same day | 30 | 30 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 237 mi | Same day | 26 | 10 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 0 mi | Same day | 9 | 9 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 236 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 206 mi | 7 days after | 65 | 27 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 182 mi | 7 days before | 33 | 15 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 182 mi | 7 days before | 11 | 5 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 211 mi | 8 days before | 37 | 15 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 215 mi | 8 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 206 mi | 12 days after | 360 | 151 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 206 mi | 12 days after | 158 | 66 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 206 mi | 12 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 206 mi | 12 days after | — | — |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 2) State championship | Burlington, KS | 126 mi | 13 days before | 25 | 14 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Smoke on the River (Day 1) State championship | Burlington, KS | 126 mi | 14 days before | 25 | 14 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 221 mi | 14 days after | 19 | 8 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 211 mi | 14 days after | 15 | 6 |
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.