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 Pierron, IL (5 contests on record there)
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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
- 4 Aug 15
- 4 Aug 22
- 6 Aug 29
- 0 Sep 5
- 5 Sep 12
- 4 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 8 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
The weekend of Sep 5 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 61.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2026 Your weekend |
Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 0 mi | Same day | 27 | 27 |
| Sep 19, 2026 Your weekend |
Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 0 mi | Same day | 15 | 15 |
| Sep 19, 2026 Your weekend |
Paxton Swine n Dine (BACKYARD ONLY) | Paxton, IL | 141 mi | Same day | 18 | 9 |
| Sep 18, 2026 Your weekend |
38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 259 mi | 1 day before | 26 | 10 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 231 mi | 1 day before | — | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 71 mi | 6 days after | 71 | 48 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 276 mi | 6 days after | 65 | 23 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Jonesboro, AR | 212 mi | 6 days after | 30 | 12 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Hub City BBQ Fest Cancelled State championship | Jackson, TN | 222 mi | 6 days after | 25 | 10 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 267 mi | 7 days after | — | — |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Smoke on the Ohio State championship | Mt. Vernon, IN | 108 mi | 8 days before | 26 | 15 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Bands & BBQ at the Point State championship | Carrollton, KY | 238 mi | 8 days before | 38 | 15 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 291 mi | 8 days before | 33 | 11 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 291 mi | 8 days before | 11 | 4 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 261 mi | 9 days before | 37 | 14 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 283 mi | 11 days after | 360 | 125 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 283 mi | 11 days after | 158 | 55 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 283 mi | 11 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 283 mi | 11 days after | — | — |
| Oct 2, 2026 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 154 mi | 13 days after | 33 | 16 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 269 mi | 13 days after | 19 | 7 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Octoberfest (BACKYARD ONLY) | Argos, IN | 245 mi | 13 days after | 19 | 7 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 252 mi | 13 days after | 15 | 6 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Tennessee Masonic Championship Cookoff (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT) Cancelled | Nashville, TN | 241 mi | 15 days before | — | — |
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.