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 26, 2026 · within 300 miles of Kansas City, MO (125 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.
- 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
- 0 Nov 7
The weekend of Nov 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 86.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 3 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 Your weekend | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 8 mi | -1 | 71 | 68 |
| 2026-09-25 Your weekend | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 299 mi | -1 | 53 | 18 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 4 | 486 | 445 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 4 | 215 | 197 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 4 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 4 | — | — |
| 2026-10-02 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 160 mi | 6 | 39 | 19 |
| 2026-10-02 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 27 mi | 6 | 21 | 18 |
| 2026-10-02 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 10 mi | 6 | — | — |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 270 mi | -7 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 270 mi | -7 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-09-18 | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 207 mi | -8 | 28 | 12 |
| 2026-09-18 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 213 mi | -8 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 213 mi | -8 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | Boost & BBQ State championship | Odessa, MO | 39 mi | -8 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 25 mi | -8 | — | — |
| 2026-10-09 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 55 mi | 13 | 31 | 23 |
| 2026-10-09 | The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 1 mi | 13 | — | — |
| 2026-10-09 | Flavor & BBQ Festival State championship | Park City, KS | 171 mi | 13 | — | — |
| 2026-10-10 | Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 97 mi | 14 | 13 | 8 |
| 2026-09-11 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 31 mi | -15 | 19 | 16 |
| 2026-09-11 | Meat Inferno (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Edgerton, KS | 31 mi | -15 | 19 | 16 |
| 2026-09-10 | Wings 4 Water 10 (COMPETITOR SERIES) | Lee's Summit, MO | 13 mi | -16 | — | — |
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.