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.
The busiest weekend in range Saturday, October 3, 2026 · within 300 miles of La Belle, MO (2 contests on record there)
2026-10-02 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-03 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.
- 3 Aug 22
- 6 Aug 29
- 2 Sep 5
- 5 Sep 12
- 5 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 0 Nov 14
The weekend of Nov 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 291.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 Your weekend |
La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 0 mi | Same day | 33 | 33 |
| Oct 2, 2026 Your weekend |
Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 154 mi | Same day | 19 | 9 |
| Oct 2, 2026 Your weekend |
Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 156 mi | Same day | 15 | 7 |
| Sep 30, 2026 Your weekend |
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 171 mi | 2 days before | 360 | 168 |
| Sep 30, 2026 Your weekend |
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 171 mi | 2 days before | 158 | 74 |
| Sep 30, 2026 Your weekend |
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 171 mi | 2 days before | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 Your weekend |
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 171 mi | 2 days before | — | — |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 157 mi | 6 days before | — | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 167 mi | 7 days before | 65 | 31 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 213 mi | 7 days before | 71 | 29 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 159 mi | 7 days after | 20 | 10 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 212 mi | 7 days after | 25 | 10 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 129 mi | 8 days after | 10 | 5 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 154 mi | 13 days before | 27 | 13 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Paxton Swine n Dine (BACKYARD ONLY) | Paxton, IL | 203 mi | 13 days before | 18 | 8 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 154 mi | 13 days before | 15 | 7 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | King of the Corn State championship | Ottumwa, IA | 70 mi | 14 days after | 31 | 21 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 140 mi | 14 days before | 26 | 13 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 222 mi | 14 days before | 26 | 10 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship | Odessa, MO | 130 mi | 14 days before | — | — |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship | Topeka, KS | 216 mi | 14 days after | — | — |
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.