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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.

The busiest weekend in range Saturday, October 3, 2026 · within 300 miles of Pleasant Hill, MO (10 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

7
sanctioned contests within 300 miles

Competing pull

458
field size discounted by distance, added up across that weekend

Biggest rival

American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest · 39 miles away

In the window

24
±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. 2 Aug 22
  2. 3 Aug 29
  3. 2 Sep 5
  4. 3 Sep 12
  5. 6 Sep 19
  6. 2 Sep 26
  7. 7 Oct 3
  8. 3 Oct 10
  9. 1 Oct 17
  10. 1 Oct 24
  11. 2 Oct 31
  12. 0 Nov 7
  13. 1 Nov 14

The weekend of Nov 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 458.

Contests within ±2 weeks

DateContestWhereDistancevs. your dateFieldPull
Oct 2, 2026
Your weekend
La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship La Belle, MO 156 mi Same day 33 16
Oct 2, 2026
Your weekend
Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) Gladstone, MO 34 mi Same day 19 15
Oct 2, 2026
Your weekend
Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO 0 mi Same day 15 15
Sep 30, 2026
Your weekend
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest Kansas City, KS 39 mi 2 days before 360 286
Sep 30, 2026
Your weekend
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest Kansas City, KS 39 mi 2 days before 158 126
Sep 30, 2026
Your weekend
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que Kansas City, KS 39 mi 2 days before — —
Sep 30, 2026
Your weekend
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS 39 mi 2 days before — —
Sep 26, 2026 Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship Kansas City, MO 26 mi 6 days before — —
Sep 25, 2026 Shawnee Great Grillers State championship Shawnee, KS 29 mi 7 days before 65 54
Sep 25, 2026 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship Murphysboro, IL 276 mi 7 days before 71 25
Oct 9, 2026 The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship Kansas City, MO 27 mi 7 days after 20 17
Oct 9, 2026 Smoke on the Water State championship Topeka, KS 74 mi 7 days after 25 17
Sep 25, 2026 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship Jonesboro, AR 283 mi 7 days before 30 10
Oct 9, 2026 Flavor & BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship Park City, KS 178 mi 7 days after — —
Oct 10, 2026 Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Stover, MO 73 mi 8 days after 10 7
Sep 19, 2026 Trekking for CDH State championship Pierron, IL 252 mi 13 days before 27 10
Sep 19, 2026 Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) Pierron, IL 252 mi 13 days before 15 6
Sep 18, 2026 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship Kearney, MO 42 mi 14 days before 26 20
Oct 16, 2026 King of the Corn State championship Ottumwa, IA 185 mi 14 days after 31 14
Sep 18, 2026 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship Ponca City, OK 211 mi 14 days before 30 12
Sep 18, 2026 Tri City BBQ Fest State championship Denison, IA 230 mi 14 days before 26 10
Sep 18, 2026 Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) Ponca City, OK 211 mi 14 days before 9 4
Sep 18, 2026 Boost & BBQ Cancelled State championship Odessa, MO 26 mi 14 days before — —
Oct 16, 2026 Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship Topeka, KS 78 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.

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