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 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.
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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.
- 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
- 1 Nov 14
The weekend of Nov 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 597.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 Your weekend | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 0 mi | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| 2026-10-02 Your weekend | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 156 mi | 0 | 39 | 19 |
| 2026-10-02 Your weekend | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 34 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 Your weekend | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 39 mi | -2 | 486 | 386 |
| 2026-09-30 Your weekend | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 39 mi | -2 | 215 | 171 |
| 2026-09-30 Your weekend | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 39 mi | -2 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 Your weekend | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 39 mi | -2 | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 26 mi | -6 | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 29 mi | -7 | 71 | 59 |
| 2026-10-09 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 74 mi | 7 | 31 | 21 |
| 2026-09-25 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 276 mi | -7 | 53 | 19 |
| 2026-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Jonesboro, AR | 283 mi | -7 | 30 | 10 |
| 2026-10-09 | The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 27 mi | 7 | — | — |
| 2026-10-09 | Flavor & BBQ Festival State championship | Park City, KS | 178 mi | 7 | — | — |
| 2026-10-10 | Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 73 mi | 8 | 13 | 9 |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH State championship | Pierron, IL | 252 mi | -13 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-09-19 | Trekking for CDH (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Pierron, IL | 252 mi | -13 | 27 | 10 |
| 2026-10-16 | King of the Corn State championship | Ottumwa, IA | 185 mi | 14 | 33 | 15 |
| 2026-09-18 | Tri City BBQ Fest State championship | Denison, IA | 230 mi | -14 | 28 | 11 |
| 2026-09-18 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff State championship | Ponca City, OK | 211 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | Cherokee Strip BBQ & Chili Cookoff (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Ponca City, OK | 211 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | Boost & BBQ State championship | Odessa, MO | 26 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | 38th Annual Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out State championship | Kearney, MO | 42 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-10-16 | Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship | Topeka, KS | 78 mi | 14 | — | — |
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.