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, October 10, 2026 · within 300 miles of Kansas City, MO (121 contests on record there)
2026-10-09 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-10 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.
- 3 Aug 29
- 2 Sep 5
- 3 Sep 12
- 6 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 1 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
The weekend of Nov 7 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 44.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 Your weekend |
The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 1 mi | Same day | 20 | 20 |
| Oct 9, 2026 Your weekend |
Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 55 mi | Same day | 25 | 18 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Flavor & BBQ Festival Cancelled State championship | Park City, KS | 171 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Oct 10, 2026 Your weekend |
Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 97 mi | 1 day after | 10 | 6 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 9 mi | 7 days before | 19 | 18 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 160 mi | 7 days before | 33 | 16 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | King of the Corn State championship | Ottumwa, IA | 179 mi | 7 days after | 31 | 14 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 27 mi | 7 days before | 15 | 13 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship | Topeka, KS | 59 mi | 7 days after | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 9 days before | 360 | 330 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 9 days before | 158 | 145 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 9 days before | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 14 mi | 9 days before | — | — |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Carnivore Carnival Cancelled State championship | Kansas City, MO | 3 mi | 13 days before | — | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Shawnee Great Grillers State championship | Shawnee, KS | 8 mi | 14 days before | 65 | 62 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard State championship | Murphysboro, IL | 299 mi | 14 days before | 71 | 24 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild State championship | Branson, MO | 182 mi | 14 days after | 28 | 13 |
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.