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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 17, 2026 · within 300 miles of Roswell, GA (8 contests on record there)

2026-10-15 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-17 instead.

That weekend

2
sanctioned contests within 300 miles

Competing pull

60
field size discounted by distance, added up across that weekend

Biggest rival

Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) · 1 miles away

In the window

12
±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. 0 Sep 5
  2. 2 Sep 12
  3. 2 Sep 19
  4. 1 Sep 26
  5. 1 Oct 3
  6. 2 Oct 10
  7. 2 Oct 17
  8. 2 Oct 24
  9. 1 Oct 31
  10. 1 Nov 7
  11. 1 Nov 14
  12. 0 Nov 21
  13. 0 Nov 28

The weekend of Sep 5 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 60.

Contests within ±2 weeks

DateContestWhereDistancevs. your dateFieldPull
Oct 15, 2026
Your weekend
Royal Oak Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) (PRIVATE EVENT BY INVITATION) Roswell, GA 1 mi Same day 38 38
Oct 16, 2026
Your weekend
WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL 142 mi 1 day after 43 22
Oct 16, 2026 Hellhole Swamp Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) Cancelled Jamestown, SC 271 mi 1 day after — —
Oct 9, 2026 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN 144 mi 6 days before 99 51
Oct 9, 2026 Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Lynchburg, TN Lynchburg, TN 146 mi 6 days before — —
Oct 23, 2026 Foothills Smoke-Off Challenge State championship Lenoir, NC 204 mi 8 days after 31 13
Oct 23, 2026 The Butcher's Smoke & Flames Barbeque Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Cullman, AL 146 mi 8 days after 24 12
Oct 2, 2026 Myron Mixon - Jack's Old South - Cooking Class Unadilla, GA 127 mi 13 days before — —
Oct 29, 2026 Certified Barbeque Judging Class - Monticello, KY Cancelled Monticello, KY 196 mi 14 days after — —
Oct 30, 2026 Spooky Q 1792 Cancelled Monticello, KY 196 mi 15 days after 23 10
Oct 30, 2026 Spooky Q 1792 (ONE MEAT RIBS) Cancelled Monticello, KY 196 mi 15 days after 23 10
Oct 30, 2026 Roast N Boast State championship Columbus, MS 239 mi 15 days after 21 8

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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