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.
About average for this stretch Saturday, October 17, 2026 · within 300 miles of Ottumwa, IA (13 contests on record there)
2026-10-16 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
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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 Sep 5
- 4 Sep 12
- 6 Sep 19
- 2 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 3 Oct 10
- 1 Oct 17
- 0 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 0 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
The weekend of Oct 24 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 33.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 Your weekend | King of the Corn State championship | Ottumwa, IA | 2 mi | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2026-10-16 | Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship | Topeka, KS | 224 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2026-10-10 | Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 182 mi | -6 | 13 | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 220 mi | -7 | 31 | 13 |
| 2026-10-09 | The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 177 mi | -7 | — | — |
| 2026-10-02 | La Belle MO Show Me BBQ Showdown State championship | La Belle, MO | 68 mi | -14 | 39 | 27 |
| 2026-10-30 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) State championship | Oak Grove, MO | 167 mi | 14 | 43 | 20 |
| 2026-10-02 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | Pleasant Hill, MO | 183 mi | -14 | 21 | 9 |
| 2026-10-02 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 169 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-10-31 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 2) State championship | Oak Grove, MO | 167 mi | 15 | 43 | 20 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Kansas City, KS | 184 mi | -16 | 486 | 218 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | Kansas City, KS | 184 mi | -16 | 215 | 96 |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kids Que | Kansas City, KS | 184 mi | -16 | — | — |
| 2026-09-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides | Kansas City, KS | 184 mi | -16 | — | — |
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.