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 24, 2026 · within 300 miles of Branson, MO (4 contests on record there)
2026-10-23 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2026-10-24 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 12
- 6 Sep 19
- 3 Sep 26
- 7 Oct 3
- 4 Oct 10
- 0 Oct 17
- 1 Oct 24
- 2 Oct 31
- 0 Nov 7
- 1 Nov 14
- 0 Nov 21
- 0 Nov 28
- 0 Dec 5
The weekend of Oct 17 is the quietest in range: 0 contests, pull 0 against your 11.
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 Your weekend | Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild State championship | Branson, MO | 3 mi | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2026-10-30 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) State championship | Oak Grove, MO | 168 mi | 7 | 43 | 20 |
| 2026-10-16 | Happy Basset 6th Annual BBQ Contest Cancelled State championship | Topeka, KS | 208 mi | -7 | — | — |
| 2026-10-31 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 2) State championship | Oak Grove, MO | 168 mi | 8 | 43 | 20 |
| 2026-10-10 | Stover Rock Island Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Stover, MO | 125 mi | -13 | 13 | 7 |
| 2026-10-09 | Smoke on the Water State championship | Topeka, KS | 207 mi | -14 | 31 | 13 |
| 2026-10-09 | The United Rentals Big Blue BBQ at Union Station State championship | Kansas City, MO | 183 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2026-10-09 | Flavor & BBQ Festival State championship | Park City, KS | 237 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.