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.
A clear weekend Saturday, March 6, 2027 · within 300 miles of Kansas City, MO (121 contests on record there)
2027-03-05 is not a Saturday. Contests are Saturday events, so this is answered for the weekend it falls in — use 2027-03-06 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.
- 0 Jan 23
- 1 Jan 30
- 0 Feb 6
- 0 Feb 13
- 1 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 1 Mar 6
- 2 Mar 13
- 1 Mar 20
- 2 Mar 27
- 0 Apr 3
- 0 Apr 10
- 0 Apr 17
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2027 Your weekend |
Kansas City KCBS Contest State championship | Kansas City, MO | 9 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Mar 12, 2027 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 1) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 208 mi | 7 days after | 33 | 14 |
| Mar 13, 2027 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 2) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 208 mi | 8 days after | 33 | 14 |
| Feb 19, 2027 | KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | 2 mi | 14 days before | — | — |
| Mar 20, 2027 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | 185 mi | 15 days after | — | — |
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.