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 (125 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
- 0 Jan 30
- 0 Feb 6
- 0 Feb 13
- 1 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 1 Mar 6
- 2 Mar 13
- 1 Mar 20
- 0 Mar 27
- 0 Apr 3
- 0 Apr 10
- 0 Apr 17
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | Days off | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-03-05 Your weekend | Kansas City KCBS Contest State championship | Kansas City, MO | 9 mi | 0 | — | — |
| 2027-03-12 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 1) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 208 mi | 7 | 33 | 14 |
| 2027-03-13 | University of Arkansas Animal Science Boots, Brews, and BBQ Contest (Day 2) State championship | Fayetteville, AR | 208 mi | 8 | 33 | 14 |
| 2027-02-19 | KCBS Annual Awards Banquet | Kansas City, MO | 2 mi | -14 | — | — |
| 2027-03-20 | Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | 185 mi | 15 | — | — |
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.