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 20, 2027 · within 300 miles of Johnston, IA (15 contests on record there)
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 Feb 6
- 0 Feb 13
- 1 Feb 20
- 0 Feb 27
- 1 Mar 6
- 0 Mar 13
- 1 Mar 20
- 2 Mar 27
- 0 Apr 3
- 0 Apr 10
- 0 Apr 17
- 2 Apr 24
- 0 May 1
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | Distance | vs. your date | Field | Pull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2027 Your weekend |
Certified Barbeque Judging Class & Table Captain Class - Johnston, IA | Johnston, IA | 8 mi | Same day | — | — |
| Mar 26, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge State championship | St. Robert, MO | 278 mi | 6 days after | 21 | 7 |
| Mar 27, 2027 | Kickin' It Route 66 Barbecue Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | St. Robert, MO | 278 mi | 7 days after | 21 | 7 |
| Mar 5, 2027 | Kansas City KCBS Contest State championship | Kansas City, MO | 197 mi | 15 days before | — | — |
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.