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, September 25, 2027 · nationwide — add a town above to narrow it
That weekend
In the window
The weekends around yours
How many sanctioned contests each Saturday already has, nationwide — click a weekend to check it instead.
- 2 Aug 14
- 0 Aug 21
- 0 Aug 28
- 0 Sep 4
- 5 Sep 11
- 4 Sep 18
- 0 Sep 25
- 2 Oct 2
- 0 Oct 9
- 0 Oct 16
- 0 Oct 23
- 0 Oct 30
- 0 Nov 6
Contests within ±2 weeks
| Date | Contest | Where | vs. your date | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2027 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT RIBS) | Gladstone, MO | 6 days after | 19 |
| Oct 1, 2027 | Gladfest Smokefest (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | Gladstone, MO | 6 days after | 19 |
| Sep 18, 2027 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship Open State championship | New Paltz, NY | 7 days before | — |
| Sep 17, 2027 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship Invitational (COMPETITOR SERIES) | New Paltz, NY | 8 days before | 43 |
| Sep 17, 2027 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) | New Paltz, NY | 8 days before | 17 |
| Sep 17, 2027 | Grand American Barbecue World Championship (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) | New Paltz, NY | 8 days before | 17 |
| Sep 11, 2027 | September Fest (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | Coldwater, MI | 14 days before | 18 |
| Sep 10, 2027 | Bands & BBQ at the Point State championship | Carrollton, KY | 15 days before | 32 |
| Sep 10, 2027 | Bands & BBQ at the Point (ONE MEAT RIBS) State championship | Carrollton, KY | 15 days before | 32 |
| Sep 10, 2027 | Meat Inferno State championship | Edgerton, KS | 15 days before | 19 |
| Sep 10, 2027 | September Fest State championship | Coldwater, MI | 15 days before | 18 |
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.
This is the whole country. Put a town, state or ZIP in the Near box and every number above narrows to the teams who could actually reach you.
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.