Upcoming Arizona eating contests
| tacos | Taco Tuesday Record | Manor House | Safford, AZ | current record is 31 tacos |
| 17 tacos | The Boca Challenge | Boca | Tucson, AZ | includes 1 lb. baked potato |
| 10 in sandwich | Manster | Redneck's Southern Pit BBQ | Kingman, AZ | 2 lb. meat, 1 lb. slaw |
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" will do a hot dog eating contest on KFMA tomorrow morning.
"Cardboard Shell" has a blog entry about how her goal to eat more than 25 hot dogs at the Tempe, AZ Nathan's qualifier ties in with her efforts to raise money for Sudanese charity.
"Cardboard Shell" is using her attempt to eat 25 hot dogs in the Nathan's Tempe, AZ qualifier (Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee are the only women to eat more in a qualifier) to raise money for Sudanese schools and public healthcare.
Arizona Sonora News Service has a profile of Michelle "Cardboard Shell".
Mouth by Southwest reports that Jimmy Peng repeated as winner of Flancer's pizza contest in Gilbert, AZ with a record total of 18.5 slices. Gus Beisel was the runner up with 17.5 slices.
Phoenix Magazine has a list of three Arizona eating challenges which mentions Stephanie Torres' time (but not her name) of under 3 minutes for Papi Chulo's burrito challenge.
Flancer's in Gilbert, AZ will hold its pizza eating contest on April 22. The winner will receive $500 (must be Arizona resident).
Naader Reda has a report on competing in the Spring Break Eating Championship in Lake Havasu, AZ on March 24 (part 1 of a 4 part series). After the contest, he went on a eating challenge roadtrip in southeastern California with Stephanie Torres.
IdeaFilmFactory has a video of the entire National Spring Break Eating Championship held in Lake Havasu, AZ last weekend won by Stephanie Torres.
La Tolteca in Phoenix will hold a Super Torta eating contest on April 19 awarding $300 to the winner.
Stephanie Torres wins 2012 National Spring Break Eating Championship
update March 30 IdeaFilmFactory has a video and Will Millender has a gallery
update March 25 The Havasu News has an article which made the front page.
update 7:50 Will Millender has the top 3: 1) Stephanie Torres 2) Matt Siverio (from Denver) 3) Kevin Ross
update 7:40 Naader Reda announces Stephanie Torres won the contest.
update 7:30pm eastern The contest has started
Will Millender has posted a picture of the field for today’s cheese fries eating contest in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Naader Reda and Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” are last minute entries. Stephanie Torres is dressed appropriately for the National Spring Break Eating Championship. The contest received coverage on the front page of the local paper.
The CompetitiveEat twitter announces the field for the National Spring Break Eating Championship on March 24 in Lake Havasu City, AZ: Ian Hickman, Will Millender, John Rivera, Kevin Ross and Stephanie Torres.
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" was the first person to complete the Bacon & Craeggs challenge consisting of 10 pieces bacon, 6 sausage rounds, 6 eggs, 2 texas toast, 4 pancakes, and homefries. (via Tuscon Weekly)
Sasha Flores reports that a female competitive eater from New Mexico (probably Stephanie Torres) won Friday's Sonoran hot dog eating contest at Sir Veza's in Tucson. update Sept 19 Sir Veza's announces that Stephanie Torres was the winner (gallery)
The Copa de Hot Dog Sonoran Hot Dog eating contest will take place at Sir Veza's in Tucson on September 16 in honor of Mexican Independence Day. Prizes of $500 will be awarded to the winners of the men's and women's divisions.
Naader Reda & “Aubrey” win Big Butte Burger contests
update September 2 A facebook gallery of the contest with results has been posted.
Naader Reda announces that he won yesterday’s 30 minute Big Butte Burger eating contest at Lone Butte Casino in Chandler, AZ by eating almost two 4.5 pound sandwiches. “Aubrey” (almost certainly Aubrey Koehn) won the speed eating contest by eating a Big Butte Burger in 5 minutes.
93.3 KDKB has slots available in tomorrow's "Big Butte Burger" eating contests tomorrow that do not require qualification. The two competitions at Lone Butte Casino in Chandler, AZ will pay out $3,500.
Naader Reda has a blog entry about his trip to Tuscon in January, where he attempted the five pound burrito at La Botana and the Sugar OD at Something Sweet Dessert Lounge.
Colin Gardiner announced as Battle of the Bone 4 winner
update Aug 22 Full results and a gallery are available
The top 4:
1 Colin Gardner 4.023 lb in 11 minutes
2 Kevin Ross 12 8 3.000 3.813 lb
3 Wayne Finlinson 3.453 lb
4 Gus Beisel 3.367 lb
BattleOfTheBone4.com announces that Colin Gardiner won the Battle of the Bone 4 finals for the fourth year in a row and received a Toyota Tundra truck. Kevin Ross was the runner up and received Arizona Diamondback season tickets for the 2012 season. In a comment, Kevin Ross says there were some questions about the judging.
MyFoxPhoenix has a video of an interview with Colin Gardiner, who will attempt to win the Battle of the Bone finals for the fourth year in a row later today.
Tuscon Weekly has a blog entry about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco.
AZCentral has more on the two burger eating contests at Lone Butte Casino in Chandler, Arizona that will award $3,500 on August 27. Entrants will need to eat a Big Butte Burger before the contest to qualify.
A press release about the 2011 Battle of the Bone lists all the qualifiers who will attempt to win a Toyota Tundra at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona on Saturday.
Wayne Finlinson won the final qualifier for the Battle of the Bone in Germann, AZ on Wednesday, making Kevin Ross the only qualifier from outside Arizona competing in the finals on August 20.
Kevin Ross won the penultimate Battle of the Bone qualifier in Gilbert, AZ on Wednesday with a total of 3.7 pounds of wing meat in 11 minutes. In the comments, Kevin announces that he has decided to become an independent and leave the IFOCE. There will be one more qualifier in Germann, AZ on August 10.
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