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Registration is now open for the National Sweet Corn Eating Championship to be held at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach on April 28.

Miki Sudo wins Palm Beach Sweet Corn Fiesta

Full Results:

1st 52 Miki Sudo
2nd 51.5 Gideon Oji
3rd 44 Nick Wehry
4th 41 Wayne “wayneywonder” Algenio
5th 40 Andrew Krawczyk
6th 39 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
7th 31 Eric “Badlands” Booker
8th 21 Sergio Reyes-Raya
9th 13 Jocelyn Young
10th 12 Peter Rovtar
10th 12 Rene Rovtar

Miki Sudo ate 52 ears of corn in 12 minutes to win this afternoon’s corn eating contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL, ending Gideon Oji’s three contest winning streak.

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Nick Wehry announces that he will be competing in the Sweet Corn Eating Championship at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL on April 30 along with 3 time champion Gideon Oji, Miki Sudo, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Darrien Thomas and Rene Rovtar.
Pirate's Well in Lake Park, FL will hold a taco eating contest on April 4 awarding $250/$100/$50 gift card to the top 3 finishers.
Geoff Esper appeared on CBS 12 this morning to discuss his competitive eating career and promote the April 30 Sweet Corn Eating Championship in West Palm Beach, which he said he will not be competing in. (youtube video)
According to this instagram post, Roxy's in West Palm Beach, FL will hold a wing eating contest during its Super Bowl party on February 12 awarding $1000.

Registration to open for 3 2nd quarter MLE contests

Registration will open next week for three MLE 2nd quarter contests:
April 30 National Sweet Corn Eating Championship, West Palm Beach, FL opens Feb 6
May 26 Jack’s Donuts World Donut Hole Eating Championship, New Castle, IN opens Feb 7
June 10 The Outlaw Egg Rolls World Egg Roll Eating Championship Lubbock, TX opens Feb 8

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Grunge.com has a post looking back at the October 2012 death of Edward Archbold, who passed away after choking in a cockroach eating contest held at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, FL.
NFL Hall of Famer Joe Namath hosted tonight's oyster eating contest at Lucky Shucks in Jupiter, FL. Phillip Catasus of Palm Beach Gardens ate 103 oysters in 90 seconds to win the competition.
Lucky Shuck Oyster Bar in Jupiter, FL will hold an oyster eating contest on August 5 awarding $200 cash and a $150 gift card to the winner. Runner up will receive a $150 git card and third place will win a $100 gift card.
The top 6 of today's National Sweet Corn-Eating Championship at the South Florida Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL: 1 Gideon Oji 54 ears in 12 minutes, defends title 2T Darron Breeden 52 2T Nick Wehry 52 4 Miki Sudo 50 5 Darrien Thomas 45 6 James Webb 38
Nick Wehry has posted some of the field for the eating contest to be held at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL on April 24: Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Rene Rovtar.
Baco Raton Tribune has an article about Nate Figueroa attemmpting a gallon of boba lemonade at Boba Street Cafe.

2021 Sweet Corn Fiesta

update Full results

1st 57 Gideon Oji defends 2019 title
2nd 52 Darron Breeden
3rd 39 Crazy Legs Conti
4th 32 George Chiger
5th 20 Jocelyn Walker
6th 18 Katie Prettyman
7th 17 Alex “Moose” Perez
8th 12 Rene Rovtar

The contest ended about two hours ago. I have yet to find any results. The PR Czar has a facebook gallery of the competition.

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Nick Wehry has posted the field for Sunday's contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL: defending champion Gideon Ojj, Darron Breeden, George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Alex Perez and others.
Registration opens Friday for the National Sweet Corn Eating Championship at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL on April 25. The purse is $2500/$1500/$1000/$600/$300/$200.
The Sweet Corn Fiesta currently plans to have an in-person event in West Palm Beach, FL on April 25. Previous festivals held a MLE corn eating contest.
Flasback May 1997: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore serves as a judge for a Nathan's qualifier held in Boca Raton, FL. She would receive national publicity three years later due to the "butterfly ballot" controversy following the 2000 Florida presidential election.
The West Palm Beach, FL Sweet Corn Fiesta (April 26) and Fairmont, WV Three Rivers Festival Pepperoni Roll (May 23) eating contests have been removed from the MLE schedule. The Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles on August 22 is currently the first upcoming contest listed.
Munchy's Pizza in Boca Raton, FL will start a 28 inch pizza challenge next week awarding $200 if completed. The challenge can be attempted individually (60 minute limit) or by a pair (30 minutes).

2019 Palm Beach Sweet Corn Fiesta

update May 2 AJC.com has an article about Gideon Oji’s victory.
Jason Genova video

Palm Beach Post has a gallery (note the debris in picture #8)

Ruptly has a video

Official top 7 & other results

1st 57 Gideon Oji
2nd 43 Darron Breeden
3rd 35.5 Nick Wehry
4th 34.25 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
5th 32 Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave
6th 29.25 Crazy Legs Conti
7th 23.5 Eric “Badlands” Booker
? 16 Tracie Dickerson
? 14 Jason Ruppert

Jay Ruppert reports that Gideon Oji won today’s contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach.

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Palm Beach Happening has an interview with George Chiger, who was inspired to enter competitive eating by Larell Marie Mele.
Palm Beach Happening has an interview with Crazy Legs Conti where he critiques a new style of competitive corn eating: "Now these upstart whippersnappers use a technique titled, 'The Rake' where most of the kernels fly in the air and not in the mouth."
Palm Beach Happening has interviews with Matt "Hungry" Hazzard and Darrien Thomas, winner of the amateur division of the 2017 Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto. Matt is also the guest on the latest Fink Beats the Stomach podcast.
Palm Beach Happening has an interview with Max Suzuki, who says he was inspired to enter competitive eating by Moeno Azuki. He hopes that Japanese competitive eating can avoid the messiness that some American competitive eaters exhibit.
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