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News 10 NBC has a video about Brandon "The Titanium Jaw" Macey, who is leaving his job as a producer at that station in Rochester, NY to move to Albany.
The Buffalo Bills will hold a wing eating contest before their September 17 game against the Las Vegas Raiders. The entrants selected will all receive two tickets to the game.

2023 Buffalo Wing Festival Championship

Full official results were posted about 24 hours after the contest ended:

1st 276 James Webb
2nd 240 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 231 Miki Sudo
4th 220 Nick Wehry
5th 196 Geoffrey Esper
6th 194 Gideon Oji
7th 146 Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
8th 129 George Chiger
9th 128 Eric “Badlands” Booker
10th 119 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
11th 57 Mike Harris
12th 40 Crazy Legs Conti

update James Webb’s total of 276 is being billed as a world record, but Geoff Esper ate 281 wings in 2019

George Shea has posted the top 4 on his twitter. The MLE twitter has yet to post any results.
1 James Webb 276
2 Joey Chestnut 240
3 Miki Sudo 231
4 Nick Wehry 220

The top 2: James Webb 276 in 12 minutes, Joey Chestnut 240
There was apparently controversy with the results

WGRZ is running a live video

FairfieldStags.com has an article about Mike Harris, who received his spot by being friends with the owner of contest sponsor Wing It On.

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Miki Sudo wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl

The top 4 from today’s Buffet Bowl contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival. The competition is first to finish five pounds of Buffalo food items.

1 Miki Sudo 4:18, first contest victory since 2013
2 Joey Chestnut 5:17
3T Nick Wehry 5:28
3T Gideon Oji 5:28

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2023 Buffalo Wing Fest fields

Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, James Webb, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti, Jim Reeves and Mike Harris are expected to compete in the Wing It On! USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship at the Buffalo Wing Fest September 3.

Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Leg Conti, Jim Reeves, Rene Rovtar and Cherish Brown are expected to compete in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl Eating Championship on September 2.

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The pumpkin pie eating contest does not appear on the Great Pumpkin Farm's 2023 Fall Festival schedule. The competition on Clarence, NY had previously awarded $1,800.
Registration will open today for a Nathan's Famous qualifier to be held in Selsey, West Sussex, England on August 26. I think this will be the first Nathan's qualifier held outside the USA since a Beijing qualifier in 2011. Registration is now open for the Slopper championship at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on September 2, the Buffalo Buffet Bowl on September 2, the USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo on September 3 and the Lewisville, TX tamale contest on September 30.
Cherish "Five Pounds" Brown has posted a video of last month's pie eating contest at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY.

Molly Schuyler wins Great Pumpkin Farm pie eating contest

Brandon “The Titanium Jaw” has posted a video from the pie eating contest held at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY on October 16. (I assumed the contest was cancelled since I could find no information about it in the past 10 days. ) The top 3

1 Molly Schuyler 48 slices
2 Andrew Puhl 40 slices
3 Brandon “The Titanium Jaw” Macey 18

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The Buffalo News reports that there will be a hot wing eating contest before Monday's Bills game awarding $5000 to the winner.
The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarnence, NY will hold a pie eating contest on October 16 awarding $1000/$500/$250/$50.
Brandon "The Titanium Jaw" Macy ate 50 wings in 10 minutes to win yesterday's amateur wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festvial. This year's amateur contest did not award a spot in the MLE competition.

2022 Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest

2022 Buffalo Buffet Bowl

George Chiger is running a live video

Official results Part 1 | Part 2 The second column is the number of pounds eaten. The contest was terminated after 6 minutes.

1st 5 3m29s $1,000.00 Geoffrey Esper Oxford, MA
2nd 5 4m44s $500.00 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut San Jose, CA
3rd 5 5m55s $250.00 Nick Wehry Torrington, CT
4th 5 5m56s Miki Sudo Las Vegas, NV
5th 5 6 min Gideon Oji Morrow, GA
6th 3.25 6 min Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas Orillia, ON, Canada
7th 2.72 6 min “Buffalo” Jim Reeves Buffalo, NY
8th 2.63 6 min Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
9th 2.58 6 min George Chiger Pocono Pines, PA
10th 1.93 6 min William “Wild Bill” Myers Breinigsville, PA
11th 1.32 6 min Rene Rovtar

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Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Darrien Thomas, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete in Saturday's Buffalo Buffet Bowl and Sunday's wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Fest. An amateur wing eating contest will be held on Saturday which has previously awarded its winner a spot in Sunday's wing eating contest.
RochesterFirst has an article about Joel Hansen's trip to the Rochester, NY area.
Livingston County News has an article about Joel Hansen and David Gonzalez attempting a challenge consisting of 15 1/2 pound burger patties and a pound of fries at Dugo's Bar in Dansville, NY.
Andrew Puhl posted a video of his attempt at the 72 ounce steak at Stikcy Face BBQ in North Tonawanda, NY. Molly Schuyler also attempted the challenge.
The top 3 from today's World Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY via Molly Schuyler livestream. 1) Molly Schuyler 56 slices (previous record 50) 2) Andy Puhl 37 3) Nathan Klein 21 Dan Kennedy was co-MC

Miki Sudo wins 2021 Buffalo Wing Festival wing contest

Miki Sudo edged Joey Chestnut 246 wings to 244, to win today’s wing eating contest at the National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo. update George Shea has the top 4, which is all that will apparently be posted

WGRZ video

1st 246 Miki Sudo
2nd 244 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 220 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 220 Nick Wehry
? ? Eric “Badlands” Booker
? ? George Chiger
? ? Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
? ? Gideon Oji

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Gideon Oji wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl

The top 3 from the Buffalo Buffet Bowl, posted 5 hours after the contest start:
1 Gideon Oji 4:41 to eat 5 pounds of Buffalo food items
2 Miki Sudo 5:32, first contest since giving birth
3 Joey Chestnut 5:55

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The Great Pumpkin Farm will hold a pumpkin pie eating contest on September 18 in Clarence, NY awarding $1000/$500/$250/$50.
Spectrum Local News has a news video about Ronnie Hartman training for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
The Buffalo Wing Festival announced it would not hold a 2020 event today. With the removal of the Lewisville, TX tamale contest, scheduled for September, there are currently no upcoming contests with a date on the MLE calendar. (Smoke's Poutinerie contest remains listed without a date). The Colorado State Fair will be scaled back, so a Slopper eating contest appears unlikely.

Molly Schuyler sets Great Pumpkin Farm pie record

update WGRZ article | Molly Schuyler video

Buffalo News article

The top 5 from today’s pie eating contest at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY via Brandon Clark’s video

1) Molly Schuyler 50 slices, new record
2) Joel Hansen 41
3) Dan Kennedy 39
4) Andy Puhl 34 won eat-off
5) Brandon Clark 34 lost eat-off

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