The Lincoln Days Festival in Hodgenville, KY will hold an ice cream eating contest on October 4 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Abe Tawil won the first prize of $1000 in Saturday's Tender Takedown: : FriendShip Famous Chicken Eating Contest in Sandusky, OH
Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Jacob Bales are expected to compete in the World Pancake Eating Championship in Williamsburg, VA on Saturday. update Geoff Esper and George Chiger will also compete.
2025 NORMS Hotcake eating championship
Full results are on Instagram
| 1st | 32 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 31 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 26 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 3rd | 26 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 5th | 24 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 6th | 20 | Cameron Meade | |
| 7th | 17.25 | Tanner Gray | |
| 8th | 16 | Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee | |
| 9th | 12.5 | Jacob William | |
| 10th | 12 | Kevin Ross | |
| 11th | 9 | Brandon D |
2025 Taco Cabana Championship
Full results and names are on Instagram
| 1st | 51 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 48.5 | James Webb | |
| 3rd | 32 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 31.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 23 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 6th | 17.5 | Christopher “Old Guy Eats” Dale | |
| 7th | 10.5 | Jacob Carr | |
| 8th | 10 | Alfred Godines | |
| 8th | 10 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 10th | 6 | Alex “Moose” Perez |
James webb has started a livestream of the Taco Cabana World Taco Eating Championship in San Antonio. KABB is also doing a livestream
The San Antonio Report has an interview with Miki Sudo about competing in the Taco Cabana World Taco Eating Championship tomorrow. James Webb and Geoff Esper are also expected to compete.
Pat Bertoletti, Nick Wehry, Derek Hendrickson, Darrien Thomas and Domenica Dee are expected to compete in tomorrow's Norm's Hotcake Eating Championship in Ontario, CA.
The Houston Viet Fest will hold a pho eating contest and a mooncake eating contest on September 20. Both contests will award $200/$100/$50 to the top three.
Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in the Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX on September 27 for the first time since 2020. James Webb, Adrian Morgan, Greg "The Savage" Wilson, Jocelyn Young, Radim Dvoracek, Nathan Biller, ALex Perez, Alex Bravo and Cristopher Dale are also expected entrants.
Joey Chestnut will attend Woeber's Mustard Fest in Springfield, OH on September 20, so he will not be competing in the MLE taco or hotcake eating contests on that date. He attended the festival in 2024, but did not compete in the hot dog eating contest.
Friendship Stores in Sandusky, OH will hold a chicken tender eating contest on September 20 awarding $1000/$500/$250 to the top three.
Sal's Pizza will hold a pizza eating contest in Chelmsford, MA on September 24 awarding $1000 to the winner.
2025 Trenton pork roll
update Results were posted 26 hours after the contest
| 1st | 45 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 44.5 | James Webb | |
| 3rd | 43 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 31.5 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 5th | 21 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 6th | 18 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 15 | Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter | |
| 8th | 9 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 9th | 8 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 10th | 6 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 11th | 5.5 | Camille O’Brien | |
| 12th | 5 | Julie Goldberg |
The Trentonian has an article.
Announced results (10 minutes)
1 Geoff Esper 45 pork rolls
2 James Webb 44.5
3 Nick Wehry 43
4 Radim Dvoracek
5 Larell Marie Mele
James Webb has started a livestream of today’s Trenton Thunder World Famous Case’s Pork Roll Eating Championship.
Joey Chestnut ate 275 plant-based nuggets from Impossible Foods during last night'San francisco Giants game.
The Latin Food Festival will hold an empanada eating contest in Brooklyn on September 13 awarding $500 to the winner.
Cosmos Taverna in Victorville, CA will hold a taco eating contest on September 13 awarding $500 to the winner. Raina Huang and Naader Reda are expected to compete.
Defending champion Geoff Esper, Nick Wehry, George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Larell Marie Mele, Radim Dvoracek and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete in Saturday's World Famous Case’s Pork Roll-Eating Championship at the Trenton Thunder ballpark.
Don TIto in Arlington, VA will hold a taco eating contest on September 11 awarding two tickets to the Commanders game on November 2.
Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy both ate 13 gyros in 12 minutes to tie for first place in the The Big Greek Gyro Eating Competition held at the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday.
2025 Kennett Square mushrooms
The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival is doing a facebook live video of today’s eating contests. The spicy mushroom contest has just concluded. The main contest should start around 12:45 pm Eastern.
2025 Smoke’s Poutinerie
update Toronto Star article
James Webb live video
Official results (10 minutes)
| 1st | 26.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 19 | James Webb | 4 contest winning streak ended |
| 3rd | 16 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 14.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 4th | 14.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 14 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 7th | 12 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 8th | 9 | George Chiger | |
| 8th | 9 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 10th | 7.5 | John “Step Daddy J” Jugovic | |
| 10th | 7.5 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 12th | 3 | Rene Rovtar |
Smoke’s Poutinerie has started a livestream of today’s poutine eating championship in Toronto.
Battle of the Bay Catfish
Official results. The units were changed from strips to pounds
| 1st | 9.89 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 7.9 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 3rd | 5.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 4.9 | Tanner Gray | |
| 5th | 4.2 | Clay Piccerillo | |
| 6th | 3.8 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 2.48 | Steven Farlow | |
| 8th | 2.4 | Mitchell Glenn | |
| 9th | 1.9 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 1.9 | Andrew Krawczyk | |
| 11th | 1 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown |
James Webb has started a live stream of today’s Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD.
MetroUK has an interview with Max Stanford.
Brewfest in Central Point OR, will hold three hot dog eating contests awarding $500 to the winners on September 13: one for male amateurs, another for female amateurs and a pro division.
James Webb, Gideon Oji and Sean Yeader will headline the field at the Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD tomorrow. This will be Yeager's first MLE contest since July 2024. update Sean Yeager says he will not compete
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