Island Pacific in Las Vegas will hold a halo halo eating contest on May 9 awarding $500 to the winner and $250 to the runner up. Raina Huang is expected to compete.
Park Bench in Atlanta will hold a banana eating contests on Friday and Saturday game awarding $500 to the winner.
The Bulldog in Lafayette, LA will hold a crawfish eating contest on May 9 awarding $500 to the winner.
The NY Post has an article about the pancake challenge at Nappi’s Nook in Nesconset, NY. About 40 people have finished the challenged out of 400 attempts, but no females have been successful.
Joey Chestnut will oversee the Rural King Popcorn Showdown in Terre Haute, IN on Memorial Day, May 25.
2026 ManorPalooza sausage
update full results are on Instagram
| 1st | 55 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 41 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 35 | Cameron Meade | |
| 4th | 32.5 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 5th | 31 | Tanner Gray | |
| 6th | 30 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 7th | 20.33 | Christopher “Old Guy Eats” Dale | |
| 8th | 15.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 12.5 | Mark “toothless” Sutherburg | |
| 10th | 8.25 | Alex “Moose” Perez |
The City of Manor is doing a live stream of the contest James Webb is also doing a livestream
After cancelling the entire Friday night schedule, ManorPalooza has been moved to Manor Senior High School. The sausage eating contest is still scheduled for 5PM central.
WFLA reports that Miki Sudo graduated from Hillsborough College with a dental hygiene degree. She plans to continue her competitive eating career.
Sayulitas in San Diego will hold a 10 pound burrito eating contest on May 5 awarding $300 to the winner.
Puerto Vallarta in Flushing, MI has a nine pound burrito challenge that will award $500 if finished in under 5 minutes. No one has completed the challenge.
North Shore Beefs will hold a MLE slider eating contest at Fenway Park in Boston on September 12.
The World Strawberry Shortcake Eating Championship will return to the Mattituck, NY Strawberry Festival. The contest date will probably be June 20.
Fortune has an article about Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's wing eating events. He held a weekly competitions with his friends in Seattle and also held a wing eating contest at the Amazon AWS re:Invent convention. Jassy's personal best is 57 wings.
Gideon Oji defends Sweet Corn Fiesta title
Results from today’s National Sweet Corn Eating Championship held at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL are on the MLE Instagram
| 1st | 58 | Gideon Oji | |
| 2nd | 54 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 48 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 36 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 5th | 30 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 6th | 29 | Tanner Gray | |
| 6th | 29 | Jacob Williams | |
| 8th | 16 | Rene Rovtar |
Redline Tacos in Salem, OR will hold a taco eating contest on May 3 awarding $300 to the winner.
Max Stanford completed the chicken fried steak challenge at Kendall's in Noble, OK twice, the first time in a record 6:12.
Paola won the first prize of £500 in today's hot dog eating contest held at Smashburger in Bath, England.
Registration is open for "Kickoff to Summer at Mountain Mile", a wing eating contest to be held in Pigeon Forge, TN on May 30.
Registration is open for the Salvation Army and Bakemark's National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC on June 5.
Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas will hold a taco eating contest on May 20 awarding $2000 to the winner.
Registration is open for the Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib-Eating Championship to be held at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, MN on June 27.
Max Stanford announced that he is quitting his day job to focus on competitive eating and social media.
2026 Mass Hole Donuts
Results of today’s Mass Hole’s Marathon Donut Eating World Championship in Medford, MA (10 minutes) can be found on Instagram.
| 1st | 100.5 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 99 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 94 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 75 | Cameron Meade | |
| 5th | 60 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 6th | 50 | Jerome Burns | |
| 7th | 47 | Tanner Gray | |
| 8th | 35 | Matthew Stefanilo | |
| 9th | 26.25 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 10th | 18 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 11th | 13 | Rene Rovtar |
The New England Cigar Expo will hold a pizza eating contest on in Windham, NH on September 26 awarding $2000/$1000/$750/$500/300/$250/$150/$50 to the top 8.
Joey Chestnut will make appearances at nine minor league ballparks this year. His first competition will be at a Wichita Wind Surge game on April 17. He said that his contract with Nathan's prevents him from eating hot dogs at his appearances without permission.
The Korean Herald reports tha mukbang star Tzuyang, who has 13.2 million subscribers for her youtube channel, will start a television program "Still Hungry" on the cable channel ENA in May.
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