Amarillo.com reports that a tortilla eating contest held at a Amarillo High School pep rally has resulted in a meeting of the Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees:

Last week, there was a “fiesta-themed” pep rally at Amarillo High School prior to its football game against Caprock High School, a school with a predominantly Hispanic student body. The rally caused a stir on social media.

At the pep rally there was a tortilla-eating contest, and later that night things escalated on social media, where initial claims were made that students were throwing tortillas at the pep rally as well as at the football game.

It was later determined that no tortillas were actually thrown.

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The competive eating game Glutton Hero Saga was released yesterday for mobile devices: iPhone | Android (via Applezona)

The game has the following description:

One day, Mr. Wang, a silk trader, became possessed by an evil spirit of gluttony.
Can he be the king of food fight(competitive eating), and be free from the evil spirit?!

Eat and eat, to gain enough weight! Enjoy the great puzzle & action games of real food fighter!

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Results from today’s pizza eating contest at Arni’s in Lafayette, IN

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update Sept 29 CentralJersey has an article about Carmen Cincotti’s runner-up finish.

update Sept 27
A lot of coverage for Bill Spadea at the festival: NJ101.5 video | Chasing News video | NJ101.5 blog entry | personal blog entry

Carmen Cincotti has a video | Interview with Carmen Cincotti

update Sept 25 NJ.com has an article

update The Trenton Thunder have a contest video

update Full Results | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

update Hugging Harold Reynolds has the top 2
1) Joey Chestnut 43
2) Carmen Cincotti 40

Joey Chestnut appeared on NJ 101.5 yesterday

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update Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Adrian Morgan 63
2) Juan Rodriguez 56
3) Josh Miller 50
4) David Schuster 36.5
5) Nate Biller 33
6T) Cameron Foote 21
6T) Clint Grose 21
8) Wade Peck 20
9) Alex Perez 17
10) Mark Poland 8.5

Miki Sudo was expected to compete

Nate Biller and Alex Perez appeared on Good Morning Texas yesterday
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update PitchKnives has a blog entry titled “Dumpling Mama and Girl Power” Kelly Chan has a video

update This is what I think the women’s top 3 is
1) Molly Schuyler 115 (new overall record)
2) Jenn Cheng 60
3) Jennifer Saito 37

Two flip-counters were needed for Molly Schuyler’s total since they only had two digits (similar to Takeru Kobayashi in 2001)

update The men’s competition has concluded. Here is what I think is the top 5
1) Dave Brunelli 89
2) Bob Shoudt 73
3) Joe Menchetti 70
4) Wayne Algenio 69
5) “Ukraine Train” 65

Chef One’s facebook has mini profiles of several of today’s entrants including Molly Schuyler, Dave Brunelli and “The Ukraine Train”.

Molly Schuyler had major travel issues with Delta last night, but mananged to make it to NYC via Boston.

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