Mark Tesseyman won the first prize of $1047 in Saturday's King of the Wing contest at the Hudson Valley Wing Fest in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Archive for January, 2018
The youtube channel for Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle https://www.youtube.com/user/skippy62able has been terminated with all of its videos now inaccessible. In an instagram post from earlier today, Kevin said he was one strike away from a permanent ban after receiving three community guidelines violations over three weeks. update The channel has been reinstated, but many of the videos have been age restricted.
Mamma Mia's in Rockford, IL will award $1,000 to an amateur competitive eater that can finish its Godfather sandwich challenge in under 10 minutes. $750 will be paid out if the finishing time is under 15 minutes and the prize is $400 if it is completed in under half an hour. (via 97Z)
Jeff Mahannah is drawing a comic about the Nathan's finals starring Tim "Eater X" Janus.
"Big Eater Mike" Whities and Brett "Branimal" Healy set a new record of 37:58 for the 12 pound two person King Kookamonga burger challenge at Kooky Canuck in Memphis.
Michael Jenkins won the first prize of $100 in today's pancake eating contest at Copper Blues Rock Bar & Kitchen in West Palm Beach, FL.
SOMO Manayunk in Philadelphia will hold a Wing Sprint on January 31 awarding $200 to the first person to finish 20 wings. Bill "El Wingador" Simmons will compete and NFL lineman Jahri Evans will referee.
Arrivederci Pizza in Brisbane, QLD will hold a metre long pizza eating contest on February 20 awarding $1000 to the winner. (via CompEating)
Parade.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in The Amazing Race. He says that Tim "Eater X" Janus was his first choice for partner and he wouldn't change that decision despite their elimination in Wednesday's episode. He says he is disappointed there was no big eating challenge during the race and he wishes he had ran more before starting to get in better shape. update Jan 30 Reality TV World also has an interview with Joey Chestnut.
Philly.Eater.com has an article about the logistics of producing 10,000 chicken wings for Wing Bowl competitors illustrated with a picture of Dave "US Male" Goldstein.
Ram's Pizza Tavern in Clifton Heights, PA will hold a pizza eating contest Saturday awarding $250 to the winner.
ZestFest will hold a jalapeno eating contest in Irving, TX on Sunday awarding a large screen TV to the winner. A Wingstop Atomic Wing eating contest on Saturday will also award a large screen TV.
Team Chomp, consisting of Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus, was eliminated from season 30 of The Amazing Race after they had difficulty solving a puzzle based on a Van Gogh painting at the end of last night's episode recorded in south France. They were beat out for the final spot by Team Wellstrung, a pair of bodybuilding violinists. Other challenges Team Chomp did yesterday included boating with a single person sailboat, catapult construction, sandal making and a bocce style game called petanque. Team Chomp was the only duo to attempt the painting challenge; other teams did a challenge in a Roman arena now used for bullfighting.
Wamesit Lanes in Tewksbury, MA will hold a Wing Bowl on February 1 awarding $500 to the winner.
Kenso Kevin defeated Farmer Bob in overtime in tonight's final Wing Off at PJ Whelihan's in Downington, PA to claim the prize of a spot in Wing Bowl 26.
Bartolini's in Midlothian, IL will award $2500 to a team of 4 amateurs if they can break Molly Schuyler's time of 6:51 for the 10 pound meatball sub challenge.
Cambridge University will hold a presentation about competitive eating on March 7. Dr. Barak Kushner of the University of Cambridge and Dr. Eric Rath of the University of Michigan will be the speakers. The talks are part of the Imaginative Things: Curious Objects 1400–2000 series.
Metropoles.com has an article in Portuguese about Brazilian competitive eater Ricardo Corbucci of the youtube channel Corbucci Eats.
2018 Hopcat Crack Fry qualifiers
Here are the results I have for yesterday’s Crack Fry eating qualifiers held at Hopcat locations in the Midwest. Sam Pohlen was the first female to win a crack fry contest. update Ethan Teske won the Minneapolis contest.
| 2018 Jan 20 | 1st | 3.6 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Chicago, IL |
| 2018 Jan 20 | 2nd | 3.34 | Brandon Clark | Chicago, IL |
| 2018 Jan 20 | 1st | ? | Kyle “The Hammer” Hanner | Indianapolis, IN |
| 2018 Jan 20 | 1st | 1.8625 | Sam Pohlen | Grand Rapids, MI |
| 2018 Jan 20 | 1st | ? | Rob Chopp | Kalamazoo, MI |
| 2018 Jan 20 | 1st | ? | Nick Adanczyk | Kansas City, MO |
Greg Roberts has posted a drawing of a Hasty Pudding eating contest from 1794 that awarded a gold laced hat to the winner.
The Fairborn Herald has a profile of Ivan "the Avocado" Mendoza, who hopes to be ranked in the MLE top 10.
Daily Advance reports that Bradley Hardison was arrested for allegedly breaking into a Dunkin Donuts in Elizabeth City, NC. He earlier received notoriety for getting arrested for a break-in in Camden, NC after winning a donut eating contest held by police in 2014.
The Kansas City Star has an article about local burrito eating challenges which mentions Molly Schuyler's record of 1:37 for the 5 pound "747" burrito at Habanero's in Lees Summit, MO.
Nadia White qualified for Wing Bowl 26 by eating 41 wings in tonight's wing off At P J Whelihan's in Sewell, NJ. She is the first female to qualify for Wing Bowl 26 (Molly Schuyler received a bye).
Registration will open April 2 for a MLE canteen sandwich eating contest in Ottumwa, Iowa on June 2. KTVO reports that ESPN will cover the contest.
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