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Matthew Holowicki won Saturday's five pound corned beef sandwich eating contest at Pat O'Brien's in St. Clair Shores, MI.
Caesar's Palace reports that "El Toro" was the first person to finish the ice cream challenge at Serendipity 3 yesterday.
Molly Schuyler won the professional division of today' Farrell's 6th annual. Splendiferously Superific Summer Spectacular Ice Cream Eating Challenge in Brea, CA. Her time to finish the 7 pound, 30 scoop sundae was reportedly less than 4 minutes. update Naader Reda finished in 6:20. Jon Bello has a post-contest picture of Molly exhibiting an "ice cream baby".
ABC30 has an article and video about Pablo Martinez' training session where he ate a 5 pound burrito in 13 minutes.
Dirtbag Dan reports that Edward Chin ate his Burritozilla in 4:10 to win today's contest at Iguana's in San Jose.
Pat O'Brien's in St. Claire Shores, MI will hold a five pound corned beef sandwich eating contest tomorrow awarding $500 to the winner.

2015 Farrell’s finalists

FarrellsUSA.com has a list of qualifiers for Sundays ice cream eating challenge in Brea, CA. Molly Schuyler is the only pro listed with a qualifying time of 45 seconds. Naader Reda and Erik Lamkin also apparently qualified.

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SanJose.com has a preview about Saturday's Burritozilla eating contest at Iguana's Taqueria. Dax Swanson, Jake Larry and Edward Chin are the finalists.
Molly Schuyler's facebook reports that she finished the "Big Fat Fatty" Challenge at Fat Sal's Deli in Los Angeles in 14:13, less than half the time needed for the only two previous finishers Miki Sudo (32 min) and Jamie McDonald (40 min). (Eyewitness account calls feat "beautiful?") (via email) Molly also finished the VictorEChallenge at Bulldog Burger in Fresno in 4 minutes. update Jul 16 Erik Lamkin has uploaded a video of his and Molly's atttempt.
American Burger Co. will hold a 1.5 pound burger eating contest on August 6 in Charlotte awarding $500 to the winner. Entrants will need to qualify in Charlotte and Greenville, SC.
KnoxNews.com reports that Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez, Eric "Badlands" Booker, "Wild" Bill Myers, Ronnie Hartman, Matthew Raible, Damien Boykin, and Gideon Oji are expect to compete in Sunday's Hooters qualifier in Knoxville. The restaurant will offer all you can eat wings on July 13 and 20.
Spike’s Junkyard Dogs owner David Gettleman offers Boston.com five tips for winning a hot dog eating contest. He says the chain record is 23 hot dogs, which was set by Matt Stonie.
The Mirror Online claims that a Facebook picture of the Haystack burger challenge at The Farmers Arms, in Burscough, West Lancashire has received 2.5 million views.
The Las Vegas Sun has an article about competitive eating training with quotes from Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez. The Las Veags challenge list says that the jackpot for the Pho 87 challenge is now $1,870.
The Bangkok Post has an article about competitive eating in Thailand containing interviews with members of the Thai Pro Eater group.
Diana bills herself as a powerlifter/bodybuilder on her DianasFitDiary instagram, but her top sport might be competitive eating. Last week she posted a picture of a huge stack of pancakes (at an unnamed restaurant) that she ate.
Mashable has a blog entry about a 1.595 km (almost 1 mile) pizza created in Milan, Italy that received a Guinness record for World's Longest Pizza.
The Clifton Chili Club youtube page has a video of Kate Ovens taking on Jay in the "Double Dares You" burger and cheesecake challenge at the Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel'
Kenosha News reports that Teddy Delacruz ate the "Towering Turret" burger in 25:49 at Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha, WI yesterday to win a contest.
The next two qualifiers for the amateur Burritozilla eating contest that will award $1350 on July 18 will take place in San Jose on June 20 and June 27.

Stephanie Wu announces she has finished 100+ eating challenges

Stephanie Wu announced yesterday she successfully completed the challenge at Uncle Linny’s which takes her count to 100.5. She is the first woman (and fifth overall) to reach the challenge century mark. Others with 100+ documented challenge counts: Randy Santel (250+), Ramsey Hilton (200+), Naader Reda, Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker.

Other possible members of the century club include the LeFevres, Pete Czerwinski, Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut.

Taft Parker has finished Shula’s 48 ounce steak
at least 347 times. This might be the overall top mark for challenges done if you do not require different sites.

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The Man vs. Food restaurant in London has started a twitter at https://twitter.com/manvsfoodlondon/. They offer s 7 pound burger challenge awarding £250 and a free meal for the entire table if finished.
Qualifying starts June 19 for the Farrell's Splendiferously Superific Summer Spectacular Ice Cream Eating Challenge in La Brea, CA. The winner of the pro contest will receive $750.
News.com.au has an article about Nela Zisser's latest video where she faces off against Isaac Harding Davis of Australia in a five foot sandwich eating contest.
Dax "The Ginger" Swanson won today's Burritozilla eating qualifier at Iguana's in San Jose.
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