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spicy eating challenges
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The League of Fire has started a worldwide ranking of spicy eating challengers placing Justin ‘The Thunder from Down Under’ Rummel at the top.
CommercialAppeal.com has an article about Randy Santel attempting the New Wing Order Mouth Melter Challenge in Memphis, a challenge consisting of three large menu items.
The original host of Man v Food, Adam Richman, appeared on First We Feast's "Hot Ones" youtube series in which guests eat spicy wings.
Mothership.sh has an article about Zermatt Neo finishing a plate of spicy curry at Level 100 in 52 seconds. The overall fastest time for the challenge will win a 13-inch Macbook pro.
Pop Times has an article titled "How Do We Get Used to the Heat In Chile Peppers?"
NBA great Shaquille O'Neal and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski will face off in a series of competitions tomorrow streamed on www.ShaqVsGronk.com to raise money for the NAACP and The Boys & Girls Club. One of the contests will be a Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin Challenge.
Mashable.com has a column titled "Why we love to watch people eat gross food".
Ronnie Hartman appeared on "Hot Ones: The Game Show", a program on TruTV in which competitors eat hot wings and answer trivia questions.
Former WWE wreslter Ryback uploaded a video of his attempt to break LA Beast's record for the MOAB Hot Chocolate Bar.
Hot Dang Show will host a League of Fire live spicy challenge eating contest at 5pm Eastern today at https://www.youtube.com/hotdangshow. Former WWE wrestler Ryback will host and UK Chilli Queen Shahina Waseem and others spicy specialists will participate. update Link to video stream
The New York City Hot Sauce Expo that was to have taken place April 18 and 19 in Brooklyn has been postponed to September. Previous events had several spicy eating contests on both days.
Round Table Pizza announced that Kevin Ross, Jon Rivera, Jon Davis, Raina Huang and edwardc3523 (probably Edward Chin) are the Reign of Fire finalists and will compete for a $5000 prize on March 28. It appears that Raina Huang received the wild card spot.
A commenter claimed that Raina Huang sped up her video to qualify for the Round Table Pizza Reign of Fire challenge finals. The video had background music added (contest rules require that the unedited video must be submitted.) (Youtube video)
The Hale Street Tavern in Beverly, MA will hold a hot wing eating contest March 5 awarding $300 to the winner. Entrants need to qualify.
Hot Ones: The Game Show, in which competitors eat spicy items and answer trivia questions, debuted on TruTV last night. The premier episode can be viewed online.
Dicebreaker.com has a post about Spicy, a new card game where cats eat spicy items. This is not the first card game featuring competitive eating felines; Tem-purr-a was released in 2016.
Round Table Pizza announces the Reign of Fire Challenge. Entrants (California residents only) will record video of themselves attempting a spicy pizza or wings challenge. The fastest times will make the finals in Florin, CA and compete for a $5,000 prize. (contest Instagram)
"UK Chilli Queen" Shahina Waseem appeared on the podcast of former WWE wrestler Ryback. (youtube) (Apple)
Former WWE wrestler Ryback was posted on the League of Fire Instagram for finishing the "Tube of Terror" Carolina Reaper challenge.
"“El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer", a 1997 episode of the Simpsons in which a Homer's spicy chili challenge induces hallucinations, is #7 in Time Magazine's list of the top 10 episodes of the animated series.
"UK Chilli Queen" Shahina Waseem attempted to eat over 100 Carolina Reaper peppers today (aftermath video).
LeagueOfFire.com has started a blog about spicy eating competitions.
Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark announces he won the first prize of $1000 in tonight's Ghost Taco eating contest at Sugar Taco in Los Angeles.
Wired has a video about Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper.