An article about the amateur undercard for tomorrow's White Hut burger eating contest in West Springfield, MA also has the professional field: Matt Stonie, Carmen Cincotti, Geoffrey Esper, "Badlands" Booker, Brian Dudzinski, Crazy Legs Conti, Bill Myers, Jon Taylor, Steven Wojick and James Burgess.
YourCSD.com has the field for the World Pumpkin Pie-Eating Championship in Elk Grove, CA on October 2: Joey Chestnut, Carmen Cincotti, Steve Hendry, Pablo Martinez, Mary Bowers, Alex Perez, Doug Ecks and Jon Davis.
MILB.com has the field for the World Famous Case's Pork Roll Eating Championship in Trenton, NJ on September 24, which includes Joey Chestnut, Carmen Cincotti, Gideon Oji, Geoffrey Esper, Eric "Badlands" Booker and Brian Dudzinski.
Matt Stonie, Joey Chestnut, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Yasir Salem and "Buffalo" Jim Reeves are expected to compete in the World Poutine Eating Championship in Toronto on October 1.
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie are expected to compete in the Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, NV on Wednesday.
Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Carmen Cincotti, Gideon Oji, Geoff Esper, Yasir Salem, Larell Marie Mele and Bill Myers are expected to compete at the chicken spiedie eating contest at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY on Saturday.
Joey Chestnut, Gideon Oji, Matt Cohen, Matthew Raible and Sean Mulcahey are expected to compete in the Oktoberfest Zinzinnati bratwurst eating contest on September 17.
The field for the tamale eating contest in Lewisville, TX on September 24 has been posted: Miki Sudo, Adrian Morgan, Michelle Lesco, Erik Denmark, Juan Rodriguez, Josh Miller, Steve Schuster, Nate Biller, Alex Perez and Costa Pollos.
The Gyoza Eating Championship instagram has posted the field for the competition in Los Angeles on August 20 which includes Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, the LeFevres, Badlands Booker, Pablo Martinez, Mary Bowers and Lesley Ryder.
The Daily Corinthian has the field for the slugburger contest in Corinth, MS Saturday: Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Josh Miller, Nate Biller, Matt Cohen, Jeff Stark, Taylor Coombs and Hope Bain.
Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut are expected to compete in Hooters Worldwide Wing Eating Championship in Las Vegas Monday.
Buffalo News has a preview of next Saturday's kale eating contest. Healthy Options has the full field: Ben Do, Carmen Cincotti, Crazy Legs Conti, Daniella Gioia, Badlands Booker, Jim Reeves, Marcos Owens, Michael Deitz and Alicia Hill.
The field for Caribbean Food Delight's Annual World Jamaican Beef Patty Eating Championship in Queens Sunday includes Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti, Dave Brunelli, Joe Menchetti, Bob Shoudt and Wayne Algenio.
The field for the slugburger eating contest in Corinth, MS includes Joey Chestnut, Adrian Morgan, Geoffrey Esper, Gideon Oji, Nate Biller, Matt Cohen, Matthew Raible and Bill Myers.
Erik Denmark, Pablo Martinez and Carmen Cincotti have said they will compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Washington, DC.
The field has been announced for the Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce & Chronic Tacos Challenge in Las Vegas July 29. Takeru Kobayashi and Molly Schuyler will compete at the same table for the first time. Pat Bertoletti, Dave Brunelli, Kevin Ross and Naader Reda are also expected. There will also be an open amateur contest.
Manteca Bulletin has the field for the bacon eating contest at Dell’Osso Family Farms in Lathrop, CA on June 19: Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Erik Denmark, Juan Rodriguez, Steve Hendry, Lesley Ryder, Doug Ecks, Dixon West, Andrew Gutierrez and Jon Davis. Joey Chestnut missing the contest guarantees that he will compete in the Nathan's finals undefeated in the calendar year for the first time in his career and will also result in just one matchup between Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie over the previous nine months before July 4. 40 entrants are expected in the amateur qualifier on June 18: a much larger field than any Nathan's qualifier.
Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Adrian Morgan, Juan Rodriguez, Erik Denmark, Gideon Oji, Andrew Kogutkiewicz and the winner of a qualifier Thursday at Rocks Northcenter are expected at the Chicago Ribfest June 10.
Geoff Esper, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Meredith Boxberger and Larell Marie Mele are expected to compete in the Nathan's qualifier at Taste of Syracuse Saturday. Crazy Legs offers some tips for spectators and Rich Shea claims that a town record will be set (Takeru Kobayashi ate 110 bunless Hoffman hot dogs in 2012)
Miki Sudo is expected to compete in the World Championship Pepperoni Roll Eating Contest at the Three Rivers Festival in Fairmont, WV on Saturday. She was previously announced as a competitor in the Chico, CA pancake eating contest. upate May 26 WVGazetteMail has an interview with Miki saying that Geoff Esper will also compete.
The event page for a May 24 qualifier at Illegal Pete's awarding a spot in the World Burrito Eating Competition at the May 28 Denver Outlaws game lists the MLE roster for that contest: Joey Chestnut, Adrian Morgan, Michelle Lesco, Yasir Salem, Josh Miller, Lesley Ryder, Mary Bowers, Bryan Beard and Mark Sutherburg. If Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie (who will do pancakes in Chico, CA) do not compete May 28, they may not compete until July 4.
Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo and Mary Bowers are expected to compete in the World Silver Dollar Pancake Eating Championship in Chico, CA May 28.
The field for Sunday's gyro eating contest will include all of the MLE top 7 who have competed in 2016: Matt Stonie, Joey Chestnut Miki Sudo, Adrian Morgan and Michelle Lesco. (More entrants)
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie are expected to compete at Niko Niko's World Gyro Eating Championship at Greek Fest in Houston May 15. This would be their first meeting since October 3 in Toronto.