The Philadelphia City paper has a list of the entrants in tomorrow's "Burgadelphia" contest.
NewOrleans.com has a preview of Saturday's eating contest at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival with profiles of three of the contenders.
The MLE facebook lists 13 expected entrants in Saturday's cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA.
Isle of Capri Casinos website lists Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Ben Monson and Ben Taylor as expected entrants in its May 8 Boneless Wing Eating contest in Boonville, Missouri. (via eplastino)
San Antonio La Costena jalapeno field
George and Rich Shea’s twitter announces that Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt & Levi Oliver will compete in the La Costena jalapeno eating contest in San Antonio on Sunday.
update An ESPN.com article reports that Erik Denmark, Badlands Booker and Nick Bauer will also compete. (via Newsflash comment)
update #2 The Seguin Gazette reports that Randy Harrison will return to IFOCE competition (via comment)
The New York Daily News has an article about tomorrow's all-amateur cupcake eating contest at the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn containing a disparaging quote from George Shea.
Poutine Contest Top Trending Topic for Canada
The World Poutine Eating Championship is currently the top Twitter trending topic in Canada after appearing in articles by the Toronto Sun, CTV and TheStar, which lists Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti, Tim “Gravy” Brown, Juliet Lee and Pete Davekos as expected entrants.
Canada’s top competitive eater, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, is asking fans to recommend him for one of the three at-large spots on his facebook.
PhillyGossip: Joey Chestnut, "Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins, Eric "Steakbellie" Livingston & Sean "Flash" Gordon will compete in the Dorney Park (Allentown, PA) cheesesteak contest on May 1. update MCall reports that Tim Janus & Juliet Lee will also compete.
A press release announces that the third "Rock the Tot" tater tot eating contest will be held at all 51 Bar Louie locations on April 22. As in previous years, the totals of all winners will be compared to produce a national champion.
The MLE facebook lists several entrants for Saturday's chicken tender eating contest at Binga's in Portland, Maine: Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Pete Davekos, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins & Crazy Legs Conti. update The amateur contest registration form also lists Tim Janus, Nate Biller & Bill Myers.
The Quad-City Times has a preview of Saturday's catfish eating contest at the Rhythm City Casino in Davenport, Iowa focusing on Tim "Eater X" Janus.
Hooters in Texas will hold a wing eating tournament. Each location will hold a qualifier over the next four Tuesdays starting tomorrow. Winners of the store championships on April 13 will compete in regional contests. The state champion will win a prize to the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant.
PBPulse has a preview of the TooJay's corned beef contest and the TooJay's website has a list of all the competing IFOCE members.
IFOCE.com announces registration for the May 15 Niko Niko World Gyro-Eating Championship in Houston and May 31 World Curly Fries Eating Championship in Wildwood, NJ will open tomorrow at 1pm eastern.
ELPastino lists four entrants in the April 17 rib eating contest to be held at the Isle of Capri casino in Lula, Mississippi: Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus, Nate Biller & Brian Seiken.
Baltimore Eats has the field for Sunday's corned beef and cabbage eating contest sponsored: "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Joe Menchetti, Jay Gorman, Will Millender, Joel Podelsky
Bar Louie Dearborn announces that it will hold a tater tot eating contest on April 22. All Bar Louie locations have held tater tot eating contests in late April the previous two years.
The MLE facebook lists five entrants in the St. Patrick's Day corned beef eating contest at TooJay's in South Florida: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt and Ben Monson.
Registration for May 2010 IFOCE contests
Four IFOCE contests, including a recently announced Binga’s Wingas wing eating contest in Portland Maine, will open registration next week:
Monday: Binga’s Wingas (Mar 27) & Dorney Park (PA) cheesesteaks
Tuesday: Boonvile, MO boneless wings
Wednesday: Toronto Smoke’s Poutine
RA Sushi will have Maki Madness sushi eating tournaments at five locations this month: Baltimore, Atlanta, Huntington Beach and San Diego (all March 21) and Miami (March 31)
IFOCE May 2010 schedule
The MLE facebook lists three new May 2010 contests:
- May 1 Philly cheesesteaks, Dorney Park, Allentown PA
- May 8 Boneless wings, Isle of Capri, Boonville Missouri
- May 22 Poutine, Toronto (first IFOCE Canadian contest since 2003 Vancouver Nathan’s qualifier)
I have not seen any news about a MLE contest at the Big Texan in Amarillo on April 10 since it was announced in Nations Restaurant News.
IFOCE.com reports registration will open at 11am tomorrow for the April 17 rib eating contest at the Isle of Capri Casino in Lula, MS.
Joe Menchetti 7peats Eddy’s paczkis
CTPost has a preview of today’s paczki eating contest at Eddy’s Bake Shop in Ansonia, Connecticut. Joe Menchetti has not declared if he will try to defend his title. Video might be available online starting at 7:45 am.
updateNewHavenIndependent has a video of the contest which reports that Joe Menchetti won the event for the seventh year in a row with a total of 11 paczkis.
The twitter for Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce announces that it is working on a Cinco de Mayo taco eating contest with Major League Eating. Gringo Bandito is located in Huntington Beach, California.
Atlantic City Weekly has a preview of next week's king cake contest.
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