LaJollaLight has an article about a flauta eating contest qualifier held at Jose's Court Room in La Jolla, California. (San Diego area) The finals on December 6 will be sanctioned by the IFOCE and the purse will be $3,500.
Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest that will take place at the NYC Dumpling Festival on October 24. Previous contests awarded $1,800 for both the men's and women's division.
Registration for the professional rib eating contest sponsored by Billy Sims BBQ will open tomorrow.
Registration will open tomorrow for the Martorano's Masters Meatball Championship to be held at Harrah's Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on November 8.
Today is the last day to register for Sunday's taco eating contest at Mad Dog & Beans Mexcian Cantina in New York City. The first prize is $100 gift certificate and a bottle of tequila.
Registration is now open for the Garlicky Greens contest that will take place in Boston on Saturday.
The New York Post has a preview of next month's kosher hot dog eating contest at Brooklyn Burger Boys.
The Texas State Fair twitter has announced each competitor in today's corny dog eating contest. (update Mike Wilkes threepeated)
A bacon eating contest consisting of five rounds will be held in Portland on October 3. The final round will be bacon ice cream sundaes.
A wing eating contest will be held at the Buffalo Battle in Washington, DC on Sunday. Tickets include all you can eat wings.
The MLE has a list of expected entrants in the burrito eating contest at the New Mexico State Fair. Hall Hunt, Ryan McKillop and possibly Erik Denmark are the listed ranked eaters.
The Krystal Square Off blog has a previews of Saturday's qualifer in Nashville and Sunday's qualifier in Knoxville listing confirmed and possible entrants.
The KSO blog lists the ranked eaters expected for this weekend's qualifiers in Nashville and Knoxville.
NWLANews: Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus will compete in Saturday's grits eating contest at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, which will leave Sunday's contest in Knoxville as the only Krystal qualifier possibility for "Eater X". update The eatingcontest twitter says that Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt & Kevin Ross will also compete.
Steamy Kitchen reports that a dumpling eating contest will be held at the International Dumpling Fest in New York City on October 24. This might be the Chef One dumpling contest that awarded $3,600 in previous years.
The Krystal Square Off blog lists Bob Shoudt's competition in Sunday's qualifier in Atlanta which includes Pete Davekos, Juris Shibayama, Mike Landrich, Micah “Wing Kong†Collins , Steve Martin and Brian Subich.
George Shea's twitter lists the field for Sunday's La Costena jalapeno eating contest in Chicago: "Dom Alesi, Craig Reed, John Palmgren, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves, Erik Denmark, Badlands, Sonya & Hall Hunt".
Fairfield Weekly reports that the 2009 Ash Creek Saloon rib eating contest will be held later this year. Previous contests were held in August.
ExploreLI has a list of upcoming Long Island eating contests.
The RA Sushi locations in Chicago will host an eating contest later this month. Qualifiers will take place from September 15 to 17 and the finals will be held on September 23.
The Buffalo News has a preview of tomorrow's wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival with quotes from several of the competitors.
The schedule for the San Gennaro Festival reports that an IFOCE cannoli contest will take place on September 10.
OxfordPress has a preview of Monday's chili spaghetti eating contest at Kings Island amusement park listing "Humble" Bob Shoudt, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas and Tim Brown as expected entrants.
YourNabe has a preview of Sunday's cheesesteak eating contest in Brooklyn listing Micah "Wing Kong" Collins, Allen Goldstein and Bob Coccodrilli as expected entrants.
The expected rosters for the Buffalo wing and buffet bowl contests are available on buffalowing.com.