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.
The Krystal Square Off blog has a post previewing Monday's qualifier in Jacksonville. Hall Hunt is expected to make three TV appearances to promote the contest.
The Nevada Sagebrush has a preview of tomorrow's rib eating contest at the West Nugget Rib Cook-off in Sparks, NV listing Joey Chestnut and Aaron Lamb as expected entrants.
The Kings Island twitter reports that Joey Chestnut and defending champion "Humble" Bob Shoudt will compete in the Skyline Chili eating contest on Labor Day. Pat Bertoletti's twitter says he will be in Buffalo on Labor Day weekend.
Examiner reports that Steve's Snappin Dogs will have a hot dog eating contest on Friday at noon at a Taste of Colorado in Denver.
IFOCE Boston pizza contest Sept 26
IFOCE.com announces that Upper Crust Pizza will hold a pizza eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston on September 26. Bossier City grits (Sept 19) and Lewisville tamales (Sept 26) have also been officially added to the schedule. Registration for grits will open tomorrow.
The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of Saturday's qualifier in San Antonio listing Yasir Salem and Nic Fry as expected entrants.
MCall reports that the United Eaters of Pennsylvania will stage a burger eating contest at the Taste of Hamburg-er Festival in Hamburg, PA on September 5.
IFOCE Oklahoma rib contest on Halloween
TulsaWorld reports that Billy Simms BBQ will sponsor a rib eating contest in Norman, Oklahoma on October 31. Weekly qualifiers for amateurs will be held starting September 4. Tim Janus is listed as an expected entrant on billysimmsbbq.com
Metblogs has a preview of tomorrow's gyoza eating contest at Nisei Week in Los Angeles listing Eric "Badlands" Booker, Tim Brown and Kevin Ross as Joey Chestnut's competition.
The Krystal Square Off blog has details about tomorrow's opening ceremony and Saturday's first qualifier in Chattanooga. Bill Myers, Paul Barlow, Mike Nafziger and Rick Petralia are expected to compete against Pat Bertoletti.
The Arkansas Leader reports that the Wing Ding Festival in Jacksonville, Arkansas is contracting with Major League Eating to sanction a wing eating contest in 2010. This year's festival will have an amateur wing eating contest on October 3.
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