Timothy O'Toole's in Chicago will have a wing eating contest tomorrow. The winner will get two tickets into the 2010 WingFest and a slot in the wing eating contest at WingFest.
The Village Voice has an interview with Adam Lippin, the founder of Atomic Wings, who will sponsor a Coney Island wing eating contest on Saturday.
(from HungrySisters) Charlotte area Bruster's will hold ice cream eating contests on Sunday. The winners will face off at a contest at the Carolina Panthers game on September 13. Gaston Gazette has details on the Gastonia competition.
Registration for the Buffalo Wing Festival contests on September 5 and 6 will open tomorrow.
A wing eating contest at the Guy Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota on August 7/8 requires entrants to wear Elvis jumpsuits.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the August 15 Minnesota funnel cake contest and August 22 Los Angeles gyoza contest will open on Wednesday. Registration will open tomorrow for 2 slots in the Illinois August 1 soft taco eating contest.
KGW has an article about the rib eating contest at Chinook Winds on July 12 and a video of a rib eating contest between Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy.
A wing eating contest & hot sauce drinking contest will take place at the Tijuana Garage in Atlanta tomorrow.
The Toledo Blade has an article on 70 year old Tony Groch, who will attempt to defend his pierogi eating title at the Lagrange Street Polish Festival on Saturday.
OnMilwaukee has an interview with Alex Kaczkowski, who will compete along side Pat Bertoletti and 2 other MLE eaters in tomorrows Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters event tomorrow.
Jimmy John's twitter reports that a sandwich eating contest for amateurs will be held at at The Fifty/50 in Chicago tonight. Milwaukee.decider.com reports Hall Hunt & Tim Brown will be the other two eaters Jimmy Johns' Milwaukee event tomorrow.
BacciPizza.com reports that it will sponsor a pizza eating contest at the Bacci Pizza Fest in Chicago on Saturday. $2500 in prizes will be awarded ($1500 to the winner). Entrants will need to qualify by eating three jumbo slices in under 20 minutes at a Bacci's location.
Examiner.com has a preview of the Jimmy John's sandwich makers vs. eaters contest at Milwaukee's Bastile Days festival on Friday. Pat Bertoletti is the only listed member of the eaters team.
A knish eating contest will be held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game tomorrow in honor of Jewish Heritage Night.
SalisburyPost has a preview of today's Apple Ugly eating contest. Larry McNeil and Cornodograma third place finisher Suzanne Freach/French are expected to compte.
OceanCityToday reports that slots are still available in Fish Tales July 4 hot dog eating contest. Qualifying by eating 5 hot dogs is required. Ken Federighi will attempt to defend his title. Cash prizes will be awarded to 2nd and 3rd place in addition to the $1,000 received by the winner.
chicago.metromix.com: A one minute jalapeno contest will be held in Chicago on July 5. The winner will receive $200 and a slot in the IFOCE jalapeno contest in September.
The Silver Stars of the WNBA are planning on having a hot dog consuming contest at Friday's game and are debating whether the hot dogs will be consumed in solid or liquid form.
Thrillist reports that two WLOCE members will compete in tomorrow's contest at Z-Burger. If Dale Boone is one of the competitors, hopefully things will go better for him that in his last Washington, DC contest when he vomited jambalaya on Sonya Thomas and needed attention from an EMT.
JohnnaKnowsGoodFood.com: A Canadian will compete in the Z Burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 2. (If Furious Pete wins, he could call it a Canada Day contest since July 2 is closer to July 1 than the Fourth of July.)
A Detroit area (Shelby Township) hot dog eating contest will award a 32 inch LCD TV on July 8.
A press release for the rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon announces that Erik Denmark and Cameron McKirdy are also expected to compete along with Joey Chestnut.
A hot dog eating contest in Prince George, British Columbia tomorrow will award $500 to the winner ($250 to the runner up)
The website for Los Gallos Mexican Grill in Baton Rouge, LA announces that it will hold a contest Saturday which will apparently award a $1,000 gift certificate to the first 10 finishers of a giant burrito.
IFOCE.com announces that Pete Davekos, Brian Subich and Kevin Ross are expected to compete in Saturday's San Francisco-area Nathan's qualifier.