(From Nic comment) The March / April contests (with the exception of a Myrtle Beach event) mentioned in a previous IFOCE.com post are now on the IFOCE calendar.

• 03/16/2009 New York City The Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm Corned Beef on Rye Eating Contest
• 04/11/2009 Santa Clara, CA The California’s Great America Funnel Cake Eating Championship
• 04/18/2009 New Orleans Acme World Oyster Eating Championship
• 04/25/2009 Stockton, CA The World Deep-Fried Asparagus Eating Championship
• 04/26/2009 West Palm Beach, FL The National Sweet Corn Eating Championship

Prizes have yet to be determined for all contests.

Update Registration dates have been added: Funnel Cake Feb 19 | Oysters March 3 | Asparagus March 4 | Corn March 5

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The SBSun has an article about upcoming firefighters’ events:

In a quest to bring family fun to the city, Rubio said firefighters are also planning two other events for the spring and summer months.

One will be a monster truck and dirt bike race. The other plan is to sponsor a Major League Eating challenge at Cal State San Bernardino.

The eating extravaganza will apparently include a cop versus firefighter donut eating contest as well as burrito and hot dog eating competitions.

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The North Carolina State student newspaper reports that 5,038 entrants have registered for tomorrow’s Krispy Kreme Challenge, an increase of about 2,000 from last year’s field size. The contest entails running 2 miles from the NC State bell tower to a Krispy Kreme, consuming a dozen donuts at that location, and then returning to the race start. Proceeds from the race will go to the NC Children’s Hospital and ESPN will be covering the event. Registration is now closed since the cap has been reached. Last year’s winner, Phillip Curley (time 31:20), was a student at rival UNC.

Additonal coverage: NewsObserver | Deadspin

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The 2009 edition of Battle of the Bone, the Phoenix area wing eating contest sponsored by Native New Yorker and THE FAN AM 1060, is expected to begin this month. The initial qualifier is tenatively scheduled to take place on February 25.

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IFOCE.com announces that registration for the crawfish eating contest that will be held at the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City on February 24 will open tomorrow at 2pm eastern.

The contest has yet to be listed on the IFOCE contests list or the casino’s events page.

updateCrawfish notices the contest information has now been posted. The contest will start at 2pm and prizes have yet to be determined.

An expanded disclaimer appears at the bottom of the contest page, granting the IFOCE the right to reject any entrant and change any term of the contest.

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A wing eating contest will be held at the Atlantic City boat show on February 7. The first prize will be a flat screen TV. Call The Shark 103.7 FM to register.

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(from comments) IFOCE.com sketches out the schedule over the next three months. Three new events have been announced:

• February 24, Atlantic City, NJ, House of Blues Fat Tuesday Crawfish Eating Championship
• March 16, New York City, NY, Stroehmann’s Rye and Corned Beef Sandwich
• April 11, Santa Clara, CA, Funnel Cake Eating Championship

Other April contest sites are Myrtle Beach, SC (probably Broadway at the Beach), Stockton, CA (Asparagus Fest), West Palm Beach, FL (Sweet Corn Festival) and New Orleans (probably the Acme Oyster House)

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The Mayor Of Wingville has information about a Boston area Wing Bowl:

Join us Thursday, January 29th from 7-9PM at Hooters on Route 1 in Saugus. Ten BCN listeners will compete for a chance to win some serious CASH! The first place winner scores $3,000. 2nd: $1,500 and 3rd: $500! Listen to Toucher & Rich mornings from 6 to 10 for your chance to compete for a place in the tournament

If you are not a Toucher & Rich listener, a slot will be awarded tonight to the winner of a “Wing Off” at Dockside Restaurant in Wakefield, MA

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A blog entry on the Calgary Herald’s website says that the San Jose Stealth of the National Lacrosse League will have Joey Chestnut compete in a macaroni & cheese eating contest. The Stealth’s schedule page has details about that event which will take place on February 21:

Major League Eating Contest. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut to compete against fans to see who eats the most Mac & Cheese.

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, the top competitive eater in the world, and local hero to compete against fans to see who eats the most Mac & Cheese.

The first 3000 fans will receive a Joey Chestnut bobblehead. No registration information is listed.

The Stealth’s opponent on February 21 will be the Colorado Mammoth, which hosted the KBPI Wing Bowl yesterday. If anyone has results from that contest, please list them in the comments.

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La Sanbe has a blog entry commenting on an article from elmanana.com.mx about the Jalapeño Festival that will take place in Laredo, Texas on February 20 & 21 which mentions the eating contest where Pat Bertoletti holds the record of 266 peppers in 15 minutes:

One issue of concern, though, is that participants for the jalapeño eating contest are not being solicited via the Food Network website as was done last year. Organizers want the contest represented more by locals. Great. So now we’re lowering the standards of our recreational activities too. Way to go Laredo.

The Spanish paragraph about the contest and its translation by Google follows:

Para la competencia de Jalapeño de esta edición, ya no se anunciará en internet, como se hizo el año pasado en la página de la Food Network, pues se quiere que los participantes sean locales, ya que es un festival de Laredo.

Jalapeño competition for this edition is no longer advertised on the internet, as it did last year at the site of the Food Network, as it is to the participants are local, as it is a festival of Laredo.

If the Laredo jalapeño contest is not affiliated with IFOCE in 2009, there could be a 4+ month gap between contests since the last IFOCE contest was the Battle at the Big Apple World Pizza Eating Championship in Fort Pierce, Florida on November 8.

The Stockton Asparagus Festival’s website announces that the contest on April 25 will have IFOCE eaters, so that will break the drought at 5.5 months if no other contests take place before it.

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• (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
• Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
• Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
• Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
• Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
• Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
• Wing eating contest in Beijing
• Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email

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WPLR.com has information about the Eat The Meat III wing eating competition it is sponsoring. Two qualifiers will take place at Buffalo Wild Wings in New Haven on January 14 and 21 and the finals will take place on January 24. The first prize is $1,000. The rules state that entrance is limited to Connecticut residents who are not affiliated with a professional eating organization.

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Skinnyboy has a blog entry about his victory in a qualifier for the KBPI Wing Bowl in Denver. The radio station’s events page has two more upcoming qualifiers this week:

Thursday Jan 8 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling
Saturday Jan 10 – Buffalo Wild Wings – County Line & Chester

The semifinals will take place before the Colorado Mammoth indoor lacrosse game on January 24th at the Pepsi Center. The finals will take place on the floor during halftime. The first prize is $1067.

update KBPI.com has a page about the contest Other qualifiers are:

Thursday Jan 15 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling
Saturday Jan 17 – Buffalo Wild Wings – County Line & Chester
Thursday Jan 22 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling

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(From “Luther” comment) IFOCE.com reports that Kobayashi will appear in New York City on December 26 to attempt to break the IFOCE fruitcake record and promote the Food Bank of New York City. The current record of of 4 lbs. 14.25 oz. in 10 minutes was set by Sonya Thomas in a 2003 contest in Buffalo where she edged out Eric “Badlands” Booker by less than an ounce.

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(From Sara Bozich) Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar in Harrisburg, PA will hold three contests next weekend to celebrate its grand opening:

• Dec. 12 8 pm – Pizza Eating Contest. 1st prize – $20 Arooga’s gift card.
• Dec. 13 7 pm – Wing Eating Contest. 1st prize – trip to Atlantic City.
• Dec. 14 5 pm – Cheesesteak Eating Contest. 1st prize – $100 VISA gift card.

All competitors will receive a free T shirt.

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The website for the Washington Capitals NHL team reports that the team will hold a eating contest for area college students before the game against the New York Islanders on December 4. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas will be a judge and trainer for that event. College students interested in competing should listen to ESPN Radio 980. There will also be a hot dog eating contest for local celebrities that Sonya Thomas will compete in.

This is the second hot dog eating contest for college students the Washington Capitals have hosted in 2008. The first competition was held in January.

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Here is a new thread about tomorrow’s pizza eating contest at the Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce, Florida tomorrow since the previous thread about it has become swamped with political comments.

I have not been able to find any entrants information about the contest. Hall Hunt has posted the press release on his blog, but he does not say whether he will attend.

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A gallery and video of a qualifier held to determine a competitor in the Battle of the Big Apple pizza eating contest Saturday in Fort Pierce, Florida are available. The Van Duzer Foundation’s web page about the contest requests that spectators to the contest Saturday bring a canned food item to donate to local food pantries and distribution centers.

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A list of contests this upcoming weekend in the eatfeats database follows after the jump:
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Dick’s Last Resort will be holding a Freaky Food Eating Contest on Halloween. Wearing costumes is required to compete. The contest appears on the event calendars for the Boston, San Antonio, Dallas, Chicago, San Diego and Myrtle Beach, SC locations. (It is not listed on the Las Vegas calendar.) The winner will receive $500 cash, while 2nd and 3rd place will win $200 and $100 gift cards.

The food items to be consumed at the San Antonio contest will be 4 dog biscuits, a hunk of bleu cheese, a pickled pig’s foot, a pickled egg, 10 sardines and a large glass of buttermilk.

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A list of eating contests this weekend follows after the jump:
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Two unaffiliated contests this Saturday will award $100 to the winner:

• Spaghetti Eating Contest, Arch Fest, Jesup Georgia, $200 total purse
• Hot Dog Eating Contest, New Martinsville, WV

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• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

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