Go! Go! Curry's qualifier leader board now lists Masato Tomita in the #3 position with a time of 58 seconds, putting Don "Moses" Lerman in the #4 slot.
Midtown Lunch previews final Go! Go! Curry! qualifier
Midtown Lunch has a blog entry about tomorrow’s final qualifier for the Go! Go! Curry! eating contest containing a long quote from Crazy Legs Conti. Two currently unlisted qualifiers have broken 1:08, so the current threshold for new qualifiers is faster than that time. The Go! Go! Curry! facebook page says that Dale Boone will compete.
The Go! Go! Curry! home page is running a lottery for the four seats available for the audience.
Ian Hickman unretires, wins DC cupcake contest
Youtube has a video of the cupcake eating contest held at the grand opening celebration of Cupcakes Today in Fairfax, VA. Ian Hickman, whose retirement was announced in January, won the contest by eating 12 cupcakes in 1:47. James “Big Bess” Besser was the runner-up.
Drinker's Pub in Philadelphia will hold a wing eating contest on May 24 which will award a Jager Machine drink dispenser to the winner.
The organizer of a Wichita, KS funnel cake contest declared its victor the world champion due to being unable to find any other funnel cake contests on the internet.
Crabby Daddy in Tomball (suburban Houston), TX will host a crawfish tournament on Sunday, May 17. The winner of the final contest will receive $100.
The Bloomfield Bridge Tavern in Pittsburgh will host a pierogie eating contest today (May 13).
Woody's Chicago Style in Honolulu will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 26 that will award a trip to Chicago for a national hot dog eating contest.
annualbrooklynpizzaeatingcontest.com announces this year's contest will take place on May 31.
2009 Jake’s Burger Contest Schedule
An emailed PDF file has information about Jake’s Burger Eating contest
The finals will be held July 31 at a Wilmington (Delaware) Blue Rocks game and award $2000 to the winner, $1000 to second place and $500 to third place
Qualifier Dates $100 awarded to each qualifier winner
6/14 Wilmington, DE (Kirkwood Hwy)
6/22 Newark, DE
6/23 New Castle, DE
6/29 Elkton, DE
6/30 Dover, DE
7/13 Bear, DE
7/14 Claymont, DE
7/19 Chadds Food, PA
Woody's Chicago Style will hold a foot long eating contest at the Brighton (Denver area) Culture Fest June 6. The top prize will be a trip to Hawaii according to craigslist.
A dumpling eating contest will be held in New York City on May 18. Contact twitter.com/JustJon for the registration password.
The home page of Go! Go! Curry has been updated with qualifier results from May 5. The top performance that day was Peter Rogeis at 1:10.
The winner of last week's spring roll eating competition, Paul Constant, has a long article about his victory and the training session with Erik Denmark that preceded it.
Joe Menchetti takes Go! Go! Curry! qualifying lead
The qualifying leader board at http://gogocurryusa.com/ has been updated with last night’s results and shows that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti is the new leader with a time of 37 seconds.
update MosesNews.com has a blog entry about Joe Menchetti taking the qualifying lead
Here is the original comment by Joe Menchetti about Don Lerman’s chances in the curry finals.
BrightestYoungThings has a blog entry and gallery about the wing eating contest held at the Rock & Roll Hotel in Washington, DC last Thursday.
The qualifier leader board on http://gogocurryusa.com/ has been updated and lists Paul Arcaria as the new leader with a time of 55 seconds. Don Lerman is in second place.
The Dish: Chiun “Jimmy†Peng won $500 by eating 13 slices in 15 minutes at a contest at Flancer's Pizza
Jake’s Burger (Delaware) contest to return
From an email:
The event is going to be bigger and better this year.
Grand Prize is $2,000 2nd Prize is $1,000 and 3rd Prize is $500. We have also added a prize to the qualifying rounds of $100 for each location. There may be some trips involved for the winners too. There will be at least 8 qualifiers.
The final is on Friday night July 31st. At the Wilmington Blue Rocks after the game, but before the fireworks. That will leave about 5,000 people to watch the finals. Qualifying dates to be finalized soon.
NY Daily News cupcake contest coverage
update #2 Amazon.com’s Al Dente blog has an entry about the contest
update Cupcakes Take the Cake has some pictures of the winner
The New York Daily News has a report on yesterday’s cupcake eating contest held at Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn. Results listed:
1. Nancy Cummings, 17 cupcakes in 5 minutes,
2. Dominick Ibelli, 16 cupcakes
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BigWill: Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria takes Go! Go! Curry! lead
Will Millender reports that Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria has taken the lead in qualifying for the finals of the contests at Go! Go! Curry! with a time of 55 seconds. The time has yet to be posted on http://gogocurryusa.com/
update Don Lerman has a response on his blog.
Some pictures and a video from Thursday's wing eating contest at the Rock & Roll Hotel in Washington, DC, which might have had a female winner.
YesWeekly reports on an Asheboro, NC Liquid Stoopid Hot Sauce (1 million Scoville) drinking contest. An infared camera was used to observer the amount of internal heat generated by the competitors.
Joe Menchetti repeats as “Big A” Challenge champion
A comment to a reflector.com article reports that Joe Menchetti repeated as winner of the “Big A” challenge contest held during last night’s UNC vs. East Carolina baseball game. Menchetti’s time to complete the 50 ounce burger was under 5 minutes, less than his winning time last year of 5:15. The attendance for the game was 5,581, reportedly the largest crowd to ever watch a regular season college baseball game in North Carolina.
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