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Reclaim the Net reports that Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle's video in which he drinks a 20 year old bottle of Crystal Pepsi was age-restricted by youtube. Screen captures of the video recently appeared in a video titled "Images That Precede Unfortunate Events" produced by pewdiepie, the youtube channel with the most subscribers. March 10, 2020 at 3:58 pm by
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In the first half of the lastest FBTS podcast, a George Chiger video is used to spur discussion of what makes a good restaurant challenge video. The "radio silence" of All Pro Eating is the topic of the second half. March 9, 2020 at 10:03 pm by
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A commenter claimed that Raina Huang sped up her video to qualify for the Round Table Pizza Reign of Fire challenge finals. The video had background music added (contest rules require that the unedited video must be submitted.) (Youtube video) March 9, 2020 at 3:52 pm by
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Joey Chestnut has posted a video of him attempting 32 McDonald's Big Macs. He has passed 50,000 subscribers for his youtube channel. March 5, 2020 at 3:59 pm by
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The News Minute has an article about Indian food challenge youtube channels. March 5, 2020 at 9:53 am by
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Telegram.com has an article about Crazy Legs Conti speaking to class titled "Marketing to You" held at Clark University, in Worcester, MA. The course teacher was Lawrence Norman, a friend of Conti's since high school.
March 5, 2020 at 7:35 am by
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Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry attended PAX2020, a video game convention in Boston, to promote the new game Bite the Bullet. Other competitive eaters in the game include Bob Shoudt, Naader Reda, Yasir Salem, Crazy Legs Conti. Matt Stone, LA Beast and more. (Is this the first project with both MLE and non-MLE competitors? The only other one I can think of the Amazing Race team of Joey Chestnut and retired Tim Janus.) March 1, 2020 at 12:09 am by
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Delish.com has an interview with Julie Smith, host of the video series "Julie Tries Everything" in which she tastes all menu items from a given location. She says she was a competitive eater in college.
February 28, 2020 at 6:46 am by
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Bartley Weaver appeared on Wicked Tasty, a podcast about the Nashville food scene. February 28, 2020 at 6:45 am by
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DelMarVANow.com has an article about a cameo.com video produced by Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry to encorage Daniel "Chunky" Henson to compete in a muskrat leg eating contest in Cambridge, MD. February 27, 2020 at 1:42 am by
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Raina Huang competed in Jack in the Box Tiny Taco eating contest in an advertisement produced by BuzzFeed Video.
February 23, 2020 at 8:50 pm by
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Fink Beats the Stomach released the 100th edition of their podcast today. The episode is a retrospective on the previous 99 shows.
February 23, 2020 at 8:47 pm by
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LadBible has a facebook video about Kyle v Food. He calls Randy Santel the person who inspired him to start competitive eating. February 22, 2020 at 2:29 pm by
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Miki Sudo appears as a character in Bite the Bullet, a new game for the Steam platform by Mega Cat Studios. I think she is the first competitive eater to appear in a video game since the official MLE game was ported to iPhone in 2012. February 21, 2020 at 8:24 am by
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RestaurantBusinessOnline.com has an article about Nathan's Famous plans to expand its menu beyond hot dogs with items like cheesesteak and chicken sandwiches. The project hopes to reverse a declining trend for the chain, which saw the number of its locations drop from 300 to 213 from 2013 to 2019, resulting in a negative 5.5% growth rate. (via patch.com) February 20, 2020 at 6:56 am by
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Miki Sudo appeared at Thrillist.com's "Fasties" fast food awards ceremony. Miki's segments are at 9:15 and 33:00. February 19, 2020 at 7:24 pm by
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Hot Ones: The Game Show, in which competitors eat spicy items and answer trivia questions, debuted on TruTV last night. The premier episode can be viewed online. February 19, 2020 at 6:57 am by
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The Scottish Daily Record has an article about Garry McLaughlan's attempt to set a Guinnesss World record for eating Tunnock's Teacakes.
February 18, 2020 at 4:33 pm by
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News.ru reports (translated) that a woman passed away after choking in a cake eating contest held in Moscow on February 15. (via Nikolay Smirnov) update Metro.co.uk has a video of the contest and gives the name of the deceased as Alexandra Yudina. update Daily Mail and Mirror have articles. February 16, 2020 at 10:08 am by
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Molly Dechene posted a comic strip on Instagram about attending the Nathan's finals alone. February 14, 2020 at 6:34 pm by
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https://competitiveeaters.com/, the All Pro Eating website has been restored after becoming inaccessible at the start of the year. There does not appear to be any information about the hiatus or other new content.
February 14, 2020 at 6:07 pm by
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"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has passed a billion videos viewed for his youtube channel. I think the only other competitive eating channels to surpass that benchmark are Matt Stonie 1.969B viewed) and Yuka Kinoshita (1.951B) February 13, 2020 at 11:59 am by
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Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, George Chiger and Michael Whities attempted the two foot pizza slice challenge yesterday with Esper and Chestnut tying for the new record at 40 seconds. The restaurant will pay $2500 if the record is broken. (Michael Whities video)
February 10, 2020 at 9:52 am by
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Tim "Eater X" Janus announced that he moved to Korea yesterday. After this move, all of the protagonists in the book Horsemen of the Esophagus are now either living in Asia (Takeru Kobayashi, Tim Janus) or retired (Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, Sonya "The Black Widow Thomas", AICE co-founders). February 8, 2020 at 9:39 am by
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