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2025 Mattituck strawberry shortcake eating contest

Official results

1st 22.333 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 19 James Webb
3rd 18 Nick Wehry
4th 14.33 Max Stanford
5th 13 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
6th 12 George Chiger
7th 7.5 Josh “The Goat” Krady
8th 6 Crazy Legs Conti
8th 6 Matthew Stefanilo
10th 6.5 Jimmy Purificato
11th 4.5 Jamaal “Jay” Hill
12th 4 Julie Goldberg
13th 2.5 Prudence DiBenedetto

James Webb is doing a live video of today’s Strawberry Shortcake Eating Championship in Mattituck, NY

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2025 Alameda County Fair Nathan’s qualifier

update Derek Hendrickson has a video

Official results This is probably the first Nathan’s qualifier with more female competitors than males.

1st 33.5 Derek Hendrickson persona best
2nd 15 Sergio Reyes-Raya
3rd 8 Tavis Valenzuela
4th 7 Seth Tucci
1st 23.5 Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee top Latina results since Stephanie Torres in 2011
2nd 16 Tandra Childress
3rd 15 Katie Prettyman
4th 11.5 Isabeau Pearl Prettyman
5th 8.5 Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado
6th 7.5 Crystal Ocampo

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Raina Huang and Mo Mbengue finished a 15 pound pizza challenge at Big Mamma's and Papa's pizza in Glendale, CA to win a $1,500 prize. The offer is available until June 20.
Jeff's Donuts will hold a donut eating contest in Louisville on July 4 awarding $1,000 to the winner. Jack Legath is expected to defend his title.
TMZ reports that Joey Chestnut is negotiating a return to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest next month. According to the article, Joey's relationship with Impossible Foods is no longer impeding his return. It is possible the deal has been terminated; Joey Chestnut has not made any videos or appearances for the plant-based meat company in 2025.
TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.
Bartley Weaver has started a new competitive eating organization, the Extreme Eating Championshipts.

2025 Salvation Army donut eating championship

WUSA9 also has a live video and a news video

Official results

1st 64 James Webb
2nd 52 Nick Wehry
3rd 29 Noah Romoff
4th 28 Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
5th 26.5 Steven Farlow
6th 11.75 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
7th 10.5 Karen Szala
8th 9 Mae Renmick
9th 6 Judah White
10th 5 Prudence DiBenedetto

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC.

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2025 Parma, OH Nathan’s qualifier

update Max Stanford has a video

Official results

1st 47.5 Nick Wehry
2nd 37 Max Stanford European record
3rd 29.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
4th 17.5 Greg Sines
5th 15 Dominic Mandato
5th 15 Jonathan Reed
7th 12 Garrett Brown
1st 10.5 Kelly Lewis
2nd 8.5 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
3rd 8.25 Sarah Qualle
4th 4.5 Kelly Murphy

Dom Mandato is doing a live video of tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH

Nick Wehry appeared on Fox 8 New Day Cleveland to promote the contest.

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Joey Chestnut ate 79 boneless wings in 5 minutes at last night's Syracuse Mets game, defeating a team of three amateurs who combined for 67.
Jack Legath ate the Homewrecker Hot Dog in 2:34 at Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, WV to set the all time record for the 23 year old challenge.
Max Stanford is the guest on the new Food Challenge News podcast. Other recent episodes: Hendrika "The Punk Gardner" Guanz | Geoff Esper | Naader Reda
Joey Chestnut will do a boneless wing eatigg contest at the June 4 Syracuse Mets game.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle announced that he was withdrawing from the Creator Clash celebrity boxing event that was scheduled for June 28 in Tampa. It was originally announced that he would face Harley Morgenstein of Epic Meal Time, but his opponent withdrew earlier.
Eric "Badlands" Booker is expected to appear on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent on NBC at 8pm Eastern. updateA video of Booker's appearance doing a hot sauce chug is online.
Juan Neave won the first prize of $1,000 in yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Mala Vida in Austin.
Max Stanford ate 18 pies in 5 minutes to win yesterday's British Eating League pie eating contest at F.Cooke Bishop's Stortford.
updateJoey Chestnut ate 42 24 ounce containers of popcorn to set a record: TMZ | WIBQ The Rural King facebook has started a live video of today's popcorn record attempt in Terre Haute, IN
In Mr. Beast's latest video, "Professionals vs. Amateurs", Joey Chestnut faced off against four sumo wrestlers in a hot dog eating contest for a $100,000 donation to the winner's charity. (Joey's segment starts at 20:40).
Juan Neave won the first prize of $500 in Saturday's hot dog eating contest at Hot Dogs El Buda in Fort Worth, TX.
Joey Chestnut did an interview for Action Network about his attempt to break his popcorn eating record on Monday in Terre Haute, IN. He says he will be doing a hot dog eating contest somewhere on July 4, but he is not sure if it will be at Nathan's Famous. update Joey also did an interviews with ClutchPoints The Blast in which he says he thinks his return to Nathan's this year is unlikely.

2025 Smokeslam BBQ sandwich eating contest

Official results are on the MLE facebook page

1st 24 James Webb
2nd 23.5 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 21.5 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
4th 19.5 Nick Wehry
5th 15 Miki Sudo
6th 14 Radim Dvoracek
7th 12 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan first contest since July 2023
8th 10 Tanner Gray
9th 8.25 Nicholas Stahl
10th 6 Matthew Raible

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s SmokeSlam Eating Championship in Memphis, TN.

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Zermatt Neo and Pat Bertoletti attempted the famous Wanko Soba noodle bowl challenge while they were in Japan.
On the Owls Nest BBQ Show, Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reach an agreement about competing in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest this year.

Geoff Esper wins Lake Compounce qualifier

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