MMG.com.au has an article about Hayden "Hungry Haydo" Wilson and his fundraising efforts which have brought in almost $17,000 for prostrate cancer research.
Hungry Haydo claimed a world pancake eating record after eating 80 pancakes in 17:26 at Pancake Parlour in Melbourne. update Feb 11 A news video about the record is available
competitiveeating.com.au has a profile of Daniel Mercer, winner of over $7,000 in Australian contests in 2012. He is considering competing in North American eating contests. (Interestingly, the Mt. Druitt Standard has an article about the Lone Pine Tavern chili eating contest claiming Crescenzo Rillo won the contest instead of Daniel Mercer.)
Au.tv.yahoo.com has a segment about a 5.5 kg burger available in Perth, billed as Australia's largest restaurant burger challenge. A 220 pound "Hangover Burger" was also created in Perth on New Year's Eve.
Daniel Mercer won the first place prize of $5,000 in the finals of the chili eating contest held at Lone Pine Tavern in Rooty Hill, Australia. update Crecenzo Rillo has emailed the top 4: 1 Daniel Mercer (39 seconds) 2) Crescenzo Rillo 3) 3 Liam Moylan 4) Lee Wiliams
The Village in Potts Point, Australia will hold the Sydney Rock Oyster Eating Competition on December 23 awarding $1,750 ($1,000 to the winner). Qualifiers will take place on December 2, 9 and 16.
The Lone Pine Tavern in Rooty Hill, Australia (western Sydney area) will hold a chili con carne eating contest on December 15 awarding $5,000. Qualifiers will take place on Saturdays starting November 24. (via Mt Druitt Standard)
CompetitiveEating.com.au announces that the “Big Willi†Grand Fork Off held in Melbourne in October raised $4,000 for prostrate cancer research. Hungry Haydo won the contest by eating a 2.5kg (5.5 pounds) burrito in 8:54 to claim a $500 first prize.
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about the American presidential election that begins with coverage of last week's hot dog eating contest in Springfield, NJ won by Jamie McDonald.
The Royal Exchange Hotel in Brisbane, Australia will hold weekly eating contests on Wednesdays for four person teams awarding $400. The finals on October 17 will award $1000.
WhereILive.com.au has an article about Hayden "Hungry Haydo" Hayden and his charity fundraising efforts.
WhereILive.com.au has an article about Hayden "Hungry Haydo" Wilson and his use of eating challenges to raise money (currently $14,610) for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. Marcos Owens is using his training for the New York City Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society. update The Hungry Haydo article was on page 13 of Australia's largest newspaper.
"Hungry" Hayden has a video of him eating a kangaroo burger weighing 2kg. Hayden is considering hiring a bus to do an eating challenge tour of Australia's east coast.
Naader Reda has started a facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/EatLikeAFreak (Other new facebook eating challenge fan pages: Hungry Hayden (from Australia, will attempt 2kg kangaroo burger this weekend) | Alexander The Ate )
WhereILive.com.au reports that Tom Pithouse from England won a meat pie eating contest held as part of an Australia Day celebration by eating four pies in about three minutes.
CompetitiveEating.com.au has been started with information about Australian eating contests and challenges.
The Nindigully pub near St. George, Australia has a 14kg (31 pound) "Roadhog" burger that looks like an actual hog. (via Nathan Adamson)
DiagonalUK has a video of the Singapore qualifier for CP Biggest Eater and Pedro TP has videos from the Melbourne qualifier (video 1 | video 2). The Melbourne videos show the prizes for male Australians being awarded with the other divisions, which appears to contradict the claim on CP Australia's facebook that an overtime period was held on a different day from the Melbourne qualifier.
Eleven days after the contest, the Australian winners of the CP Biggest eater qualifier on November 19 have been announced. Brad Stokes defeated Felix Ariga in overtime to become the top male and Millie Chow won the women's division. A qualifier competitor comments that he was not aware of any overtime taking place.
Tim Janus defeats Joey Chestnut in CP Biggest Eater Melbourne
The Herald Sun reports that Tim Janus ate the most wontons, 310 in 8 minutes, at the pro exhibition at the Melbourne qualifier for the CP Biggest Eater. Joey Chestnut ate 297, 83 less than his record last year, and Juliet Lee ate 175 to break her female record of 160. Final results for the Australians competing have not been posted.
update The MLE facebook reports that Felix Ariga and Brad Stokes tied for 1st place in the contest for Australian males with a total of 105 wontons, less than the 109 Helen Tan ate to win the Singaporean women’s contest. Milly Chow was the best Australian female with a total of 75 wontons.
According to the eatfeats database, this is Tim’s first victory over Joey since the 2009 grits contest in Bossier City, LA. (All of Tim’s previous three victories over Joey Chestnut were in grits contests.) This is also Joey’s first loss in a contest for a food other than chicken wings in over a year. A list of head to head results for Joey vs. Tim follows after the jump
The CP Australia facebook has a short video of Tim Janus and Juliet Lee promoting Saturday's CP Biggest Eater qualifier in Melbourne Saturday.
The facebook for CP Australia has results (top male: Ashley Pallett 88 wontons, top female: Chiau Lin Lan 42 wontons) and a video from yesterday's heats for the CP Biggest Eater qualifier in Melbourne. update Nov 14 A full list of the competitors in Saturday's qualifier has been posted. Ian Coker, who competed in several contests as a Purdue graduate student, was the male runner-up.
Joey Chestnut, Tim "Eater X" Janus and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the Melbourne, Australia CP Biggest Eater qualifier on November 19.
News.com.au has an article about Australian competitive eating.
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