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Stephanie "Serpentina" Torres will MC a "brain" eating contest held during Monster Ball on Coney Island Saturday night.
Bethesda Now reports that BGR The Burger Joint will hold a slider eating contest in Bethesda, MD on September 18 that will award $500 to the winner and serve as qualifier for a national contest. Four other qualifiers will be held; Sites and dates are not listed. The Washington Post also has a blog entry about the competition which does not provide the location. update Washingtonian reports that 2nd and 3rd places will receive $250 and $100 gift certificates and the national finals will take place on May 28, 2013.
A website for the 2012 Battle of the Bone has been set up at http://battleofthebone5.weebly.com/. Weekly qualifiers will be held on Wednesdays at Phoenix area Native New Yorker restaurants starting September 5 in Gilbert, AZ. The finals on December 8 will award a trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Bangers & Lace in Chicago will hold a hot dog eating contest on September 2 awarding two Chicago Bears tickets.
Food Beast has a blog entry and video about the foie gras burger eating contest held at The Playground in Santa Ana, CA won by Naader Reda.
The facebook for Piola in Toronto has results and pictures from the gnocchi eating contest held Sunday hosted by "Furious" Pete Czerwinski. Steven Dorgo ate 2.418 kg of pasta to win a vintage Vespa scooter.
Buffalo's Chicken Shack in Wood Ridge, NJ will hold a spicy wing eating contest on Saturday awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Nate's Sports Bar in Gulfport, MS will hold a wing eating contest on September 1 awarding at least $500 to the winner.

Sonya Thomas wins Akron Hamburger Festival contest

update Aug 26 Robert Kline has a video of the contest.

update Aug 23 The festival facebook and cleplusfreelancers have galleries
Bill Myers has entered full results into the database

George Shea has the top 3 in the US Hamburger Eating Championship at the Hamburger Festival in Akron:

1) Sonya Thomas 16
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 14.5
3) Yasir Salem 11

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Registration will open tomorrow at 3 pm on ifoce.com for Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship in Toronto on October 13.
North Side Summerfest will hold a hot dog eating contest at 2 pm today in Chicago awarding $250 to the winner. update Aug 20 Frank Wach won the contest with a total of 17 hot dogs in 6 minutes. Tim "Gravy" Brown served as MC.
Jamie McDonald reports he won the pizza eating contest at Dani's House of Pizza in Queens today. Dave Brunelli was the runner-up and Pat Philbin was third. update Aug 23 StephieMarie101 has videos: Part 1 | Part 2

Joey Chestnut wins 2012 Nisei Week gyoza contest

update Aug 23 videos: Kazuyoshi Kinoshita: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Zeh Heifer: Intro 1 | Intro 2 | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
FototekGuy85: Part 1 | Part 2

Galleries: Contest facebook | Matt Stonie | Juan Rodriguez | Kimihiro-kun

update Aug 19 The contest facebook has full results with full names
The LA Times has a blog entry illustrated with a picture from the 2006 gyoza contest.

update #2 The rest of the results have been added: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

update Naader Reda has the top 5:

1) Joey Chestnut 266
2) Matt Stonie 234
3) Pat Bertoletti 233
4) Adrian Morgan 168
5) Juliet Lee 157
6) Juan Rodriguez 146
7) Michelle Lesco 131
8) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 122
9) Steve Hendry 101
10) Dax “The Ginger” Swanson 85
11) Kamiya 65
12) Doug Ecks 64
13T) Mr. Otani 51
13T) Crescenzo Rillo 51
15) Mary Bowers 48
16) Scott Russell 45
17) Alex Piatt 30

3:16 Pacific The contest is underway

Rafu Shimpo article about the contest.
Mary Bowers appeared on KTLA to promote the contest. (via EatMoreGyoza)
Matt Stonie gyoza training videos: video 1 | video 2

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Stephanie Torres appears to have won (or at least received a large trophy) at the Okie Burrito eating contest at Las Palapas in San Antonio today. The first prize was $1000. update Aug 23 Valmar0322 and ReneeLvsAlex have videos
MoMo's BBQ & Grill in Harrisburg, PA will hold a wing eating contest on September 12 awarding $500 to the winner. A qualifier will take place on August 29.
ZoominUK has a mini-documentary about world competitive eating with footage from a mango eating contest in Inida, the Buffalo Wing Festival, the Nathan's finals and a nettle eating competition in England.
Lacey Hammersley defended her hot dog eating title at the Muskigum County Fair in Zanesville, OH by eating 12 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
A press release announces that Sonya Thomas, Eric "Badlands" Booker and George Shea will be inducted into the Buffalo Wing "Hall of Flame" on August 31.
The facebook for the US Naval Base in Guam has pictures of a slider eating contest. Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Steakbellie" Livingston and Sean Gordon were participants.
A press release lists Pat Bertoletti, Matt Stonie, Erik Denmark, Juan Rodriguez and Michelle Lesco as expected entrants in the Nugget World Rib-Eating Championship in Sparks, NV on August 29.
Registration will open at 5 pm Eastern tomorrow on ifoce.com for the Wild Eggs National Pancake Eating Championship to be held September 29 in Louisville. The purse will be $4000 ($2000 to the winner).
Registration for the 2012 Chef One Dumpling eating contest to be held at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 is not now open. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000 / $500 / $300 to the top three male and female entrants.
Philadelphia.CBSLocal.com has a video of a torrential reversal of fortune by "Sloth" in Wing Bowl 9, which Angelo Cataldi calls his favorite Wing Bowl momemt.
Red Cup Yogurt in Oceanside, CA will hold an eating contest awarding $400 (prize distribution not given) to the three fastest finishers of a gallon (8 pounds) of yogurt.
Registration for the Western Days Festival World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX on September 29 will open on ifoce.com at 3 pm Central today.
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