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Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge at Chronic Taco in Huntington Beach, CA on August 11.
Frontier in Chicago will hold an oyster eating contest on August 12 awarding $200 to the winner. Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown will serve as guest judges.
Fat Boys Crab Shack in Gambrills, MD will hold a wing eating contest on Saturday awarding 2 Washington Nationals all you can eat/drink suite tickets.
The Carnegie Deli in Las Vegas has started an Olympian sandwich eating challenge. (picture)
Randy Santel's completion of the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Wedgewood Broiler in Seattle is the subject of an article in the new edition of Food Network Magazine.
The City Tap House in Philadelphia will hold a watermelon eating contest on Friday awarding Phillies tickets and other prizes.
OregonLive has Naader Reda's diary of his recent eating challenge road trip to Portland-area restaurants.
Piola in Toronto is holding a gnocchi eating contest on August 19 awarding a vintage Vespa scooter. update August 3 The contest might be amateur-only, but that restriction is not in the official rules. "Furious" Pete will host.
NJ.com reports that Adam Balducci won the corn eating contest held at Meadowlands Racetrack on Saturday. Joel Podelsky was third. Joe Menchetti, Pat Philbin and Will Millender were present but did not receive spots. (Joe Menchetti says the winner "ate in the style of Crazy Legs"). update Aug 3 Will Millender has a contest report.
TheGridTO has an article and video about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's victory in a contest held at The Burger's Priest on Saturday where he ate a 12x12 burger in 2:36.
Registration for the Why Pay More! 2012 Soft Taco Challenge in San Juan, Puerto Rico on August 10 will open today at 6 pm eastern on ifoce.com. update August 1 Joey Chestnut says he will not be allowed to defend his title.
The Music City Festival in Nashville will hold a wing eating contest on August 25 awarding a Big Green Egg Smoker with a listed value of $1,000. Qualifiers will be held at Nashville area Hooters on Wednesdays.
Mezcal in Denver will hold a taco eating contest tomorrow awarding $300 in gift cards ($150 to the winner.)
The Financial Times has an article about the hot dog eating contest held Saturday at The All American Diner in New Delhi, India.
The Boomstick Express, a vehicle shaped like a giant hot dog, will debut at today's Texas Rangers game to promote the 24 inch "Boomstick" frankfurter.
Faye Sondergaard finished the Olympic Burger challenge at What's Cooking? in Liverpool, England (before | after).
A press release lists Eric Dahl, Joe Menchetti, Jamie McDonald and Dave Brunelli are listed as expected entrants in the fried mushroom eating contest to be held in Kennet Square, PA (The contest will take place on September 8, which is not mentioned in the release.)
The Trolley Wing Company in Salt Lake City will hold a wing eating contest on Saturday awarding $500 to the winner.
The High Desert Daily Press has an article about Naader Reda.
Baker Street Pub in Tulsa will hold a Scotch egg eating contest on August 11 awarding $250 to the winner.
Renee Castro and Kate Bailey saw Joey Chestnut at a company (probably Maxim Integrated) picnic in San Jose today, where he reported ate 37 ribs in two minutes in an eating contest. (picture)
Chance "Chickenhawk" DeWerth emailed that he won last night's Cleveland Wing Bowl with a total of 2.9 pounds in 10 minutes. Mike Maxey was the runner-up.
Examiner.net has a report on Randy Santel's victory in the UpDog eating contest last night where he ate 16 hot dogs.
Crust in Fenton, MI will hold a pie eating contest on August 12 awarding $500 to the winner.

2012 Hooters World Wing Eating Championship

update July 28 TampaBay.com and Patch.com have articles
TBO.com has a gallery
ClearwaterHag2 has a video of the pre-contest activities

update July 27 Full revised results are available inserting Pat Bertoletti and Juliet Lee at #4 and #5 which knocks Erik Denmark and Nate Biller out of the money.

1st 144 $7,500.00 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut San Jose, CA
2nd 140 $3,000.00 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan Baton Rouge, LA
3rd 131 $2,000.00 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Alexandria, VA
4th 120 $1,000.00 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Chicago, IL not in original results
5th 119 $750.00 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee Germantown, MD not in original results
6th 115 $500.00 Tim “Gravy” Brown Chicago, IL originally listed at 119
7th 102 $250.00 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt Royersford, PA originally listed at 115
8th 88 Erik “The Red” Denmark Seattle, WA originally listed at 102
9th 85 Nate Biller originally listed at 88
10th 55 Lewis Richards from England
11th 53 Crazy Legs Conti New York City, NY about 1/3 of the 148 wings he was credited with in the qualifer
12th 21 Aasif Mandvi The Daily Show contributor, claimed wings tasted like bleach after contest

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