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Alexander de Vera won the first prize of $500 in Saturday's lumpia eating contest at the Island Pacific in Granada Hills, CA (results announcement starts at 1:00). Raina Huang also did an exhibition. The contest was closed to previous winners and professional eaters.
Raina Huang won the first prize of $1,000 in today's pizza eating contest at Topanga Social in Los Angeles.
Island Pacific will hold a lumpia eating contest at its Granada Hills, CA location on March 16 awarding $500 to the winner and $250 to the runner up. Professional eaters and former competitors are not eligible.
Patches and Pins Expo will hold an apple pie eating contest in Pomona, CA on March 9 awarding a 60 inch TV to the winner.

James Webb wins Wonderful Pistachios, Joey Chestnut 5th

update Feb 28
Santa Monica Closeup and Ed Woo have videos
Santa Monica Daily Press has an article

Results from James Webb’s video (announcement starts at 33:35): 8 minute contest
1 James Webb 338 pistachios
2T Nick Wehry 221
2T Darrien Thomas 221
4 Steve Hammond 191
5T Joey Chestnut 167
5T Bartley Weaver 167
7 Joey Bosa 152
8 Gideon Oji 147

I think this is the first time Joey Chestnut’s contest total has ever been doubled. Even in his first Nathan’s finals in 2005, he still ate about 2/3 of what Takeru Kobayashi did (32 hot dogs vs. 49)

Joey Bosa finished ahead of MLE’s #6 eater, Gideon Oji.

In a post contest interview on stage, Darrien Thomas said he not only abstained from training, he had never eaten a pistachio before the competition. That handicap did not prevent him from finishing second.

TMZ has an interview with Los Angeles Chargers defender Joey Bosa about competing in today’s Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin’ Eating Championship at the Santa Monica Pier. Bosa is not the first NFL defensive lineman to compete in a Major League Eating contest, In 2003 William Perry competed in the Nathan’s hot dog finals and ate 4 hot dogs before quitting midway through the competition. In 2005, Perry also particpated in the Trip Rewards World Birthday Cake Eating Championship and finished last.

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Linda Cohn has uploaded an excerpt from Friday night's ESPN Sportcenter of her interview with Joey Chestnut and Los Angeles Chargers defender Joey Bosa about competing in Monday's pistachio eating contest in Santa Monica. Bosa says that his new head coach Jim Harbaugh hoped he would win the contest.
A Japanese television program has posted a casting call for 6 bodybuilders to face off against a competitive eater in an eating contest in Los Angeles County on March 15. The selected competitors will receive $300/day
The Los Angeles Dodgers have posted a video of a wing eating contest attended by several of their players. Hiro was the winner with 69 wings. Several Dodgers were asked how many wings could they eat in a competition. Shohei Ohtani believes he could eat 40 wings.
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa will compete in the Wonderful Pistachios eating contest at Pacific Park in Santa Monica on February 26. Other expected entrants include defending champ Nick Wehry, Joey Chestnut, James Webb, Bartley Weaver IV and Darrien Thomas.
Topanga Social will hold a pizza eating contest in Los Angeles on March 9 awarding $1,000 to the winner. Raina Huang will compete.
Island Pacific Market will hold a "Superball" fish ball eating contest on February 10 in Santa Clarita, CA awarding $1,000 to the winner.
The Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin' Eating Championship will be held in Santa Monica on February 26. Registration is closed.
Raina Huang was the runner up in tonight's burger eating contest at Topanga Social in Los Angeles. (I do not recognize the winner, whose name was not posted). Image from https://www.instagram.com/eatplaytopangasocial stories.
Topanga Social will hold a burger eating contest in Los Angeles on December 16 awarding $1,000. Raina Huang will compete.
Raina Huang ate 92 dumplings to win the first prize of $1,000 at today's Topanga Social eating contest in Canoga Park, CA.
Topanga Social will hold a dumpling eating contest in Canoga Park, CA on November 18 awarding $1000 to the winner. Raina Huang will host.
Raina Huang ate 15 hot dogs in 10 minutes on Saturday to win in Topanga Social's eating contest in Canoga Park, CA. Despite being larger than normal frankfurters, that total would have placed her 4th in the latest Nathans's Famous women's finals. Raina gave $250 from her $1000 prize to both of the second place finishers.
A hot dog eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner will be held in Topanga, CA on October 7. Raina Huang will attend.
Boomtown Brewery in Los Angeles is holding an amateur only vegan hot dog eating contest awarding $500 to the winner.
Wonderful Pistachios announces they have recalculated the totals for the top 3 finishers in its February 26 eating contest, almost doubling their amounts: Nick Wehry 109->188, Adrian Morgan 102->176, Miki Sudo 100->173

Nick Wehry wins Wonderful Pistachios, Joey Chestnut last

Official results for this morning’s Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin’ Eating Championship held at the Santa Monica Pier. Joey Chestnut’s 7th place finish is his worst placing since a first round loss in the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a 32 person tournament.

1st 109 Nick Wehry 1st MLE non-qualifier victory
2nd 102 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
3rd 100 Miki Sudo
4th 88 Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond
5th 85 Bartley Weaver, IV
6th 72 Gideon Oji
7th 70 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 7th is worth placing since 2005 US Open

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Gener De Guzman ate 36 fishballs in one minute to defend his title and take the first prize of $1000 in Saturday's Super Ball: Fishball Eating Contest held at Island Pacific Santa Clarita.
Registration will open later today for the Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin' Eating Championship to be held in Santa Monica on February 26. A press release lists Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Gideon Oji as expected entrants. This probably implies that Joey Chestnut has extended his MLE contract and dropped plans for a rematch with Takeru Kobayashi.
Insider Food produced a video about the 54 inch square pizza challenge available at Big Mama's and Papa's locations in Los Angeles County.
The Nisei Week festival in Los Angeles has replaced its gyoza eating contest with food demonstrations by local chefs.
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