California eating challenges and contests category

Upcoming eating contests
(All California eating challenges and contests in database)

NiseiWeek.org has a list of ranked eaters who will attempt to deny Joey Chestnut his third straight gyoza victory: Tim Brown, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Nate Biller, Kevin Ross and Sean Kirby. A contest slot will be auctioned off before the competition.
Luigi's Slice in Sacramento will host a pizza eating contest on August 22 that will award $500 to the winner.
(From Paul Barlow) San Jose Citysearch has a list of "Practice Spots for Competitive Eaters" in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A press release announces the Los Angeles Dodgers will hold a hot dog eating contest on free Dodger Dog night on September 14. update The LA Times reports that Kobayashi has been contacted about being a contest judge and registration will be handled by 105.9 FM
Sacramento area Hooters will host a wing eating contest over the next month. The finals will take place on September 5 and will award a trip to Hawaii for two and the first qualifier will take place tomorrow at Hooters of Natomas.
LaCostenaTour: A 1 minute jalapeno eating contest will be held at the Oxnard Salsa Festival on Sunday awarding $200 to the winner.
MercuryNews reports that Joey Chestnut will participate in the Tour de French Fry on August 2, in which cyclists will travel to San Jose fast food restaurants and sample their fries. Four slots are available to the highest bidder. Proceeds will go to buy bike helmets for children.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the August 15 Minnesota funnel cake contest and August 22 Los Angeles gyoza contest will open on Wednesday. Registration will open tomorrow for 2 slots in the Illinois August 1 soft taco eating contest.
The team size for the 54 inch square pizza challenge at Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria in Los Angeles has been expanded by one. $1000 will be awarded to a group of six diners that finish the pizza in under 2 hours. update A request for team members (probably by the commenters on bodybuilding.com) has been made on the Man vs. Food forum.
A post on bodybuilding.com reports that ptflyforatallguy (6'8") and Dolfan_714 broke the challenge record at Red Devil pizza in Southern California by eating a 28 inch pizza in 11 minutes and 30 seconds. (The previous record was 18 minutes) Videos of the entire challenge are available: Part 1 | Part 2
The Colusa Sun Herald has a report on Sunday's World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge at the Colusa Casino Resort.

Pizza Challenges on bodybuilding.com

Bodybuilding.com Thread 1 | Thread 2: “Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of him consuming a 16 inch pizza in 2 and a half minutes.

Another bodybuilding.com poster is seeking teammates for the 54 inch square pizza challenge offered by Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles

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Hall Hunt wins Colusa, CA tri tip

The blog for Pizza Party Restaurant reports that Hall "Hoover" Hunt won $100 after finishing the Pepperoni^4 Belly Buster pizza. update PurrDayWithKittys also has a blog entry about the challenge

Pete Davekos wins final Nathan’s qualifier

The contest was apparently moved to San Jose State according to ratlhead’s gallery.

It’s probably a safe assumption that the runner-up of today’s San Bruno qualifier will eat more than 11 HDB that last year’s second place finisher did.

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IFOCE.com announces that Pete Davekos, Brian Subich and Kevin Ross are expected to compete in Saturday's San Francisco-area Nathan's qualifier.
$100 will now be awarded to a diner who completes the Belly Buster pizza challenge at Pizza Party in Santa Clara if the pizza is topped with pepperoni, pepperoni Bagel Bites, pepperoni Pizza Rolls and pepperoni Hot Pockets.
CrazyInSuburbia reports that Adam Richman attempted the Kitchen Sink sundae at San Francisco Creamery Co in Walnut Creek, CA yesterday for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food
OCRegister has the top three and a video from last night's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's. Ronald Milutin won the contest by eating 6 pounds in 30 minutes.
The official Man vs. Food twitter reports the next two sites will be San Francisco and Oahu.
OCRegister has the prizes for tomorrow's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's in Irvine, CA: 1) $400, overnight stay at Radisson Newport Beach Hotel, two Angels tickets and dinner for two at Gulliver’s 2) $200 and gift card for Burke Williams 3) $100 and two Angels tickets.
The World Spicy Topokki Eating Contest will be held before the LA Galaxy's home game tomorrow against Real Salt Lake. $450 in cash will be awarded, $300 to the winner.
(from Crawfish twitter) The Colusa (California) Casino Resort World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge will take place on June 28. The purse is $1,377 and registration opens tomorrow.

Joey vs. Kobayashi in P’Zones May 30

(from RJ Frasca) On the Major League Eating Facebook page:

World hot dog-eating champion Joey Chestnut and arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi will face off on Saturday, May 30, 2009, in one of the greatest battle of their careers: The Pizza Hut P’Zone Chow-lenge. The five-minute event featuring the monster 12″-inch, one-pound P’Zones will take place at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, and portions of the contest will be aired on SpikeTV’s Guys Choice Awards in June.

Kobayashi was to participate in a P’Zone exhibition in 2007 but declined due to “jawthritis”. Joey Chestnut took his place (video)

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