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Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Juan Rodriguez, Sergio Reyes Raya and Mary Bowers are expected to compete in the Pacific Park World Taco-Eating Championship in Santa Monica, CA October 4.

September 12, 2019 at 10:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Los Angeles | Permalink * Comments (6)

The Tulare County Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest on September 14 awarding $500/$200/$100 to the top 3 finishers.

September 11, 2019 at 3:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fresno, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang ate 14 hot dogs in 3 minutes to win the first prize of $200 in Sunday's hot dog eating contest at Down and Out in Los Angeles.

September 11, 2019 at 3:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Los Angeles, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (14)

Down and Out in Los Angeles will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner.

September 7, 2019 at 9:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Lumpy's Diner will hold a burger eating contest in Antioch, CA on October 12 awarding $1000/$250/$100 to the top 3.

September 3, 2019 at 7:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Oakland, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Molly Schuyler ate a 20 pounds bowl of ramen in 2 minutes 3 seconds to win a contest held yesterday at Foodbeast's Noodbeach festival in Huntington Beach, CA. Dan Kennedy was runner up with a time of 2:15. (video) update FoodBeast video

September 2, 2019 at 12:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Molly Schuyler, Orange County | Permalink * Comments (9)

Brandon Clark has uploaded a video of his victory over Molly Schuyler at a hot dog eating contest held at The Smoking Gun in San Diego on July 4.

August 26, 2019 at 7:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brandon Clark, Molly Schuyler, San Diego, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

Foodbeast will hold a 20 pound ramen bowl eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner as part of its Noodbeach festinval in Huntington Beach, CA on September 1. Molly Schuyler is expected to compete.

August 23, 2019 at 1:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Orange County, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (14)

2019 Day-Lee Foods Gyoza Championship

August 17, 2019 at 4:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Joey Chestnut, Los Angeles

update: Russia Today has a video

videos: Two Big Bites | Ruptly

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

1st 314 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 256 Darron Breeden
3rd 238 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
4th 188 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez
5th 180 Matt “Hungry” Hazzard
6th 175 Derek Jacobs
7th 162 Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave
8th 159 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
9th 155 Rich “The Locust” LeFevre
10th 151 Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran
11th 142 George Chiger
11th 142 Derek Hendrickson
13th 133 Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke
14th 114 Pablo Martinez
15th 100 Steve Hendry
16th 94 Eric “Badlands” Booker
17th 85 Doug “Cerebrus” Ecks
18th 44 Evans

The contest is expected to be streamed on http://facebook.com/gyozachampionship

Previous winners of the contest
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Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark reports that he ate 24 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 at a contest held at The Hive in Waldomar, CA.

August 17, 2019 at 4:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brandon Clark, Contest Results, Inland Empire, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (13)

Registration is now open on the MLE website for the Pacific Park World Taco Eating Championship in Santa Monica on October 4.

August 16, 2019 at 6:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles | Permalink * Comments (5)

Competitor in Fresno Grizzlies taco qualifier passes away

August 14, 2019 at 12:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Fresno

update #5MLE have made their first social media update since Tuesday’s tragedy with an Instagram post about Badlands Booker’s new video. The Sacramento Bee has an article The family has set up a fundraising page on facebook

update #4 Yahoo.com has an interview with the family of the deceased. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office announced that choking was the cause of death.

Another tweet promoting Tuesday’s contest as a MLE qualifier has been deleted (Original URL) Here is a screen capture:

update #3Saturday’s contest has been removed from the MLE schedule.

update #2 Saturday’s MLE contest has been cancelled (Fresno Bee article)

The Fresno Grizzlies have deleted the June 26 tweet promoting last night’s contest as a MLE qualifier. Here is a screenshot:

update The Fresno Grizzlies have posted an official statement which denies that last night’s contest was MLE sanctioned or a qualifier for a MLE event. The contest was promoted as awarding a spot in Saturday’s MLE contest. The Fresno Grizzlies held qualifiers in 2017 and 2018. Both competitions were won by Zach Armas, who took 6th and 5th place in the MLE events.

The Fresno Bee reports that a competitor in last night’s taco eating contest at the Fresno Grizzlies ballpark passed away. The competition was to have awarded a spot in Saturday’s MLE contest. I believe this is the first fatality connected with a sanctioned event in American competitive eating history. Details about the incident:

Fans at the game said a man collapsed to the ground in the middle of the taco eating contest. Emergency medical technicians then attempted the Heimlich maneuver and CPR before paramedics arrived in an ambulance and tried to resuscitate him, fans added.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the man collapsed.

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The Hive in Wildomar, CA will hold a hot dog eating contest on August 17 awarding $1000 to the winner.

August 8, 2019 at 6:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Inland Empire, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

A press release lists the entrants for the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles August 17: Joey Chestnut (#1), Matt Stonie (#3), Darron Breeden (#4), Michelle Lesco (#10), Matt Hazzard (#11), George Chiger (#12), Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran (#13), Juan Rodriguez (#14), Derek Jacobs (#15), Rich LeFevre (#19), Juan Neave (#20), Eric Booker (#21), Steve Hendry (#22), Pablo Martinez (#23), Sarah Reinecke (#26), and Derek Hendrickson (#34)

July 30, 2019 at 11:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Los Angeles | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang won the first prize of $500 in tonight's vegan hot dog eating contest at the Vegan Playground in San Diego.

July 23, 2019 at 11:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Raina Huang, San Diego, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (15)

Molly Schuyler ate 34 corn dogs to defend her title at the California State Corn Dog Eating Championship in Sacramento.

July 20, 2019 at 11:45 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Molly Schuyler, Sacramento, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (10)

Vegan Playground in San Diego will hold a vegan hot dog eating contest on July 23 awarding $500 to the winner.

July 19, 2019 at 5:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, San Diego, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (4)

Registration is now open for the Fresno Tacos World Taco-Eating Championship on August 17. Registration will open later today for the pork roll eating contest in Trenton September 21 and the Lewisville, TX tamale contest on September 28.

July 16, 2019 at 6:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas, Fresno, Trenton | Permalink * Comments

The California State Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest July 20 in Sacramento awarding $2500/$2000/$1000/$500/$100. A qualifier will be held on July 19.

July 12, 2019 at 10:45 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Sacramento, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (6)

PacificSanDiego.com has a gallery of yesterday's hot dog eating contest held at The Smoking Gun. Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark claimed the $1,000 first prize. Molly Schuyler also competed.

July 5, 2019 at 5:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brandon Clark, Contest Results, Molly Schuyler, San Diego, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (20)

Molly Schuyler defends Paul’s Pantry cinnamon rolls

July 4, 2019 at 7:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Molly Schuyler, Orange County, Unafilliated Contests

Results from today’s cinnamon roll eating contest at Paul’s Pantry in Mission Viejo, CA

1st 19 Molly Schuyler
2nd 14 Brandon Clark
3rd 13 Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond
4th 12 Edward Chin
5th 10 Naader “Freak8r” Reda
6th 9 Kevin Ross
7th 4 David Jennings
7th 4 Craig Takata
9th 3 Tom Chin
10th 2 Jim Magee

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Randy Santel is now 3/4 of the way to 1000 wins after completing his 750th restaurant challenge at Oh My Burger in Gardena, CA.

July 4, 2019 at 6:57 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Randy Santel | Permalink * Comments (9)

The Smoking Gun will hold a hot dog eating contest in San Diego on July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner.

June 27, 2019 at 9:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, San Diego, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Steve Hendry wins Santa Cruz qualifier

June 27, 2019 at 1:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2019 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Contest Results, San Jose, Steve Hendry

update July 1 DailyDemocrat and TimesHeraldOnline have articles

Here is the top 5 as best as I can figure out (twitter thread)

1st 25 Steve Hendry
2nd 15.5 Sergio Reyes-Raya
3rd 13 Kirk Taylor
4th 12 “funubergames”
5th 11 Jon Davis

Steve Hendry won tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier in Santa Cruz. No females competed. updateMatthew White has a video | Preview video

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2019 Hooters Wing Championship

June 19, 2019 at 9:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Geoff Esper, Hooter's Wing Eating Championship, Lake Tahoe

Official results

1st 281 Geoffrey Esper new record
2nd 256 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 234 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
4th 223 Nick Wehry
5th 214 Miki Sudo
6th 200 Gideon Oji
7th 199 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
8th 172 Steve Hendry
9th 158 Matt “Hungry” Hazzard
10th 115 Pablo Martinez
11th 111 Nate Biller

Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie did a joint interview on FoxReno.com this morning.

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