Upcoming Denver eating contests
Denver eating challenges
(All Denver eating challenges and contests in database)
The page about the "Hugilio" challenge on Virgilio's web site has been updated with pictures and a video of Stephanie Torres finishing the 11 pound pizza in an hour and 51 minutes on February 22. update Andrew Lane has a blog entry about Stephanie eating the 7 pound burrito at Jack n Grill (via comment).
A video of Stephanie Torres receiving $1000 for finishing the 11 pound "Hugilio" pizza challenge at Virgilio's in Lakewood, Colorado has been uploaded to youtube.
A team of Andrew Lane and Jimmy Mares was the first team to finish (after 32 failures) the 28 inch pizza challenge at Abo's Pizza in Littleton, Colorado.
A commenter on the KBPI message board reports that Mongo Marquez won yesterday's Wing Bowl held at halftime of a Colorado Mammoth game. update A video about the contest reports Mongo ate 5.7 pounds of wings (via commenter)
A Los Angeles Times article about calorie-heavy meals links to a blog entry by Andrew Lane about finishing the seven pound burrito at Jack N Grill.
Andrew Lane has a blog entry about competing in a wing eating contest at Rock Rest in Golden, Colorado recorded for an upcoming episode of Outrageous Food.
MileHighSoapbox reports that Outrageous Food will record at Corona's Mexican Grill in Broomfield, CO on January, which has a 6.66 pound taco salad challenge.
KBPI has a page about the 2011 Denver Wing Bowl. Qualifying starts tomorrow and the first prize is a 50 inch television.
"Casting calls" for hot wing eaters on two upcoming episodes of "Outrageous Food" have been posted: Badboyz Bistro in Bedford, Pennsylvania needs five people (3 men and 2 women) to eat its "Hellraiser" wings on January 3 and Rock Rest in Golden, CO is looking for hot wing eaters for recording sessions on January 9 and 13.
Qualifiers for the KBPI (Denver) Wing Bowl will be held at the Rock Rest Lounge in Golden, Colorado on January 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21.
A press release announces that the finals of the Denver Wing Bowl will be held at half-time of the January 22 Colorado Mammoth game.
A picture of Karen, a 104 pound grandmother, and the Jack N Grill 5+ pound burrito has been posted to the Man vs. Food forum. The caption says she finishes the burrito every time she dines at Jack N Grill, which is free due to her having previously completed the burrito challenge. (A woman has reportedly finished the burrito at least five times)
The Denver Daily News reports Andrew Lane won last night's taco eating contest at Mezcal with a total of 28 tacos. update Denver Westword has a contest video
Mezcal in Denver will hold a taco eating contest tonight.
The facebook page for Sapp Brothers truck stop in Denver has a gallery of its 9 pound "Ultimate Overload" breakfast skillet challenge. One of the pictures in the gallery shows a diner (who appears to be Jon, finisher of a 7 pound pizza) holding a finisher's shirt.
Brian Gray has a report on his wife's unsuccessful attempt at the 7 pound burrito at Jack n Grill in Denver. While talking with the waiter, he learned that a 105 pound female marathoner finished the burrito in about an hour, then she completed the challenge in 28 minutes to win a $20 bet during her next visit to the restaurant.
Black Hawk Rocky Mountain Oysters
update Aug 31 ESPN.com’s Page 2 has an article.
update Aug 30 Sandy Leidholdt has a gallery
update #2 The Denver Post has a contest report and Andrew Lane has a blog entry with a lot of pictures
update Full results are available on the eating contest twitter
The eating contest twitter has the top 5 of the Rocky Mountain oyster eating contest:
1) Pat Bertoletti 3 lbs, 11.75 oz
2) Tim Janus 3 lbs, 11.25 oz
3) Bob Shoudt 3 lbs, 10 oz
4) Juliet Lee 3 lbs, 8 oz
5) Tim Brown 3 lbs. 4 oz.
RMO w/3lbs 11.75 oz, Eater X 2nd w/3lbs 11.25 oz, BOB 3rd 3lbs 10oz, Juliet 4th 3.5lbs, Gravy 3.25
The Denver Post has a preview of the contest containing an interview with Tim Janus.
DenvEater has an interview with Joe Nguyen, who will compete in the Isle Black Hawk Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Championship tomorrow.
Westword has a gallery of the Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters contest held at the Mile High Music Festival.
The MLE twitter reports that the team of Pat Bertoletti, Tim "Gravy" Brown and Bryan Beard (team name: the killer Bs ?) defeated a team of Jimmy John's sandwich makers at the Mile High Music Festival in Denver, 20.5 sandwiches to 20.
The Isle of Capri Casinos website has a list of the entrants in the Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest in Black Hawk, Colorado on August 28. Ten of the top 32 ranked IFOCE members and half of the top 6 are expected to compete. (via Crawfish / Sean Brockert / Bryan Beard)
Pat Bertoletti has an interview in DenvEater about competing in the Jimmy John's Makers vs. Eaters contest at the Mile High Music Festival on Saturday. Bertoletti also offers eating contest advice in the Ice Cream Journal.
In a blog entry about a trip to Denver and Rocky Mountain National Park, The Void Remains reports that an unnamed woman has finished the 7 pound burrito challenge at Jack n Grill five times. (She returns frequently to receive her prize of free food, so that total will probably be increasing.)
The Denver Post lists Pat Bertoletti, Bryan Beard and Tim "Gravy" Brown as the participants in the August 14 Jimmy John's Freaky Fast Sandwich Making and Eating Contest at the Mile High Music Festival.
Westword has a gallery of Steve's Snappin' Dogs Chow Down for Charity hot dog contest. Jimmy Mares was the winner, Andrew Lane was runner up.
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