Upcoming eating contests
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Denver hot dog contest with 4 qualifiers
A hot dog eating contest will be held at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs in Denver this summer. The first qualifier in a series of 4 will take place on Sunday, June 1 and the top two finishers in each qualifier will advance to the finals on July 27. The grand prize is a $300 gift certificate to Sam’s Club / Wal-mart and the entrance fee is $25, with proceeds going to the Colorado Aids Walk and Project Angel Heart.
Link Buffet: May 23, 2008
- Erik Denmark appears on local afternoon news
- Beautiful Brian has a contest report and video of the watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center
- Hall Hunt predicts Saturday’s Pennsylvania qualifiers
- Don Lerman retells the legend of the half blanket
- Jill Stoler will compete in the Virginia strawberry contest
- Beau Jo’s Pizza to host pizza eating contest May 31
- A new trailer for the “Chili Dawg” documentary about the 2002 Wing Bowl.
- Burger eating contest for MTV employees
Colorado cookie contest coverage
Liz K wrote a report for Westword about the cookie eating contest held by the Denver Eating Contest meetup group on Friday. She brought along a friend Micah who would finish third, but did not compete herself despite cookie cravings probably caused by her pregnancy.
Andrew Lane was the runner up and produced a blog entry and gallery about the contest. “Mongo” Marquez was the victor.
Krista also report a report about the event for urbanhonking.com/truefan
Denver eating contest meetup group calendar
With 4 events on its calendar, the Denver eating contest meetup group has as many scheduled events as the IFOCE upcoming contest list. Contests will generally be held on Friday night:
Fri Feb 15, 7:00 PM Chili Dawg Challenge
Fri Feb 29, 7:00 PM Slyder Slugfest
Fri Mar 7, 7:00 PM Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Chow
Mon Mar 17, 7:00 PM St Patty’s Corned Beef & Cabbage Carnage
Link Buffet: January 30, 2008
Krystal Square Off finalists offer advice on how to eat as much as possible in as short a period of time as possible in USAToday.com
The Hollywood Reporter on Super Bowl halftime viewing options
Giant sushi roll eating contest for teams of Japanese female college students
Blog entry & gallery by recent Quick Chek sub winner
Picture of Sonya Thomas & fan at Washington Capitals game
NY Daily News on Brooklyn vegan wing eating contest
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane attempts 7 pound breakfast burrito challenge (Female burrito finishers receive free food for life)
Don “Moses” Lerman is upset about not being named a jalapeno judge
Krystal Super Bowl photo contest
Denver contest reports
Liz K attended a hot dog eating contest at Olde Tyme Drafts and Dawgs and wrote a blog entry about it for Westword. Entrants had to eat 15 hot dogs in under two hours. Bathroom breaks (without vomiting) were allowed. The restaurant will try to repeat the contest monthly.
Skinnyboy has part I of a report on the Denver Wing Bowl on his blog.
Denver Wing Bowl Jan 12
The Denver Wing Bowl will be held on Saturday at halftime of a Colorado Mammoth indoor lacrosse game at the Pepsi Center. A qualifier will be held on Thursday.
From “Mongo” Marquez, who has set up a meetup group for Denver area fans of competitive eating
Beau Jo’s 14 pound pizza video
A video clip about the construction and attempted consumption of the 14 pound pizza from Beau Jo’s in Colorado from Food TV’s Unwrapped is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MOwffwuhQ
Mongo Marquez article in Rocky Mountain News
The Rocky Mountain News has an article about Englewood, CO resident Marco “Mongo” Marquez. Marquez will try to gain entrance to the Nathan’s finals at the Mall of America qualifier. Crazy Legs Conti is also expected to compete in that event. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane and Russell “the Mad Stork” Witzke are also mentioned.
Denver & Dallas Wing Bowls
(Thanks Skinnyboy) Andrew “Skinnyboy” has a blog entry about the Denver Wing Bowl held January 13.
The Dallas Wing Championship Series Finals will take place sometime in the near future. (The second round contest that was supposed to be held last weekend was cancelled due to weather) Last year’s contest had a preliminary contest between teams from Hooters and ESPN Gameday. Here are some pictures from that event:
A White Christmas via the internet
If you wished you had a White Christmas, but there is no snow where you live, Liz has some pictures of the Denver blizzard on her website.
Liz is working (in Denver)
Congratulations to Liz Kellermeyer who found a (paying) job in Denver after just two weeks of residency there.
Liz moves west (Cats on a Plane)
You would assume a passenger on JetBlue would experience fewer tribulations than a pioneer travelling in a covered wagon, but that assumption does not appear to hold in Liz’s move to Denver.
Colorado jalapeno contest
(Thanks Liz & Anita) The Greeley (CO) Tribune has a report about Saturday’s jalapeno eating contest. The winner, Jerry Esparza, ate 58 peppers in 10 minutes and had to skip the awards ceremony because he was tending to more pressing affairs.
Liz is moving to Denver
In her latest blog entry, Liz of urbanhonking says she is moving to Denver at the end of the month. Hopefully her move will not mean the end of her competitive eating writing career. There are currently more upcoming southwestern contests than northeastern ones.
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane profile in Denver Post
The Denver Post has a long profile of Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane which provides the origin of his nickname. Skinnyboy competed in yesterday’s kolache contest in Nebraska where he finished 4th.
Grilled Cheese Grabbag
The Grilled Cheese Page on goldenpalace.com has been updated with writeups of all the August qualifiers. The only pictures available are from the first two contests. Some pictures of Rich LeFevre at the Taste of Colorado contest can be found at the Canon digital photography forum.
That page also has a link to a profile of Donovan Busta from the Boulder Dirt written before the Colorado qualifier.
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