DelawareOnline has an article about “The Great Steak Challenge” offered by My Steak and Main in North East, Maryland which will be Adam Richman’s Baltimore-area challenge in an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. An unnamed 110 pound Japanese woman is listed as one of the diners who completed the challenge.

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The Delaware Sports Examiner has a preview of Jake’s burger eating contest finals that will take place at the July 31 Wilmington Blue Rocks game. According to the article, the contest will be sanctioned by the IFOCE (?) and four professional competitive eaters (Pete Czerwinski, Dale Boone, Joe Menchetti and Ian Hickman) and four amateurs will compete.

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An emailed PDF file has information about Jake’s Burger Eating contest

The finals will be held July 31 at a Wilmington (Delaware) Blue Rocks game and award $2000 to the winner, $1000 to second place and $500 to third place

Qualifier Dates $100 awarded to each qualifier winner
6/14 Wilmington, DE (Kirkwood Hwy)
6/22 Newark, DE
6/23 New Castle, DE
6/29 Elkton, DE
6/30 Dover, DE
7/13 Bear, DE
7/14 Claymont, DE
7/19 Chadds Food, PA

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From an email:

The event is going to be bigger and better this year.

Grand Prize is $2,000 2nd Prize is $1,000 and 3rd Prize is $500. We have also added a prize to the qualifying rounds of $100 for each location. There may be some trips involved for the winners too. There will be at least 8 qualifiers.

The final is on Friday night July 31st. At the Wilmington Blue Rocks after the game, but before the fireworks. That will leave about 5,000 people to watch the finals. Qualifying dates to be finalized soon.

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Results from the finals of Jakes burger eating contest held Friday from a Gabe Venit email:

1. Joe Menchetti 10 1/2 $1000 prize
2. Ian Hickman 10 1/4 $100 gift card prize
4. Gabe Venit, might have been DQed

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(from email) Jake’s Hamburgers will sponsor a hamburger eating contest over the next two months. The finals will take place at a Wilmington Blue Rocks game on July 25 and award $1000 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held at the following locations:

Chadds Ford, PA Rt 202 June 23, 2008
Newark, DE Rt 273 June 24, 2008
Wilmington, DE Kirkwood Hwy June 29, 2008
New Castle, DE Rt 13 June 30, 2008
Dover, DE Rt 113 July 7, 2008
Elkton, MD Rt 213 July 8, 2008
Bear, DE Rt 40 July 14, 2008
Claymont, DE Philadelphia Pike July 21, 2008

The entry form states that tickets for the qualifier must be purchased at the site and that finalists will have to pay an additional $20 to compete in the finals.

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Furious “Pete” Czerwinski has swapped positions with Ian Hickman in the rankings after he defeated “The Invader” 17 sandwiches to 12 in yesterday’s eating contest sponsored by Dickey’s Barbecue Pit held in Dover, Delaware.

Bodybuilding.com thread

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(From Sean Gordon)

At Frawley (Blue Rocks) Field, 8 minutes

1. Sean Gordon – 17 HDB
2. Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky – 13 HDB
3. Gabe Venit- 11.5 HDB, 2nd contest (first was qualifier)

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DelawareOnline.com has a blog entry with a lot of pictures about last month’s waterless “Suicide” wing eating contest won by Ian Hickman held in Dewey Beach, DE.

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I have no idea why a blog called “Music and Songs” would have eating contest results, but it reports that a man from Sterling, VA won the “suicide” wing eating contest at the Starboard in Dewey Beach, DE by eating 137 wings in a half an hour.

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The website for The Starboard has information about Sunday’s wing contest.

Sunday is the famous WINGS TO GO SUICIDE WING EATING CONTEST!!! In at least our 20th year of this contest, 3pm this Sunday, you can get your chance to win $500 in CASH by eating the most Suicide Wings within the 30 minute time frame. No Drinks, No other Food, just WINGS!! To sign up, be here before 2pm on Sunday, and see our DJ to get yourself signed up for a shot at the title!

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The website for the Wilmington, DE Blue Rocks has a web page about the hot dog eating contest that will take place before their games. 5 qualifiers will be held throughout the season (one has already taken place). Qualifiers are 8 minutes long.

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DelawareOnline reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Dewey Beach by eating a record 141 wings (without liquids) in 30 minutes. The win was Menchetti’s second of the weekend; he also won the Italian sausage contest in Boston.

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(From beautifulbrian.com bits & pieces) Chrissy, a Sonya Thomas fan from northern Virginia, has made a photo gallery of the Midway Slots Crabcake contest. Sonya is in several of the photographs, but there are also pictures of the top IFOCE eaters who participated in the contest. There are also a lot of generally positive comments about the pictures.

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delawareonline.com has an article about the crabcake contest. Sonya had a cheering section travel from No. VA and had to come from behind to beat Joey Chestnut as in bratwurst.

The Courier-Post has an article about the NJ Tomato festival. The only mention of the pizza contest is that Cookie Jarvis won (there is also a picture of it) Beautiful Brian also has an eyewitness account and some pictures of the contest. (Cookie Jarvis’ wife appears as tall as he is)

No articles about Detroit grilled cheese and no information whatsoever about the Iowa smoked pork contest are available. (Speedeat.com will probably claim that IFOCE.com does not have the Iowa results because they are embarassed about the field besides the LeFevres)

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