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TampaBay.com has an interview with Miki Sudo about competing in the Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship tomorrow (her missing the Nathan's finals is not mentioned).

Sean Gordon receives Hooters finals spot

The field for Thursday’s Hooters World Wing Eating Championship has been announced. Sean Gordon has apparently received a wild-card berth after eating 94 wings to finish fourth in the Panama City, FL qualifier. 94 wings was not the most by someone finishing outside the top 3: Jeff Butler, Steve Hendry, Juan Rodriguez, Andrew Kogutkiewicz and Corey Fanguy all ate more(94+ results after jump)

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Sunstar Scheduling is looking for an EMT for a chicken eating contest on July 25 (the phone number corresponds to the Tampa Bay area)
Several Woody’s Bar-B-Q locations in Florida will hold a spare rib eating contest on July 27.
Clearwater.patch.com has a preview of Thursday's Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship listing Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo and Michelle "Cardboard Shell" as expected entrants.
Patch reports that the site of the Hooters finals in Clearwater, FL was damaged by a driver Sunday, but will be repaired by July 25, date of the contest. This is the second MLE contest site to be damaged; the Nathan's finals site was closed for several months following Hurricane Sandy.
Mitchell Manresa won yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, FL which awarded $1,000 to the winner. Michael Parish was runner-up and Liam Burt was 3rd.
TampaBay.com reports that Parker East finished the Inferno Soup challenge at Nitally's in St. Petersburg, FL to claim a bounty that had increased to $1500.
Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, FL will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 11 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
CocoWalk in Miami announces the winner of its hot dog eating contest will receive a prize package worth $1,000.
The Tampa Wing Bowl has been moved to July and the first qualifier will take place on July 10. The finals will award $5000.
Tampa.CBSLocal.com has a web page about the Tampa Wing Bowl. The finals on June 8 will award $1,000 and Wednesday qualifiers will begin on May 15. All contests will take place in Clearwater, FL.

Juan Rodriguez wins 2013 Naples, Fl Nathan’s qualifier

update May 8 Crazy Legs Conti has a report

The top 3 men
1) Juan Rodriguez 27.5
2) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 24.5
3) Crazy Legs Conti 23

Laura Riehman defends her women’s title at the Naples qualifier, increasing her winning count to 6.5 from 4.5

1:30 A Vine.com video from the contest has been posted (does not mention winner)

Today’s qualifier in Naples, FL is expected to start at 1 pm WINK held a promo contest yesterday.

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The Patio in Tampa will hold a pepper eating contest on May 5 awarding $1,000 in prizes.
Crazy Legs Conti, Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez and Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle are expected to compete in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Naples, FL. update May 2 Pat Bertoletti claims he will be visiting Naples this weekend.

2013 West Palm Beach Sweet Corn Fiesta

update May 1 The Palm Beach Post has a contest video

update The Palm Beach Post has a contest report

Top 4 according to Jon Bello’s Instagram

1) Bob Shoudt 35 ears
2) Crazy Legs Conti 34
3) Erik Denmark 33
4) Jon Bello 29

According to the festival facebook, Bob Shoudt has won the contest Crazy Legs Conti was the runner-up

The official start time is 3pm, but the contest has already started according to David Stone.

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Dan Mangiapane has a report for MyCentralJersey about competing in the World Ice Cream Eating Championships in Lakeland, FL. He finished 8th and hopes to receive a slot in the Meadowlands Nathan's qualifier June 29.
Sun-Sentinel reports that expected entrants in Sunday's contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach include Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Erik Denmark, Jon Bello, Craig Reed and defending champion Crazy Legs Conti.
Crazy Legs Conti has a two part series about the Hooters qualifier in Panama City, FL. Part 1 | Part 2. He also has a report on the ice cream eating contest in Orlando.
The finals of the Tampa Bay Wing Bowl will award $5000 to the winner on June 8. Four Qualifiers will start on May 15. All contests will take place in Clearwater, FL.

2013 Miami Nathan’s qualifier

Results – men
1) Yasir Salem 26
2) Brian Duzinski 23 (takes wild card lead (if one is to be awarded))
3) Mike Katz 17.5
4) Juan Angel 13.5

women
1) Mary Bowers 10.5

This is the first southeast Florida Nathan’s qualifier since a 2007 contest held at the Florida Panthers arena. In 1997, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore, famous for creating the “butterfly ballot” used in the 2000 presidential election, would serve as a judge for the Boca Raton Nathan’s qualifier in 1997.

Mary Bowers’ seatmate tweeted: “The lady i sat next to on the plane was flying from LA to Miami to compete in a hot dog eating contest… #goodlord”. Mary appeared on 10local news this morning

Golden Lady Wallace declined an invitation to compete, so apparently spots are still available.

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Florida Ice Cream Festival contest

The top 6:
1) Joey Chestnut 14.5 pints
2) Adrian Morgan 11.5
3) Brian Dudzinski 9.75
4) Jon Bello 9.5
5) Crazy Legs Conti 7
6) Mike Jenkins 6.5

5:17 pm Joey Chestnut won the contest with 14.5 pints in 6 minutes

5:00 pm The contest has started.

RJ Frasca appeared on Studio 10 yesterday to promote the contest.

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FloridaIceCreamFestival.org lists severa competitors in next Saturday's ice cream eating contest including Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti and Juan Rodriguez.

2013 Panama City Beach Hooters qualifier

Article about Neil Sebree’s victories in Destin, FL ghost wing contests. He ate over 90% of what Joey Chestnut ate. If he can match that in a hot dog contest, it would correspond to around 65 hot dogs.

Results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 140 wings
2) Neil Sebree (Freeport, FL) 128
3) Jon Bello 125
4) Sean Gordon 94
5) Yasir Salem 92
6) Henry Victoria 90
7T) Crazy Legs Conti 66
7T) Don Potts 66
9T) Steve Martin 52
9T) Dee Martin 52
11) Warren McFarland 46
12) Carol Jones 38

update Ryan Pinkerton thinks the contest sponsor is Buffalo Wild Wings

Joey Chestnut, Sean Gordon, Crazy Legs Conti and Yasir Salem are expected to compete in today’s wing qualifier. This will be the first qualifier for Joey Chestnut. He was announced as a competitor in last year’s qualifier in Miami, FL but did not compete there and apparently received a bye to the finals.

It will be interesting to see if this year’s circuit follows the pattern of most contests last year and only announces wing counts even though the results were supposedly based on total weight consumed. If the 2012 Olympics 100m men’s sprint was reported in a similar manner, the medalists might look something like this:

  • Gold: Usain Bolt 41 strides
  • Silver: Yohan Blake 46 strides
  • Bronze: Justin Gatlin 42.5 strides

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A press release announces that Joey Chestnut will compete in Saturday's Hooters wing qualifier in Panama City, FL.
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