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March 15-18 MLE contest registration info: now open - April 11 Augusta, GA Hooters qualifier | May 19 Houston Niko Niko Gyros opens 3pm central / 4 pm eastern today | April 21 Salisbury, MD Pork in the Park wing eating contest opens 4 pm eastern Monday.
MLE has a video of Sonya Thomas' victory at the first Hooters wing eating qualifier in Augusta, Georgia.

Sonya Thomas wins Augusta Hooters qualifier

update April 6 More results Part 2 | Part 3
WJBF has an article about the wing certification

update 9:43 Sonya Thomas won with 140 wings in 10 minutes, Damien Boykin was the runner-up and Jon Bello was 3rd. The finals will be in New York City on July 28.

update 9:04 The contest is about to start. (A picture)

Sonya Thomas was present for John Daly certifying the wings this afternoon. (picture 1 | picture 2)

The contest is expected to start at 8 pm.

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John Daly will certify wings for the Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship qualifier in Augusta, GA tomorrow at 1 pm. According to Wikipedia, the 1995 British Open champion lost his Hooters sponsorship in May 2009 after he was found drunk outside a North Carolina Hooters in 2008.
Sonya Thomas is expected to compete in the first qualifier of the Hooters World Wing Eating Championship in Augusta, GA on Thursday. update Apr 4 A list of additional competitors (none in the IFOCE top 35) is available.
Registration will open today at 4pm eastern for the first qualifier for the Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship to be held April 5 in Augusta, GA. The qualifier purse will be $1000 with the winner receiving $500 and a trip to the finals. The date and location for the finals and other nine qualifiers were not listed.
The first of 10 qualifiers for the MLE Hooters World Wing Eating Championship will take place in Augusta, GA on April 5 on the first day of the Masters golf tournament.
The Augusta (GA) Chronicle has an article about Saturday's Mudbugabeaux-N-Brew Crawfish Boil and Craft Beer Festival with a guide to crawfish eating techniques for participants in the crawfish eating contest.

Dale Boone wins $1000 in pizza challenge

Augusta.com reports that Dale Boone won $1000 recently by being the first person to eat a 28 inch cheese pizza from Roma’s Pizza in under 90 minutes.

WLOCE.com reports
that Dale Boone also won the Apple Ugly eating contest in North Carolina yesterday and competed in the Elizabethton, TN hot dog contest.

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