Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Georgia eating challenges and contests in database)
Reporter Newspapers has an interview with Dale Boone, who says his adopted hometown of Brookhaven, GA needs an eating contest with a signature food. Boone considers himself one of three "last of the Mohicans" from the early 2000s competitive eating scene.
Nacoochee Village Tavern and Pizzeria will have a five pound sandwich eating contest tomorrow awarding $500 to the winner.
The new owners of the Krystal restaurant chain are moving its headquarters to Atlanta from Chattanooga, site of six Krystal Square Off finals from 2004 to 2009. (Via Daniel Easter
Roger Wood Foods will hold a sausage eating contest at Oktoberfest in Savannah Saturday awarding $350 ($200 to the winner).
Nelson Hicks has a video of a bratwurst eating contest held at Der Biergarten in Atlanta won by Dale Boone. Grace Lee served as host and judge.
Mike Longo, Dale Boone win BGR Burger qualifiers
update Sept 19 Chris (last name not given) won the Tampa qualifier
update 10:15 Dale Boone won the Atlanta qualifier with 20 sliders
WUSA9 has an article about the Bethesda qualifier with full results and a video
Tito Jackson has a video
update 4:15 Bethesda Now has a gallery and short article
update 12:54 Mike Longo has the top 3 for the Bethesda, MD qualifier
1) Mike Longo 17 sliders, $500
2) Tyron Hill 11
3) John Henderson 7 (additional results will be added as they come in)
A qualifier for the National Cheeseburger Slider Eating Championship will be held today at BGR in Tampa (female bodybuilder Emery Miller will apparently compete). The date was originally announced as September 28. Additional qualifiers awarding $500 and a trip to the championship in May 2013 will be held tomorrow in Bethesda, MD, Coral Gables, FL, Atlanta and possibly Point Loma, CA.
BGR The Burger Joint in Coral Cables, FL will hold a slider eating contest on September 18 awarding $500 to the winner. A slider eating contest might also be held at the BGR Atlanta location on that date. update A blog entry about the Atlanta contest is available.
Patrick Dogan won the Ultimate Shaniac BBQ Eating Contest at Atlanta Motor Speedway yesterday and received a Big Green Egg grill as first prize. Dale Boone was listed as a competitor.
Dale Boone won a hot dog eating contest held in Columubs, GA on Saturday and a burger eating contest held in Nashville, TN on Sunday.
Spicoli's in Columbus, GA will hold a hot dog eating contest Saturday awarding $300 to the winner.
Jack Loonam has pictures of Erin Duddy, a member of the University of Georgia equestrian team, finishing the 5.5 pound burger challenge at Stuffed Burger in Athens, GA. She was the first woman to finish the challenge and her time of 29 minutes was a quarter of the 1:56 it took Ben Jones, a lineman for the Houston Texans, needed to complete the challenge (gallery). update June 19 The restaurant facebook has a gallery.
Googie Burger in Atlanta will hold a fried pickle eating contest on June 23 awarding two tickets to an Atlanta Falcons game.
SubDogs HotDoggery in Savannah will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $300 to both the top male and female. The first qualifer will take place on Friday, June 8.
Wing Kong wins Atlanta Hooters qualifier
update June 6 Kicks105FM has a video
http://twitter.com/eatingcontest/status/209363209247928323“>Micah “Wing Kong” Collins has been announced as the winner of today’s Hooters wing eating qualifier in Atlanta with 122 wings. Yasir Salem was the runner up with 117. update Rest of the results
Tomorrow's Hooters qualifier in Atlanta will take place at Falcons Landing (the area between the Georgia Dome & Phillips Arena) at 2:15 pm (the time is not mentioned on the MLE websites). V103.CBSLocal.com has a gallery of an on-air contest Paul Barlow did Friday.
Registration for the Atlanta Hooters qualifier and Acme Oyster Eating Championship will open tomorrow. Both contests will take place on June 3.
MLE has a video of Sonya Thomas' victory at the first Hooters wing eating qualifier in Augusta, Georgia.
Shane's Rib Shack in Athens, GA will hold a wing eating contest on April 21 awarding $500. A qualifier will take place on April 14.
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.
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 Cajun Crab House in Atlanta will hold a crab leg eating contest on March 31 for women only awarding $250.
Grace "Maneater" Lee will appear in tonight's episode of Kitchen Nightmare's on Fox at 8pm eastern and compete in a chicken wing eating contest. (via Yvonne Monet) (Video interview recorded during episode filming in September) update Jan 15 The contest was cut, youtube has the outtake
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