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GroveFest in St. Louis will hold a hot dog eating contest on October 7 awarding $100 to the winner.
Eli Lessig ate 82 donut holes in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 in the July 4 eating contest held at Paristown Point in Louisville.
Jeff's Donuts will hold a donut eating contest at Paristown in Louisville on July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Tin Roof in Louisville will hold a wing eating contest on September 30 awarding $200 to the winner.
Hopcat will hold fry eating qualifiers at its 17 locations (mainly in the midwest, but also Port St. Lucie, FL) on January 19. Winners will receive a $500 prize package and the chance to compete for a $2000 prize in Ypsilanti, MI in July. The chain previously called its signature side dish used in the competition "crack fries", but will changing the name because it was considered insensitive to drug addicts.
Dave "US Male" Goldstein completed an Ironman Triathlon (26.2 mile run, 2.4 mile swim & 112 mile bike ride) in Louisville on Sunday. (result page)

2017 Louisville Nathan’s qualifier

update April 29 News.com.au has a contest report

update April 24 AJean1991 as videos Part 1 | Part 2

update Courier Journal has an article about Stevie Palmer | Courier Journal gallery

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Matt “Sweet Tooth” Cohen 22
2) Brian Eick 16
3) Steve Lancette 14
4) Matt Raible 13.5
5) Michael Jean 12.5
6) Ethan Teske 11.5

1w) Stevie “Eats a Lot” Palmer 10
2w) Liz McClurg 7, allowed to compete despite already qualifying in October in Nashville

WDRB has a qualifier preview featuring station employee Cory who will be competing in the qualifier.

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Joey Chestnut did an interview about Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at Thunder Over Louisville (he will not be present). The article does not list the expected entrants, but Matt Cohen, Sarah "Unstoppable BAB" Reinecke and "Stevie Eats a Lot" are hoping to compete.
WDRB.com has an article about Randy Santel finishing the "Big Wick" challenge at Wick's Pizza Parlor in Louisville to start his Spring 2016 tour.
Scout.com reports the Louisville Cardinals defeated Texas A & M in the hot chicken eating contest for Music City Bowl teams in Nashville. The professional hot chicken eating contest will be held on Tuesday.
The Louisville Boat Show will hold a Hooter's wing eating contest on January 23 awarding a wing party from Hooter's and pair of tickets to all three races at Kentucky Speedway during Sprint Cup weekend.
Fourth Street Live! in Louisville will hold a king cake eating contest on March 1 awarding $500 to the winner.  

2013 Radcliff, KY hard boiled egg contest

update Oct 8 Two days after the contest, the official top 4 has been announced. Ronnie Hartman was #5 with 40

update Oct 6 WDBR has an article and video

The News Enterprise has an article

Matt Stonie has the top 4
1st- Joey Chestnut- 141 eggs
2nd- Matt Stonie – 132
3rd- Miki Sudo – 109
4th- Sonya Thomas – 92

update Joey Chestnut reportedly ate 141 eggs in 8 minutes, which is a rate of an egg every 3.4 seconds.

WDRB.com has an article on amateur competitor Nick Holeman.

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Colton's Steakhouse & Grill in Radcliff, KY will hold a boneless wing eating contest on September 22 awarding a spot in the MLE hard boiled egg eating contest on October 5. Sonya Thomas is listed as an expected entrant in that contest.
Joey Chestnut will attempt to break the MLE hard boiled egg record in an eating contest in Radcliff, KY on October 5. update Registration for the contest is now open
The Dhuff & Nasty show announces that 'Matt (sic) "Deep Dish" Bertoletti" will appear on tomorrow's episode on 1450thesportsbuz.com.
Wingstop in Louisville will hold an atomic wing eating contest on March 9 awarding a $500 gift card to the winner.
The Mardi Gras Festival in Louisville will hold a king cake eating contest on Saturday awarding $500 to the winner.

Wild Eggs National Pancake-Eating Championship

update Oct 1 #2 Dhuff and Nasty show has a video
Jesse Max Rasmussen has a facebook gallery

update Oct 1 Matt Stonie has a gallery
The Rake and Herald has a contest report

update Sept 30 LA Beast ate 22.5 pancakes

Results via MLE twitter Part 1 | Part 2

1 Pat Bertoletti 50 pancakes
2 Matt Stonie 47
3 Tim Brown 28.5
4 Meredith Boxberger 23.5
5 Badlands Booker 23
6 Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 22.5
? Andrew Kogutkiewicz 14
? Tracy Goode 13

Pat Bertoletti appeared on WDRB yesterday to promote the contest, which is expected to start at 2 pm eastern.

Matt Stonie has finished ahead of Pat Bertoletti the last two times he has faced him (and in 3 of the 6 contests they have both appeared in this year.)
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InsiderLouisville has an interview with Meredith Boxberger about competing in the Wild Eggs Pancake Eating Championship in Louisville on Saturday. Pat Bertoletti and Matt Stonie are also expected to compete.
Registration will open at 5 pm Eastern tomorrow on ifoce.com for the Wild Eggs National Pancake Eating Championship to be held September 29 in Louisville. The purse will be $4000 ($2000 to the winner).
King cake eating contests in Louisville and Kansas City on February 18 will both award $500.
The Louisville Boat Show will hold a wing eating contest on January 28 awarding a Polaris ATV. Qualifiers will be held at Louisville area Hooters on January 10, 17 and 24.
Louisville.com has started a series about eating challenges in Kentucky. The first challenge in the series is the Fat Teddy burger at Chubby Ray's.
A king cake eating contest awarding $500 to the winner will be held in Louisville on March 5.
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