Upcoming Minneapolis eating contests
Minneapolis eating challenges
(All Minneapolis eating challenges and contests in database)
Registration is now open on IFOCE.com for the Yogurtland Fro Yo Eating Challenge at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston on September 29 and World Brain Eating Competition at Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis on October 12.
The Zombie Pub Crawl announces Joey Chestnut will be competing in the World Brain Eating Championship in Minneapolis on October 12. (via citypages)
Molly Schuyler finished the "Meat Your Maker" challenge at Burger Jones in Minneapolis in 4:37.
The roster for the July 4 Diamond Dogs eating contest at The Depot Tavern in Minneapolis has been announced. Defending champion Eric Dahl is not on it.
Molly Schuyler breaks 30 at Grand Old Day
update TwinCities.com has some pictures Dawn Rossback has a video
Results – women
1) Molly Schuyler 31, 4th woman to break 30
2) Courtney Taylor 8
3) Lisa Murray 4
men
1) Pablo Martinez 29
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 25
3) Steve Hendry 24
4) Craig Reed 20
5) Matthew Raible 12
7T) Jeff Munson 11
7T) Andrew Kog. 11
9) Tim Ryan 10
10) Nick Johnson 4
The contest will be held in a 21+ area, which caused issues for Matt Stonie at last year’s Boston qualifier.
KARE 11 had a promo contest (starts at 2:30 mark) for Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in St. Paul, MN. No expected competitors for that event were mentioned besides promo contest participant Nicholas Johnson.
June 2 MLE contest fields: Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Matt Stonie are expected to compete in Sunday's pastrami sandwich eating contest at Katz's Deli in Manhattan, Badlands Booker and Molly Schuyler are listed as favorites in the St. Paul, MN Nathan's qualifier and Sonya Thomas is expected to defend her Acme Oyster title in New Orleans. update May 29 Joey Chestnut confirms he will compete at Katz's and Aaron Osthoff will leave for New Orleans today.
Molly Schuyler appears to have decided to compete in the Nathan's qualifier in St. Paul, Mn on June 2.
Molly Schuyler announces she will be competing in attending the St. Paul, MN Nathan's qualifier.
The Minnesota Wild are holding a pizza eating contest before tomorrow's game against the Nashville Predators. Highway 55 Burgers are holding Big A burger challenge attempts during Carolina Hurricanes home games this season. Tweet #BigAonIce to be entered into the drawing for spots.
Youtube has videos of Eric Dahl's and Molly Schuyler's successful attempt at the 36 inch pizza at Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, MN and the 54 inch pizza attempts by Wreckless Eating and a team of competitive eaters at Big Mama's & Papa's pizza.
Molly Schuyler & Eric Dahl finish 36 inch Randy’s Pizza challenge
The Des Moines Register has an article about Molly Schuyler’s attempt to become a four time finisher of the Adam Emmenecker sandwich challenge at Jethro’s BBQ. This afternoon she finished the challenge in Waukee, IA, but did not break the all-time record. Tonight, Molly will attempt the 36 inch challenge at Randy’s Pizza in Oakdale, MN with Eric Dahl and on Friday she will attempt the Adam Emmenecker at Jethro’s Altoona, Iowa location. The challenge will appear on an ABC5 News segment later today.
update Jan 17 Eric & Molly finished the 36 inch pizza as time expired. They complete the challenge at the 37 minute mark of the uStream video.
ABC5 has a video about Molly Schuyler (thanks for the eatfeats mention) finishing the Emmenecker challenge yesterday and USA Today has an article about her.
update Jan 18 More Molly Schuyler coverage: KCCI | Daily Mail | Des Moines Register video
A press release announces that Miki Sudo will attempt to become the first person to finish Randy's Pizza 30 inch pizza challenge in under 30 minutes without assistance today at 1:30 pm central in Oakdale, MN. The challenge will be livestreamed on www.premierpizza.com. update 1:33 central livestreaming has started update Dec 22 Miki ate about 80% - 90% of the pizza (picture).
Jeremiah "Fit vs. Food" Forster has produced a video of him finishing the 30 inch, 12 pound pizza challenge at Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, MN with Molly Schuyler in a record time of 11:08. He estimates that Molly finished approximately 60% of the pizza.
Jeremiah "Fit vs Food" Forster announces that he completed the 30 inch pizza challenge at Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, MN with Molly Schuyler today in a record time of 11:08. He estimates that Molly ate approximately 85 of the 145 pieces of the twelve pound pizza.
City Pages reports that Eric "Silo" Dahl defended his Diamond Dogs title yesterday. His total of 12 broke last year's mark by 2 and awarded him a $500 bonus. update MPLS TV has a longer article
The Star Tribune has an interview with Eric "Silo" Dahl about defending his Diamond Dog title at The Depot on July 4.
The Depot in Minneapolis will award a $500 bonus if Erik Dahl's record of 10 Diamond Dogs is broken in its contest on July 4.
St. Paul Nathan’s qualifier
update June 4 KS95Vids has a video of the female-runner up, Sally of KS95 who ate six hot dogs.
update 2:28 The female winner was Janice Deregla, Tim Brown’s girlfriend.
update 2:05 The unnamed female winner ate 6.5 hot dogs.
update 1:51 Gravy Brown has been announced as the men’s winner with 28 hot dogs.
The Nathan’s qualifier held at Grand Old Day has been over for at least a half an hour, but no one has bothered to post any results.
Rich Shea hints that there might be a Nathan's qualifier in Minnesota's 2nd most populous city (St. Paul) in 2012. A Minneapolis/St. Paul area Nathan's qualifier was held from 2005-2009. The new poll asks what city that previously held a qualifier (but was not on the 2011 circuit) would you most like to see regain a qualifier.
TwinCitiesLive.com has a video clip of Eric "Silo" Dahl's appearance yesterday to promote his attempt this evening at the Monster 44 Challenge at Dickey's Barbeque Pit. A press release about the attempt is also available. update Eric Dahl finished the challenge in 38:58. update Jan 16 A video of the challenge has been posted.
Eric Dahl was prohibited from competing in a qualifier for a wing eating contest at Champps due to prior competitive eating experience. Mark "Wimpy" Pederson, who has a facebook page about his eating contests, was allowed to compete and took third place in the finals. (Dale, last name not given, won the finals)
Champps will hold a wing eating contest in Maplewood, MN on January 5 awarding a trip to Mexico. Qualifiers will be held tonight and December 22 in Maplewood, MN and New Brighton, MN.
PressNews.com has an article about Mark Pederson's victory in a Juicy Lucy burger eating contest at the 5-8 Club in Champlin, MN.
A 30 inch pizza challenge attempt at Randy's Premier Pizza by Eric Dahl and Randy Santel will be livestreamed today at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/randys-pizza-challenge noon central (1pm eastern). update The pizza was finished in under 15 minutes. A video and picture are available. The previous record was 21 minutes by Hall Hunt and Tim "Gravy" Brown.
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