Upcoming Las Vegas eating contests
Las Vegas eating challenges
(All Las Vegas eating challenges and contests in database)
The Smithfield Foods Whole Hog Challenge will return to the 2016 NASCAR circuit. Winners of bacon eating contest held before the stock car races will receive a trip to Miami to compete in the finals. The next contest will be Sunday in Las Vegas.
Registration is now open for the Nathan's qualifier in Houston on April 30. Registration will open at noon Pacific / 3 pm eastern for the Las Vegas qualifier on April 23. update Registration for the National Sweet Corn Eating Championship in West Palm Beach on April 24 is also open.
Las Vegas Advisor reports that legal brothel Sheri's Ranch in Pahrump, NV has a restaurant that offers a 2 pound burger challenge that is free if finished in under 30 minutes.
Stephanie Wu noted that the jackpot or the Phozilla challenge at Pho 87 in Las Vegas has hit $1,987. The restaurant has previously denied payment to finishers deemed professional eaters.
Las Vegas Weekly has buffet-maximizing tips from Carolyn, who is billed as a "competitive eating queen" who won an hours-long eating contest at Paris Las Vegas’ Le Village Buffet in 2010.
2015 Martorano’s pasta eating contest
update Oct 22 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery & contest report
update Oct 20 Food Beast has a minute by minute account of the contest.
update Oct 19 Paris Vegas has a video of the entire contest
update Oct 18 VegasNews has a report and LVRJ has a gallery
update There was a scoring mixup and all the totals below should be halved. | Part 2
update Official results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 10 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | new record |
| 2nd | 7 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 6.25 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 4th | 5.75 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 5th | 5.62 | Steve Hendry | |
| 6th | 4 | Andrew Creech | |
| 7th | 3.75 | Ron Koch | 1st MLE contest in over 3 years |
| 8th | 3.25 | “El Toro” Jimenez | 1st MLE contest in over 5 years |
| 9th | 2 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 9th | 2 | Byron Shaw | |
| 11th | 1.5 | Angie Hendry |
update Matt Stonie won the contest with a record 20 pounds in 8 minutes. Miki Sudo was the runner up with 14 pounds.
Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rick & Famous is at the contest site.
Miki Sudo appeared on News3LV yesterday to promote Saturday's Martorano's meatballs eating contest.
Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo are expected to compete in Saturday's Martorano’s Masters World Pasta Eating Championship in Las Vegas.
The date of of the Martorano’s Masters World Pasta Eating Championship in Las Vegas has been changed from October 10 to October 17.
Registration is now open for the Martorano’s Masters World Pasta Eating Championship At Paris Las Vegas on October 10. (via Stephanie Wu). update Sep 25 Matt Stonie is expected to compete (Joey Chestnut will be at Taste of DC that day.)
The Turf Grill at the Green Valley Ranch Casino in Henderson, NV will hold a hot dog eating contest tonight awarding $500.
Caesar's Palace reports that "El Toro" was the first person to finish the ice cream challenge at Serendipity 3 yesterday.
The Las Vegas Sun has an article about competitive eating training with quotes from Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez. The Las Veags challenge list says that the jackpot for the Pho 87 challenge is now $1,870.
Craigslist has a request for two "big women" to compete in an eating contest at a Las Vegas bachelor party on July 18. The one hour job will pay $200 with the possibility of "additional work" after the competition.
El Toro won the cannoli meatball eating contest at the San Genarro Festival in Las Vegas for the third year in a row on Sunday.
2015 NYNY Casino Nathan’s qualfiier
update Apr 29 jmanr78 has a contest video
update Apr 26 Review Journal has a gallery
NYNY Casino has a press release about the contest
Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Matt Stonie 48
2) Steve Hendry 27 – current wild card #2 (Dave Wood #1)
3) Rich LeFevre 26 – current wild card #3
4) Pablo Martinez 19
5T) Zack Frank 9
5T) Adrian Padilla 9
7) Brian Chung 8
8) Magnificent Ben 7
1W) Michelle Lesco 27.25
2W) Carlene LeFevre 14, women’s wild card leader
Crazy Legs Conti wrote a preview of the qualifier for the Huffington Post
The field appears to include Matt Stonie, Michelle Lesco, the LeFevres, Steve Hendry and Pablo Martinez. Joey Chestnut is present as a spectator.
Records in danger in tomorrow’s Las Vegas qualifier?
Matt Stonie has posted a video of a training session where he ate 59 hot dogs. If he can match that in tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier in Vegas, he would have a chance at breaking the all time qualifier of 59.5 hot dogs (in 12 minutes) set by Joey Chestnut in 2007. The high temperature tomorrow is predicted to be 73 with a chance of rain, which should facilitate high numbers.
| 2007 Jun 2 | 1st | 59.5 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier | Tempe, AZ |
| 2014 Jun 21 | 1st | 53 | 10 min | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Boston, MA |
| 2006 May 18 | 1st | 50 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2009 May 16 | 1st | 50 | 10 min | Tim “Eater X” Janus | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier | East Hartford, CT |
| 2013 Jun 29 | 1st | 50 | 10 min | Tim “Eater X” Janus | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Queens, NY |
In a recent Fink Beats the Stomach podcast, Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco said she hoped to hit 35 hot dogs. This would be the all time non-Asian women’s Nathan’s record, which is still held by Molly Schuyler.
| 2013 Jun 2 | 1st | 31 | 10 min | Molly Schuyler | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | St. Paul, MN |
| 2011 Jul 4 | 3rd | 28.5 | 10 min | Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2014 May 31 | 1st | 28.5 | 10 min | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Bloomingdale, IL |
| 2013 Jul 4 | 3rd | 27.5 | 10 min | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2014 Jul 4 | 3rd | 27 | 10 min | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2013 Jul 4 | 4th | 26 | 10 min | Meredith Boxberger | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2012 Jul 4 | 3rd | 25.5 | 10 min | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2005 Jul 4 | 7th | 25 | 12 min | Carlene LeFevre | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest | Brooklyn, NY |
Matt Stonie announces he will compete in the Nathan's qualifier at the NYNY Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on April 25.
"El Toro" ate 7 waffles in 3 minutes to win Monday's eating contest at Tiabi in Las Vegas.
A Smithfield bacon eating contest awarding a trip to Miami will be held before the Kobalt 400 NASCAR race in Las Vegas on Sunday. Richard Petty will oversee the competition.
The LA Times did a post in 2006 about "All You Can Eat", a competitive eating screenplay by Josh Heald, writer of Hot Tub Time Machine 2, (The project appears to have been tabled; it no longer appears on Heald's IMDB page). To research the script, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan's Las Vegas qualifier where Joey Chestnut became the first American to hit 50 hot dogs. (The post claims that a competitor at that event fainted and needed to be removed by stretcher, which is the first I had heard about that incident.)
The first two finishers of the 32 taco challenge at Mercadito at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas appear to be Tom Gilbert and "El Toro".
KDBProductions has a video of Naader Reda attempting the Quadruple Bypass Burger at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has a video of his attempt at the 24 slider challenge at Citizens in Las Vegas.
Miki Sudo noted that the prize for the challenge at Pho 87 in Las Vegas is now $1647. The challenge apparently has an unlisted ban on "professional" competitive eaters. The Wall of Shame page offers the following advice: "Mary Jane and Adult Activities before PHOzilla will help increases your's appetide!!Good Luck!"
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