Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Nevada eating challenges and contests in database)
The Plaza Hotel Casino in Las Vegas will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 30 awarding a $1,000 prize pacakge including $200 cash.
Riz Sushi in Vancover is offering a 10 pound poke bowl challenge for two person teams. Pairs that can complete the meal in 30 minutes before the end of May will be entered into a drawing awarding a trip to Las Vegas.
Max Suzuki has posted a video of his trip to Las Vegas for the Nathan's qualifier which includes a visit to the Heart Attack Grill to attempt the "Octuple Bypass Burger" challenge.
2018 Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifer
update May 8 The Laughing Lion has a video
Results via El Toro periscope (official results)
1) 42.5 Max Suzuki, highest total on 2017-18 circuit so far
2) 25.5 Tom Gilbert
3) 17.75 Ron Koch, final MLE contest
1W) 29 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco, highest female total on 2017-18 circuit
Tom Gilbert is expected to be the primary threat to Max Suzuki. This will be his first MLE contest since the 2013 Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifer. His total of 31 was the highest non-winning total on the 2012-13 circuit, but he did not receive the wild card spot in the finals which went to Erik Denmark.
Rich Lefevre appeared on 8 News Now to promote Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at the NYNY Hotel & Casino. The hosts did not seemm to be aware that he had already qualified for the finals. (facebook video).
The MLE twitter announces that Max Suzuki will do Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at the NYNY Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. I think he will be the first Japanese competitive eater to attempt to qualify for the Nathan's finals since the 2006 qualifier in Tokyo. No other Vegas entrants were listed.
A Nathan's qualifier on April 28 at the NYNY Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has been added to the schedule. This will extend the streak of qualifiers at that venue to at least 16 years and makes the total number of qualifiers in the 2017-18 circuit a record-tying 19.
The Cube has an interview with Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy about the wing eating contest his company held in Las Vegas that received recognition from Guinness as the largest wing contest. 3829 wings were eaten during the competition, with the winner consuming 59.
The Las Vegas Sun has a list of food challenges offered by Sin City restaurants. Miki Sudo is mentioned as one of the challenge finishers.
CNBC has a post about a wing eating contest held in Las Vegas Wednesday by Amazon Web Services. The 214 participants resulted in the competition receiving billing by Guinness World Records as the largest wing eating contest. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos mentioned the event yesterday, probably making him the richest person to be associated with an eating contest.
It does not appear the Nugget Rib Cookoff in Sparks, NV will hold a rib eating contest in 2017.
Miki Sudo will serve as a coach in a contest where five entertainers from the Sapphire Pool & Day Club will attempt to finish 2 hot dogs as fast as possible. The event will take place before the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight on August 26.
Tom Gilbert won the first prize of $500 in today's hot dog eating contest at Papaya King in Las Vegas.
Papaya King in Las Vegas will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 23 awarding $500 to the winner.
2017 Hooters wing championship
The Hooters facebook has a live video of the contest.
update The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 250 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 229 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 3rd | 210 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 191 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | first finish outside top 3 since 2005 |
| 5th | 168 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 158 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 7th | 152 | Josh Miller | |
| 8th | 124 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 9th | 114 | Miki Sudo | |
| 10th | 110 | Steve Hendry | |
| 11th | 108 | Eric “Badlands” Booker |
KTNV did a segment about the Phozilla challenge at Pho 87 in Las Vegas that started Miki Sudo's competitive eating career.
2017 Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifier
update Apr 29 Full contest video
update Apr 25 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery
update Apr 23 Las Vegas Review Journal has a contest writeup reporting Rich LeFevre reversed after the contest
Results
1) Rich LeFevre 30
2) Ryan Biuko 15
3) Doug Ecks 12.5
4) Brian Hochheim 9
1W) Michelle Lesco 29, personal best
If these are all the competitors, 5 might be an all time low for a qualifier field size
Fox5 had a promo contest yesterday
Previous winners of the Las Vegas qualifier
Ginormous Food will record at Truffles N Bacon in Las Vegas on Friday, March 31.
The instagram for the Heart Attack Grill announces that Miki Sudo is working as a bartender at the restaurant's new location on the Las Vegas strip. A reward of $1000 (it was $10000 this morning) will be paid if an amateur can best her time for the "Octuple Bypass" burger challenge.
TMZ reports that Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, ate a 32 ounce Tomahawk steak at the D casino hotel in Las Vegas.
2016 Nugget Rib Eating Championship
update Sept 1 TMZ.com has an article about Rich LeFevre’s 3rd place performance.
update MyNews4 and RGJ.com have articles
1 Joey Chestnut 9.6 lb in 12 minutes
2 Matt Stonie 7.8 lb
3 Rich LeFevre 4.8 lb
4 Steve Hendry 3.6 lb
5 Brian Burghart 2 lb, U of Nevada teacher
6 Donald Brown 1.8 lb
7T Marlon Ting .8 lb
7T Micheal Simpkins .8 lb
9 Gilbert Chick DQ
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie are expected to compete in the Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, NV on Wednesday.
Yesterday, Robert McKinney uploaded a video the Gringo Bandito Chronic Taco Challenge held last month in Las Vegas. Carmen Cincotti noticed that Molly Schuyler's counter did not get updated after she finished a tray at 9:06 and at the 15:11 mark, Kobayashi had his tray swapped with a new one. Kobayashi says that the trays were recounted accurately after the contest. Molly Schuyler has yet to comment.
2016 Gringo Bandito Chronic Tacos eating contest
update Aug 3 Press Release about the contest with the following quote from Chronic Tacos CEO Michael Mohammed: “The competition was a close call as it looked like Molly Schuyler was going to beat Kobayashi but once we weighed the scraps it was clear that Kobayashi had devoured more”
update LetsRun has a forum post about the controversy.
Robert McKinney won the amateur contest with 20 tacos in 3 minutes.
update Naader Reda has a video Results before deductions Molly Schuyler 160 tacos, Takeru Kobayashi 150 tacos
update Kobayashi defended his title with a total of 137 tacos.
This will be the first head to head matchup between Molly Schuyler and Takeru Kobayashi, who has never lost to a woman.
Kobayashi appeared on Fox5 to promote the contest.
The Las Vegas Sun has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about competing in the Gringo Bandito Chronic Tacos Eating Contest on Friday. He incorrectly claims it will be his second contest in Las Vegas after recording shows for Spike TV in 2007; he also won the US Open of Competitive Eating tournament in 2005. On Joey Chestnut he says: "I don’t like him at all, I dislike him very much."
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