Upcoming Buffalo eating contests
Buffalo eating challenges
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PETA has called for the Buffalo Wing Festival to prohibit pregnant women from competing in its eating contests.
Registration opens today at 4pm eastern for the contests at the Buffalo Wing Festival on August 31 and September 1.
FreakEating and AllProEating have videos of Jamie McDonald and Naader Reda attempting the Chick-N-Pizza Magnum 44 Pizza Challenge in Buffalo, NY.
2012 World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship
update YNN.com has a video. Jamie McDonald says he is going to take a break from eating contests until February.
update The top 3 have been posted update Mike Longo has the rest of the top 8
1) Jamie McDonald 33 slices
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 29 (won eat-off)
3) Stephanie Torres 29 (lost eat-off)
4) Chris “The Mad Greek” Abatsas 25
5) Matt Bonanno 21
6) Naader Reda 20
7T) Mike Longo 18
7T) Dave Werrick 18
The World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY has started.
WGRZ.com has a short article about Naader Reda eating 9.5 pounds of pumpkin pie in 30 minutes in Clarence, NY, which was billed as a record. Naader will compete in the World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship tomorrow along with Jamie McDonald, Stephanie Torres, Mike Longo and reportedly "Furious" Pete Czerwinski in his first AICE/APE contest since AICE tried to introduce contracts in 2009.
Joey Chestnut ends Sonya Thomas’ WingFest streak at 5
update Sep 3
The festival facebook, Peter Dunn and Legend Larry’s have galleries.
Brian Seiken has videos: Contest | Interview with Badlands Booker | post-contest trays
jkoszcela also has a video.
Dan Gronkowski of the Cleveland Browns attended the contest
Gersh Kuntzman has an article for the New York Daily News about the contest.
The Daily Mail asks if Sonya Thomas has lost her bite
update 7:53 The Buffalo News reports that Sonya Thomas was the runner up with 6.36 lb. Joey Chestnut’s poundage was 7.61. With Mike Landrich’s comment below and Brian Subich’s claim he was 5th & Badland Booker was 6th, the top 5 is:
1) Joey Chestnut 7.61 lb new record
2) Sonya Thomas 6.36 lb 5 contest winning streak ended
3) Juliet Lee
4) Jim Reeves
5) Brian Subich
6) Eric “Badlands” Booker
update 6:04 Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee apparently both finished in the top 3 according to the Wingfest twitter, but does not list their order. I have not seen any other placings besides the winner.
update The festival twitter announces Joey Chestnut won with a record total of 191 wings. This breaks Sonya Thomas’ five year winning streak at the contest.
The contest page on the festival website has not been updated with the 2012 field; it still lists last year’s competitors.
The Buffalo News has a list of seven tips for competitive eaters from Sonya Thomas.
Entrants from area colleges are being accepted for the College Wing Eating Contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival this weekend.
ZoominUK has a mini-documentary about world competitive eating with footage from a mango eating contest in Inida, the Buffalo Wing Festival, the Nathan's finals and a nettle eating competition in England.
A press release announces that Sonya Thomas, Eric "Badlands" Booker and George Shea will be inducted into the Buffalo Wing "Hall of Flame" on August 31.
Registration for the contests to be held at the Buffalo Wing Festival on September 1 and 2 will open tomorrow.
Eric "Silo" Dahl and Marty were the first pair to finish the 14 pound Mangum pizza challenge at Chick-N-Pizza in Buffalo.
Eric "Silo" Dahl and Stephanie "Xanadu" Torres are expected to compete in the The Legends Bar & Grill National Chicken Tamale Eating Championship in Niagara Falls, NY on May 5.
Rochester City Newspaper has a list of four western New York eating challenges.
Buffalo.com has started the Hungry Hungry Buffaloes video series where diners will attempt eating challenges offered by western New York restaurants. (facebook)
Eric "Silo" Dahl announces he won today's World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship in Clarence, NY with a record of 27 slices. 2010 winner Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas was runner up with 25 slices and Joe LaRue came in third with 21 slices.
Joe LaRue, Eric Dahl, Joe Menchetti along with defending champion Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas are expected to compete in the World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship in Clarence, NY on Sunday.
The Buffalo Wing Festival has uploaded a gallery of the National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship held on Labor Day weekend.
Chris' Village Way Pizza in East Rochester, NY will hold a wing eating contest on Sunday awarding two tickets to the Bills / Raiders game on September 18.
Sonya Thomas 5-peats Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating championship
update Sept 8 Jezebel has a blog entry with a long comment thread and China Times has a news video.
update Sept 6 CNN has an article and video and ABC News has a video.
MyFoxDC interviewed Sonya Thomas after the contest (via comment)
Brian Seiken has posted several videos recorded at the contest.
“Buffalo” Jim Reeves appeared on WIVB before the contest
update 8:16 Full Results have been posted.
update 5:03 The top 4 update 5:22 The offical top 5 (in a comment):
1) Sonya Thomas 183 chicken wings 6.43 pounds, Buffalo Wing Festival record, fifth straight Wing Fest wing victory
2) Joey Chestnut 174 chicken wings 6.13 pounds, undefeated in non-wing contests in past 12 months
3) Pat Bertoletti 132 chicken wings 4.61 pounds, less than half of his Dallas Wing Stop result
4) Badlands Booker 126 chicken wings 4.45 pounds
5) Juliet Lee 110 chicken wings 3.89 pounds
update 4:29 The contest has started.
The contest is being livestreamed.
Bertoletti is best in Buffalo Buffet Bowl
update Sept 4 The Buffalo News has an article.
8:20Full results have been posted.
7:13 The top 3:
1) Pat Bertoletti 5 minutes to finish 5 pounds of food
2) Sonya Thomas 7 minutes
3) Juliet Lee
4) Aaron Osthoff 3.573 lb
5) Bill Myers 2.841 lb
6) Eric “Badlands” Booker 2.502 lb
7) Larell Marie Mele 2.48 lb
8) Mike Landrich 2.419 lb
9) Brian Seiken 2.366 lb
6:39 The contest has started. Joey Chestnut is on stage, but not competing.
The Buffet Bowl contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival is being livestreamed.
Buffalo.com has an interview with Sonya Thomas about her quest to win the wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival on Sunday.
The facebook for the Buffalo Wing Festival has posted the list of expected competitors in Sunday's wing eating contest. Entrants ranked in the IFOCE top 20 include Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas, Erik Denmark, Juliet Lee, Badlands Booker and Aaron Osthoff.
The Buffalo News has an article about today's kickoff ceremony for the Buffalo Wing Festival reporting that Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas are expected to compete in the chicken wing eating contest.
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