Upcoming Buffalo eating contests
(All Buffalo eating challenges and contests in database)
BLU Bar & Grill in Rochester, NY will award $500 to the person with the fastest finishing time for its burger challenge over a six month period.
TWCNews.com reports that Nicky Colligan won yesterday's wing eating contest at Jeremiah's Tavern in Rochester, NY. Her prize was a trip for two to Las Vegas.
A racehorse named after Joey Chestnut won a race at the Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday.
The New York Cosmos have a video of Takeru Kobayashi competing (as "Busboy Kevin") against midfielder Peri Marošević in a chicken wing eating contest. More April 1 links: Buffalo, NY awarded competitive eating expansion team | Florida food truck to take over Nathan's Coney Island location and eating contest. update April 2 Yahoo! has a blog entry with more about the prank
GoErie.com has a report about competing in the eating contest for amateurs at the 2013 Buffalo Wing Festival by Patrick Broadwater, who was disappointed the contest was changed from a timed competition to the first to finish 25 wings.
Visa has posted a video of a wing eating contest where a winner of its "My Football Fantasy" competed against members of the Buffalo Bills. Jim Kelly served as MC.
Kraig Urbik of the Buffalo Bills says he won a wing eating contest against a winner of Visa's My Football Fantasy contest with a total of about 25 wings in 5 minutes. The contest might appear in a Super Bowl commercial. Punter Brian Moorman has some pictures. update Jan 13 Rochester.twcnews.com has an article and video.
The Rochester Home Page reports that Mikal Krueger will compete in a wing eating contest against members of the Buffalo Bills on Saturday after he won Visa's "My Football Fantasy" contest.
Jamie McDonald ends Molly Schuyler’s career undefeated streak at Pumpkin Pie Championship
update The Buffalo News has a contest report
Mike Longo has the top 4 in the pie eating contest held at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY
1 Jamie McDonald 40 slices, new APE record
2 Molly Schuyler 39 slices, career undefeated streak ended
3T Dave Werick 17 won eat-off
4T Mike Longo 17 lost eat-off
The facebook page for Nathan’s Famous Snacks has a PermalinkComments (3)
Mark DeCarlo has a Huffington Post blog entry and video about the 2013 Buffalo Wing Festival.
A press release announces Jamie McDonald, Stephanie Torres, Mike Longo and Molly Schuyler (billed as favorite for 2013's Competitive Eating Rooking [sic] of the Year) are expected to compete in The Great Pumpkin Farm World Hands-Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship in Clarence, NY on September 29.
Miki Sudo wins Buffalo Wing championship, Joey Chestnut no-shows
update Sept 5 Crazy Legs Conti has posted part 2
update Sept 3 Crazy Legs Conti has a blog entry focusing on his pre-contest activities
Jkozela has a video
Article about Michelle Lesco finishing 2nd
Dutch articles: Volksrant | WTF.nl Serbian article
update Sept 2 BuffaloNews.com has a blog entry about Joey Chestnut’s absence, which reports that he did not appear to be ill Saturday night.
Winging it TV has an interview with Miki Sudo
WGRZ has a video and Buffalo News has an article and gallery ODV Vicious has a video of the stadium screen.
Joey Chestnut says he had a sore throat and fever. YNN has an article. Ghostline Entertainment recorded videos on UStream
The top 8
1 6.7 lb / 178 wings Miki Sudo
2 4.6 Michelle Lesco
3 4.32 Sonya Thomas
4 3.5 Yasir Salem
5 3.44 Jim Reeves
6 3.06 Badlands Booker
7 3 Steve Hendry
8 2.5 Mike Landrich
Miki Sudo has won the contest with 178 wings. Sonya Thomas, Michelle Lesco and Miki Sudo are the top three finishers. This is probably the first time all top 3 in a MLE/IFOCE contest have been women (excluding the Nathan’s female divisions).
A female reportedly won the wing eating championship at the Buffalo Wing Festival festival. Joey Chestnut did not compete.
Eric "Badlands" Booker appeared on WKBW this morning to promote the Buffalo Wing Festival.
The fields for the Buffalo Wing Festival eating contest and Buffet Bowl contests have been listed. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Miki Sudo, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Michelle Lesco, Jim Reeves, Yasir Salem and Steve Hendry some competitors expected to participate in both contests.
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.
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