Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Oklahoma eating challenges and contests in database)
Patrick Michels has a preview of Sunday's Nathan's qualifier at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, OK. Probably the most interesting thing about the preview are quotes from George Shea saying television plans for the women's July 4 contest have not been finalized.
Times Record News has an article about Nate Biller and "Hurricane" Katrina Klein competing in Sunday's Nathan's qualifier at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma.
The MLE facebook announces that registration for the Thackerville, OK Nathan's qualifier will open tomorrow at 2 pm eastern and registration for the Pierpont Pepperoni Roll Eating World Championship in Fairmont, WV will open Thursday at 11 am eastern.
A Nathan's qualifier will be held June 12 at Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. This will be the first central time zone qualifier.
Tulsa World has an article about Man vs. Food: Nation recording at Elote in Tulsa Wednesday, where the challenge was breaking the house puffy taco record.
Edmond Life & Leisure reports that Adam Richman broke the 2010 record of 28 catfish pieces at the Steak and Catfish Barn in the Oklahoma City episode of Man vs. Food. The overall record of 45 pieces was set in 2009. Flickr has a picture of the wall of fame in 2008, when the record was 40 pieces.
Man vs. Food August 4, 2010 episode (Oklahoma City) links
Travel Channel: Slideshow | Episode Guide
Restaurants
- Steak & Catfish Barn challenge – “Top Cat” catfish filet record
Yelp | Urbanspoon | CitySearch
Episode clip about the catfish record
NewsOK blog entry about the recording
Devour The World Review
Picture of the Wall of Fame from 2008, which lists the record as 40 – from this flickr gallery - Cattlemen’s Steakhouse meal – Presidential T-Bone
Home Page | Yelp - Sid’s Diner meal – Fried Onion Burger
Facebook | Yelp
List of Oklahoma City eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Sean Gordon wins Winstar Casino qualifier
update June 14 Patrick Michels has a contest report for the Dallas Observer.
Adrian Morgan has a gallery.
update 3:00 The eating contest twitter has the top 4:
1) Sean Gordon 23.5
2) Crazy Legs Conti 23
3) Adrian Morgan 20.5
4) Nate Biller 14.5
update 2:50 Sean Gordon is the winner with 23.5 HDB
update 2:40 The qualifier is over, but results have yet to be announced.
update 2:20 The contest has yet to start. It looks like the WinStarWorld twitter will have real time updates.
The qualifier should start at 2 pm eastern, according to the Adrian Against facebook.
Patrick Michels interviewed Crazy Legs Conti about his participation in the Thackerville, Oklahoma Nathan's qualifier on Sunday.
Adrian Morgan says he will compete in the Nathan's qualifier at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Patrick Michels did an interview with Crazy Legs Conti about his participation in the contest.
IFOCE.com announces that registration opens today at 3pm for a new June 13 Nathan's qualifier at WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma (about 75 miles north of Dallas/Fort Worth). There is also information about the two qualifiers for military personnel at Fort Bragg and Naval Air Station Oceana. (It does not say if the 20 hot dog minimum will be in effect for the military qualifiers)
NewsOK has a blog entry about Man vs. Food recording in Oklahoma City this past weekend. The episode challenge was a catfish eating record.
Amy Lawrence reports that Man vs. Food will be recording at Cattlemen's Steakhouse in Oklahoma City Sunday.
Wylie News has a report on the rib eating contest sponsored by Bily Sims BBQ focusing on third place amateur Troy Cox.
The twitter for the Ok Auto Exchange in Oklahoma City announces that a donut eating contest will take place tomorrow night awarding $600 ($300 to the winner).
Billy Sims BBQ ribs results
The eating contest has the top 3 for the pro & amateur division at the Billy Sims BBQ rib eating contest in Norman, OK.
Pros
1. Tim Janus, 71 oz in 8 minutes
2. Nate Biller, 49 oz
3. Nic Fry, 33 oz
Amateurs
1. Steve “Steve-O” Ramirez 46 oz
2. Greg Tate 35 oz
3. Troy Cox 34 oz
update Full (or at least more) results are available on the IFOCE facebook
TulsaWorld has the only preview of today's Billy Sims rib eating contest in Norman, Oklahoma I have been able to find: the contest will be held at 3:30 pm outside the football stadium.
George Shea's twitter announces that Tim Janus, Nate Biller & Nic Fry are expected to compete in the Billy Sims rib eating contest on Halloween.
Registration for the professional rib eating contest sponsored by Billy Sims BBQ will open tomorrow.
IFOCE Oklahoma rib contest on Halloween
TulsaWorld reports that Billy Simms BBQ will sponsor a rib eating contest in Norman, Oklahoma on October 31. Weekly qualifiers for amateurs will be held starting September 4. Tim Janus is listed as an expected entrant on billysimmsbbq.com
TulsaWorld has an article about three local eating challenges
Big Fat Ugly Sandwich Challenge
(from email) R & I Magazine has an article about giant sandwich challenges. A new challenge on the list is the Big Ugly Sandwich Challenge at the Fat Sandwich Company. According to the article, The Big Ugly contains:
four cheeseburgers, a double cheesesteak, chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon, sausage, pork roll, mozzarella sticks, chicken finger, chicken nuggets, macaroni-and-cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, American cheese, ketchup and mayonnaise
and is free to a diner who can finish it in less than 15 minutes. The Fat Sandwich company has locations in Norman, Oklahoma and Champaign, Illinois.
Link Buffet: October 29, 2008
- Gallery from the Famous Famiglia pizza contest with 200 pictures
- Jason McCormack has videos of July’s BBQ eating contest in Tulsa and his recent pie eating contest victory
- Beautiful Brian to attend the Coney Island benefit honotring George Shea and might sing songs from “Stick to Blogging” at that event. He also has his thoughts on Kate Westfall’s departure
- Jesup, GA spaghetti eating contest report
Nasty Nate: Humble Bob wins Tulsa BBQ sandwiches
From a Nathan Biller comment:
1. Humble Bob Shoudt 34.5 or 34
2. Tim Janus 32
3. Sonya Thomas 29
4. Hall Hunt 28
5. Rich LeFevre
6. Erik Denmark
7. Nate Biller 13
update Top 4 amounts have been updated with information from SonyaTheBlackWidow.com
update #2 Tulsa World has a contest report.
update #3 Hall Hunt has a blog entry about the contest
Tulsa BBQ purse $10K
The IFOCE contests page now lists the purse for Saturday’s pork barbecue sandwich eating contest at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa at $10,000. The page also announces that registration is now closed, but slots appear to be available through Star 103 FM.
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