Upcoming Philadelphia eating contests
Philadelphia eating challenges
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Tickets for Wing Bowl 20 will go on sale tomorrow at 9 am at http://www.comcasttix.com/. All tickets are $10.
A new and apparently official Wing Bowl twitter is available at http://twitter.com/WingBowl20 and announces that Stacey "Eat-O-Rama" McCarthy has qualified for the finals by eating 10 items from the McDonald's Dollar Menu in under 10 minutes. (via Andrew Kossuth email)
Marcos Owens announces he qualified for Wing Bowl 20 by eating the entire Taco Bell diet drive thru menu in under 2 minutes. (gallery)
Qualification stunts for Wing Bowl 20 started today. "Iceman" completed his stunt requiring him to eat 6 soft pretzels and a half gallon of milk in 8:30 to gain a spot in the finals on February 3.
Wing Bowl 20 announced, first Wing Off Monday
WingBowl.CBSLocal.com has been updated with information about the 20th edition of the contest. The first Wing-Off qualifier awarding a spot in the finals on February 3, 2012 will take place Monday, morning, November 28 at PJ Whelihan’s in Cherry Hill, NJ (via Nick Kehler). A facebook page has been started at http://www.facebook.com/wipwingbowl
Kildare's in West Chester and State College, PA will hold a wing eating contest on Wednesday awarding a $150 gift card.
The City Tap House in Philadelphia will hold a pumpkin pie eating contest on Sunday awarding a $500 bar tab.
TheFeast.com reports that Spread Bagelry in Philadelphia has started a 13 pound bagel challenge in the hopes that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt it on October 8 after Yom Kippur is over.
Marcos Owens announces that he was the runner-up at today's hot dog eating contest held at Philadelphia Bar & Grill. Dave Brunelli won the first prize of $500 by eating 23.5 hot dogs and Dave "US Male" Goldstein was 3rd.
Philadelphia Bar and Grill in Philadelphia, PA will hold a hot dog eating contest on August 20 awarding $500 to the winner.
For a $300 fee, PMZ Paparazzi will have a photographer and videographer document an attempt at a Philadelphia eating challenge. If the challenge is successful, the $300 fee will be refunded.
Jake's Wayback Burgers facebook page announces the first three qualifier winners for the Chowdown Showdown: David Brunelli, Nick Kehler and Tyler Harshey.
The City Tap House in Philadelphia is holding a watermelon eating contest tonight awarding tickets to a Kings of Leon show on August 12, which was cancelled when the band suspended its summer tour on Monday.
Pop's Beef in Palos Heights, IL (Chicago area) will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 3 awarding $500 to the winner.
Smoke Daddy's in Lansdale, PA (Philadelphia area) will hold a "Monsters of Pork" rib eating contest on June 26 awarding between $350 and $875. The first place prize will be between $200 and $500.
A caption for a facebook gallery reports that Dave Brunelli won $529 at yesterday's taco eating contest at Drinker's West in Philadelphia by eating 38 tacos in 11 minutes. Joe Menchetti, Dave Goldstein and Lisel Parillon also competed.
Drinker's West in Philadelphia will hold a taco eating contest on Sunday awarding $529 to the winner. Could this be the contest debut for Lisel Parillon, one of two finishers of Drinker's taco challenge? (via Lorrie G)
Joey Chestnut's victory at Dorney Park was not the only cheesesteak news this weekend. Takeru Kobayashi went to Tony Luke's and dined with Bill "El Wingador" Simmons. Another Philadelphia cheesesteak pilgrimage was made when Paul Wozniak went to Jim's Steaks to pay homage to his mother in law Lynda Kuerth eating 11 sandwiches in 1978 to set the house record, since broken by Bob Shoudt. He wore Lynda's 30+ year old Jim's Steaks T-shirt to the restaurant. (An article from 1978 mentioning the feat)
Chickie's & Pete's, site of the Wing Bowl weigh-ins, will hold a pizza eating contest for charity on May 21 awarding $1000 (or a Bermuda cruise) to the winner and $500 to the runner up. Entrants will need to raise $500 in ticket sales or donations.
ESPNNewYork reports that the New York Mets' bullpen catcher Dave Racaniello ate 14 cheesesteaks after Sunday night's game to set a Citizens Bank Park record for visiting teams, breaking Dmitri Young's mark. (via FloppingOut)
The May Fair in Philadelphia on May 14 will hold a cheese steak pretzel eating contest on May 14 awarding $500 to the winner and $250 to the runner up.
Dave Brunelli became the second person (and first man) to complete the Drinker's taco challenge earlier this month by eating 33 tacos in under 13 minutes at all three Philadelphia-area Drinker's locations in less than a week.
Philly.com calls Jenny Drumgoole's show at Moore College of Art & Design "hyperactive, comedic and narcissistic". The installation includes a documentary about serving as Sonya Thomas' wingette in Wing Bowl 13.
The Wing Bowl 19 results post has been updated with new links and a picture of the final official scorecard for the top 5.
Jon Squibb threepeats Wing Bowl with new record
Wing Bowl 19 top 5 (official scorecard picture)
1) 255 Jon Squibb, breaks Joey Chesnut’s 2008 record of 241
2) 254 Bill “El Wingador” Simmons
3T) 211 “Not Rich” Rich Razzi, third top 5 finish (also 2009 & 2010)
3T) 211 Dave “US Male” Goldstein, third top 5 finish (also 2007 & 2008)
5) 195 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, early leader
update Feb 9 12:03
- Philadelphia City Paper review
- Philly2Night gallery
- University of Pennsylvania student paper article, gallery & video
- On The Bandwagon blog entry and gallery
- The Waster gallery
- BFvsGF video
- Off the Bench blog entry Part 2
- Phils Fever gallery
- Furious Pete gallery
- BeautifulBrian.com has commentary about Brad Sciullo’s no-show and other Wing Bowl topics
update Feb 5 12:21
- Courier Post article with three gallerys
- The Trentonian praises El Wingador and has a list of 10 crazy things
- MyPHL17 has 6 galleries
- Philly.com article incorrectly claiming that Kobayashi has never competed in an eating contest with food containing bones
- NBC Philadelphia has an article & video
- The Patch on El Wingador & John “The Bulldog” DelVechio
- Philadelphia Weekly produced a video
- Yahoo News has a gallery
- AOL Weird News has an article
- Crossing Broad has a gallery (The DeLorean is supposed to be a time machine bringing back Phillies world series trophies from the future)
- Off the Bench blog entry about Wing Bowl 19
- Video of Jon Squibb
- Video and gallery of Dave “US Male” Goldstein’s entourage (a picture of his “IFOCE Contract” banner)
- Video of “Furious” Pete Czerwinski expressing his dislike of Brad Sciullo at the weigh-in (via crawfish)
- Picture of Takeru Kobayashi & Ron Jeremy, two genetic anomalies
- A picture of the top 5 scorecard for Wing Bowl 19 can be viewed after the jump
update Feb 4 10:44
- http://wingbowl.cbslocal.com/ has galleries and videos
- Philly.com also has galleries and videos
Courier Post has all the announced results - WPBI has a gallery
- MyFoxPhilly has a gallery and a clip of Takeru Kobayashi & Ron Jeremy on Good Day
- NBCPhiladelphia gallery
- The 700 Level has a flickr gallery
- A picture of the winning “Mound Rushmore” float
- Dave “US Male” Goldstein is still listed at #19 in the IFOCE rankings, we will see how long he remains and who moves into #50 (via comment)
9:16 WPVI has a video of Kobayashi’s cheesesteak exhibition
The rest of the liveblog can be viewed after the jump
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