United States eating challenges and contests category

Duke's Dogs will hold a hot dog eating contest in Cheboygan, MI on October 6 awarding $500/$300/$200
The MLE twitter claims Joey Chestnut will defend his title in Saturday's pork roll eating contest in Trenton, NJ. Carmen Cincotti won the 2017 competition.
Hartville, OH will hold a pizza eating contest on October 6 awarding $500 to the winner. Entrants should contact the Pizza BOGO facebook page. (via cantonrep)
Raina Huang ate 80 wings in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in last night's wing eating contest at Wing Nuts in Costa Mesa, CA. Kevin Ross was the runner up with 74 wings.
Sylvester's Burgers will hold a five pound burger eating contest in Atascadero, CA awarding $1000 to the winner. Entrants will be chosen based on the number of Instagram mentions received.
Autumn on Parade in Oregon, IL will hold a donut eating contest on October 6 awarding $250 to the winner.

2018 Zinzinnati Bratwurst

Aaron Cohen recorded a video of Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy and Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle attempting the burger challenge at Michael's Roscommon House in Belleville, NJ last night. update LA Beast has posted his video. Molly Schuyler ate 2 burgers in less time than it took for him to finish one challenge burger.
Lumpy's Diner in Antioch, CA will hold a burger eating contest on October 13 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Oktoberfest at Steelstacks in Bethlehem, PA will hold bratwurst eating contests on October 6 and 13 awarding $250 to thw winner.
Ethan Teske produced a video for Hotels.com "Doing You" series of his attempt at the Kodiak Arrest challenge platter at Humpy's Alehouse in Anchorage, AK.
Rice Fest in Honolulu will hold a SPAM Musubi eating contest on Saturday awarding a five night trip for two to Las Vegas to the winner.
The Seymour (IN) Ocktoberfest will hold a bratwurst eating contest on October 6 awarding $500/$150/$50.
Bedford and Bowery has a report from a competitor in the Friday's San Gennaro cannoli eating contest containing an interview with winner Wayne Algenio, who thinks he ate 24 pastries (He was credited with 33). The competition was the first of three victories for Wayne in New York City this past weekend. (In the other two contests he received a handicap against amateur competition.)
KSBY did a segment about Raina Huang's tour of central California, which will conclude today. (video)
Raina Huang ate 36 aebleskivers in 5 minutes to win yesterday's contest at Danish Days in Solvang, CA, doubling the previous record of 18.

Molly Schuyler wins Tulare County corn dogs

Sergio Reyes Raya has the top 3 in yesterday’s corn dog eating contest at the Tulare County Fair:
1) 25 Molly Schuyler 8 minutes
2) 10.5 Sergio Reyes Raya
3) 10.3 Scott Rubin

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2018 Big E White Hut World Cheeseburg Championship

update Full official results (10 minutes) Part 1 | Part 2

1st 47 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 45 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 28 Nick Wehry
4th 26 Gideon Oji
5th 21 George Chiger
6th 16 Eric “Badlands” Booker
7th 15.5 Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski
7th 15.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
9th 11.5 William “Wild Bill” Myers
10th 5 Rene Rovtar
11th 4 Prudence DiBenedetto

There is a close race between Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper for most non-qualifier MLE victories in calendar year 2018:

8 Geoffrey Esper
7 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3 Carmen Cincotti
2 Darron Breeden
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
1 Miki Sudo
1 Gideon Oji

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Cove Leader has a report on Japanese competitive eater Angela Sato completing the Dog Bowl ice cream challenge at Waffle Cone in Copperas Cove, TX. The article mentions she failed to complete the "Big Fat Fatty" sandwich challenge at Fat Sal's Deli in Austin. The meals were recorded for a Japanese program that will be televised on October 8.
MKE Oktoberfest will hold a bratwurst eating contest in Milwaukee on October 6 awarding $500 to the winner, $250 to the runner up.
Michael "Magic Mikey" McMonigle finished the OMG burger at The Catch in Anaheim in 41 minutes and won $500, the first finisher since Tom Gilbert completed the challenge in 2010 (video)
Santa Maria Times has an article about Raina Huang's tour of the Central California Coast this weekend which will include an attempt to break aebleskiver record in Solvang, CA on Saturday.
Raina Huang announces that Papillon Bakery in Los Angeles will award $500 to a diner that can finish 30 Armenian pizzas in under 50 minutes.
Joe Menchetti ate 16 lobster rolls in 10 minutes to defend his title at the Hampton Beach (NH) Seafood Festival and claim a $600 prize.
Bob Shoudt produced a video of him winning four eating contests in an hour during a Richmond Flying Squirrels game.
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