United States eating challenges and contests category

The first Nathan's qualifier of 2018 has been announced: April 14 in Fort Myers, FL. Registration will open February 1.
In the latest episode of Practitioners TV, John "Oink Oink" Bradley attempts the Great Steak Challenge at Steak & Main in North East, MD.
Sarah "Unstoppable Bab" Reinecke announces she won a mashed potato eating contest after running in the Green Lake Gobble road race in Seattle dressed as an inflatable pumpkin.
A 2 day old Daily Mail Facebook video about Molly Schuyler eating two 72 ounce steak challenges at the Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in under 15 minutes has surpassed a million views. (The name or date is not given).
The team of Darron Breeden and Dan "Killer" Kennedy failed to finish the 15 pound Beer Barrel Belly Buster Challenge at Denny's Beer Barrel in Clearfield, PA on Saturday after one of the pair reversed trying to eat the giant burger.
The first MLE contest of 2018 has been listed: El Croquetazo At Calle Ocho Presented By Catalina in Miami on March 11. Registration will open January 8.
Molly Schuyler has uploaded a video of her attempt at the 32 inch Big Don pizza challenge with Tony Mitchell at Mama Mia's in Rockford, IL to win a prize of $500.
Dave Brunelli won the first prize of $300 in Saturday's Taco Takedown at Legends Ale House in Succasunna, NJ.
Metro.us has an article about Breandan "Skin & Bones" Lyman, who finished 5th in the 2016 Wing Bowl, competing in Sunday's Philadelphia Marathon. With a time of 2:36 in last year's marathon, he is probably the fastest competitive eater/runner.
Jennifer Martin ate 5 pounds of pho in 10 minutes to win an eating contest held at MOFU Shoppe Raleigh, NC on Saturday.
Newtown Bee has a report on the "Celebration of Kindness and day of remembrance" held in Newtown, CT on October 27 to honor Caitlin Nelson, who passed away after choking in a pancake eating contest held at Sacred Heart University in March.
The Automatic in Cambridge, MA will hold a dumpling eating contest on November 12 awarding $500 to the winner.
Dale Boone lost the election for the District 4 representative on the Brookhaven, GA City Council versus incumbent Joe Gebbia by a margin of 339 to 212 votes. In 2015, Dale Boone lost the mayoral race for the Atlanta suburb.
Legends Ale House in Succasunna, NJ will hold a taco eating contest on November 11 awarding $300/$200/$100.

Geoff Esper defeats Chestnut at Fortune Bay Indian tacos

update Nov 8 Timberjay.com has a contest report

update VirginiaMN.com has an article

Joey Chestnut appeared on CBS3Duluth and KBJR 6 yesterday.

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1st 29 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 28 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 23 Gideon Oji
4th 11 Matthew Raible
5th 9 Sean “2 Dolla” Nichols
5th 9 Mark Pedersen
5th 9 Doug Porter
8th 7 Billy Copenace
9th 6 Jesse Sympson
10th 5 George Echum
10th 5 John Tikkanen

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Dan "Killer" Kennedy ate the 11+ pound BBQ challenge in 67:15 at Harvey's Country Cupboard in Big Run, PA last night to celebrate hitting 1000 subscribers on his youtube challenge.
Yesterday at the FoodBeast headquarters in Santa Ana, CA Raina Huang attempted to eat a 50x50 burger (50 patties & 50 slices of cheese) from In-n-Out Burger, which was billed as a record. update Nov 6 Foodbeast has a blog entry and video and
VirginiaMN has a preview of Saturday's World Indian Taco Eating Championship at Fortune Bay Casino in Tower, MN where Joey Chestnut and Gideon Oji are expected to compete. The article incorrectly claims it will be the first MLE Indian taco contest; Foodabluza held a competition in 2013.
AmNY.com has an interview with Yasir Salem about his plans to run in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, which will be his 12th marathon in 2017. He hopes to qualify to ride in the 3000 mile bicycle Race Across America in 2019. update Nov 6 Runner's World lists Yasir Salem's time as 4:41:33 in a roster of celebrity entrants. His time was about three minutes behind former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber.
RIP "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder, who passed away on October 30 according to these youtube comments. LA Beast confirmed the passing on twitter. 2013 Cleveland.com article about Tim.
KEYC.com has a video about Ethan Teske & Jeremiah Forster finishing the 30 inch pizza challenge at Fox Pizza in Madelia, MN last week in 16 minutes, believed to be a record for the entire chain.
Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo are expected to compete in the World Indian Taco Eating Contest at Fortune Bay Casino in Tower, MN on Saturday.
Registration will open Monday at noon Eastern for the World Famous St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail Eating Championship before the Big Ten Championship football game in Indianapolis on December 2.
Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Manhattan will hold chimichanga eating contests on October 28 and 31 awarding $100 to the winner.

Dave Brunelli & Jenn Cheng defend Stitch wing titles

Results from tonight’s wing eating contest at Stitch in Manhattan from Stephanie Wu

Men
1) Dave Brunelli 75 wings in 8 minutes, $250
2) Wayne Algenio 31, $100
3) “Chunky Dunk” 30, $50
? Jo “Gavonne” Rose

Women
1) Jenn Cheng 39, $250
2) Stephanie Wu 34, $100
3) Kate 19, $50

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