United States eating challenges and contests category

Woodie's Flat in Chicago is holding a wing eating contest this week until August 3. Whoever eats the most wings in a 30 minute session will receive $500.
The Schuyler Car & Corn Extravaganza will hold a corn eating contest on August 9 awarding $1,000 to the winner in Schuyler, NY.
A Piece of Pendleton in Pendleton, OR will hold hot dog eating contests on August 23 awarding a total of $5,000. The professional winner will receive $2500 and the amateur winner will get $600.
Joey Chestnut ate 14 banana dogs in 3 minutes to win a competition held at Saturday's Savannah Bananas game in Philadelphia. The contest was held on the field while gameplay was taking place.

2025 Great Midwest Ribfest

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib Eating Championship in Prior Lake, MN.

Official results (12 minutes)

1st 9.11 James Webb
2nd 2.78 Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz
3rd 2.37 Matthew Raible
4th 2.06 Andrew Krawczyk
5th 1.06 Rene Rovtar first MLE cash prize
6th 0.98 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
7th 0.88 Lily Krigelski
8th 0.82 Rick Lavigne

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Joey Chestnut and Stan "Bandana Eats" van Gorden will attempt the "Land of 10,000 Calories" challenge, a 6 foot hot dog weighing 23.5 pounds, at the August 8 St. Paul Saints game.
Iguana's in San Jose will be closing permanently tomorrow due to the retirement of its owners. The restaurant was featured in an episode of Man v Food in which Joey Chestnut attempted the five pound "Burritozilla" challenge. Matt Stonie made a video of his final Burritozilla attempt.
DerekPR has uploaded a video about the Hwy 55 World Hamburger Eating Championship held in Raleigh, NC on May 20, 2017. The competitiors included Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy, Bob Shoudt, Adam "Beard Meats Food", Darron Breeden and Wayne Algenio.
Whiskey Garden in Fort Worth, TX will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 27 awarding $250 to the winner.
Raina Huang will face off against a mystery Japanese eater, for a Japanese television show tomorrow at D+D Delight in San Jose.
Crossing Broad reports that a competitor choked and was hospitalized during Saturday's hot dog eating contest at Ducktown in Atlantic City held in conjunction with a Micro Wrestling card. EMT were fortunately able to prevent a fatality. (Reddit thread about the incident)
Joey Chestnut and 8 Barstool Sports personalities will attempt to consume a combined 99 hot dogs and beers at tonight's Chicago Cubs game. Joey will restrict himself solely to beverage consumption.
The Frankfort, IN Hot Dog Festival will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 26 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Jack Legath ate 30 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in Saturday's ShuBrew hot dog eating contest at Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, PA.
THe New York Post has an article about a rotisserie chicken eating contest held at Roma Pizza in Brooklyn. Robert McGee ate a whole chicken in 6:44 to win the first prize of $500.
Dan Kennedy reports that he ate 37.25 corn dogs to win the first prize of $2,500. Molly Schuyler was runner up with 32.875.
Joe Menchetti ate 20 hot dogs to win the first prize of $500 in Thursday's Coney Island Classic in Fall River, MA.
Registration is open on majorleagueeating.com for Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD on September 5. Regisration is also open for the Buffalo Buffet BOwl (august 30), Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest (August 31) and Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto (September 6).
The Asian Night Market in Memphis will hold an eating contest on July 19 awarding $300 to the winner.
During July, Jack's Cosmic Dogs in Mount Pleasant, SC will hold the Double Dog Challenge. At the end of the month, $1000 will be awarded to the diner who eats the most spicy hot dogs over a thirty minute session.
Roma Pizzeria in Brooklyn will hold a rotisserie chicken eating contest on July 20 awarding $500 to the winner.
PT's Tavern will hold an amateur hot wing eating contest in Henderson, NV on August 2 awarding $2500/$1000/$500 to the top three.
Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, PA will hold the ShuBrew hot dog eating contest on July 19 awarding $1000/$500/$250 to the top 3. Prizewinners must exceed 20 hot dogs to receive the full amount.
The corn dog eating contest will return to the California State Fair in Sacramento on July 19 after a one year absence. The top 5 will receive $2500/$2000/$1000/$500/$100. All entrants must participate in a qualifier on July 18.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle returned to competitive eating at a pizza eating contest in Maplewood, NJ, his first competition in four years.
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