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Fishbones in St. Clair Shores, MI will hold a hot dog eating contest on March 30 awarding $500 and two tickets to the Detroit Tigers home opener.

March 12, 2013 at 7:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Detroit, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Rodeo Bar & Grill will hold a 3 pound burger eating contest tonight awarding $1000 to the winner.

March 11, 2013 at 6:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Myrtle Beach, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (2)

"Belt of Fat" is a new blog which follows four competitive eaters "in their journey through the collaborative process of eating, writing, rehearsing, and creating together between cities, stomachs, and states of mind". They will have a group exhibition at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago from May 31 to June 2.

March 11, 2013 at 1:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Websites | Permalink * Comments (3)

Nate's Sports Bar in Gulfport, MS is holding a crawfish eating contest on April 13 awarding $500 to the winner.

March 11, 2013 at 8:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Biloxi, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

"Honey Badger" of the Portland Big Eaters Club has started a facebook page about her eating contests and challenges.

March 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Portland, Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

Jamie McDonald reportedly won yesterday's pierogie eating contest held at the Men's Culinary Classic in Meadowlands, PA with a total of 56 in 3 minutes.

March 10, 2013 at 9:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Jamie McDonald, Pittsburgh, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (23)

Hartford-area Wood N Taps will not be holding a "Munch Madness" slider eating relay contest this year.

March 10, 2013 at 8:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hartford | Permalink * Comments

Sushi contest returns to RA Sushi

March 9, 2013 at 10:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Orange County, Phoenix, Tucson

RA Sushi’s sushi eating tournament will return on April 7. A list of locations holding contests follows after the jump.
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Food Truck 50 calls the walking taco and Alberto sandwich from Glutton Force Five, the food truck operated by Pat Bertoletti and Time Brown, "the best food I have tasted from a Chicago truck.".

March 9, 2013 at 7:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown | Permalink * Comments

Cleveland.com recaps the competitive eating career of "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder focusing on his wing eating exploits.

March 8, 2013 at 12:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland | Permalink * Comments (4)

Registration for the oyster eating contest (April 26) and taco eating contest (April 27) at Foodabluza at Wind Creek Casino & Hotel in Atmore, AL will open today at 4 pm central / 5 eastern on ifoce.com. Both contests will award $5000.

March 8, 2013 at 7:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Mobile | Permalink * Comments

The Salt Lake Tribune has a preview of Jamie McDonald and Miki Sudo attempting the burger challenge at Lucky 13 on March 13. James Snead was the first person to complete the challenge and win $1000 on Monday. update March 8 City Weekly has an interview with James Snead.

March 7, 2013 at 3:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Jamie McDonald, Salt Lake City | Permalink * Comments (9)

Nathan’s qualifier circuit to open March 23 on Coney Island Boardwalk

March 7, 2013 at 9:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2013 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Contest Previews, New York City

update March 8 Crain’s New York has an incorrect claim that the March 23 qualifier will be the first Coney Island Nathan’s contest held on a date other than July 4. Erik Denmark won a Coney Island qualifier on July 3, 2006.. In the 1970s, contests were held at various days in the summer, including Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend.

BrooklynPaper.com reports that the 2013 Nathan’s qualifier circuit will open on March 23 at the Nathan’s location on the Coney Island Boardwalk. Expected competitors include Tim “Eater X” Janus, Eric “Badlands” Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and “Michelle” [sic] Marie Mele. The Nathan’s location on the boardwalk will open March 18 and the main restaurant at Surf & Stillwell is hoping to complete post-Sandy reconstruction by Memorial Day.

update Registration is now open for the boardwalk qualifier. The first qualifier of the Hooters circuit in Panama City, FL is also accepting entrants.

IFOCE.com lists the qualifier cities as Las Vegas, Boston, Miami and Naples, FL, Atlanta and Savannah, GA, St. Paul, MN, Queens, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Calgary and East Rutherford, NJ.

update #2 2012 qualifer sites which are not listed include Garden City, MI, Atlantic City, Concord, NC, Thackerville, OK and Tempe, AZ. If no qualifiers are added, there will be one qualifier each in the central (St. Paul), mountain (calgary) and Pacific (Las Vegas) time zones.

update #3 A press release says the finals will start at noon and be televised on ESPN.

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Upton Tap House in Washington, DC will hold a wing eating contest on March 25 awarding $200 to the winner.

March 7, 2013 at 7:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:District of Columbia, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Boston.com has a video about new Red Sox players where relief pitcher Koji Uehara claims he ate 2.5 kg (5.5 pounds) of buffet food in an eating contest.

March 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Boston, Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco is raising money for Equine Voices Rescue and Sanctuary and will do an on-air mac & cheese contest on KFMA Friday to promote her fundraising. If she raises more than $950, she will post a weekly video of a hot dog training session until she exceeds 31.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes. update March 8 A video of the mac & cheese contest is available.

March 5, 2013 at 10:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", Charity Events, Tucson | Permalink * Comments (1)

Registration for the April 27 deep fried asparagus eating contest at the Stockton, CA Asparagus Festival will open today at 3pm Pacific / 6pm eastern.

March 5, 2013 at 1:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Stockton | Permalink * Comments

The Harlem Shake video Joey Chestnut recorded at Ike's Place last week is available on youtube. Joey will be judging a hot dog eating contest at the San Francisco Bulls minor league hockey game tomorrow.

March 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, San Francisco | Permalink * Comments (1)

Videos of the eating contest held in New Orleans the day before the Super Bowl betweeen Grantland.com writers Joe House and "Cousin" Sal Iacono have been posted to youtube: contest | bonus clip - cheating | bonus - showing off | outtakes

March 5, 2013 at 12:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, New Orleans, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The Dallas Observer reports that the Hooters wing eating circuit will return to the Real Texas Festival in Mesquite, TX on April 26 & 27. Contest details have not been posted on http://www.realtexasfestival.com/ yet. update The 2013 Hooters Wing circuit will start on March 30 in Panama City, FL.

March 5, 2013 at 12:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2013 Hooter's Wing Circuit, Dallas | Permalink * Comments

The Matagordo (TX) Seafood Festival will hold men's and women's oyster eating contests on March 16 awarding $450 ($200 to the winner).

March 5, 2013 at 8:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Texas, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

THe Douglas County Sentinel has an article about Steve "Pi Guy" Martin, who says he is 99% sure he will continue with competitive eating despite being dropped from the most recent IFOCE top 50.

March 4, 2013 at 9:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta | Permalink * Comments (7)

Jamie McDonald has a report for the Huffington Post about his trip to Chicago where he broke records for the El Jefe burrito challenge, the Beast sundae and the triple Double from Bad Happy Poutine. He will have two upcoming posts on four additional Chicago challenges.

March 4, 2013 at 6:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Chicago, Ice Cream Challenges, Jamie McDonald | Permalink * Comments (1)

Boh in Baltimore produced a video about the Natty Boh Roma Sausage eating contest held in December won by Jay Gorman.

March 4, 2013 at 7:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Woman v. Food reports that Marco "Mongo" Marquez defended his Denver Wing Bowl title yesterday.

March 3, 2013 at 9:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Denver, Marco Marquez, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

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