United States eating challenges and contests category

The Rib House in Boulder, Colorado will hold a rib eating contest on Tuesday awarding $500 to the winner and $250 to the runner up.
The Tennessean reports that 22 members of Kappa Alpha at Rhodes College in Memphis were suspended from the fraternity after a pledge competing in an ice cream eating experienced frostbite.
Mark "Sharkman" Summers will attempt to qualify for the 2011 Wing Bowl today by eating four Filet-O-Fish combos in under two and a half minutes.
Registration is now open for the 2011 Krispy Kreme Challenge on February 5 in Raleigh, NC is now open. Previous races had over 5000 competitors attempt to run 4 miles and eat a dozen donuts.
Metro Magazine has an article about Twin Cities competitive eating with quotes from Pat Bertoletti and Betsy "Femme Eat All" Soderlund.
Sarah Crosland has an article in Charlotte Magazine has an article about her victory in a one pound burger eating contest at Fuddruckers in 2002.
Don "Moses" Lerman has posted a video promoting Sunday's Latke Eating contest at Zan's Deli, where he will attempt to defend his title.
Joe LaRue was the first person to finish the Zuzies Burger TRY-athlon Challenge in Astoria, Queens last week.
Izzo's Illegal Burrito in Lafayette, Louisiana will hold a burrito eating contest on Saturday awarding two New Orleans Saints ticket to the winner.
Rick "The Manager" Russo emailed that professionals will be allowed to compete in the 2011 Wing Bowl and that qualification stunt ideas are being accepted. Takeru Kobayashi has not announced if he will compete.
The Naked City Pizza Shop is looking for first person to attempt its "Frickin Huge" pizza challenge when it debuts in several weeks.
The website for the University of Texas athletics has an article on the 6,000 calorie a day diet of 6 foot 5 inch volleyball player Jennifer Doris, which includes two dinners every night and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during class.
Norman Chad, poker commentator for ESPN, has a column in the Washington Post decrying the University of Maryland's competitive eating team. (I would assume gambling has ruined more lives than competitive eating, but I do not have exact statistics.)
The Sushilicious facebook has finally been updated to announce that Stephanie Torres (on October 27) set the overall house record of 61 plates. The record was broken in October.
The facebook for The Net Grill in Fresno reports that Jessica "Queen of Cuisine" finished the 2 pound challenge burger in 14 minutes and 46 seconds.
Aiken Standard reports Dylan Davidson won $750 at a contest held at the Chitlin Strut in Salley, SC.
Carmen Torres reports that Stephanie Torres and Aaron Ybarra set the record for the 28 inch pizza challenge at Red Devil Pizza in Granada Hills with a time of 7:18, breaking Ben Monson and Damon Wells record of 8:15. (video) update Naader Reda reports that Stephanie Torres and Damon Wells set the record at Valenti's Pizza in Victorville, CA earlier this month (video).
The facebook for the NASCAR Cafe reports that Matt Stonie finished the B3 burrito in 15 minutes.

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Randy Santel reports he drank 5 malts at the Crown Candy Kitchen in St. Louis in 4:45, but failed to tie the record of 7 malts.

New recent California challenge records

Matt Stonie broke the Broken Yolk Ironman Omelet record (now 7:15) and Stephanie Torres set a new women’s record of 12:11. | video | gallery | Naader Reda blog entry

Johnnie Excel and Stephanie Torres set a record for the 2 person XL Pizza Challge at Ballpark Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita. | Video | Gallery | Johnnie Excel blog entry

Matt Stonie set the King Ranch 5 pound burrito record at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim (4:17). | Gallery | Naader Reda blog entry

Stephanie Torres is the first person to finish 5 of the 6 courses in the $1000 Pho King Way challenge, but she has not received her T-shirt consolation prize.

Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” will set the female record for the 2 pound burger at the Net Grill in Fresno after she is the first woman to attempt the challenge on Sunday.

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A picture of the 9 pound burger contest during tonight's Washington Wizards game has been posted. The fan managed to eat a quarter of the burger.
Lava Lounge in Pittsburgh will hold a taco eating contest tonight. The restaurant will be holding weekly eating contests on Tuesday.
Grace Lee has a picture of the set of the T.Ocho show.
Mark Pederson won $500 by eating 16 sliders in a contest at the Herkimer Pub in Minneapolis Sunday.
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