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Taco Bob's in Kalamazoo, Michigan will hold an eating contest on September 30 awarding $150 to the winner.
The 7th annual Garlicky Greens eating contest will take place (apparently without IFOCE sanctioning) at the b.good in Harvard Square on Saturday. (Registration form)
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" has a blog entry about being the first person to complete the Sugar OD challenge, consisting of 4 brownies, 4 pieces of cheesecake and 4 scoops of ice cream, at Something Sweet Dessert Lounge in Tucson. Tucscon Weekly produced a video of the "award ceremony" and the restaurant facebook page has a gallery.
A rib eating contest on October 12 at The Rib House in Boulder, Colorado will award $500 to the winner, $200 to the runner up.
Rocco's Tacos in West Palm Beach, FL will award $250 on October 1 to the customer who has eaten the most tacos on Tuesdays.
The facebook page for Lumpy's Ice Cream announces it will hold an ice cream eating contest. The finals will take place at the NC State Fair in Raleigh on October 23 and award $1000 to the winner.
Bill Cammack has a video about the burger challenge at Smashiess Grocery in East Harlem which requires a diner to eat a one pound burger in under 5 minutes
Matt Stonie has uploaded his videos of his Manimal and Monster Manimal challenges at the Trade Winds Cafe in Arundel, Maine.
Maria "The Incredible Sulk" reports that she set the record for the Land Lubber's BBQ challenge at Port Royal Grille in Islip, NY, the site of Adam Richman's seafood challenge in the Long Island episode of Man vs. Food.
KatieDidntDoIt has a picture of a competitor (whose face is cropped out) reversing in the San Gennaro cannoli eating contest.
The facebook page for Batter Up Pancakes in Fresno reports that Matt Stonie was the second person finished the Grand Slam Challenge with a time of under 10 minutes. The only other previous finisher required over 40 minutes.
Will Millender's twitter reports that Joel Podelsky won the wing eating contest held at a George Mason soccer game in Fairfax, Virginia.

Joey Chestnut wins Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati bratwurst contest

update Sept 19 CoolSwoo5h has videos of the contest

update Fox19 has the top 4
1) Joey Chestnut 42 bratwurst in 10 minutes
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31.75
3) Juliet Lee 23.5
4) Aaron Osthoff 20
? Sean Mulcahey 12

Cincinnati.com also has an article WLWT has an article and slideshow

CincyChamber has a video

The bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati is expected to start at 3pm eastern. Joey Chestnut did interviews with WCPO, 700WLW and WLWT to promote the contest.

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There will be two attempts at challenges which have never been completed today. Randy Santel will attempt the Ultimate Destroyer BBQ sandwich seen in the Kansas City episode of Man vs. Food and Scott Bickel will try to finish the 7 pound Dumpster burger at Cleats in Westlake, Ohio.
The twitter for Miss Pennsylvania announces she will compete in a spaghetti eating contest at Rizzo's Malabar Inn in Crabtree (Pittsburgh area) on Sunday.
Tomorrow's eating contest at the Berea (Kentucky) Spoonbread Festival (seen on MTV's True Life) will award $325 ($200 to the winner).
Tanner Bradford announces that YoGo Express in Anderson, SC will hold a 40 oz. yogurt eating contest tonight awarding $200.
Reporter Rachel Forrest has an article about eating one lobster roll in the eating contest at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival.
BuffaloBills.com announces that a 40 ounce steak eating contest between Bills fans and Green Bay Packer supporters will take place tomorrow at Prime Quarter in Green Bay.
There is now another notable Mallory from Ohio in addition to Justine Bateman's character on Family Ties. In a column for the Bowling Green student newspaper about competitive eating, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek mentions that Mallory Roe, won $666 by eating 6 gyros in under an hour (gallery) at South Side 6.
The eating contest twitter announces that defending champion Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Erik Denmark, Nate Biller, Adrian Morgan and Bryan Beard are expected to compete in the tamale contest in Lewisville, Texas on September 25. NeighborsGo.com has an interview with Tim Janus.
Stephanie Wu has updated her website with reports on her recent trip to upstate California which included a slider eating contest and 5 pound burger challenge in Redding and the famous pancake challenge in Seiad Valley.

US Male wins 2010 San Gennaro cannoli contest

update Sept 18 The Wall Street Journal also has a video

update Sept 17 #2 The Wall Street Journal has a blog entry about the contest.

update Sept 17 DNAInfo has an article and slideshow about the contest. Conti was not disqualified even though he reversed onto his shirt (picture #12). Dave Goldstein is called a second year competitive eater even though he competed in the 2007 Wing Bowl and Buffalo Wing Festival.

update 3:53 The rest of the top 4:
1) Dave “US Male” Goldstein 13 cannolis
2) Crazy Legs Conti 12.75
3) Sean “Flash” Gordon 11.5
4) Larell Marie Mele 9.5

update 3:49 The MLE facebook announces that Dave “US Male” Goldstein won the contest by eating 13 cannolis in 6 minutes.

update 2:53 The contest is over

The contest is expected to start at 2pm eastern. Crazy Legs Conti, in his first contest since the Nathan’s finals, will attempt to defend his title. Sean “Flash” Gordon, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Larell Marie Mele are also expected to compete. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.

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Daily Lobo reports that Pizza 9 in Albuquerque will hold a pizza eating contest on Saturday awarding a flat screen television to the winner.
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