United States eating challenges and contests category

Pho King Way will award $1000 to a customer that can finish its 6 dish challenge in under one hour. The restaurant has 3 Texas locations (2 DFW), 2 Southern California sites and an Albuquerque location.
Syracuse.com has an article about the conclusion of Man vs. Food recording in that city yesterday.
Pelham Reporter reports that Dale Boone won a rib eating contest at the Texas Roadhouse in Pelham, Alabama by eating 43 ribs in 8 minutes. update CBS 42 has a video update #2 AL.com has a gallery
The new June 23 episode of Man vs. Food will be recorded in Cleveland. Galleries of next week's new Boulder and San Diego episodes
A whoopie pie eating contest at the Rock'n Ribfest in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Sunday will award $500 to the winner.
(via Patrick Michels twitter) Rebecca Davis has a video from the Go! Go! Curry! finals with interviews of several finalists.
HamptonRoads.com announces that Sonya Thomas will be competing in the Nathan's qualifier at MacArthur Center in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday.
The San Diego Source lists Crazy Legs Conti and Kevin Ross as expected entrants in the June 26 Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, California.
Mike Longo has uploaded videos of the With Cheese Please cheesesteak contest to his youtube page.
Jesse Rifkin has a column for the Hartford Courant about his participation in the Hartford Nathan's qualifier.

Man vs. Food in Syracuse

Sam Skelton relays a rumor that Man vs. Food will record at Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse today. Dan Hardy reports that the program recorded at Wohl Practice Field at Syracuse University earlier today. update Syracuse.com has an article about the recording. A commenter says the program will record at Mother’s Cupboard on Thursday.

update June 9 Syracuse.com reports that Man vs. Food is recording at Heid’s in Liverpool, NY today

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Rocco’s Pizza contest videos

Jill Stoler has uploaded videos of Rocco’s pizza eating contest held in Brooklyn on Sunday.

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The East Valley Tribune and KFYI have galleries of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at Arizona Mills.
The MLE facebook reports that Andrew Bosque won yesterday's Nathan's qualifier at Naval Air Station Oceana restricted to active military personnel by eating 12 hot dogs in 10 minutes. (Presumably the 20 HDB minimum is not in effect for the military qualifiers)
Adrian Morgan says he will compete in the Nathan's qualifier at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Patrick Michels did an interview with Crazy Legs Conti about his participation in the contest.
twitter.com/PadrinoItalian: "2010 Spaghetti Eating Champion is Joe LaRue!! 7Lbs of spaghetti and marinara in 10 MINUTES!! Congrats Joe!!" update The Padrino facebook has a gallery

Furious Pete wins Rocco’s pizza

Will Millender has the top 6 at today’s Rocco’s pizza eating contest in Brooklyn:

1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, 27 slices
2) Sal Carbone 17 slices (defending champ)
3) Mike Hoffman 15 slices
4) Mike Longo 14 slices
5) Will Millender 13 slices
6) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria

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2010 Acme Oyster contest

update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow has the top 3:

1) Sonya Thomas 37 dozen in 8 minutes
2) Amateur 21 dozen
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19 dozen

update nic511 reports that Sonya Thomas won the contest with a total of 37 dozen oysters.

The MLE oyster contest is expected to start at 3pm eastern. Members of The Deadliest Catch cast will compete in an undercard.

The New York Times has an article about the Oyster Festival, which was originally planned to start in 2006 and cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina.

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Furious Pete wins Go! Go! Curry!

update June 9 Rebecca Davis / NY Daily News video

update June 7 Furious Pete has a video
A picture of the results

Mike Longo has the results of today’s contest at Go! Go! Curry!

1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
2) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
3) Will Millender
4) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
5) Brian Kenny Pham

update Metromix NY has a gallery

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Mike Longo has the top 3 in today's cheesesteak eating contest at With Cheese Please: 1) "Munchin" Mike Longo 2) David "Tiger Wings" Brunelli 3) Joel Podelsky

Erik Denmark wins Arizona Mills qualifier

update The MLE facebook has the top 3 in today’s qualifier in Arizona Mills

1) Erik Denmark, 29 HDB
2) Adrian Morgan (Nathan’s debut), 25 HDB
3) Damon Wells, 22 HDB
DQ) Ryan McKillop (18 HDB before reversal)

KPHO has a video of a promo contest against Ron (not Ron Koch)

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LA Weekly has a preview of today's pizza eating contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti.
Daily Comet lists defending champion Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti and Micah Collins as expected entrants in Sunday's Acme World Oyster Eating Championship in New Orleans.
Jerry's Bait Shop in Lee's Summit, MO (Kansas City area) will hold a pizza, wing and Behemoth Burger eating contests tomorrow awarding $300 in prizes.
TomsRiver.tv has some videos of the June 1 pizza eating contest at Johnny G's won by Joel Podelsky.
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