United States eating challenges and contests category

A hot dog eating contest awarding $500 to the winner will be held during the NWL Wrestling card at the Apollo Theater in Martinsburg, West Virginia on August 22.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of Saturday's Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters event in Minneapolis. The Chicago makers vs. eaters event will take place on July 25 at a Taste of Lincoln.
MLive has the details about Adam Richman's appearance at a West Michigan Whitecaps game tomorrow to attempt the Fifth Third Burger for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the August 15 Minnesota funnel cake contest and August 22 Los Angeles gyoza contest will open on Wednesday. Registration will open tomorrow for 2 slots in the Illinois August 1 soft taco eating contest.
The team size for the 54 inch square pizza challenge at Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria in Los Angeles has been expanded by one. $1000 will be awarded to a group of six diners that finish the pizza in under 2 hours. update A request for team members (probably by the commenters on bodybuilding.com) has been made on the Man vs. Food forum.
The home page for Man vs. Food reports that the first episode of the second season will debut on August 5 and feature restaurants from San Antonio.
SJ-R reports that Man vs. Food will be recording in Springfield, Illinois this weekend and the challenge will be Joe Rogers' Firebrand chili. The 40 & 60 inch pizzas delivered by a crane at the Pizza Factory, probably the most famous Springfield eating challenge, will apparently be bypassed.
The Philadelphia restaurants Man vs. Food recorded at yesterday were Tommy Dinic's Roast Pork and Beef and Miller's Twist in Reading Terminal Market. Today's sites were cheesesteak restaurants on South Street.
StevesSnappinDogs.com has the results from yesterday's qualifier. Jimmy Mares and Bryan Beard tied for first.

Mac_KenzieKopp: Joey sets Chinook Winds rib record

A caption to a twitpic by Mackenzie Koppert reports that Joey Chestnut broke the Chinook Winds rib record by eating 8.8 pounds.

update The eating contest twitter has the top 3:
1. Joey Chestnut 8.8 lbs.
2. Erik Denmark 6.7 lbs.
3. Jason Erb 4.2 lbs.

The previous record was 8.4 lbs. in 2006

update #2 KGW has an article and video

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IndexJournal reports that Larry McNeil won the hot dog eating contest at the Festival of Discovery by eating 18 HDB in 12 minutes.
Val Broman has posted her report and gallery from the 2009 Nathan's finals.
TwinCities.com did an interview with Tim Brown to promote today's Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters contest in Minneapolis.

Furious Pete wins Bacci Pizza

A caption for a gallery of today’s Bacci Pizza contest says the unnamed winner ate 8.5 slices. Rich LeFevre’s mark of 7.5 slices in 15 minutes at the 2005 Bacci Pizza contest is listed as an IFOCE record. update A comment for another picture says the winner was from Canada.

update # Videos and a bodybuilding.com thread are available.

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A craigslist posting announces that a hot dog eating contest will be held in Troutman, North Carolina (Charlotte area) on August 29 awarding $1000 to the winner.
KGW has an article about the rib eating contest at Chinook Winds on July 12 and a video of a rib eating contest between Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy.
A video of the knish eating contest held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game on Wednesday is available.
Pat Bertoletti's twitter has the results from today's Jimmy John's sandwich competition in Milwaukee: makers - 50+ eaters - 38 update A video of the contest is available.
A wing eating contest & hot sauce drinking contest will take place at the Tijuana Garage in Atlanta tomorrow.
Ocean City Today reports that "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti won the hot dog eating contest held at Fish Tales on July 4 by eating 20.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Defending champion Ken Federighi was second.
The Washingtonian has a video from the July 2 Z-burger eating contest containing interviews with "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Dale Boone and Joe Menchetti.
The Toledo Blade has an article on 70 year old Tony Groch, who will attempt to defend his pierogi eating title at the Lagrange Street Polish Festival on Saturday.
OnMilwaukee has an interview with Alex Kaczkowski, who will compete along side Pat Bertoletti and 2 other MLE eaters in tomorrows Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters event tomorrow.
The Hungry Sisters have posted their report on the 2009 Nathan's finals.
Craigslist has a posting requesting competitive eaters to appear in a 5 minute comedic short filming this weekend in Manhattan.
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