United States eating challenges and contests category

Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has produced a video about his road trip to Stockton for the Asparagus Festival eating contest.
VegasNews has several pictures of yesterday's Nathan's qualifier in Las Vegas. Naader Reda has a video from the contest.
A dumpling eating contest will be held in New York City on May 18. Contact twitter.com/JustJon for the registration password.
PhillyD.tv has a thread Contains spoilers) about the spicy wing challenge Adam Richman attempted at Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota.
The home page of Go! Go! Curry has been updated with qualifier results from May 5. The top performance that day was Peter Rogeis at 1:10.

Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos in Daily News Tribune

The Daily News Tribune has an article about Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos who will compete in the Boston Nathan’s qualifier tomorrow.

update The Boston Globe also has a preview (with no expected entrants)

update #2 WBCN has a podcast of an interview with Davekos

IFOCE.com has a preview of the contest which says that Allen Goldstein will also compete

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VegasTripping: Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino on May 9 at 1:30 pm and the first 50 spectators will receive a free beer.

2009 Las Vegas qualifier results

update #2 official results have been posted

update from George Shea’s twitter: rich lefevre 26 HDBs in 10 mins; ron koch 21, jason leeos, 14.

Fox 5 Vegas has a video from a promotional contest earlier today. Competitors included Ron Koch and “Extreme” Amy, who has a blog entry about the contest.

This twitter search query should find contest results.

The contest might also be on ESPN 1100

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RJ Frasca has uploaded some pictures from Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Biloxi.
LVJR.com/blogs: The three sites Man vs. Food will record at in Las Vegas are Hash House a Go Go, Hot & Juicy Crawfish and the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino, where the challenge meal will be a 6 pound burrito.
I Love Las Vegas Magazine has a picture of Joey Chestnut and boxer Ricky Hatton taken at a Hooters restaurant on Sunday after Hatton was defeated by Manny Pacquiao.
The Ranger: The 72 ounce steak competition to be held in 2010 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Big Texan will be an IFOCE contest and Nathan's Famous will participate in the event.
The winner of last week's spring roll eating competition, Paul Constant, has a long article about his victory and the training session with Erik Denmark that preceded it.
Tripp Laino has a column in the University of Maryland student newspaper about a hot dog eating contest he had with Brian "Eatin" Keaton.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman and other participants in the Gumball 3000 transcontinental race stopped at the Big Texan. No racer attempted the 72 ounce steak.
Registration for the June 13 IFOCE pork rinds contest opens today at noon.

Q13 Fox Anchorwoman attempts 5 pound burrito

Lily Jang of Q13 Fox in Seattle attempted the 5 pound burrito from Taco Del Mar with a co-worker. Reportedly she finished in 47 minutes

update A video has been posted on q13fox.com

Billy the Fridge is another Seattle resident who completed the challenge

update #2 The Taco Del Mar facebook page has links to reports of 5 pound burrito attempts

Erik Denmark wants to attempt the challenge (he found a location offering the burrito all week)

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Comedian Jim Holland has several videos from Sunday's AICE World Taco Eating Championship.

Man vs. Food in Las Vegas Friday

TweetSoul reports that Man vs. Food will be recording at Hash House a Go Go in Las Vegas on Friday. (No other sources report this)

update LasVegasWeekly confirms the appearance.

In other Las Vegas television news, Amy Carraba of Fox 5 news is taking applications to be her rival at the Nathan’s qualifier at the New York New York casino on Thursday. George Shea’s twitter reports that other competitors at that event will be Rich LeFevre, Ron Koch and El Toro.

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ValBromann has posted a blog entry and gallery about her trip to Metropolis, Illinois for the ice cream eating contest.
theweekender.com: Bart & Urby’s will hold a hot dog contest Thursday awarding $300 to the winner. Russ Keeler won last year's contest.
The May 23 Cupcake Cram contest in Boulder, Colorado will be a WLOCE contest and Dale Boone is an expected entrant.
Pat Bertoletti has uploaded a video of Saturday's ice cream eating contest at Harrah's casino in Metropolis, IL.

Man vs. Food Season 2 sites

News of upcoming Man vs. Food sites will be added to this blog entry as they are announced. The Man vs. Food twitter reports that the first filming session for the second season took place at Yoder’s in Sarasota, FL

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Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded a video from last weekend's eating contest at the Asparagus Festival
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