Female competitive eaters category

Raina Huang and Naader Reda are attempting the Big Texan 72 ounce steak in Barstow, CA tonight. Raina hopes to finish it in 20 minutes. update Raina finished in 14:13 to set the women's record excluding Molly Schuyler. updare Daily Press has an article. Naader's time was 39 minutes.
The schedule (Kingsford stage) for the Giant BBQ Battle in Washington, DC claims that Miki Sudo will be competing in a Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on June 27. Nathan's qualifiers have been held at the event from 2022 to 2025, but no competition is listed on the MLE schedule.
On July 4, Stadium Swim in Las Vegas will hold "Weenies & Bikinis", a female-only hot dog eating contest awarding $5000.
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas is expected to compete in a hot dog eating contest at Joint Base Andrews Exchange in St. Andrews, MD on June 13. This will be her first public appearance since a mysterious disqualification in the 2018 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest concluded her Major League Eating career. Sonya Thomas worked at the Burger King on Joint Base Andrews.
WFLA reports that Miki Sudo graduated from Hillsborough College with a dental hygiene degree. She plans to continue her competitive eating career.
Paola won the first prize of £500 in today's hot dog eating contest held at Smashburger in Bath, England.
Dexerto reports that a South Korean woman has been charged with defamation for claiming that Tzuyang vomited after her meals, a claim the mukbang star denied. Tzuyang has said she eats up to 30,000 calories in a day.
Nela Zisser's apparance (as part of Team Australia) on the Japanese program "Dekamori Hunter" has been uploaded to youtube. Max Suzuki leads Team Japan.
Fat Shack has produced a video about its Fat Shack 5K Challenge held in Fort Collins on January 10. Molly Schuyler won the cotest.

Molly Schuyler wins 2026 Las Vegas Wing Bowl

Full results according to the scorecard Bob Shoudt posted

1st 189 Molly Schuyler 85/71/33, defends 2018 title
2nd 162 Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt 59/78/25
3rd 117 Dan “killer” Kennedy 57/60
4th 104 Jesse Pynnönen 46/58
5th 91 Wayne “wayneywonder” Algenio 42/49
6th 80 Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter 53/27
7th 70 Naader “Freak8r” Reda 41/29
8th 59 Tom “Goose” Gilbert 42/17
9th 51 Mirza “Snowman” Selmic 35/16
10th 32 Kevin Ross
11th 28 “El Toro” Jimenez
12th 26 Sabatino Ferino
13th 18 Nisha
14th 10 Godfrey Plaza employee
15th 7 Victoria “Brit Chick Vick” Webster

8NewsNow.com has an article with the official top 3:
1 Molly Schuyler 189 wings
2 Bob Shoudt 162
3 Dan Kennedy 117

Molly Schuyler won the Las Vegas Bowl with a total of 189 wings over a total of 25 minutes I think. Bob Shoudt’s total was not mentioned. Molly mentioned an esophageal hernia in her post-contest interview.

The final 2: Molly Schuyler and Bob Shoudt. Molly has 156, Bob has 137

Advancing to second round:
Molly, Peter Ritter, Dan Kennedy, Bob Shoudt, Mirza Selmic, Wayne Algenio, Jesse, Tom Gilbert, Naader Reda, El Toro Gimenez (El Toro did not come out for the second round)

Bob Shoudt has posted a picture of the first round scoresheet.

The field: Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Mirza Selmic, Sabatino Ferina, Neesha, Victoria “Brit Chick Vick” Webster,
Naader Reda, El Toro Jimenez, Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter, Godfrey (Plaza employee), Bob Shoudt, Jesse Pynnönen, Wayne Algenio, Kevin Ross, Dan Kennedy, Molly Schuyler

Molly Schuyler was wearing a wedding dress. She and Dan Kennedy were announced as a married couple.

The Plaza Hotel & Casino will livestream tonight’s Wing Bowl starting at 10 pm Eastern / 7 pm Atlantic. update The Wing Bowl has started streaming on OneStream Live.

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2026 Fat Shack 5K

The top 4 from the livestream
1 Molly Schuyler
2 Dan Kennedy
3 Scott Watkins
4 Wayne Algenio

The first 3:30 of the competition

The Fat Shack 5k will be livestreamed on Instagram and youtube today from Fort Collins, CO starting at 11:30am Mountain Time (1:30 pm Eastern)

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South Korean mukbang star Togimochi, who has 854K followers for her youtube channel, uploaded a video of her spitting out food onto the floor while dining. Videos showing the cheating have gone viral, with two videos already having more than 10 million views.
Streamer Katchii attempted a 7 pound pho challenge and reversed into the bowl with two minutes remaining in the hour time limit.
Female bodybuilder Lee Keyrouz attempted the 7 pound burger at Ridiculous Burgers in Costa Rica, her first food challenge.
Monchi's Night Market will hold a taco eating contest in Los Angeles on November 22 awarding $400 to the winner. Raina Huang and Naader Reda are expected to compete.
An episode of "America Says" produced by the Game Show Network in which a quartet of competitive eaters consisting of Jimmy Lin, Naader Reda, Aubrey Koehn and Kevin Ross faced off against four yogis has been uploaded to youtube.
Kate Ovens was the guest on the latest episode of the Yunk Life podcast.
GuinnessWorldRecords.com has a post about James Webb and Miki Sudo setting a new world record of 9 tacos in a minute before last month's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.
Molly Schuyler ate 125 hard-boiled eggs in 8 minutes to defend her title at the Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO and claim the first prize of $2,500.
The San Antonio Report has an interview with Miki Sudo about competing in the Taco Cabana World Taco Eating Championship tomorrow. James Webb and Geoff Esper are also expected to compete.
Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy both ate 13 gyros in 12 minutes to tie for first place in the The Big Greek Gyro Eating Competition held at the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday.
Rock & Reilly's Smash Burger Eating Competition at Topanga Social in Los Angeles on September 6 will award $1,000 to the winner. Raina Huang is expected to compete.
Dan Kennedy announced the top three for the hot dog eating contest at A Taste of Pendleton, OR. The top 3: 1) Molly Schuyler 46 2) Dan Kennedy 44 3) Scott Watkins 36 fixed August 24
Molly Schuyler will defend her Wing Bowl title in Las Vegas on February 7. Notorious B.O.B. will also compete and attempt to regain his 2017 title.
Rich and Carlene LeFevre are expected to appear on tonight's episode of "America's Got Talent" at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central on NBC. update Collider has a post about the LeFevres' appearance. They did not advance to the next round. A video of the appearance is on youtube.
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