Female competitive eaters category

King5 has an article about Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez and Sarah Reinecke, who plan to compete in the Denver Nathan's qualifier next Saturday.
Molly Schuyler is expected to compete in Zoi's Pizza eating contest in Seymour, CT on June 1, which has raised its pro prizes to $2000/$1000/$500.
Kristen Amy McElhaney ate 223 oysters to break the women's record at Wintzell's Oyster House in Mobile, AL, a mark which had stood for 22 years. The effort raised $5,000 for the Distinguished Young Women program.

2019 Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifier

Molly Schuyler is expected to compete in an eating contest at the Yuba Sutter Taco Fest in Marysville, CA on April 27.
CBC has an article about Montreal competitive eating focusing on Veronica Boggia. The report documents her completion the challenge at Pizza Spanos in 17:10, about half the time (31:56) previous record-holder Randy Santel required.
Raina Huang attempted a 7 pound dumpling in a video for Food Insider.

2019 Fort Myers Nathan’s qualifier

News-Press.com has a gallery and video

Joni Mederios has an instagram gallery.

Winners
1) Nick Wehry 34
1W) Mary Bowers 10.25

FortMyersBeachTalk.com has an interview with Mary Bowers.

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Chien Shu of the Taiwanese "Battle of the Big Eaters" team has surpassed a million subscribers to her youtube channel.
Molly Schuyler has uploaded a video of her breaking the record for the "Don Juan" breakfast tacos at Juan in Million in Austin, TX. The caption mentions an upcoming documentary series.
Foodbeast will hold a streaming session on twitch.tv/foodbeast today starting at 10:30 am Pacific today in which Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy and Naader Reda will attempt to set eating records. The person who predicts Molly Schuyler's chicken nugget total will win a prize. update a video is available

Takeru Kobayashi defends Chronic Taco title

update April 12
Full official results have been posted:

1st 157 Takeru Kobayashi
2nd 146 Molly Schuyler
3rd 107 Dan “killer” Kennedy
4th 94 Jesse Pynnönen
5th 78 David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli
6th 59 Kevin Ross
7th 47 Naader “Freak8r” Reda
8th 41 Jimmy “The Spicialist” Lin

Naader Reda has uploaded a video of his choking incident

update #2 The Los Angeles Daily News has a contest report giving the official results as
1) Takeru Kobayashi 157 tacos
2) Molly Schuyler 146 tacos

Naader Reda required the Heimlich maneuver during the contest, but completed the competition.

Takeru Kobayashi ate 157 tacos in 10 minutes to defend his Gringo Bandito Chronic Tacos Challenge title at the Sabroso Taco Fest in Dana Point, CA. update Eric Anderson has a video of the contest. Kobayashi and Molly Schuyler were announced as having both eaten 160 tacos at the conclusion of the competition.

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Voyage LA Magazine has an interview with Raina Huang.
Molly Schuyler collaborated with Brazilian Corbucci Eats in an attempt to break the record for eating McDonald's Big Macs.
Piper, an American competitor on the Australian reality show My Test Kitchen claimed she ate 52 baby back ribs to win an eating contest. (video)
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez and Sarah Reinecke attempted to eat every slice of pie available at Pie Bar in Ballard, WA for Pi Day (video).
A Nela Zisser burger challenge video has received over a million views in 10 hours according to Facebook.
Kristi Keith of Blondes Who Eat finished a 11 patty cheeseburger at Jack's Burger House in Dallas in 40 minutes.
On March 2, Molly Schuyler ate 13 Don Juan Tacos to set the record at Juan in a Million in Austin.
Molly Schuyler is the guest on the latest Human Performance Outliers Podcast.
The Daily Mail has a profile of Leah Shutkever which inserts an extra 0 into her Jaffa cake total.
Caters News has an article and video about Leah Shutkever.
LadBible has a video of Nela Zisser attempting a 10,000 calorie English breakfast challenge which labels the New Zealand resident as an "Aussie". According to Facebook statistics, the video has received 885K views in 8 hours.

Molly Schuyler defends Laredo jalapeno contest title

Molly Schuyler ate a record 277 peppers to defend her title and win $3000 at the La Costeña Jalapeño Eating Contest in Laredo, TX tonight. Brandon “Da Garbage Disposal” was runner up with 178 peppers, Dan “Killer” Kennedy was 3rd with 142.

update LMTOnline.com has a gallery

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Kate Ovens attempted a 10 foot sandwich inspired by a hoagie Homer Simpson ate to celebrate the 30th season of the animated series.
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