Greg Foster attempted to eat 123 Carolina Reaper peppers Saturday to set a world record. The feat would have placed him at the top spot in the League of Fire rankings.
Max Stanford edged Kyle Gibson by one chicken nugget to win the first prize of £1000 in yesterday's British Eating League chicken nugget championship.
Juan-A-Taco in New Port Richey, FL will hold a taco eating contest on October 4 awarding $200 to the winner.
La Tapatia in Phoenix, Oregon was recently incinerated by wildfires. The restaurant was the site of a Mega Taco Challenge.
Mel Magazine has an article about vegan competitive eaters focusing on German bodybuilder Ferdinand Beck.
Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest will be featured on the next episode of NBC's First Look, which will be televised at 1 am Sunday morning after Saturday Night Live. Nick Wehry, Miki Sudo and Badlands Booker will appear.
On the latest episode of Kermit's Kitchen, Kermit the Frog oversees a 10 pound burger challenge at Burly Burger in Utah.
Mary Bowers will compete on tonight's episode of Dodgeball Thunderdome on the Discovery Channel at 9pm Eastern / Pacific.
The League of Fire has started a worldwide ranking of spicy eating challengers placing Justin ‘The Thunder from Down Under’ Rummel at the top.
With 5.51 million subscribers, Hussain Salaam of Saudi Arabia has overtaken Yuka Kinoshita (5.49M) to have the second most popular food challenge youtube channel after Matt Stonie.
The Turkish Eating League will hold its first test run tonight. The organization will be affiliated with the British Eating League.
Golden Wok Australia is holding a video dumpling eating contest awarding $1000/$500/$200 vouchers. Entrants need to submit videos of themselves eating 9 dumplings be September 29.
The Sun reports that John Fury, father of British boxer Tyson Fury, broke the Guinness World Record for most Ferrero Rocher chocolates eaten in a minute.
2020 Lewisville Western Days tamales
| 1st | 93 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | first appearance at contest since 2014 |
| 2nd | 75 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 61 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 57.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 5th | 26.5 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 6th | 21 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 7th | 16.5 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 8th | 12.5 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 9th | 8 | Brian Moote | |
| DQ | ? | Greg “The Savage” Wilson | apparently had at least 30 before DQ |
The Western Days Festival World Tamale Eating Championship can be viewed online at http://lewisvillewesterndays.com/. Joey Chestnut will be competing for the first time since 2014.
Previous winners
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MyHorryNews.com has an article about Randy Santel completing the 8.25 pound food challenge at Crooked Oak Tavern in Conway, SC which included a four pound ribeye steak.
The "Beef Cakes of Wrestling" blog has an entry about Ronnie "Megabyte" Hartman.
The British Eating League will hold today the first of four qualifiers for a parmo eating contest awarding 500 pounds. Pro eaters can receive a bye to the finals. The league has started a youtube channel. The first video is a review of the organization by Bob Shoudt.
Matt Elliott has posted a list of Toronto events that have been cancelled due to coronavirus which includes Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship. The competition remains on the MLE calendar with an unspecified date.
Leah Shutkever announced that she will have an entire page in the 2021 Guinness Book of World Records. 
Metro.co.uk has an article about Max Stanford's win over Kyle Gibson in Saturday's British Eating League eating contest. Max's total of 141 cookies in 5 minutes was billed as a world record.
A Burger King in Tokyo is offering all you can eat one pound burgers.
Darron Breeden and Gideon Oji attempted the Grand Sicilian deep dish pizza challenge at Beau Jo's in Denver, CO.
Raina Huang and Joel Hansen both attempted the 28 inch pizza challenge at Studebaker's in Gatesville, TX.
Former Yankee and White Sox player Ron Blomberg, best known as the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball History, announced his desire to cross over into competitive eating. In 1971, Murray Chass of the New York Times wrote a column about his eating feats, which included a 72 ounce steak in North Carolina.
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