Hot Dang Show will host a League of Fire live spicy challenge eating contest at 5pm Eastern today at https://www.youtube.com/hotdangshow. Former WWE wrestler Ryback will host and UK Chilli Queen Shahina Waseem and others spicy specialists will participate. update Link to video stream
The West Virginia Three Rivers Festival Pepperoni Roll Eating World Championship is now scheduled for June 13 in Fairmont, WV after the original date of May 23 was cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. update The updated date for the contest is on the official festival schedule.
AsiaOne has a profile of Sarah Ow, who quit her job as a flight attendant to become a professional eater for Food League Singapore.
In their latest podcast, Fink Beats the Stomach interviews Dan "Killer" Kennedy about his organization, Elite Eats Entertainment.
The West Palm Beach, FL Sweet Corn Fiesta (April 26) and Fairmont, WV Three Rivers Festival Pepperoni Roll (May 23) eating contests have been removed from the MLE schedule. The Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles on August 22 is currently the first upcoming contest listed.
"I am Full" a short horror film about a burger challenge by Orlando Torres can be viewed at https://www.iamfullfilm.com/. The film's description is "Kyle, the local competitive eater is met against with the monstrous sized Meat Me Burger Challenge. If he doesn't finish he will have to face the consequences."
Matt Stonie has surpassed 11 million youtube subscribers. It has taken his channel slightly more than four months to gain an additional million after hitting 10 million on November 19, 2019.
Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, CT announced they will sue its food service provider that produced the pancakes used in a fatal pancake eating contest held March 2017. (The current athletics director of SHU is former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who ate 120 pancakes to win a contest when he was a college student.) update Tim Janus has offered to testify in favor ot Chartwells, the food service provider.
The New York City Hot Sauce Expo that was to have taken place April 18 and 19 in Brooklyn has been postponed to September. Previous events had several spicy eating contests on both days.
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIX, which opens with Homer taking on Cthulu in an oyster eating contest (for "The World Series of Gluttony") can be viewed in full online.
The New Orleans Oyster Festival announced it has cancelled the event scheduled for May 30 and 31. A MLE oyster eating contest has been held during the festival.
"Notorious B.O.B" Shoudt has passed 100,000 subscribers for his youtube channel.
An article by Jim Seimas about last June's Nathan's qualifier at Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz won the Associated Press Sports Editors award for papers with a circulation of 14,000 or less.
WWE wrestler Braun Strowman faced off against Danni Ellexo to see who could finish the burger challenge at Jimmy Hula's in Winter Park, FL first.
Competitive eating youtube channels with 1M+ subscribers
Here is a list of competitive eating / food challenge youtube channels I am aware of with over one million subscribers.
| # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Stonie | 10.9M | 2022023404 | Aug 23, 2012 |
| Yuka Kinoshita | 5.44M | 1973179670 | May 21, 2014 |
| Furious Pete | 5.16M | 1003903524 | Aug 10, 2006 |
| Hussain Sallam | 4.16M | 554140785 | Mar 2, 2006 |
| Esttik | 3.01M | 304460725 | Feb 28, 2013 |
| L.A. Beast | 2.53M | 409258475 | Aug 7, 2010 |
| Corbucci Eats | 1.64M | 203985439 | May 2, 2006 |
| Veronica Wang | 1.6M | 275202810 | Jun 26, 2010 |
| BadlandsChugs | 1.54M | 139427096 | Sep 25, 2012 |
| Chien Tsu | 1.4M | 173926809 | Jul 10, 2016 |
| Taniyaaan1125 | 1.26M | 250991764 | Sep 17, 2016 |
| ErikTheElectric | 1.11M | 185153067 | Aug 10, 2013 |
New York City hotels are hoping for a July 1 reopening date, which would make a Nathan's hot dog contest on July 4 a possibility.
CrossFAT is holding a Taco Bell Party Pack eating challenge. The deadline for entry is 11:59pm tonight. update "El Toro" Jiminez submitted an entry at 11:58 pm Pacific time to win the contest.
An action of Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle about to eat a cactus has been produced.
The trainer for Long Weekend blames the Blue Runner Foods World Red Beans And Rice Eating Championship for the horse's poor result at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.
"In a very strange set of circumstances, Fair Grounds had a red-beans-and-rice eating contest on the apron of the track," Amoss said. "They had all the big eaters. Joey Chestnut and, I mean, these were national guys. It was sponsored by a red-beans company, and there was a lot of activity and hoopla, and it spooked Long Weekend, and he got loose in the post parade."
2006 Krystal Qualifier circuit
The 2006 Krystal Square Off will be rerun on ESPN2 at noon Eastern. Here is how the field for that event was selected:
2006 Qualifier Winners
| 2006 Aug 27 | 1st | 62 | 8 min | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Chattanooga, TN |
| 2006 Sep 4 | 1st | 52 | 8 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Jacksonville, FL |
| 2006 Sep 10 | 1st | 52 | 8 min | Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Nashville, TN |
| 2006 Sep 17 | 1st | 48 | 8 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Knoxville, TN |
| 2006 Sep 24 | 1st | 53 | 8 min | Chip “The Phenom” Simpson | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Atlanta, GA |
| 2006 Oct 1 | 1st | 53 | 8 min | Tim “Eater X” Janus | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Memphis, TN |
| 2006 Oct 8 | 1st | 37 | 8 min | Dale “Mouth of the South” Boone | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Perry, GA |
| 2006 Oct 15 | 1st | 38 | 8 min | Crazy Legs Conti | Krystal Square Off qualifier | Jackson, MS |
Defending champion bye: Takeru Kobayashi
Wild cards (4): 1) Rich LeFevre 51 2) Seaver Miller 41 3) Justin Mih, 36 4) Arturo Rios, 36
Movies are the focus of the latest editition of the Fink Beats the Stomach podcast, with discussion centered around 101 Dalmatians and its sequels and the competitive eating documentaries "Swallow Your Pride", "The Good, The Band and the Hungry" and "Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating".
The Elk Horn (Iowa) Tivoli Fest that was to have been held May 22-24 has been cancelled. The festival had would have dropped MLE affiliation for its aebleskiver eating contest and been amateur only.
The International Bar-B-Q Festival scheduled for May 8 and 9 in Owensboro, KY has been cancelled and a mutton sandwich eating contest that was to have been held at that event has been removed from the MLE calendar. There are no plans to reschedule the festival on a later date this year.
Nathan's Famous has started offering a 4 pound burger. (Might be available only at Yonkers, NY location).
Love in the Time of Coronavirus has an interview with Pat Bertoletti on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted Taco in a Bag, the Chicago restaurant he owns with Tim "Gravy" Brown.
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