Legendary comedian / director Carl Reiner requested pictures of the original Nathan's Famous location on his twitter feed.
Round Table Pizza announced that Kevin Ross, Jon Rivera, Jon Davis, Raina Huang and edwardc3523 (probably Edward Chin) are the Reign of Fire finalists and will compete for a $5000 prize on March 28. It appears that Raina Huang received the wild card spot.
Ronnie Hartman announced that he is retiring from competitive eating.
Reclaim the Net reports that Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle's video in which he drinks a 20 year old bottle of Crystal Pepsi was age-restricted by youtube. Screen captures of the video recently appeared in a video titled "Images That Precede Unfortunate Events" produced by pewdiepie, the youtube channel with the most subscribers.
Preliminary 2020 Nathan’s qualifier circuit
Here is how the 2019-2020 Nathan’s qualifier circuit is shaping up:
Certain
Apr 4 Las Vegas, NV
Jun 13 Ocean City, MD
? Washington, DC (probably Jun 27 at @BBQinDC)
? Hershey, PA
? Pleasanton, CA
Probable
May 15 Cincinnati, OH
Jun 21 Queens, NY
Possible
Apr 7/ May 12/ Jun 9 Denver, CO
Already held
Jul 23 Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 10 Des Moines, IA
In the first half of the lastest FBTS podcast, a George Chiger video is used to spur discussion of what makes a good restaurant challenge video. The "radio silence" of All Pro Eating is the topic of the second half.
A commenter claimed that Raina Huang sped up her video to qualify for the Round Table Pizza Reign of Fire challenge finals. The video had background music added (contest rules require that the unedited video must be submitted.) (Youtube video)
Registration will open tomorrow for the first 2020 Nathan's Famous qualifier to be held April 4 at New York New York in Las Vegas. A qualifier has been held at that location every year since at least 2003. Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco has won the past five women's divisions of the competition; Max Suzuki has a two year streak for the men.
LocktheLocks has an article about Leah Shutkever, who will be travelling to continental Europe in the upcoming months. The interviewer is a childhood friend of Leah.
Paul's Pantry in Mission Viejo, CA will hold a cinnamon roll eating contest July 4 awarding $1500/$600/$300/$100/$50.
Two burger challenges will be offered during Knott's Boysenberry Festival at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA from March 20 to April 19. The "Mega Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner-burger" contains 4 pounds of beef and is topped with 4 chicken breasts and a boysenberry pie. The "WOW Pasty" contains four pounds of hamburger and is wrapped in pie dough. The challenges cost $80 unless they are finished by a single diner.
Minnis2Society has an interview with Kate Ovens.
Carnaval Miami announces that it is postponing the Calle Ocho Music Festival that was to have taken place next weekend and the croqueta eating contest scheduled for March 15 has been removed from the MLE calendar (via Beard Meats Food)
Joey Chestnut has posted a video of him attempting 32 McDonald's Big Macs. He has passed 50,000 subscribers for his youtube channel.
The News Minute has an article about Indian food challenge youtube channels.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/01/man-becomes-unofficial-jaffa-cake-eating-champion-scoffing-36-three-minutes-12328438/ about a Jaffa Cake eating contest held in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Stu Hayler ate 36 cakes in 3 minutes to take first place. The competition was the initial event of the British Eating League, an organization run by the owner of the George Pub.
Telegram.com has an article about Crazy Legs Conti speaking to class titled "Marketing to You" held at Clark University, in Worcester, MA. The course teacher was Lawrence Norman, a friend of Conti's since high school.
Pro wrestler Braun Strowman created a burger challenge at Jimmy Hula's in Winter Park, FL.
It does not appear that the Sabroso Craft Beer Taco & Music Festival will take place this year. Sabrosotacofest.com redirects to a different website and its facebook page has no information about a 2020 event. The Dana Point, CA event was the site of the Gringo Bandito Taco Eating Contest, the biggest competition for Takeru Kobayashi.
Miki Sudo livestreamed a video of Nick Wehry's hot dog eating training session today. She answered questions from fans while he ate.
Mimi Zhang won two pancake eating contests at the Pancake Manor in Brisbane, QLD this past weekend.
Brett "Branimal" Healey started a Memphis version of the Krispy Kreme Challenge, a race in which participants run 2.5 miles, eat 12 donuts and return 2.5 miles.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry attended PAX2020, a video game convention in Boston, to promote the new game Bite the Bullet. Other competitive eaters in the game include Bob Shoudt, Naader Reda, Yasir Salem, Crazy Legs Conti. Matt Stone, LA Beast and more. (Is this the first project with both MLE and non-MLE competitors? The only other one I can think of the Amazing Race team of Joey Chestnut and retired Tim Janus.)
The home page for the Austin suburb, Manor, TX, announces it will hold a MLE sausage eating contest on May 8 or 9 as part of its Manorpalooza Festival.
Delish.com has an interview with Julie Smith, host of the video series "Julie Tries Everything" in which she tastes all menu items from a given location. She says she was a competitive eater in college.
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