Youtube has a Guinness World Records video about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco documenting her attempt to set the mayonnaise eating record and break the fastest time to eat a single hot dog without use of hands. (via Big Eaters Club & PhillyD) update The Guinness website has an article about Michelle Lesco.
Noshfest will hold a bagel eating contest in Marietta, GA on September 1 awarding $500 to the winner.
Dana Williams defeated Michael Jenkins in Sunday's rib eating contest (2.0 pounds to 1.97 over 3 minutes) held at the Tony Roma's in Orlando (video).
Molly Schuyler, Bob Shoudt, Dan Kennedy and Pittsburgh Paulie are expected to compete in the National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship in Kennett Square, PA on September 7. The contest will award $1000/$500/$300 to the top 3 professionals. A contest for local amateurs will also be held.
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Darron Breeden, Gideon Oji, Miki Sudo, Nicholas Wehry, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker and Jim Reeves are expected to compete in the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo Sunday.
Brandon Clark has uploaded a video of his victory over Molly Schuyler at a hot dog eating contest held at The Smoking Gun in San Diego on July 4.

2019 Fat Boy’s Pizza contest

update Sep 2 Darron Breeden has a video

Update: NOLA.com article | gallery
Adrian Morgan Instagram gallery
Podcast of WWL radio coverage

Official results 10 minutes, 2 ft slices

1st 6.5 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 6 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 4.5 Darron Breeden
4th 3.125 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
? 1.33 Jocelyn Walker

Fat Boy’s Pizza is owned by Gabe Corchiani, the brother of Chris Corchiani who is #2 all time in assists for NCAA division I men’s basketball.

Joey Chestnut podcast from Friday about the contest.

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The Japan Times has a article about female ōgui eaters titled "Japan's insatiable appetite for watching strangers binge eat" mentioning Yuka Kinoshita, Angela Sato and Moeno Azuki.

2019 Snowbird bratwurst contest

Foodbeast will hold a 20 pound ramen bowl eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner as part of its Noodbeach festinval in Huntington Beach, CA on September 1. Molly Schuyler is expected to compete.
Leah Shutkever was named a "Creator on the Rise" by Youtube Creators.
The Baltimore Sun has an article about Joey Chestnut eating 230 wings in 57 minutes at Hooters, a personal record for a one hour session. He faced off against fans in 10 wing mini-contests and was defeated by Phil "The Fury" Fiore, founder of a competitive eating club at the University of Maryland in 2010.
Nola.com has a preview of Sunday's Fat Boy’s Pizza Eating Championship in Metairie, LA. Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Darron Breeden and Adrian Morgan are expected to compete.
Taste of Greektown will hold a gyro eating contest in Chicago August 24 awarding a $250 Visa gift card to the winner. The runner up will receive a $100 gift card.
Molly Schuyler has surpassed 100,000 youtube subscribers, the second American female competitive eater to do so. (Raina Huang is currently at 209K).
American Coney Island will hold a Coney Dog eating contest in Detroit on August 29 awarding a trip to Las Vegas for 2.
Crazy Legs Conti has self-published a book titled The Loneliness of the Long Distance Eater: A Competitive Eater's Diary available on amazon.com.
Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy, Bob Shoudt, Andrew Puhl, Sean Yeager and Jadyn Pineda are expected to compete in the pro division of the National Hamburg-er Eating Championship at Taste of Hamburg, PA on August 31. (promo video)
Keith Bona ate 20 hot dogs to win yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Jack's Hot Dog Stand in North Adams, MA after leader LA Beast reversed. update iberkshires.com has an article about the contest. LA Beast had a 26 to 20 hot dog lead when he reversed with about a minute left.
News 12 has a video about Wayne Algenio winning the Artichoke Pizza eating contest for the third time yesterday.
The Frederick News Post has an article about Molly Schuyler finishing 2 Avalanche challenge burgers at Chubby's in Emmetsburg, MD.

2019 Day-Lee Foods Gyoza Championship

Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark reports that he ate 24 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 at a contest held at The Hive in Waldomar, CA.
LeagueOfFire.com, a website devoted to spicy eating contests and challenges, has launched.
https://www.instagram.com/eatmoregyoza/ has an Ask Me Anything session with Joey Chestnut on its Instagram stories.
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