The Yorkshire Post has an article about KyleVFood attempting the 30 pancake & waffle challenge at the Cabin in Sheffield.
The Fort Bend County Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest in Fort Bend, TX today awarding $250 to the winner.
Iguana's will hold a Burritozilla eating contest in San Jose on October 27 awarding $1000 to the winner. A qualifier will be held on Oct 13.
The Philadelphia Cheesesteak Festival will hold a sandwich eating contest on October 13 awarding $1000/$500/$250.
Raina Huang has surpassed 100,000 youtube subscribers, making her the first American female competitive eater to attain that benchmark.
LaPresse.ca has an article in French about American competitive eating focusing on Bob Shoudt. Molly Schuyler, Raina Huang and Fink Beats the Stomach are also mentioned.
Thrillist produced a video about the Guinness World Records held by Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle.
2018 Trenton pork rolls
Official results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 50 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 38 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 29 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 29 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 22 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 6th | 20 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 7th | 14.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 12 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 9.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 10th | 7 | Scott Voegele | |
| 11th | 6.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 12th | 4.5 | Kristina Rovtar |
The Trenton Thunder twitter reports Geoff Esper won today’s pork roll eating contest with a total of 50.
2018 Lewisville Tamales
Official Results Part 1 | Part 2 (10 minutes, shortened from 12 previously)
| 1st | 70 | Darron Breeden | |
| 2nd | 55.75 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 50.5 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 46.5 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 5th | 43.5 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
| 6th | 28 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 6th | 28 | Scott Rohne | |
| 8th | 25 | Brent Ricord | |
| 9th | 20 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 10th | 14 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 11th | 12 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 12th | 6 | Mark Poland |
Vice.com has an article about UK competitive eaters containing interviews with Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Kate Ovens and Andrey Sidorov which examines whether British competitive eating is in decline.
Philly.com has an article about Rene Rovtar titled "She never wins. But this skinny New Jersey school official keeps entering competitive-eating contests anyway".
Duke's Dogs will hold a hot dog eating contest in Cheboygan, MI on October 6 awarding $500/$300/$200
Mens Health has an interview with Erik "The Electric" Lamkin about recovery from his eating disorder.
The MLE twitter claims Joey Chestnut will defend his title in Saturday's pork roll eating contest in Trenton, NJ. Carmen Cincotti won the 2017 competition.
Hartville, OH will hold a pizza eating contest on October 6 awarding $500 to the winner. Entrants should contact the Pizza BOGO facebook page. (via cantonrep)
Raina Huang ate 80 wings in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in last night's wing eating contest at Wing Nuts in Costa Mesa, CA. Kevin Ross was the runner up with 74 wings.
Sylvester's Burgers will hold a five pound burger eating contest in Atascadero, CA awarding $1000 to the winner. Entrants will be chosen based on the number of Instagram mentions received.
Foodbeast has a post about Raina Huang eating 13 plates (10.5 pounds) of Olive Garden pasta, which is believed to be a house record.
Journalist Gersh Kuntzman announced he was interviewed for an upcoming ESPN documentary about competitive eating, which will include Takeru Kobayashi.
Autumn on Parade in Oregon, IL will hold a donut eating contest on October 6 awarding $250 to the winner.
2018 Chef One NYC Dumpling Festival
2018 Zinzinnati Bratwurst
Official results 10 minute contest
| 1st | 65.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 48.25 | Darron Breeden | |
| 3rd | 39 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 4th | 38 | George Chiger | |
| 4th | 38 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 35 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 7th | 26 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 18 | “Big Eater Mike” Michael Whities | |
| 9th | 13 | Sean Mulcahey | |
| 10th | 7.25 | Randy Rico | |
| DQ | ? | Matthew Raible |
Aaron Cohen recorded a video of Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy and Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle attempting the burger challenge at Michael's Roscommon House in Belleville, NJ last night. update LA Beast has posted his video. Molly Schuyler ate 2 burgers in less time than it took for him to finish one challenge burger.
Lumpy's Diner in Antioch, CA will hold a burger eating contest on October 13 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Joel Hansen won the first prize of $1000 in today's pizza eating contest at King of Donair in Halifax, NS.
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