2018 Hwy 55 Burgers contest

update June 10
Videos: Beard Meats Food | Brandon Clark | Derek Farley | Knee Tree | Knee Tree results
Articles: ABC11 | CBS17 | FoodNewsFeed

update The top 4 have been announced

1st 1m25s $2,500.00 Molly Schuyler Plumas Lake, CA
2nd 1m42s $1,250.00 Pat Bertoletti Chicago, IL
3rd 1m46s $500.00 Dan Kennedy
4th 1m48s $250.00 Bob Shoudt Royersford, PA

Facebook Video of contest. Around minute 23, Leah Shutkever is announced as having finished before Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran and is granted the unofficial title of UK’s best competitive eater.

Brandon Clark and Bob Shoudt did a pre-contest Q & A session.

I think this will be the first matchup of Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran and Leah Shutkever since the UK Battle of Battle Eaters qualifier in 2015.

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2018 Salvation Army donut eating contest

2018 Hostess Donette eating contest

PhillyVoice has an article
Dizexhaled has a video

The top 3 | 4-10

1st 257 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 244 Carmen Cincotti
3rd 204 Darron Breeden
4th 176 Gideon Oji
5th 139 George Chiger
6th 124 Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski
7th 122 Eric “Badlands” Booker
8th 116 Ivan “The Avocado” Mendoza
9th 44 William “Wild Bill” Myers
10th 24 Rene Rovtar

This will probably be the last meeting of Joey Chestnut and Carmen Cincotti before the Nathan’s finals. Joey Chestnut has not defeated Carmen Cincotti since the White Hut cheeseburg eating contest in West Springfield, MA on September 23.

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David Edward posted the price list for the steak challenges at Ward's House of Prime in Milwaukee. Attempting the 22.5 pound challenge completed by Molly Schuyler will cost $545.
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco has posted a video of a training session where she hopes to eat 38 hot dogs in 10 minutes. She will post a training video for every $110 she raises for Charity Water.
Gideon Oji, Juan Rodriguez, Juan Neave, Sarah Reinecke, Matthew Raible, Andrew Kogutkiewicz, Tanner Varner, Michelle Severino, Mark Williams Michael Blue and Andrew Webber are expected to compete in the Canteen sandwich eating contest in Ottumwa, IA on Saturday. In January, the contest organizers claimed the event would be televised on ESPN, but the competition is not listed in the ESPN schedule for June 2.update Ottumwa Courier has an interview with Sarah Reinecke about competing in the contest.
Landmark Public House in Dorchester Center, MA will hold a hot dog eating contest on Sunday June 3 awarding $500 to the winner.
Randy Santel will attempt the OOMG Mission Impossible Burger Challenge at Safehouse in Chicago in an attempt to claim his 600th restaurant challenge victory. update He finished the challenge in 26:55

2018 San Pedro Fish Market Shrimp

The Daily Mirror has an article about Kate Ovens finishing a 74 ounce steak in 18 minutes which bills her as "Britain's top food blogger". The only other women I am aware of who have finished a 72+ oz steak in under 20 minutes are Molly Schuyler, Stephanie Wu and Nadia White.
Allanah Richman reports Bob Shoudt ate 7 sandwiches to win the first prize of $500 in yesterday's eating contest held at the HoagieNation festival in Philadelphia headlined by Hall & Oates.

Molly Schuyler defends Sacramento County Fair corn dogs

Prizewinners from last night’s corn dog eating contest at the Sacramento County Fair from Sergio Garcia Reyes:
1 Molly Schuyler – 27 ($500)
2 Edward Chin – 13 ($200)
3 Sergio Reyes Raya – 10 ($100)

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2018 Tivoli Aebleskivers

update May 30 Matt Hazzard has a video

update SWIowaNewsSource.com has an article

Official results

1st 107 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 98 Darron Breeden
3rd 96 Gideon Oji
4th 58 Matt “Hungry” Hazzard
5th 46 Ethan Teske
6th 36 Mark “the muncher” Williams
7th 35 Matthew Raible
8th 23 Das Loomis
9th 21 Meliss Klabel
10th 21 Keith Branch

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2018 Nathan’s Six Flags Over Texas qualifier

update May 30 WFAA reporter Sean Giggy has a video of him competing in the contest

update NBCDFW has a video

Results
1 Adrian Morgam 27
1W Jocelyn Walker 8.5

Nate Biller and Alex Perez appeared on Good Morning Texas yesterday to promote the competition.

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Simcoe.com has an interview with Darrien Thomas, winner of the amateur division of the 2017 Smoke's Poutinerie contest.
Ribfest Chicago will take place from June 8 to 10 and the website has no listing of an upcoming eating contest. It would be interesting to know if the vegan stage-crashing played a role in the competition termination.
Defending champion Joey Chestnut, Pablo Martinez, Jon Bello, Doug Ecks and Mary Bowers are expected to compete in the Baked Bear World Ice-Cream Sandwich-Eating Championship in San Diego on June 3.
The French series L’EFFET PAPILLON (Butterfly Effect) televised an episode about American competitive eating. The program appears to focus on Wing Bowl 26. Raina Huang also appears.
ANIKI channel has a video of Max Suzuki training for the Nathan's finals.
The Overtake has an interview with Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, who says he is making 3 times more as a food challenger than he did as a manager in a large stockbroking firm.
Joey Chestnut, Carmen Cincotti, Gideon Oji and Darron Breeden are expected to compete in the World Hostess® Donettes® Eating Championship in Philadelphia on June 1.
Youtube has a video of Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle attempting to break 6 Guinness World Records in one session.
Atlantic.CTVNews.ca has an article about fitness model Joel Hansen being the first person to finish the 6 pound donair challenge at Alexandra's Pizza in Sydney, NS.
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