Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers will hold a slider eating contest at the Scottsdale, AZ 4th of July Celebration awarding a $500 Amex gift card. Qualifiers will be held at its Phoenix area locations on June 21.
Shawnee, KS Nathan’s qualifier
update June 12 Argyle302 video Johnson County Post has a gallery
The Kansas City Star has a contest report. (Turn of JavaScript to bypass the paywall)
| 1st | 29.5 | Radim Dvoracek | continental European record |
| 2nd | 25 | Cameron Meade | |
| 3rd | 16.5 | Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter | |
| 4th | 15 | Seth Weisman | |
| 5th | 14 | Cody “Yourmancody” Dulaney | |
| 6th | 13 | Ryan Speer | |
| 7th | 12 | Jacom Carr | |
| 8th | 9.75 | Davis Bryant |
| 1st | 11.25 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 2nd | 7.5 | Lisa Cowan | |
| 3rd | 6 | Kels Hunner | |
| 4th | 5.5 | Sydney Rogers |
Men’s Nathans contest on ESPN2, women’s not listed
The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men’s Nathan’s contest will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon. The women’s contest is not listed, but will probably be streaming only since ESPN2 will be showing First Take from 10am to noon and ESPN will broadcast Wimbledon.
TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.
The Providence Journal has a list of Rhode Island eating challenges.
Bartley Weaver has started a new competitive eating organization, the Extreme Eating Championshipts.
2025 Salvation Army donut eating championship
WUSA9 also has a live video and a news video
| 1st | 64 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 52 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 29 | Noah Romoff | |
| 4th | 28 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 5th | 26.5 | Steven Farlow | |
| 6th | 11.75 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 7th | 10.5 | Karen Szala | |
| 8th | 9 | Mae Renmick | |
| 9th | 6 | Judah White | |
| 10th | 5 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC.
2025 Parma, OH Nathan’s qualifier
update Max Stanford has a video
| 1st | 47.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 2nd | 37 | Max Stanford | European record |
| 3rd | 29.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 4th | 17.5 | Greg Sines | |
| 5th | 15 | Dominic Mandato | |
| 5th | 15 | Jonathan Reed | |
| 7th | 12 | Garrett Brown |
| 1st | 10.5 | Kelly Lewis | |
| 2nd | 8.5 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 3rd | 8.25 | Sarah Qualle | |
| 4th | 4.5 | Kelly Murphy |
Dom Mandato is doing a live video of tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH
Nick Wehry appeared on Fox 8 New Day Cleveland to promote the contest.
Joey Chestnut ate 79 boneless wings in 5 minutes at last night's Syracuse Mets game, defeating a team of three amateurs who combined for 67.
Villa Capri in Doylestown, PA will hold a pizza eating contest on June 7 awarding $200 to the winner.
Semora Kludy has started a youtube channel to complement her facebook page documenting her Michigan food challenges, Semora's Competitive Bites.
Nick Wehry announced that he expects to compete in Thursday night's Nathan's qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH along with Max Stanford Darrien Thomas, Dominic Mandato and Cherish Brown.
Stadium Swim at Circa Las Vegas will hold "Weenies & Bikinis" on July 4, an invitational women's hot dog eating contest that will award $2500/$1500/$1000 to the top 3.
Mackinaw City, MI will hold a wing eating contest on June 8 awarding a robot valued at $2500.
RIP John Brenkus, host of ESPN Sport Science. In 2014, he did a segment about the science of competitive eating.
Jack Legath ate the Homewrecker Hot Dog in 2:34 at Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, WV to set the all time record for the 23 year old challenge.
Frank Wach ate 9.5 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win yesterday's eating contest at the Windy City Hot Dog Fest.
Max Stanford is the guest on the new Food Challenge News podcast. Other recent episodes: Hendrika "The Punk Gardner" Guanz | Geoff Esper | Naader Reda
Vice Sports produced an Instagram video titled "The Dark Side of Competitive Eating" containing the Tim "Eater X" Janus quote: "Throwing up after the contest is a necessary part of the sport"
Joey Chestnut will do a boneless wing eatigg contest at the June 4 Syracuse Mets game.
Z Burger will hold its burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 3 awarding $2000/$1250/$1000/$750/$500 to the top 5.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle announced that he was withdrawing from the Creator Clash celebrity boxing event that was scheduled for June 28 in Tampa. It was originally announced that he would face Harley Morgenstein of Epic Meal Time, but his opponent withdrew earlier.
San Antonio's in Manhattan will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 22 awarding $333 to the winner.
Eric "Badlands" Booker is expected to appear on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent on NBC at 8pm Eastern. updateA video of Booker's appearance doing a hot sauce chug is online.
Juan Neave won the first prize of $1,000 in yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Mala Vida in Austin.
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