Raina "Blonde Candy" Huang won the dumpling eating contest at the San Gabriel Dumpling & Beer Fest in San Gabriel, CA (pictures | video).
The Hofbrau Bierhaus NYC in Manhattan will hold its bratwurst eating contest awarding $750/$500/$250 on October 21.
UProxx.com has the rules for the Doritos Locos Throwdown, a competition where people will try to eat as many Doritos Locos tacos as possible in an hour on October 7. Entrants will be expect to provide proof of the number of tacos consumed.
The Daily Mail has an article about female competitive eaters focusing on Molly Schuyler, Sophia DeVita and Sarah Reinecke. update Sarah Reinecke interview video
The Ford Bend County Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest today in Fort Bend, TX awarding $250 to the winner.
Valpolife has an article about Stephanie Wu finishing the 96 ounce steak at Kelsey's in Valporaiso, IN in 41 minutes, making her the first woman to complete the challenge.
Listverse.com has a list of 10 Unappetizing Facts About Eating Contests.
Monty "Moe Train" Wiradilaga has started a competitive eating website called Down to Feast at http://www.dtfeast.com/
Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus are reportedly a team for the upcoming season of CBS' The Amazing Race, which started recording today in New York City. Television commitments might have been the reason Joey Chestnut withdrew from yesterday's pork roll eating contest. (Group picture, Joey Chestnut & Tim Janus are on the right side)
Molly Schuyler wins Arni’s Pizza contest
Results of today’s eating contests at Arni’s Pizza in Lafayette, IN from Stephanie Wu
Pro Division – # of small pizzas eaten, all prizewinners also ate 3 large pizzas, contest length 1 hour
| 1st | 8.5 | Molly Schuyler | |
| 2nd | 4 | Brandon Clark | |
| 3rd | 1.5 | Tony Mitchell | |
| 4th | 0.5 | Stephanie Wu |
Amateur Division – # of small pizzas eaten, all prizewinners also date 1 large pizza, contest length 1 hour
| 1st | 5.5 | Eric Dreifuerst | |
| 2nd | 3.5 | Steve Lancette | |
| 3rd | 3.3 | Jeremy Scott Rumpza | |
| 4th | 3.25 | Alex Lukens | |
| 5th | 3 | Raymod Carlisle |
Food Paradise XL, about restaurants' oversized offerings, will debut tonight on the Travel Channel at 9pm. One of the meals will be the Burritozilla at Iguana's in San Jose.
Tony Mitchell ate 5 jumbo slices in 15 minutes to defend his title and claim the $2500 first prize in the Bacci Pizza Fest in Chicago.
Carmen Cincotti wins Trenton pork rolls
update Oct 11 Videos Carmen Cincotti | Darron Breeden | Darron Breeden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4cnLYQ91h0“>practice video
Carmen Cincotti precontest interview | Crazy Legs Conti Huffington Post preview
update NJ.com has an article
Trenton Thunder have a video
The top 3 | Part 2
1) Carmen Cincotti 40
2) Darron Breeden 33
3) Brian Dudzinski 23.25
4T) Crazy Legs Conti 15.5
4T) Michael Deitz 15.5
Carmen Cincotti ate 40 pork rolls to
win the Trenton Thunder World Famous Case’s Pork Roll Eating Championship.
Geoff Esper wins Lewisville tamales
update Videos City of Lewisville | Hungry Saiyan
Results from scoresheet
Facebook video
| 1st | 83.5 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 72 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 63.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 54 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 5th | 47 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 6th | 30 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 7th | 21.5 | Brandon Moise | |
| 8th | 18 | Clarence Loggins | |
| 9th | 15 | Clint Grose | |
| 10th | 12 | Ariel Davis | |
| 11th | 10 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| DQ | ? | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
| DQ | ? | Mark Poland |
sueddeutsche.de has an article in German about the Denver Oktoberfest Bratwurst eating contest won by Andrew Renfrow with a total of 13.5 sausages in 10 minutes.
Daily Telegraph has an article about a parmy lasagne eating contest between Cal "Hulk Smash Food" Stubbs and Issac "Sir Eats a Lot" Martin in Ryde, Australia.
Molly Schuyler ate a 9 patty burger in 50.28 seconds to defend her Wayback Burgers Triple Triple Challenge title and take the first prize of $3330.
The Arizona Taco Festival will hold a pepper eating contest in Scottsdale, AZ on October 14 awarding $500 to the winner.
Physical Culture Study has a blog entry about the food consumption of the Saxon brothers, three German strongmen who were active around 1900. A typical day's diet included 24 eggs, 3 pounds bacon and 10 pound of meat for each brother. Via Iron Heaver
The September 2017 issue of Runners World Magazine has an interview with Yasir Salem. update Sept 30 The article can be read online.
Ben Livingstone won the first prize of $1000 in Saturday's Pie Wood Fired Pizza's Let Em Eat 8 in Muskoka, ON Saturday. Takeru Kobayashi did an exhibition before the contest.
Miki Sudo, Geoff Esper, Steve Hendry and Pablo Martinez are expected to compete in the Giant Pumpkin Festival World Pumpkin Pie-Eating Championship in Elk Grove, CA on October 8. updateMary Bowers, Alex Perez, Jon Davis, Sergio Reyes Raya and Joel Steinberg are also expected.
2017 Chef One Dumplings contest
update Sept 26 Full Results have been posted
update Stephanie Wu has the female & male prizewinners
1) Molly Schuyler 119
2) Jenn Cheng 58
3) Giovanna “Gia” Ragano 42
4) Stephanie Wu 32
5) Deborah Van 30
1) Dave Brunelli 84
2) Bob Shoudt 75
3) Wayne Algenio 72
4) Dimitry “The Ukraine Train” Shchupak 60
5) Brian Seiken 48
The NYC Dumpling Festival facebook has pictures and mini-profiles of several competitors.
Heather Cahill had the fastest time to eat a meal sized poutine (48s) in yesterday's Poutine Games held at Smoke's Poutinerie in Philadelphia. (video)
2017 White Hut World Cheeseburg Eating Championship
Joey Chestnut did an interview with MassLive about the contest.
Update full results | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 52 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 49 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 3rd | 47 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 20 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 5th | 18 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 16 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | got to contest late |
| 7th | 13 | James Burgess | |
| 7th | 13 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 9th | 12.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 10th | 11 | Kevin Konstant |
Amateur contest results from Stephanie Wu
| 1st | 10 | Colin “Colin LePuke” Leduc | |
| 2nd | 9.5 | James “The Doctor” Griffin | |
| 3rd | 8.5 | Laura “Princess Pancake” Wittenberg | |
| 5th | 7.5 | Stephanie Wu |
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