The Daily Mail reports that two customers who attempted the hot wing challenge at The George in Stockton on Tees, England were hospitalized. The wings are coated in a sauce containing the Carolina Reaper pepper, billed as the world's spiciest.
Darron Breeden, 3rd place finisher in Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in Norfolk, has a youtube channel with a video of that contest. In May, he was denied the $500 prize for Benny DeLuca's pizza challenge because the restaurant considered him a "professional" even though he had not previously done an eating contest.
A clip from the cartoon Garfield & Friends where the star has an eating contest with his owner has been uploaded to youtube.
Time Out New York has a list of 12 interesting facts about the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
ZBurger will hold an eating contest in Washington, DC on July 1 awarding $1500/$850/$500/$400 (via Eater DC).
Registration will open today for the Hooters Wing Eating Championship in Las Vegas on July 11. The purse will be $17500. Registration will also open today for the Kale Yeah! The World's Healthiest Eating Championship in Buffalo on July 9.
Molly Schuyler appeared on tonight's episode of To Tell the Truth on ABC. The question was "Who is the real competitive eater?" update June 15 A video of the appearance is on youtube. (not official, so it might get removed)
Top Nathan’s debuts
Here are the top debut Nathan’s hot dog performances based on announced results, which is an incomplete body of information. It appears Darron Breeden’s 28 is the top performance for someone who had not previously been mentioned on eatfeats since this website was started in 2005.
The "Fat Molly" sandwich designed by Molly Schuyler has been added to the menu at Fat Sal's Deli in Los Angeles. The ingredients are: Cuban Roast Pork | Grilled Ham | Jalapeños | Pickles | Melted Swiss | Onion Rings | Fries | Mustard & Garlic Aioli.
American Burger Co will hold an eating contest for amateurs on July 23 in Charlotte awarding $500. Entrants will need to qualify to compete. The contest will precede a MLE contest that will be headlined by Joey Chestnut.
Yahoo! Movies has an article about the pie eating contest in Stand by Me with .GIFs of the "reversal" scene.
BusinessInsider.com has an article about the instagram gallery https://www.instagram.com/hulksmashfood/ of Australian competitive eater Cal "Hulk Smash Food" Stubbs and the eating challenges it documents.
Dave Brunelli won the first prize of $500 in yesterday's meatball eating contest at the Hudson Valley Pizza and Meatball Fest in Wallkill, NY yesterday.
Fish Tales in Ocean City will hold a hot dog eating contest July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner. Entrants will need to qualify.
2016 Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier
update June 14 Debbie has videos Part 1 | Part 2
update June 13 The Virginia-Pilot has a gallery and video
Robbie Hickman has a facebook gallery
update
1) Gideon Oji 33
2) Steve Hendry 31, new wild card leader update tied with Yasir Salem for wild card lead
3) Darron Breeden 28 (record for total unknown?)
1W) BeeJay Alexander 16.5
Steve Hendry, Gideon Oji and BeeJay Alexander are expected to compete.
Mugshots Challenge schedule
Here is the schedule for the Mugshot Challenge contest. The finals July 2 in Covington, LA will award $5000. The other contests will award $1000 and a sport in the finals.
The Philly Pizza Brawl that was to have been held today has been cancelled due to lack of competitors. (via Jack Diamond email)
The youtube channel for Nathan's Famous just uploaded a lot of promo videos for the Nathan's finals starring Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut.
2016 Chicago Ribfest
Full Results Part 1 | Part 2
1 Adrian Morgan 2.951 lbs
2 Miki Sudo 2.825
3 Juan Rodriguez 2.737
4 Gideon Oji 2.612
5 Michelle Lesco 2.431
6 Erik Denmark 1.912
7 Andrew Kogutkiewicz 1.718
8 Sean Nichols 1.643
update Adrian Morgan won the contest with 2.951 lb in 8 minutes
Juan “More Bite” Rodriguez confronted a protester who got on the stage. update Link was pulled, another image
The contest disruption planned by Vegan Chicago is still on as far as as I know. Hopefully no one will get hurt.
Sean Nichols won last night’s qualifier.
After being rained out on June 5, Rocco's pizza contest in Brooklyn has been rescheduled for June 24 and the purse has been upgraded to $2000/$1000/$500.
ABC News has an article and video about the Carolina Reaper pepper mentioning Wayne Algenio's record set at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo in April.
Stuart's Smokehouse in Alderson, WV will hold an amateur-only hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $500/$100/$50.
MLE top 50 updated, Tim “Eater X” Janus dropped
Michael Deitz noticed the MLE top 50 was updated today. Tim “Eater X” was ejected from the #4 position, ending a streak in the rankings of at least a decade. Other ejections are Scott Thomas (#35) and Marlene Wigginton (#43). New entrants are Steven Schuster (#22) Michael Dietz(#34) and Kassandra Zapata (#42).
It is interesting that Scott Thomas and Marlene Wigginton were removed when they had done competitions in the last 365 days. Eric Livingston and Ben Do have not competed since 2014.
Chicago Ribfest disruption plans changed
Meetup.com still has a post from Vegan Chicago about their plans to disrupt and “shut down” Friday’s eating contest at Ribfest Chicago. They have changed their assembly site from a restaurant to John C. Coonley Elementary School. 16 people have said they are going. 
Poker comments in the Pocono challenge thread have been moved here. To make this slightly less off-topic, here are the current Nathan's odds from bovada.lv
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