Australian bodybuilders James Cant and Josh Blottin have produced a video of their attempt at five large burgers from Sydney restaurants.
Downington West High School in Downington, PA will hold a Wing Bowl on April 14 awarding $250 to the top 3 men & women ($150 to the winnners).
Redmond (WA) Reporter has a story about 14 year old Moiz Chawdhary, who learned the Heimlich Maneuver and then performed the technique on one of his sister's friends after she started choking in a home grape eating contest.
2016 National Harbor Peeps
update April 4 Jen Eats has a spectator video
update Washington Post gallery | NBC Washington article & video | ABC7 article & gallery | Periscope video
1) Matt Stonie 200 in 5 minutes
2) Geoffrey Esper 160
3) Juliet Lee 140
4) Michelle Lesco 135
5) Brian Dudzinski 116
6) Gideon Oji 110
7) Crazy Legs Conti 75
8) Larell Marie Mele 58
9) “Wild” Bill Myers 51
10) John Gonzalez 40
11) Nick Ricci 17
Juliet Lee appeared on WJLA yesterday with John Gonzalez, who will be the celebrity entrant.
The Joey Chestnut / Matt Stonie non-compete streak will reach 6 months tomorrow (last meeting October 3, 2016 in Toronto poutine)
End of 1Q 2016 EatFeats MLE ranking
Here are the MLE rankings at the end of the 1st quarter of 2016. (Ranking system description). Despite being undefeated for over a year, Matt Stonie has won less money than Joey Chestnut over the past 12 months
| win % | Prize $ | HDB | $HDB | %$HDB | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | 100 | 1 | $33750 | 2 | 62 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.25 | 1 |
| 2 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | 96.1 | 2 | $48050 | 1 | 60 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.75 | 2 |
| 3 | Miki Sudo | 81.2 | 4 | $30100 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 3.5 | 3 |
| 4 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | 77.7 | 5 | $13300 | 4 | 33 | 6.5T | 5.25 | 5.125 | 4 |
| 5 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | 88 | 3 | $3150 | 11 | 36 | 4 | 7.5 | 5.25 | 5 |
| 6 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | 68.2 | 8 | $7450 | 6 | 34 | 5 | 5.5 | 6.75 | 6 |
| 7 | Geoffrey Esper | 75.8 | 6 | $3800 | 9 | 30.5 | 8 | 8.5 | 7.25 | 7 |
| 8 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | 74 | 7 | $9850 | 5 | 27.25 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Yasir Salem | 63.5 | 9 | $5150 | 7 | 30 | 9.5T | 8.25 | 8.625 | 9 |
| 10 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | 58.9 | 10 | $2800 | 14 | 28 | 11 | 12.5 | 11.25 | 10 |
King of the Wings will hold a wing eating contest in Warren, OH tomorrow awarding $250 to the winner.
The new issue of People magazine has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's battle vs. cancer.
The "Food Challenge Bros" won the first prize of $5000 in the finals of the Brutus Burger Challenge at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa last night. update Tulsa World has an article about the event giving the name of the winner as Robert McKinney.
While in Montreal to play an exhibition game, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays offered his teammate Chris Colabello $15000 if he could finish eight pounds of lobster macaroni and cheese. The bonus was not paid out. (via TheScore.com
The fitness forum on the 4chan message board has a thread about competitive eating.
Registration is now open for the Dell’Osso Family Farm Baconfest World Bacon Eating Championship in Lathrop, CA June 19.
US Fries will hold a poutine eating contest on Sunday in Tucson, AZ awarding $1000 in US Fries gift cards ($500 to winner). Qualifiers will be held on Friday and Saturday.
Tulsa World and Claremore Progress have interviews with Cheers co-starts George Wendt "Norm" and John Ratzenberger "Cliff" about hosting tommorow's finals of the Brutus Burger challenge tomorrow at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa.
MLE Head to Head results March 30, 2016
Here are the head to head results for people with 2 or more MLE contests over the past 365 days:
| 1 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 100% | 107-0 |
| 2 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 96.1% | 198-8 |
| 3 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 88% | 22-3 |
| 4 | Miki Sudo (M Su) | 81.2% | 157-36-1 |
| 5 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) | 77.7% | 86-24-2 |
| 6 | Geoffrey Esper (G Es) | 75.8% | 48-15-1 |
| 7 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) | 74% | 95-33-1 |
| 8 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 68.2% | 52-24-1 |
| 9 | Yasir Salem (Y Sa) | 63.5% | 91-52-1 |
| 10 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez (J Ro) | 58.9% | 59-41-1 |
Zoi's in Seymour, CT will hold a pizza eating contest for 3 person teams on April 19. According to Stephanie Wu, the purse will be $2500 ($1500 to winning trio). Teams must raise at least $300 to compete.
Reddit.com has a thread about the 10000+ daily calorie consumption claimed for The Flash.
Collectively Free, an animal rights protest group that stormed the Nathan's finals stage between the women's & men's Nathan's finals last year, disrupted the Easter Mass service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The rationale for the disruption was the use of ham as a common Easter meal.
Isaac Harding-Davis ate a 51 piece sushi platter weighing 1.8 kg in 2:24 at Niji Sushi Bar in Kingsford, Australia to win a trip to Japan.
Stomp.com.sg has a report on Zermatt Neo facing a team of 4 in a race to see who could eat 4kg of chicken rice first. (video)
Molly Schuyler posted a picture of her attempting two giant bowls of soup. Combined together, the bowls appear to have the volume of a yoga ball. She has yet to post the results of the challenge.
The Long Island Hot Dog Festival will hold an eating contest in Selden, NY on July 9 awarding $630 ($500 to the winner).
An EatFeats.com instagram has been started at http://instagram.com/eat_feats The posts will be whatever graphical content I produce along with some screen captures. The initial post is an eating contest report from a 1785 issue of the London Times.
Sincerely Burger in Bushwick, Brooklyn has a five pound burger challenge available for $99. Only one challenge burger will be made per night.
Stephanie Wu announces that she ate 6.25 corn dogs in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $200 at Denio's Market in Roseville, CA today.
Nela Zisser won today's hot dog eating contest at The Street Food Collective in Auckland, NZ.
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