Bob Shoudt has produced a video documenting the start of his training for Wing Bowl 24.
Registration is now open for the birthday cake eating contest at Palm Beach Outlets on February 13, 2016.
Woman's Day NZ has an interview of Nela Zisser in which she discusses being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. In her latest video, she takes on the 2kg curry challenge at Gold Curry in Bangkok.
The subscriber count for Matt Stonie's youtube channel now exceeds 1 million.
The Huffington Post has an interview with "Furious" Pete Czerwinski about his new book Stay Hungry.
Ramsey Hinton announces he completed the challenge at TinCup Bar in St. Paul, MN to give him eating challenge victories in all 50 states. (via Stephanie Wu)
2015 St. Elmo’s shrimp cocktail eating contest
WISH-TV has an article and gallery (youtube)
Fox59 has a video
| 1st | 12.25 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
| 2nd | 7.42 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 6 | Yasir Salem | |
| 4th | 5.5 | Steve Hendry | |
| 5th | 4.75 | Matthew Raible | |
| 6th | 3.5 | Tracy Goode | announced as final MLE contest |
| 7th | 2.67 | Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz | |
| 8th | ? | Jeremy “PhilosoFonzie” Ildefonso | did not finish |
update Joey Chestnut ate a record 12.25 pounds in 8 minutes.
Joey Chestnut appeared on RadioNOW and WIBC to promote the contest.
Kate Ovens wrote a report for the Newcastle Tab about her completion of the fish and chips challenge at the Blue Bell Pub in Sandyford, England.
Nathan's Famous will sponsor a hot dog eating contest in Malaysia on New Year's Eve.
Kyle Hanner will attempt to win the fruitcake eating contest at Santa's Candy Castle in Santa Claus, IN tomorrow for the third year in a row. WWE legend Mick Foley will not return, but an unnamed bigger celebrity is promised.
Buffalo.com has an article about the "Big Elm" burger challenge at Elma Town Grille in Elma, NY containing an interview with Stephanie Wu, the most recent finisher.
The Wing Bowl 24 announcement reports that Molly Schuyler and defending champ Pat Bertoletti are expected to compete.
Don "Moses" Lerman headlines the latest edition of Tablet Magazine's Unorthodox podcast. During the program, he tries to eat as many latkes as possible in five minutes.
The Ducktown Tavern in Atlantic City will hold a hot wing eating contest on January 31 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held in December.
"Uncle Rico" won this morning's in-studio Wing Off to claim a spot in Wing Bowl 24. Jack Diamond was the runner up.
2016 MLE schedule includes bacon & meat pies
Several 2016 contests are listed on the upcoming MLE schedule:
- February 6, Chili, Orlando, FL $3500 purse – registration opens Dec 3
- March 5, Meat Pies, Bay St. Louis MS $5000 purse – reg opens Jan 4
- June 19 Bacon, Lathrop, CA $4000 purse – reg opens March 31
- September 24, Tamales Lewisville, TX $3500 purse – reg opens July 22
StatesmanJournal.com has a gallery of Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker of the Big Eaters Club attempting to eat nine pounds of popcorn.
The Establishment has a joint interview with Miki Sudo and Michelle Lesco.
Nela Zisser appeared Australia's Daily Edition to talk about her latest video where she ate 10 scorpions in Thailand. She hopes to surpass Yuka Kinoshita's mark of 62 McDonalds burgers in an upcoming video. (Daily Mirror article)
NUVO has an interview with Joey Chestnut about defending his St. Elmo's shrimp cocktail title in Indianapolis on Saturday. Interestingly, no mention is made of Matt Stonie's 2015 dominance. update The interview was from 2014.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi is currently doing an Ask Me Anything session on reddit.com to promote the release of his book, Stay Hungry. Some of the chapter titles include Dale Boone, Wing Bowl an Kobayashi. In the session Pete said he will do a video with Matt Stonie in the near future.
Wing Bowl 24 tix on sale December 8
updated 8:53WingBowl.CBSLocal.com announces that Wing Bowl 24, “Game of Bones” will take place on February 5 and tickets will go on sale December 8. The overall winner will receive a Harley and $10000. The runner up will receive $5K. A Wing Off will be held January 14 ad Sugarhouse Casino.
Information about Wing Bowl 24 will be announced tomorrow morning (November 30) on WIP.
The Fink Beats the Stomach podcast announces the Finkies competitive eating awards ceremony at Bar 9 in New York City on January 16. Voting will open December 1 for 5 categories: male eater of the year, female of the year, rookie of the year, upset of the year and youtube feat of the year.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi will do an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com on Monday at noon eastern to promote the launch of his book Stay Hungry.
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