Off topic comments in the Furious Pete finishes cancer treatments post have been moved here.
Taco in a Bag's Taco Trough Takedown closed yesterday. Molly Schuyler took the lead on Monday with a time of 2:24. Bob Shoudt's and Takeru Kobayashi's time (if he did the challenge) have yet to be announced.
Wayne Algenio, Marcos Owens and defending women's champion Molly Schuyler listed as entrants on the NYC Dumpling Festival's facebook page.
The UK qualifier for the Japanese television program "Battle of the Big Eaters 3" will take place in London on October 4. Four Britons will be chosen to compete in the finals in the USA.
Registration is now open for the Martorano’s Masters World Pasta Eating Championship At Paris Las Vegas on October 10. (via Stephanie Wu). update Sep 25 Matt Stonie is expected to compete (Joey Chestnut will be at Taste of DC that day.)
Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and LA Beast will attempt to eat a 40 pound goat tonight at Taco in a Bag tonight in an attempt to break the Chicago Cubs "Billy Goat" curse which has supposedly prevented the ballclub from reaching the World Series since 1945. update The official time was 15 minutues. Bob Shoudt joined the team. update Sep 23 Val Bromann has a blog entry & gallery More coverage WGN | USA Today | Yahoo | CSN Chicago | Sports Illustrated update Sep 25 More coverage: Wall Street Journal | Rolling Stone | NY Post | MLB.com
Destination Dallas in Plano, TX will hold a slider eating contest tomorrow awarding $250 to the winner.
The Telegraph has an article about Nela Zisser's latest video where she eats a 7 pound sundae with more than 10,000 calories.
Juliet Lee and Brian Dudzinski are expected to compete in the first 2015-16 Nathan's qualifier at Dover (DE) International Speedway on October 4.
Bar Louie's Rock the Tot page has been updated with information about the 2015 contest. The top 5 totals in contests held at Bar Louie locations on October 8 will advance to the finals in Cleveland on October 24.
Jamie McDonald will lead a team driving a 5-ton M925 military transport truck in the "Space Race", a convoy of unconventional vehicles traveling from Hartford to Cocoa Beach, FL. Episodes about the event will be web-streamed in 2016.
WLFI reports Molly Schuyler ate 14 pizzas (1 large & 13 smalls) to win today's eating contest at Arni's Restaurant in Lafayette, IN.
Joey Chestnut defends Zinzinnati bratwurst
update WCPO and local12 have videos. Joey did a pre-contest appearance on WLWT
Results of today’s bratwurst eating contest at Zinzinatti Oktoberfest
Official results part 1 | part 2 | part 3
1 Joey Chestnut 45 sausages
2T Scott Thomas 31
2T Gideon Oji 31
4 Bill Myers 20
5 Matt Cohen 19
6 Matt Raible 16
7 Andrew Kogutkiewicz 14.75
8 Liz McClurg 10
Bob Shoudt won the first prize of $500 in yesterday's burger eating contest at the West Reading Tavern.
The roster for the September 26 pork roll eating contest in Trenton, NJ has been posted and includes Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Geoffrey Esper, Badlands Booker, Yasir Salem, Crazy Legs Conti, Gideon Oji, Micah Collins and Bill Myers. update Sep 22App.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in the contest. update Sep 23 Jeff Edelstein has a column about competing in the contest
Registration will open Monday on majorleagueeating.com for a new bratwurst eating contest in Tulsa on October 24 and a turkey eating contest ($10K purse) at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on November 21. Registration is now open for the chili eating contest at Taste of DC on October 10.
Darren Rovell of ESPN announces that he will be on an Advertising Week panel talking about social media with Matt Stonie, Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones and others in New York City on September 28.
Taco in a Bag announces that Takeru Kobayashi, Molly Schuyler, LA Beast and Bob Shoudt will pay a visit to their Chicago location early next week. It is not clear if Kobayashi will attempt the Taco Trough challenge.
The field for the Elk Grove (CA) Giant Pumpkin Festival World Pumpkin Pie-Eating Championship on October 4 has been announced: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Erik Denmark and Pablo Martinez. Matt Stonie will apparently miss the competition.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski announces that he has finished the last radiation therapy in a series of 20 treatments. Let's hope he is declared cancer free in two months when he learns the outcome.
Bacci's Pizza will hold an eating contest in Chicago on September 26 awarding $1750 ($1000 to the winner).
A website for Dale Boone's campaign for the mayor of Brookhaven, GA has been set up at http://voteboone.com
The Dallas News has an interview with defensive lineman Nick Hayden where he compares his competitive eating abilities to those of his Dallas Cowboy teammates.
Applications are now being accepted for the amateur division of Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto on October 3. @
Marco Owens announces (in comments) he has taken the lead in the Taco Trough challenge at Taco in a Bag with a time of 3:15, beating Pat Bertoletti's time by almost a minute. He thought that would result in an immediate payment of $5,000, but the contest will continue and pay the prize to the fastest finisher as of September 23. (No mention of that date is made in the original challenge announcement). (via email) update Stephanie Torres just finished the challenge in 4:30, which puts her in the lead for the $2000 prize.
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