The Sacramento Tamales festival will hold an eating contest for amateurs only on September 12 awarding $1500 ($1000 to the winner).
MyCentralJersey.com has an article about Dan Mangiapane, who will be competing in the New Jersey Taco Festival in Augusta, NJ on Saturday.
Del Fuego locations in Babylon, NY, St. James, NY & Patchogue, NY will hold taco eating contests tomorrow awarding $100 to the winner.
Fuddruckers will offer a 3 pound burger challenge on September 18 in honor of National Cheeseburger Day. (Not available at all locations).
Dave "The Termite" Wood ate 16 cannolis in 5 minutes to defend his title at La Festa in Scranton yesterday. Russ Keeler was runner up with 11.
A poster has been produced promoting the Rock the Tot tater tot eating contest at Bar Louie locations on October 8.
Nela Zisser and Erik Lamkin collaborated on a video project where they both attempted to eat 20 McDonald's cheeseburgers.
Borough President of Brooklyn Eric Adams reports Wayne Algenio won today's Jamaican beef patty eating contest. update Sept 7 Gothamist gallery | Brooklyn Paper article
2015 Buffalo Wing Festival wing championship
update Sept 8 The Buffalo News has a gallery The UB Spectrum has a report on the college wing contest
update Sept 7 Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 205 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | defends title |
| 2nd | 170 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 157 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | |
| 4th | 151 | Gideon Oji | |
| 5th | 132 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 5th | 132 | Yasir Salem | |
| 7th | 126 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 8th | 125 | Steve Hendry | |
| 9th | 116 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 10th | 94 | Daniella Gioia | |
| 11th | 87 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 12th | 77 | Max Wojciechowski |
Previous winners
KRQE's video shows Molly Schuyler competing in yesterday's eating contest at Pizza Nine in Albuquerque, so presumably she won the $1000 first prize. update Sep 8 The top 3 1) Molly Schuyler 2) Stephanie Torres 3) Jon Boddy
Bob Shoudt ate 10.5 Red Robin burgers in 10 minutes to win the pro contest at Taste of Hamburg-er in Hamburg, PA yesterday. The trio of Michael Dietz, Stephen Hillegass and Caitlyn Delaney won the amateur division.
The Schooner in Netarts, OR will hold a hot wing contest, an oyster eating contest and a pickle eating contest on September 18/19/20 awarding a total of $2000.
Joey Chestnut wins 2015 Buffalo Buffet Bowl
Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
| 1st | 5 | 7m17s | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 5 | 9m18s | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | |
| 3rd | 5 | 10m32s | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 4.56 | 10m32s | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 5th | 4.24 | 10m32s | Yasir Salem | |
| 6th | 4.169 | 10m32s | Steve Hendry | |
| 7th | 3.786 | 10m32s | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 8th | 3.498 | 10m32s | Gideon Oji | |
| 9th | 3.316 | 10m32s | Daniella Gioia | |
| 10th | 2.63 | 10m32s | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 11th | 2.613 | 10m32s | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 12th | 2.442 | 10m32s | Eric “Badlands” Booker |
Joey Chestnut ate 5 pounds of food in 7:17 to win the Buffet Bowl at the Buffalo Wing Festival.
Colin Shirlow ate a contest record 235 oysters to extend his winning streak at the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland and defeat Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco. update Sept 7 Demotix gallery
The Reading (PA) Wing Fling will hold a wing eating contest on September 26 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers start on September 8.
La Festa Italiana will hold a cannoli eating contest in Scranton, PA on September 7 awarding $275 ($150 to the winner).
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco will attempt to break the MLE losing streak in tomorrow's oyster eating contest in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland.
Reno.craigslist.org has a request for competitive eaters to attempt food challenges in sessions on September 6, 7 and 8. The casting call claims that the biggest names in MLE will participate in the project. The filming site is not mentioned, presumably it will be in north Nevada.
Kislings Tavern in Baltimore will hold a wing eating contest Sunday awarding Ravens tickets, Orioles tickets and a bat signed by Oriole Chris Davis.
San Gennaro cannoli contest canceled
SILive.com reports that a cannoli eating contest will not be held at this month’s San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy. With a 13 year duration, the competition was probably the second longest running MLE event after Nathan’s (via @stateneats).
Winners of all the San Gennaro cannoli contests
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A pizza eating contest will be held at the World's Largest Pizza Festival in Beverly Hills tomorrow. Recording artists 2 Chainz and Tyga will perform at the event, which has an entrance fee of $1000.
PamplinMedia reports that Joey Chestnut will judge a cooking contest Saturday at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City, OR, site of an IFOCE rib eating contest from 2003 to 2010. This will preclude him from doing the Buffet Bowl at the Buffalo Wingfest and probably make travel to Sunday's wing eating contest unpleasant, which he is still doing according to a Daily News Online interview.
The West Reading Tavern will hold a burger eating contest on September 19 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held on September 5, 6, 12 and 13.
Stonie continues 2015 streak at Nugget Ribs, Lesley Ryder 4th
Official Results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 10.5 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 2nd | 9.75 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 6.25 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 6.15 | Lesley Ryder | |
| 5th | 5 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 6th | 4 | Steve Hendry | |
| 7th | 3 | Don Brown | |
| 8th | 2.7 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 2 | Drake Nelson |
update Rainbow Entertainment claims Matt Stonie won the contest.
Matt Stonie will look to continue his 2015 winning streak. There has not been an undefeated year for an IFOCE/MLE competitor since Takeru Kobayashi in 2006. According the database, Joey Chestnut’s latest first loss of the year was in 2012 on May 19 (“That’s ‘Retha Franklin”)
Joey Chestnut interview on Reno.com
Previous winners
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MLE head to head results September 2, 2015
Here are the head to head results for people with 2 or more MLE contests over the past 365 days. Matt Stonie moved ahead of Joey Chestnut after the 2014 Hooters wing contest came off the books.
| 1 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 98.4% | 127-2 |
| 2 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 95.2% | 158-8 |
| 3 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 87% | 20-3 |
| 4 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) | 78.7% | 69-18-2 |
| 5 | Miki Sudo (M Su) | 77.9% | 106-30 |
| 6 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 76% | 36-11-1 |
| 7 | Geoffrey Esper (G Es) | 72.7% | 24-9 |
| 8 | Marcos “The Monster” Owens (M Ow) | 71.9% | 11-4-1 |
| 9 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) | 69.7% | 88-38-1 |
| 10 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) | 60.8% | 50-32-1 |
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