Pie Wood Pizza in Barrie, ON will hold qualifiers tonight awarding spots in Monday's Let em Eat 6 contest awarding $4500.
Crust in Fenton, MI will hold a pie eating contest tomorrow awarding $500.
Mike Longo has the top 4 in today's wing eating contest at the Georgetown Safeway: 1) Ian Hickman 2) Todd (Todd King?) 3) Mike Longo 4) Joe Menchetti update Jul 30 WUSA9 and WTOP have galleries. Erim Canligil emailed that he was the actual runner up. update Jul 30 #2 Picture of Ian Hickman on his bicycle with the novelty check Video of contest end update Aug 3 News video clips about the contest
Ronnie Hartman announces that he competed in an East Coast Wings eating contest on WFMY this morning vs. Eric Chilton.
Schuyler, NY will hold a corn eating contest on August 8 awarding $575 ($500 to the winner).
The Twin Cities Polish Festival will hold a pierogie eating contest in Minneapolis on August 8 awarding $250 to the winner.
Model / Actress Mikela Frost posted a picture taken at the American Diner 1950 in Italy of herself with a big burger which she says she smashed.
A qualifier awarding a spot in the MLE chicken spiedie contest on August 8 will take place at Spiedie Fest Ballon Rally in Binghamton, NY on August 2.
While bicycling across the USA, Kali Savoca competed the Middlegate Monster burger challenge at Middlegate (NV) Station.
Kevin Bacon is competing in ice cream eating contests today vs the occupants of the Give Kids the World resort for terminally ill children in Orlando.
The Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix will hold burrito eating contests on Saturday awarding $250 to the top man and woman.
ESPN has a blog entry about the competitive eating accomplishments of Dillan Gibbons, a Florida high school offensive lineman who has comitted to play for Notre Dame. He ate three challenge burgers at Cheeburger Cheeburger yesterday.
Love Belfast has a request for participants in the World Oyster Eating Championship in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland on September 5 with quotes from Randy Santel.
Kate Ovens has posted a video of her attempt at the Dustbin Lid Food Challenge at Osbornes in Newcastle, England which weights 3.6kg and contains 10,000 calories.
NewsObserver.com has an article about the health issues Mort Hurst, billed as NC's original eating champ, has faced. He experienced a stroke after eating 38 soft-boiled eggs in 29 seconds in 1991 and continued to eat competitively for four more years.
Jeremy Desjardins ate 225g of poutine in 20 seconds in Sault Ste. Marie yesterday to take the lead in qualifying for a trip to compete in Smoke's Poutinerie MLE contest.
PIE Wood Fired Pizza Joint will hold Let Em Eat 6 at Kempenfest in Barrie, ON on August 3. The contest will reportedly award $3000/$1000/$500 and Takeru Kobayashi is expected to compete, his first contest of 2015.
Naader Reda has two videos from Farrell's ice cream challenge won by Molly Schuyler: conventional view | GoPro overhead view
Annie Leblanc, a runner on the University of Oregon track team from Montreal, announces she was the first female to finish the giant pancake challenge at Addi's 'S Diner in Springfield, OR.
Joe Menchetti appears to have won the first prize of a three year Smart Car lease at today's Dog e Style hot dog eating contest in Buffalo. The contest was billed a an event for local amateurs.
Meadowlands Racing in East Rutherford, NJ will hold a corn eating contest tonight awarding $850 ($500 to the winner). 10 entrants will be chosen randomly. update Will Millender announces he was 3rd and amateurs took the top 2 places.
Matt Stonie wins 2015 Hooters Wing Championship
update Jul 30 contest video: HarmonTampaPR
update Jul 28 A press release about the contest is available
update Jul 26 Videos: Official Hooters video | Tampa Bay Online | ElisaTweetvVid | VeggiePowered
Joey Chestnut has won all 3 previous Hooters Wing Championsip and he has at least 15 victories in wing eating contests.
Matt Stonie has no wing victories. His only wing contest was 3rd place in last year’s Hooters finals.
More coverage
Joey Chestnut on WGN
Matt Stonie on 740 The Game
Adrian Morgan on FBTS podcast
Nela Zisser announces she ate a 1 kg burger in 3:40 to win a contest at Pronto in Mount Maunganui, NZ. update SunLive.com.nz has a contest report update Jul 26 NZ Herald also has an article.
Independent.ie has an article and video about the 32 inch pizza at Pinhead's Pizza in Dublin, billed as Ireland's largest.
Amplify.ph has an interview with Filipino competitive eater Kelvin Medina, Guinness record holder for the fastest time to eat a 12 inch pizza, which contains his competitive eating training playlist.
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