From an email:

The event is going to be bigger and better this year.

Grand Prize is $2,000 2nd Prize is $1,000 and 3rd Prize is $500. We have also added a prize to the qualifying rounds of $100 for each location. There may be some trips involved for the winners too. There will be at least 8 qualifiers.

The final is on Friday night July 31st. At the Wilmington Blue Rocks after the game, but before the fireworks. That will leave about 5,000 people to watch the finals. Qualifying dates to be finalized soon.

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update #5Promo contest with Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos on CBS 12 Saturday morning news show

update #4 Erika Pesantes has posted her contest report to sun-sentinel.com

update #3 (from comment) CE News has a report which says Sonya Thomas competed

update #2 from http://twitter.com/epesantes/statuses/1622798669 “winner is Hall “Hoover” Holt of Tampa with 33 ears of corn in 12 minutes.”

George Shea has the rest of the top 3: hall hunt wins with 34 ears of corn even in 12 mins, Joe LaRue in second, Legs in third

There was 33 minutes between the contest end and results announcement on http://twitter.com/epesantes

update The contest is over – http://twitter.com/gcshea & http://twitter.com/epesantes should have results

Some entrants in today’s eating contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta according to George Shea’s twitter: Competing in corn tomorrow at 3 pm: Legs, Davekos, Hall Hunt, Sonya Thomas, Joe LaRue. Also: Treavor Eaton, Bill Myers, Nate Biller?

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update #2 Amazon.com’s Al Dente blog has an entry about the contest

update Cupcakes Take the Cake has some pictures of the winner

The New York Daily News has a report on yesterday’s cupcake eating contest held at Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn. Results listed:

1. Nancy Cummings, 17 cupcakes in 5 minutes,
2. Dominick Ibelli, 16 cupcakes
? Jo Rose

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Will Millender reports that Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria has taken the lead in qualifying for the finals of the contests at Go! Go! Curry! with a time of 55 seconds. The time has yet to be posted on http://gogocurryusa.com/

update Don Lerman has a response on his blog.

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update #5 Photocalpyse has a blog entry with some pictures

update #4 NBCChicago has an article

update #3 The top 5 from IFOCE.com & http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/
1 Pat Bertoletti 7 lbs 5.81 ozs.
2 Joey Chestnut in 7 lbs 2.81 ozs.
3 Eric “Badlands” Booker 5.0 lbs
4 Erik Denmark ?
5 Nate Biller ?

This ends Joey Chestnut’s 4 year winning streak at the Asparagus Festival

update #2 PodcastStockton has the first report: “And the winner is Patrick “Deep Dish” #asparagus. That’s a lot of asparagus! 7.581lbs in 10 minutes”

update http://twitter.com/PodcastStockton is also at the contest

Badlands Booker reports that he has arrived in California and finished the Burritozilla last night with a time of 5:15, so hopefully we will have real time contest updates on http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker or http://twitter.com/erikdenmark

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update #2 Naples, FL report and gallery

update The two Rock the Tot posts have been merged and bumped up

Val Bromann has a gallery of her local Rock the Tot tater tot eating contest

DCist has a gallery of last night’s Rock the Tot contest won by James “Big Bess” Besser

update Skinnyboy has a blog entry about his second place (missing 1st place by .1 oz) finish at a Denver Rock the Tot

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WGN’s baseball blog has a video of the giant Northside Twist pretzel available at Chicago Cubs games. The pretzel weighs 2 pounds (not 4 as previously listed) and costs $15.

The Sun Times reports that the Chicago White Sox offer a 2 foot long, 3 pound meatball sandwich for $26, which is only available in the premium sections of U.S. Cellular Field.

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While we await the restoration of sonyatheblackwidow.com (or news of its permanent demise), here is a working web page by another big eater with the same first name. Sonya Sorich, a reporter for the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer wrote a blog entry in 2007 about her attempt at the 1.5 pound Marine Burger at the Four Winds in Cusseta, Georgia:

Anyway, I’d been twice before, and devoured the [1 pound] Ranger Burger — and fries — with no trouble. It felt good, but I always came home with a sinking realization that I’d hit a plateau. So this time, I knew I had no choice but to order the Marine Burger, a 1.5-lb. burger that’s not even on the menu. It comes with cheese, ham, bacon, tomatoes, pickles, lettuce and onions. And don’t forget the fries and sweet tea.
Honestly, at first I didn’t know if I’d be able to do it. Fortunately, I got an inspirational phone call this morning from my mom in California. Her exact words? “Sonya, you can eat anything.”

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IFOCE.com has details on three upcoming events:

• May 23 – Funnel Cake Eating contest at Kings Dominion amusement park in Virginia, registration opens April 28
• May 30 – turkey pretzel club sandwiches at Mallie’s Sports Bar in Southgate, Michigan the food has been changed from calamari, registration opens April 29
• date unlisted – clams at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY, registration opens April 30

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A comment to a reflector.com article reports that Joe Menchetti repeated as winner of the “Big A” challenge contest held during last night’s UNC vs. East Carolina baseball game. Menchetti’s time to complete the 50 ounce burger was under 5 minutes, less than his winning time last year of 5:15. The attendance for the game was 5,581, reportedly the largest crowd to ever watch a regular season college baseball game in North Carolina.

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The Born to Fork blog has an entry about a Pointersaurus pizza challenge attempt. At least two teams have finished the challenge that have not been added to the finishers list on the restaurant’s website:

We then came to find out that the two guys [who finished a Pointersaurus] the day before did puke. In fact, the one guy puked 6 seconds after the timer went off. All over the floor. So not only did the guys behind the counter have to dish out $500, plus a refund on the pizza, they had to also clean up a pile of pizza puke sitting in front of their counter. That, my friends, is what you call adding insult to injury.

The most enjoyable part of the challenge was hearing the stories of other competitors. Joey Chestnut (the hot dog eating champ) took the pizza down (with the help of his wife, supposedly) in 17 minutes, setting a record. And they said he ate at least ¾ of the pizza himself. Pretty impressive. And Eater X has also completed the challenge. Before the two doctors the day before us, the last pair to finish was a couple of ladies. Apparently their Mizzou football-playing boyfriends drove down and threw their hat in the ring, and failed miserably. And after properly taunting their boyfriends, they stopped by the next day and took the thing down themselves. Apparently they were a couple of “110 lb girls”, but the same guy who said that also said the doctors were skinny like me. So I’ll go out on a limb here and say the girls were probably more in the 150 lb range.

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