Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, George Chiger, Derek Jacobs and Eric "Badlands" Booker are expected to compete in Sunday's bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati in Cincinnati. Joey Chestnut, who has won the previous 10 contests, will apparently not defend his title. update Joey Chestnut says he will be having leg surgery on Thursday and will be out of competitive eating for a while.
The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarnence, NY will hold a pie eating contest on October 16 awarding $1000/$500/$250/$50.
Vice.com produced a documentary about Erik "The Electric" Lamkin titled "100,000 Calorie Challenges: Inside the World Of Pro Eating"
DeSoto Times-Tribune reports Naader Reda successfully completed three restaurant challenges in Hernando County in north Mississippi over Labor Day weekend.
Molly Schuyler ate 12 pounds of mushrooms in 8 minutes to set a record at the Kennett Square (PA) Mushroom Festival today.
"Battle of the Super Eaters", a 2019 Channel 4 documentary starring Leah Shutkever, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran and Kyle Gibson is available on youtube with the title "Eating For A Living: My Life as a Competitive Eater"
Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a bbq eating record at the Casablanca Rib Fest in Mesquite, NV on September 10. He will also judge a watermelon eating contest and sign autographs. update Joey says he will not be at the event.
The Big Dill will hold a MLE pickle eating contest in Baltimore on September 24 or 25. update The web page has removed the claim the event will be a MLE competition.
Lonestar Cheeseburger will hold a burger eating contest on September 17 in San Angelo, TX awarding $1000 to the winner. Joel Hansen won the previous two contests.
Del Fuego will hold a wing eating contest at its 4 Long Island locations on September 8. The overall winner will receive a large screen TV.
Dan Kennedy wins Taste of Hamburg-er Festival eating contest
Results from yesterday’s professional burger eating contest at Taste of Hamburg-er Festival in Hamburg, PA (10 minute contest)
| 1st | 20 | Dan “killer” Kennedy | |
| 2nd | 19 | Molly Schuyler | |
| 3rd | 16 | Andy “The Ice Man” Puhl | |
| 4th | 13 | Sean “The Mouth” Yeager | |
| 5th | 5 | Andrew “The Tomato Hater” Maoury |
Brandon "The Titanium Jaw" Macy ate 50 wings in 10 minutes to win yesterday's amateur wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festvial. This year's amateur contest did not award a spot in the MLE competition.
2022 Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest
George Chiger is running a live video of the contest.
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 233 | Miki Sudo | |
| 2nd | 224 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 194 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 167 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 136 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 130 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 7th | 123 | George Chiger | |
| 8th | 113 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 9th | 78 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 10th | 75 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 11th | 21 | Dom Greco |
2022 Buffalo Buffet Bowl
George Chiger is running a live video
Official results Part 1 | Part 2 The second column is the number of pounds eaten. The contest was terminated after 6 minutes.
| 1st | 5 | 3m29s | $1,000.00 | Geoffrey Esper | Oxford, MA | |
| 2nd | 5 | 4m44s | $500.00 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | San Jose, CA | |
| 3rd | 5 | 5m55s | $250.00 | Nick Wehry | Torrington, CT | |
| 4th | 5 | 5m56s | Miki Sudo | Las Vegas, NV | ||
| 5th | 5 | 6 min | Gideon Oji | Morrow, GA | ||
| 6th | 3.25 | 6 min | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | Orillia, ON, Canada | ||
| 7th | 2.72 | 6 min | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | Buffalo, NY | ||
| 8th | 2.63 | 6 min | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |||
| 9th | 2.58 | 6 min | George Chiger | Pocono Pines, PA | ||
| 10th | 1.93 | 6 min | William “Wild Bill” Myers | Breinigsville, PA | ||
| 11th | 1.32 | 6 min | Rene Rovtar |
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Darrien Thomas, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete in Saturday's Buffalo Buffet Bowl and Sunday's wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Fest. An amateur wing eating contest will be held on Saturday which has previously awarded its winner a spot in Sunday's wing eating contest.
The Weiner Nationals at Randolph County Raceway will hold a hot dog eating contest in Moberly, MO on September 4 awarding $1000 to the winner
Tacos Locos in San Angelo, TX will hold a taco eating contest on September 16 awarding $500 to the winner.
TheBlast.com has a post about Katina Eats Kilos tiktok channel.
Wet n Wild Hawaii will hold a pizza eating contest in Kapolei, HI on September 5 awarding prize packages valued at $1865/$1025/$350.
Mushroom eating contests at the Kennett Square, PA Mushroom Festival on September 10 will award $1000/$750/$500 to professional eaters, $500/$300/$100 to amateurs.
Geoff Esper wins Colorado State Fair slopper eating contest
| 1st | 33 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 25 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 24 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 22 | Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond | |
| 5th | 15.75 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 6th | 15.5 | Andrew Krawczyk | |
| 7th | 12.5 | Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker | |
| 8th | 11 | Jon Ansell | |
| 8th | 11 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 10th | 9 | Mark “toothless” Sutherburg | |
| 11th | 8.5 | Kevin Schumaker |
The Bailey Farms pepper eating contest at the NC Hot Sauce Festival & Contest will award $1,000 to the winner on September 10 in Oxford, NC.
The-Solute.com has a post about "The Glutton Bowl", a competitive eating tournament that aired on Fox in 2002, with commentary about the appearances of Don Lerman, Ed "Cookie" Jarvis, Oleg Zhornitskiy and Takeru Kobayashi.
A crab eating contest awarding $1000/$500/$300 will take place in Bend, Oregon on August 27.
Fox59.com reports Joey Chestnut ate over 29 servings of popcorn in under 8 minutes at tonigh't Indianapolis Indians game to set a new world record. The servings had a volume of 24 ounces.
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