Sayulitas in San Diego will hold a 10 pound burrito eating contest on May 5 awarding $300 to the winner.
Puerto Vallarta in Flushing, MI has a nine pound burrito challenge that will award $500 if finished in under 5 minutes. No one has completed the challenge.
North Shore Beefs will hold a MLE slider eating contest at Fenway Park in Boston on September 12.
The World Strawberry Shortcake Eating Championship will return to the Mattituck, NY Strawberry Festival. The contest date will probably be June 20.
Fortune has an article about Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's wing eating events. He held a weekly competitions with his friends in Seattle and also held a wing eating contest at the Amazon AWS re:Invent convention. Jassy's personal best is 57 wings.
Gideon Oji defends Sweet Corn Fiesta title
Results from today’s National Sweet Corn Eating Championship held at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL are on the MLE Instagram
| 1st | 58 | Gideon Oji | |
| 2nd | 54 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 48 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 36 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 5th | 30 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 6th | 29 | Tanner Gray | |
| 6th | 29 | Jacob Williams | |
| 8th | 16 | Rene Rovtar |
Redline Tacos in Salem, OR will hold a taco eating contest on May 3 awarding $300 to the winner.
Max Stanford completed the chicken fried steak challenge at Kendall's in Noble, OK twice, the first time in a record 6:12.
Paola won the first prize of £500 in today's hot dog eating contest held at Smashburger in Bath, England.
Registration is open for "Kickoff to Summer at Mountain Mile", a wing eating contest to be held in Pigeon Forge, TN on May 30.
Registration is open for the Salvation Army and Bakemark's National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC on June 5.
Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas will hold a taco eating contest on May 20 awarding $2000 to the winner.
Registration is open for the Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib-Eating Championship to be held at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, MN on June 27.
Max Stanford announced that he is quitting his day job to focus on competitive eating and social media.
2026 Mass Hole Donuts
Results of today’s Mass Hole’s Marathon Donut Eating World Championship in Medford, MA (10 minutes) can be found on Instagram.
| 1st | 100.5 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 99 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 94 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 75 | Cameron Meade | |
| 5th | 60 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 6th | 50 | Jerome Burns | |
| 7th | 47 | Tanner Gray | |
| 8th | 35 | Matthew Stefanilo | |
| 9th | 26.25 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 10th | 18 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 11th | 13 | Rene Rovtar |
The New England Cigar Expo will hold a pizza eating contest on in Windham, NH on September 26 awarding $2000/$1000/$750/$500/300/$250/$150/$50 to the top 8.
Joey Chestnut will make appearances at nine minor league ballparks this year. His first competition will be at a Wichita Wind Surge game on April 17. He said that his contract with Nathan's prevents him from eating hot dogs at his appearances without permission.
The Korean Herald reports tha mukbang star Tzuyang, who has 13.2 million subscribers for her youtube channel, will start a television program "Still Hungry" on the cable channel ENA in May.
Burger & Grill in Tito, Italy will award 500 Euros to the fastest person to finish its burger challenge.
Dave's Famous T&L Hot Dogs will hold a hot dog eating contest in Bridgeport, WV on May 30 awarding $500 to the winner.
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won today's "King of Gluttony" competition televised on TV Tokyo. For the first time in several contests, all competitors were Japanese. Kawaxile was runner-up and Angela Sato was third. A video of the whole broadcast is currently available on youtube.
Saucey's Pizza in West Chester, PA has started a 28 inch pizza challenge with a jackpot. The current prize is $500. With every failed attempt, the jackpot will increase by $20.
Zois Pizza will hold a pizza eating contest in Seymour, CT on May 30. The top three professionals will win $4000/$1000/$500 and the top male and female amateurs will both receive $1500/$500/$350. Entrants must raise at least $300 for Project Purple.
The field for the Mass Hole Donut Eating Championship in Medford, MA on April 18 is expected to include Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, Nick Wehry and Crazy Legs Conti.
2026 Nathan’s qualifier “line segment” announced
Registration is now open for the 2026 Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest qualifiers. With just two competitions, the qualifier schedule can be more accurately described as a line segment than a circuit. Both contests will be held at northeastern USA theme parks in the middle of June:
There were 16 qualifiers for the 2019 Nathan’s Famous finals, 6 for 2025.
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