Jalapeño Eating Contest

Vaughan Cannon IV is the 2006 Jalapeño Eating Champion. To see the other winners follow the 2006 Winners! link at left. To see the photos from the 2006 contest, follow the 2006 Jalapeño Contest Photos link at left.

Who's hot, and who's not. How many hatch chilies can you eat in two minutes? Enter this contest for a chance to win prizes and bragging rights as Henderson Salsa Challenge's own Fire-Breathing Dragon, the Jalapeño Eating Champion. If your palette is more suited to chips and salsa, visit the Salsa Tasting page for Henderson Salsa Challenge. As you can see we are busy gathering the chilies for the Jalapeño Eating Championship. See you at the Henderson Salsa Challenge, in October 2008. Follow the links below to learn more about and enter the Jalapeño Eating Contest:

Jalapeño Eating Contest Online Entry Form <click here>

Jalapeño Eating Contest Rules

Release of Liability

Disclaimer

Enter Jalapeño Eating Contest

Jalapeño Eating Contest Rules

• Contestants must be at least 18 years old.
• Each contestant will receive a plate of jalapeno peppers. You may eat only one pepper during the first minute. You may then eat as many as you can during the next minute, one pepper at a time.
• Peppers must be eaten down to within 1/8 inch of the cap to be counted.
• You will not be allowed any other foods or beverage during the contest.
• You will be disqualified should you be unable to keep peppers down.
• You can not coat the inside of your mouth with any kind of protective coating. Anyone caught doing so will be disqualified.
• The winner will be determined by the number of stems on the contestant’s plate after time has been called. You will be allowed to finish any pepper remaining in your mouth when time is called.
• Should there be a tie, contestants will be given an additional serving of peppers.
  
  

Release of Liability
In consideration of my entry in the above described Henderson Salsa Challenge Jalapeno Eating Contest, I, intended to be legally bound, do hereby for myself, my heirs, my executors, and administrators, waive, release and forever discharge any and all right and claims for damages which may here after accrue to me against the City of Henderson, NV, Frank Maguire & Associates, Inc, all event sponsors and staff, Companies or entities, their officials, employees and agents of any and all liability or responsibility arising from any injury received or incurred participating in the Jalapeno Eating Contest. I promise to examine the event site and assure myself that the area is safe. and further agree that I will not participate in the event unless I am satisfied that the area and conditions are safe, I will further read and comply with all contest rules and regulations, note existing weather conditions and do agree that I voluntarily assume all risks arising from conditions related to the event site by myself or others.

Disclaimer
The below information I filled in is correct to the best of my knowledge.  I have read the Henderson Salsa Challenge Jalapeno Eating Contest rules and regulations, if my application is accepted I hereby give the City of Henderson & Frank Maguire & Associates Inc. the right to use photographs, videotapes, motion pictures, recordings and any other record taken for this event of me or my team members to be reproduce in any form for purposes of promotion, advertising, display, exhibition or editorial use without compensation.

Jalapeño Eating Contest Online Entry Form