By Abigail Vidals
A Kanye West song played in the background from the ASC stereo, as students waited patiently for the final preparations to be made. The contestants filled the seats, in total counting nine brave and hungry competitors.
As the competition began, the contestants raced to finish their first plate, consisting of dry cereal. The second round offered three hot dogs, and the third round challenged them to eat 8 cookies. The final round was a block of uncooked spam.
While the act of eating seemed simple enough, the race against one another was the toughest challenge.
In the end, the final challenger left standing was Fred Robinson, who’s won the contest three times before.
After the contest ended, many students sat down to rest before heading off to their classes. When asked which round was the most difficult, one of the competitors, Kayla Blomberg, said it had to be the dry cereal. Unlike the other dishes they had to eat, the dry cereal had a rough, scratchy texture, and was difficult to swallow. She was the only girl to compete, and she competed against her father, Larry Blomberg.
She made it to the last dish, a full block of spam with a side glass of water. She tapped out, not having enough space in her stomach to complete the task.
The father-daughter duo found it fun to compete against one another, not giving it a second thought, and signing up at the last minute.
The elder Blomberg had competed before. He’d seen everything from pizza to Oreos, but said this year was the most difficult for him.
He said this year brought the smallest group of contestants he’d ever seen. There were eight people at the table. One year, Blomberg said, there were 15.
While trying to recover, contestants admitted they felt awful, but said they had no regrets whatsoever.