Starting in 2005, 92.1 the Keg began hosting Wingfest. Once a year, thousands of folks gather in the NWA mall parking lot to munch on all kinds of wings.
Once again, Wingfest is upon us. This Saturday, June 14th from 4-7pm over 16 area restaurants will be cooking up and serving wings for your consumption. Tickets are $5 a pop and will grant you entry to the event along with all the wings you can eat, all the coke you can drink and all the ice cream you can shovel down your gullet. I don’t see anything about beer, but seeing as that Coors Light is a sponsor, I’m guessing they’ll have some booths setup. Too bad it’s Coors Light, though. That beer sucks. Sorry Coors fans, but it does.
The big event of the night is the wing eating championship. If you think you’ve got what it takes and want your shot at the crown, you’ll need to qualify first. Time’s running out, though, as tonight is the last night to qualify. You can qualify by heading out to BW3(F-Ville), Wingstop or Hooters from 6-8 tonight. If you’re serious about qualifying, then I suggest you get there early as entries will be given out to the first 10 contestants on a first come, first serve basis at each restaurant.
In order to win, you’ll have ten minutes to go through 10 wings. If I read the sort-of-half-assed/not-very-well-specified rules correctly, the first one to thoroughly finish all ten wings first will win. I don’t know if there are several rounds or just one, but either way, I’m sure someone will puke.
As with most events of this nature in Fayetteville, there will also be a Harley giveaway. No surprise there. If you’re dream is to win a Harley, you can go register and have your dreams shattered when some other dude who already owns a Harley wins.
Proceeds benefit the NW Arkansas Alzheimer’s Association Office. So while you’ll feel horrible after eating your weight in free wings, you’ll feel pretty good about paying only $5 to get in. Also, the people watching is guaranteed to be outstanding.
Go on, eat some wings and check out that guy with the Big Johnson shirt and killer rattail. You know you want to.
UPDATE#1: Here’s some video of the winner of the Harley. Too bad the poor guy lives in Springdale. It’s not a good place to live in case you haven’t heard.
UPDATE#2: Here’s a few photos as well.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I’ve never been to this but it sounds pretty awesome. I HAVE been to a wing eating contest though and that shit is intense! Not as intense as what happens to the contenstants a few hours after the wing eating contest I’m sure.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I have been to Wingfest, and I can confirm there is beer.
But after eating Wesner’s Grill’s wings last year, I wanted milk, not beer. I’m not stupid enough to do Foghorn’s Insanity wings, but I would guess Wesner’s are somewhat similar.
Yikes.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Thanks for verification, doubleK. Beer makes everything better… except when spicy wings are buring your mouth. Milk is definitely required at that point.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
No ice cream this year = bummer. However, the lemon-pepper wings from Wing Stop and the PB&J wings from Eureka Pizza were enough to make up for that.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Yeah, what was up with not having any ice cream? However, paying $5 for all the wings you can eat is still a pretty sweet deal. That deal would have been even sweeter had they had some delicious, delicious ice cream.
June 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It would have been awesome if I had won the Harley. Riding around with the wind on my face would have made me feel better after suffering through the soggy Parmesan-tomato wing thing I ate.
Ugh.
Ice cream or milk would have been nice. My lady friend cried after tackling a wing from Foghorns, and water and beer just aren’t enough to douse those kind of flames.