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Years active | Mid Nineties - Present |
World Nugget Challenge is the collective term for several amateur food speed eating challenges involving Chicken Nuggets founded by Dominic Crux in the United Kingdom. However, although the concept was born in the early nineties, it was only fully realised in 2009.
During mid nineties Dominic Crux challenged himself to eat 50 nuggets, although there was no time limit he only managed 26. In a casual conversation in the summer of 2009 Dominic Crux furthered the concept with Robert Heppell where they worked on a more structured competition roster. Over the coming months they also created a ruling body to govern the competitions.
Although the idea was totally original one during the nineties many people have copied the idea and tried to make it their own. However, although no direct action has been taken by the W.N.C. ruling body. Because of lack of evidence, it is widely accepted that the original concept was founded by Crux and Heppell, further enforced by the fact they have established a ruling body, health and safety for the competitors, and well as rules and guidelines.
The first attempt was a solo effort by Piotr Glodowski at Sonisphere Festival, Athens, Greece in June 2010, who after 60 minutes reached an impressive total of 40. Because this was a solo effort the world record and title was awarded but over the next six months the rules were changed to create a head to head title challenge.
In January 2011, the first head to head challenge came from Robert Heppell, the challenger and also chairman of the W.N. C. and the title holder would be head to head for 60 minutes, after 45 minutes Heppell retired at 36 but Glodowski continued on to the hour mark breaking his old record and creating a new benchmark of 50. Although he actually consumed 50.5 nuggets it was disputed as the W.N.C. rules insist on full nugget counts. After this controversy the rules were updated again towards the end of 2011.
In December 2011, further rule changes were made for the safety of the competitors and a new challenger Luke Cartwright instegated a challenge - Cartwright stormed to an early lead hitting a unbelievable 180 Nph (Nuggets per hour) rate of consumption, and quickly forced a lead of 5 nuggets. But slowly the champion caught up, overtook and created a small lead of 3 nuggets as he kept his pace steady. Cartwright never managed to regain the lead after that, but kept up with Glodowski until the end finishing with an impressive debut tally of 57. Glodowski set a groundbreaking record of 61, keeping his title in the process his expertise and experience showing through. After the match Cartwright stated that a lack of ketchup forced him to hit the wall around 40 minutes, although he did not dispute the outcome of the match or hand in an official complaint. It is expected that a rematch will happen in 2012.
This discipline was the first challenge under the W.N.C. ruling body, the basis is too eat as many McDonalds Chicken Nuggets within 60 minutes.
Video found on youtube channel, yeahdegraft
A new discipline designed to take place in Summer of 2012, essentially based on the Ironman Triathlon it has no limit to the number of participants. The competition has no time limit instead being based on a set of three trials.
World Nugget Challenge | |
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Years active | Mid Nineties - Present |
World Nugget Challenge is the collective term for several amateur food speed eating challenges involving Chicken Nuggets founded by Dominic Crux in the United Kingdom. However, although the concept was born in the early nineties, it was only fully realised in 2009.
During mid nineties Dominic Crux challenged himself to eat 50 nuggets, although there was no time limit he only managed 26. In a casual conversation in the summer of 2009 Dominic Crux furthered the concept with Robert Heppell where they worked on a more structured competition roster. Over the coming months they also created a ruling body to govern the competitions.
Although the idea was totally original one during the nineties many people have copied the idea and tried to make it their own. However, although no direct action has been taken by the W.N.C. ruling body. Because of lack of evidence, it is widely accepted that the original concept was founded by Crux and Heppell, further enforced by the fact they have established a ruling body, health and safety for the competitors, and well as rules and guidelines.
The first attempt was a solo effort by Piotr Glodowski at Sonisphere Festival, Athens, Greece in June 2010, who after 60 minutes reached an impressive total of 40. Because this was a solo effort the world record and title was awarded but over the next six months the rules were changed to create a head to head title challenge.
In January 2011, the first head to head challenge came from Robert Heppell, the challenger and also chairman of the W.N. C. and the title holder would be head to head for 60 minutes, after 45 minutes Heppell retired at 36 but Glodowski continued on to the hour mark breaking his old record and creating a new benchmark of 50. Although he actually consumed 50.5 nuggets it was disputed as the W.N.C. rules insist on full nugget counts. After this controversy the rules were updated again towards the end of 2011.
In December 2011, further rule changes were made for the safety of the competitors and a new challenger Luke Cartwright instegated a challenge - Cartwright stormed to an early lead hitting a unbelievable 180 Nph (Nuggets per hour) rate of consumption, and quickly forced a lead of 5 nuggets. But slowly the champion caught up, overtook and created a small lead of 3 nuggets as he kept his pace steady. Cartwright never managed to regain the lead after that, but kept up with Glodowski until the end finishing with an impressive debut tally of 57. Glodowski set a groundbreaking record of 61, keeping his title in the process his expertise and experience showing through. After the match Cartwright stated that a lack of ketchup forced him to hit the wall around 40 minutes, although he did not dispute the outcome of the match or hand in an official complaint. It is expected that a rematch will happen in 2012.
This discipline was the first challenge under the W.N.C. ruling body, the basis is too eat as many McDonalds Chicken Nuggets within 60 minutes.
Video found on youtube channel, yeahdegraft
A new discipline designed to take place in Summer of 2012, essentially based on the Ironman Triathlon it has no limit to the number of participants. The competition has no time limit instead being based on a set of three trials.