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Armageddon Chilli Eating Challenge
$1000 in cash prizes for the winners! Nothing but contempt for second place!
Do you dare to enter the Armageddon Chilli eating challenge? Can you eat so many jalapeños that you start to breath fire?
In previous years we have had twelve rounds of escalating chilli terror:
Padron – 500 Scoville Heat Units
Jalapeño – 3,000 Scoville Heat Units
Birds Eye – 100,000 Scoville Heat Units
Scotch Bonnet – 250,000 Scoville Heat Units
Fatalli – 300,000 Scoville Heat Units
Peach or Yellow habanero – 350,000 Scoville Heat Units
Red or Congo Hab – 500,000 Scoville Heat Units
Peach Ghost Scorpion – 1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units
Ghost chilli – 1,050,000 Scoville Heat Units
7 Pot Habanero – 1,100,000 Scoville Heat Units
Scorpion Moruga – 2,000,000 Scoville Heat Units
Choc Scorpion/ Carolina Reaper – 2,200,000 Scoville Heat Units
Now we will be amping things up to make it even more spicy with TWO fiery competitions, so the challenge you know will be out the door! First up will be the intense Chilli Eating Challenge you know and love to laugh at, and now we will be introducing the Jalapeño Race - first to finish their bag wins!
We provide the chillis, milk and a vomit bag, you provide a stomach of steel and the will to overcome extreme heat.
DO NOT enter this contest if you are pregnant, and/or suffer from allergies, a weak stomach or illness.
NZ Chilli Eating Champs Rules
You must be over 18 years of age and YOU MUST LOVE SUPER HOT CHILLI!
You give your permission to be filmed and photographed for social media purposes and to promote the competition. No other Chilli companies branding may be worn during comp unless organised prior to event starting!
If you suffer from any allergies, YOU MUST SPECIFY ALL ALERGIES to organisers! If in doubt then PLEASE DO NOT ENTER!!!!!!!!
If you have a drink you are OUT!
If you throw up you are OUT!
If you leave the table you are OUT!
All chillies must be chewed for 30 seconds and then show that your mouth is full of chilli pulp before swallowing! This is to prevent people swallowing them whole and not chewing the chillies at all!
You must eat all the chilli and foods/drinks in the time provided and then last to the next round of even HOTTER Chilli/foods/drinks. You must be the last person NOT to go for the cooling beer or milk.
If you are struggling with the HEAT then stop eating as the foods will just get HOTTER!
The person who finishes all of the chilli and dishes, does not have a drink of milk or beer and outlasts all other contestants WINS!
YOU TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY for your decision to enter the Champs!
Anyone with heart, lung, bowel or intestinal problems ARE NOT PERMITTED to ENTER!!
Make sure you drink lots of milk, yogurt and ice cream after! Plain bread and rice will help too! DO NOT compete on a complete empty stomach!
You must sign Release and Waiver of liability to compete.