Amateur Registration for Hardboiled Egg Eating Contest at Cackle Hatchery’s Chicken Festival

🥚 2025 Hard-Boiled Egg Eating Contest – Official Rules

Location & Check-In

  • All contestants must check in at Building C – Clifton’s Westside CafĂ©
    Address: 452 W Commercial St, Lebanon, MO
    Date/Time: Saturday, October 4, 2025 — by 1:30 p.m. sharp

Eligibility & Registration

  1. All participants must be 18 years of age or older.
  2. Contestants must be registered and have signed the official waiver form.
  3. Registration is open until Oct 4th, 2025.

Contest Format & Rules

  1. The goal is to eat as many hard-boiled eggs as possible within 8 minutes.
    Water (provided) is the only beverage allowed.
  2. Each contestant begins with 10 hard-boiled eggs.
  3. Contestants must wait for the official signal to start.
  4. Dunking or crushing eggs is permitted.
  5. Separating yolks and whites is allowed.
  6. No touching eggs before the official start signal.
  7. Eggs still in a contestant’s mouth at the 8-minute mark may count if fully swallowed without vomiting.

Judging & Disqualification

  1. The official judges will determine the winner — all decisions are final.
  2. The winner is the contestant who eats the most eggs in 8 minutes.
  3. Reversal of fortune (vomiting) results in immediate disqualification.
  4. Any rule violation = disqualification at the judges’ discretion.

Legal & Safety Disclaimer

All participants must:

  • Acknowledge the inherent risks of competitive eating.
  • Agree that Cackle Hatchery and its sponsors may:
    • Accept or deny entry at their discretion
    • Change event details, prizes, or schedule at any time
    • Revoke a contestant’s eligibility at any point

🏅 2025 Prize Categories

Professional Division

  • 1st Place: $2,500 check + trophy
  • 2nd Place: $500 check
  • 3rd Place: $250 check

Amateur Division

  • 1st Place: $250
  • 2nd Place: $50
  • 3rd Place: $25

Entries are now open for the 2025 Competition!
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2025 Amateur Egg Eating Contest Waiver

Hard Boiled Egg Eating Competition Waiver

I understand the health and associated risks inherent in eating contests and in the consumption of large quantities of food and calories over both short and extended periods of time.

I certify that I am in good health and have consulted with qualified persons in the medical profession and obtained clearance for me to participant in this Contest and similar eating contests. I agree to cooperate and speak with media and interviewers authorized by the Contest organizers regarding the Contest and I agree to grant and release all rights on my name, likeness, image, performance and interviews before, during or after the Contest for use by the Contest organizers, their sponsors and licensees, in any and all media in perpetuity and for any and all purposes whatsoever. I also hereby waive, on behalf of myself, successors, heirs and assigns and anyone else claiming under me or on my behalf, all ownership or other property rights to my performance in the Contest and all related activities in perpetuity in all media whatsoever.

I expressly understand that entry and participation in the Contest and all related events and activities, including, without limitation, travel to the Contest and time spent in and around the area of the Contest, interviews with and possibly negative portrayals by the media, and my performance in the Contest, shall be at my own risk and I assume sole and complete responsibility and liability for all such risks. I, on behalf of myself, my successors, heirs and assigns and anyone else claiming under me, hereby completely, irrevocably and unconditionally release and discharge all sponsors and Cackle Hatchery from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, expenses, suits, discrimination or other charges, demands, debts, liens, damages, costs, attorneys’ fees, prejudgment or other interest, grievances, injuries, actions or rights of action of any nature whatsoever now or in the future arising in any way out of or in connection with the Contest.

I fully acknowledge and understand that I do not have any right to participate in this Contest and related activities and I am being permitted to participate in consideration of my execution of this document. If it were not for my agreement to execute this document, I acknowledge that I would not be permitted to participate. I further acknowledge and agree that I understand all of the terms and conditions of this document and that I have been afforded an opportunity to have this document reviewed by counsel of my own choosing. I also understand that I will be given a signed copy of this document if I so request.


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2024 Winner of the Cackle Hatchery Chicken Festival Molly
2024 Winner of the Cackle Hatchery Chicken Festival Molly

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