UNCLE SAM’S TOURNAMENT OF DOGS

This year the Port Angeles Waterfront District is hosting the City of Port Angeles’ Annual July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest.

The glorious and disgusting event will be taking place at the City Pier stage from 2-3pm on July 4th. Arrive early to secure your seats.

Fifteen contestants will compete for the crown and title King/Queen Weenie, along with cold hard cash.

Prizes: Thanks to generous sponsors, we can offer significant cash prizes this year:

  • First Place - $1,000.00 - generously donated by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce (who is also running our July 4th Festivities).

  • Second Place - $500.00 - generously donated by Fat Yeti Froyo, our local purveyor of all things sweet and cold.

  • Third Place - $100 - generously donated by The Hub, our local third place for arts and community.

  • First Contestant to Puke - MYSTERY GIFT - a Mystery gift for our first contestant to vomit and be disqualified.

  • First Audience Member to Puke - MYSTERY GIFT #2 - a Mystery gift for our first audience member to vomit.

How to compete: There will be fifteen brave souls duking it out for the title and crown on July 4th. Ten contestants will be pre-selected through our qualifying round. You can find out more about the qualifying round here (click me). Five contestants will be selected on the day of July 4th. Priority selection on July 4th will be for active duty military (The Navy will be in town celebrating with us, and we want to give them a chance to compete).

This event is sure to be a hoot and we hope to see you there. This event is only a small part of Port Angeles Fourth of July Celebration, the biggest July 4th celebration on the Olympic Peninsula. Our amazing Chamber of Commerce puts on the event and you do not want to miss everything else that is happening in the Waterfront District on July 4th. You can find out more about the full day of festivities here (click me).

We are extremely grateful to our event sponsor, D’s Dawgs for providing and preparing our hot dogs for this event. D’s Dawgs is the newest hot dog cart in Port Angeles. Our contestants are lucky, these hot dogs are delicious. They will have to balance savoring the flavor with the clock they’ll be eating against. What brave, foolish souls….will you be one of them?