Est. 2021
The National Council of Pineapple
The official sanctioning body of competitive pineapple eating in the United States. Every result in this site's archive comes from a Council-sanctioned event, judged under the Council's official rulebook.
Our Mandate
The Council was founded in January 2021 to bring order to a sport that had spread, informally and inconsistently, across a dozen states in the year since its pandemic-era origin. Its charter has three parts: standardize the rules of competition, certify judges and venues, and maintain a single, verifiable set of national and regional rankings so that a claim like "top-ranked in the country" means something backed by results — not bragging rights.
How Events Get Sanctioned
A Council-sanctioned event requires a certified head judge, standardized fruit sourcing and ripeness, an approved cutting-boundary and scoring rubric, and a dedicated safety judge. Read the full breakdown in The Rules of the Cut and how state chapters get sanctioned.
How Rankings Are Calculated
Every ranking published on this site — national and state — is generated directly from Council results using a fixed points table (100 for first place, 75 for second, 55 for third, 40 for fourth, and 30 for fifth), summed across every sanctioned event a competitor has entered. Nothing is hand-adjusted. See the full explanation in How the Rankings Are Actually Calculated.
The Official Seal
The Council's seal, shown above, appears on every contest the Council formally sanctions. Its presence on a result — in this archive or anywhere else — indicates the event was judged under the Council's official rulebook by a certified judge.