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** The other challenges fall in this category. The next one was an Octopus and a game of rock paper scissors...where the octopus did them all at once. The third was a game of tag, where you had to grab someone by the butt, and the opponent was a snake. That one was funny.
** In ''NEXT'' Lina and Martina had a game of magic tennis for the prize. At least the game moved them to a truce and Xelloss got some [[Emotion Eater|tasty]] mayhem...
* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', Fuuko and Sunohara engage in a wood carving duel.
* Sasami entered a literal—and televised—cooking contest in volume 8 of the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' manga. Her main opponent seemed to be somehow related to Kagato.
* ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' has no Cooking Duel, but it DOES have an entire mini arc devoted to an eating duel between the various rival teams.
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* Some of [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'s first volume takes this approach to a dodgeball game.
** Later on, the "Kiss Negi" competition treats a pillow fight this way, complete with a commentator.
* Throughout the manga [[Oishinbo]] there are a number of Cooking Duels between the main character and his father or their proxies.
* Constantly shows up in ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', both officially (that is, an actual cooking competition) and unofficially (pitting Najika against a professional chef to prove her spot in the special class, among others)
* In one episode of ''[[Seven of Seven|Shichinin no Nana]]'', Nanacchi and [[Terrible Trio|Hayashiba, Kogarashi, and Morinuma]] turn a make-up home ec class into one of these, with the loser being the winner's slave for a week.
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* ''[[Koe de Oshigoto!]]'' has an ''[[Audio Erotica|erotic voice acting]] contest'' (it's [[Widget Series|that kind of series]]) between Kanna and Fumika with one particularly timid and reserved colleague as their target. They themselves don't take too seriously, unlike resident [[Hot-Blooded]] pervert Sakanami, who suggested the whole thing in the first place.
* Most of the battles in [[Gintama]] involve some form of this trope, including even some of the serious ones. Most notably, the Yorozuya, wallowing in poverty, can often be seen having over the top battles over hot pot or crab.
* An ''[[Iron Chef]]''-esque version of one happens on one episode of ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]''
* ''[[Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru]]'' has a swim competition between Takako and Mariya. The event is scaled out of proportion by Kei.
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** ''[[Top Chef]]''
** Food Network runs or has run several other Cooking Duel-based shows, such as ''Throwdown'', where Bobby Flay challenges another famous chef at his own specialty, and ''Date Plate'', where two guys compete for a date with a hot woman by cooking her dinner.
** ''[[
** ''Ready Steady Cook'' (''Ready.. Set... Cook!'' in the USA) - Debuted in Britain in 1994, USA in 1995, independant of any [[Iron Chef]] populairty (1993 in Japan, then to the USA a few years later). Two chefs each team up with a normal person, receive a mystery bag of ingredients and have to prepare a meal with it.
** And ''[[Chopped]]'' which takes the secret ingredient concept from ''[[Iron Chef]]'' and multiplies it.
*** The ''[[iCarly]]'' episode "iCook" has a parody of these shows complete with an [[Expy]] of Bobby Flay who has a nervous breakdown when he loses.
* Numerous reality shows, like ''America's Next Top Model'', would also fit this trope.
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' had several of these, frequently between the boys as a group and the girls as a group.
* The second season finale of ''Chef!'' was about a multi-participant cookery contest. Gareth cooked for England!
* An episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' featured an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] dance-battle-turned-''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' game between Stephen Colbert and his archnemesis, Korean pop singer Rain.
* Tendo Souji was not only the title character and [[The Ace]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'', but also a genius chef. Naturally, this meant that any feud he had with another character would inevitably come down to a cooking duel. A short two-episode arc called "The Dark Kitchen" took this premise to its logical, yet highly absurd conclusion.
** Then there's that make-up duel between Kazama Daisuke and a rival make-up artist. It's hilarious. Daisuke {{spoiler|barely}} won by doing the impossible: {{spoiler|eyeliners on his opponent. WHILE HE WAS WEARING GLASSES.}}
*** Also note this was a ''[[Single-Stroke Battle]]'' - they each did a makeup job on the other in a fraction of a second while leaping past each other.
** Also, in [[Real Life]], ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'' star Tetsuo Kurata is a master steak chef, beating ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'' star Takayuki Tsubaki [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfumi9_Pkc in an episode of a cookoff show.]
** ''[[Kamen Rider W]]'' did this in their [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Hyper Battle Video]]. Philip was hungry and the enemy was food-based, so his 3 allies had a cooking duel with him as the judge to find out what the enemy was made of. The announcer from [[Iron Chef]] was there as a gadget giving commentary. Notably, none of this made any logical sense at all (but then, the Hyper Battle Videos are non-canon anyway.)
* Another Toku example, Tama-chan and Chukaen's cook-off in ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]]'' Episode 10.
* The ''[[Mama's Family]]'' episode "Soup to Nuts" features Thelma, Naomi, and Iola competing to see who cooks the best chili.
* [[The Odd Couple]] episode ''They Use Horseradish, Don't They?'' had Oscar helping Felix in a cooking contest when Felix's back went out due to the stress of the competition.
* More on the silly side and less on the dramatic, the various contests on ''[[Top Gear]]'' could qualify. Jeremy, James, and Richard will take part in competitions involving cars that often involve some odd regulations, such as "You are given £2000 to spend on a car and insurance as if you are 17 and buying your first. You are then to drive to X location while asserting why your car is better, spend the remainder of your money on modding your car to make it cooler, drive up to "your parent's house" at night without waking them, and impress some teenage girls with a handbrake turn. Whoever has the most points at the end wins."
** To say nothing of the time presenter James May appeared on Gordon Ramsay's ''The F Word'', engaged Ramsay in an actual cooking duel, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and won]].
*** He drank what appeared to be an entire bottle of wine, to boot.
* The show [[Future Food]] has a competition in every episode.
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' health-conscious Chris tries to convince unrepentant carnivore Ron that taking hamburgers off the menu was a good idea. Ron dares him to prove it, so they have a cook-off; Chris' turkey-burger with fancy herbs and spices versus Ron's ordinary beef patty on a plain bun, ketchup optional. Everyone actually likes Chris' turkeyburger, but then they have one bite of Ron's burger and all agree that it's better, even Chris.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Monkey Ninja Pirate Monkey]], using the [[Prose Descriptive Quality]] system by [[Atomic Sock Monkey]] can take almost anything into a duel, and even uses a cooking contest as an example.
* The ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' sourcebook ''Swords at Dawn'' details the various types of duels the Courts use to resolve disputes, split along lines of Physical, Mental, Social, and Mystical. Sure, two members of the martial Summer Court could engage in a fist-fight to first blood... but they could also easily decide on a duel where each argues a case before an impartial judge and tries to make the best argument.
* Feuds between samurai in ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'' are typically solved with whatever skill the parcipants are trained in - swords for bushi, magic for shugenja and so forth. However, as samurai are expected to have knowledge in the courtly arts, the challenger may suggest more or less whatever he or she likes. Thus one can settle a feud through a flower-arranging battle. This does tend to cost the challenger some face, though, as onlookers think less of their martial abilities.
* In ''RISUS'', anything can be a "fight", explicitly so, as long as it's [[Rule of Cool|entertaining]] or [[Rule of Funny|funny]].
* [[Dungeons
* [[Unknown Armies]] wants players to realize just how dumb engaging in lethal violence can be and suggests methods to avoid it. One of those, Rechannel, involves substitution of another competition for violence. The main book suggests drinking contests, cards, scavenger hunts, arm wrestling - really, anything with a clear winner and loser can do. Imagine the GM when a character offers to settle a feud with an NPC with winner-takes-all Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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** [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|Along with deadly poisons, forbidden recipes, and secret societies.]]
* You can play a Cooking Duel minigame in ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'''s amusement park city, complete with a "secret ingredient" revealed with much fanfare.
** Including a battle with ''slime'' as the secret ingredient.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', there's an optional scene towards the end of the game in which Regal has a cooking battle with "The Dark Chef" and earns his "God of The Kitchen" title.
** ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' also gets one of these, putting the party member of your choice up against [[Lethal Chef|Flynn]] to earn cooking titles for your party members.
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* Then there's the [[Monkey Island]] series. No, not [[You Fight Like a Cow|those duels]]. This is about the {{spoiler|Banjo Duel}}. The kicker? {{spoiler|You have to cheat to win.}}
* Many of the text-based mini-quests in ''[[Space Rangers]]'' can be seen as this. They're not always one-on-one duels (usually it's a four-way contest), but when a planetary government asks you to win a pizza-baking contest on some far away planet...
* Both [[Mega Man Battle Network|Megaman Battle Network 4]] and [[Mega Man Battle Network|Megaman Battle Network 6]] include various cooking minigames, both of which involve using a the help of the main character's Personal [[Artificial Intelligence|Net Navi]] in the creation of delicious dishes. We are lead to believe that they are quite tasty.
* Mario Party, anyone? Where to start: Don't look in the same direction as the opponent, blow a balloon between opponents' cars, walk on a ball and bump into the other to throw them away from the platform, shake a soda, and so on.
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* In the comic strip ''Lucky Luke: Calamity Jane'' from 1967, Jane gets involved in a baking contest with the equally unqualified matron of the establishment, the unlucky witnesses have to eat the results at gunpoint.
* This makes up much of the plot of the second [[Strawberry Shortcake]] special ("...in Big Apple City").
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' has a cooking challenge between the teams as one of its early challenges. Naturally, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' is a very prominent example. A Showdown can be anything: a race, sumo wrestling, basketball, bird-catching, alligator-hopping, etc. Showdowns also take place in a warped, tricked-out version of wherever the characters were standing to make things interesting.
* ''[[South Park]]'' has had dance-offs, whore-offs, virtual Yahtzee, and the "Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge," among other crap (literally).
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