What is the best strategy for eating ice cream competitively?

What is the best strategy for eating ice cream competitively?

Ian "The Invader" Hickman (Competitive Eater) gives expert video advice on: What do you eat when you're competing?; What's the best food for an eating competition?; What foods can be used in competitive eating? and more...

To eat ice cream competitively, there are a lot of factors you need to consider. You have soft serve; you have regular ice cream; you have custard; you have ice cream sundaes; you have ice cream sandwiches; you have this and that. So, before you actually get into an ice cream contest, you need to do your research and find out if this is Mayfield's Ice Cream, if this is Breyer's Ice Cream, or if this is like soft serve at your mom and pop's dairy, I don't know. You just need to look at the factors and educate yourself to find out which way you need to approach it. So if you're doing a sundae and you don't like nuts, maybe you should sit that one out if the sundae is going to have nuts on it. If it is pineapple and you like pineapple and it is ice cream and fudge, dig in.