The participant who ate the most pizzas would be the winner. When the competition began, all of them gobbled pizzas up [This is OK, but I personally prefer "gobbled up pizzas". The theory is that you shouldn't split a compound verb, such as "gobble up", unless the sentence structure really requires you to do so] as fast as possible they could they possibly could. They looked nervous and felt hot eating the pizzas. Some of them drank water while eating pizzas [this is not wrong, but by now we get the idea that it's pizzas they're eating, and the repetition tends to get a little tiresome]. The audience cheered and gave them support.