The UTC student paper has an article about a 2 minute preliminary Krystal contest open to UTC students only. Crystal Morris, the only female in the contest, managed 6 burgers. The best 10 eaters in Krystal preliminaries will advance to a second round contest whose winner will compete in the main Krystal contest.

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Chris Martel, who posts to watchmeeatahotdog.com, another blog focused on competitive eating, has been forced to evacuate Louisiana and is currently living in Memphis, TN. He is currently posting to http://neworleans.metblogs.com/ I hope he did not lose anyone close to him or his residence and can get back to something resembling normal life as quickly as possible.

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Despite the setback at the Buffalo Wing Festival, Sonya Thomas has generally bested her previous year totals by 15%-25% in the summer of 2005

The other three results indicate that the 2005 Buffalo wing result is most likely an anomaly. (Brian Seiken claims that the wings were difficult to eat). Another year of gains at her current rate should put Sonya near Kobayashi’s level (assuming he does not improve) It will be interesting to see how the heated competition from Joey Chestnut affects Sonya’s improvement.

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Brian Seiken’s bits & pieces page mentions that Carlene LeFevre recently took several tests at a hospital. Let’s pray that the test results do not reveal any medical problems.

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Sonya Thomas broke her 2 event losing streak Monday at the Chattanooga Krystal burger qualifer, defeating Joey Chestnut in her fourth epic battle with the rookie in the past month. Her total of 57 hamburgers beat Joey Chestnut by one burger and bested her mark last year by 11 burgers. Surprisingly, Sonya does not mention the contest results on her website.

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The Atlanta Journal Constitution home page has a link to a video from the Waffle House contest with an interview with Joey Chestnut. (No direct link, if the video is no longer available on the main page try the video page.) Surprisingly, no text article containing contest results is available on the site (or if it is present I have not been able to find it.)

Thanks Larry McNeil for the link

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Askmen.com has an informative and generally positive introduction to competitive eating.

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Joey Chestnut wins the Waffle House contest in suburban Atlanta with 18.5 waffles beating Sonya Thomas by half a waffle. This is the first victory for Joey Chestnut over Sonya Thomas after several close defeats. Joey Chestnut gave half his $5,000 first place prize to hurricane Katrina relief. Patrick Bertoletti finished 3rd with 11 waffles. Sonya Thomas will have the chance to obtain one victory this extended holiday weekend when she competes in the Krystal burger qualifier in Chattanooga on Labor Day.

In other contests this weekend, Cookie Jarvis won the Buffalo Wing Festival “Buffet Bowl” contest and Rich LeFevre won the Colorado Grilled Cheese qualifier with 21 sandwiches. Ron Koch finished second with 19 sandwiches.

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In a shocking upset, Eric “Badlands” Booker won the Buffalo Wing contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival Saturday. His total of 137 wings beat Sonya Thomas’ total by ten wings. This is Sonya Thomas first loss to an eater besides Kobayashi since the Philadelphia Wing Bowl in early February, a period of about seven months. There is apparently no controversy about the Buffalo result which could not be claimed for the Wing Bowl. The upset is especially suprising given that Sonya almost ate twice as many lobsters as Booker in the Maine lobster contest in August. Sonya will have the chance to resume her non-Kobayashi winning streak when she competes in the Atlanta Waffle House contest on Sunday and the Chattanooga Krystal qualifier on Labor Day. Cookie Jarvis was 3rd and Bob Shoudt placed 4th.

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The Buffalo News promotes this weekend’s Wing Festival. No new information is provided about the eating contests.

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The University of Chattanooga student paper describes “eat-in” contests to be held over the weekend to select 10 Chattanooga residents to compete in Monday’s qualifier contest against Sonya Thomas and other top IFOCE eaters.

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