Masahiro Kato from Shiroishi, Iwate Prefecture won a wanko soba noodle contest in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture on Saturday by eating 241 small bowls, equivalent to 24 regular sized bowls. 120 competitors entered the contest, which undermines the claim that the Japanese competitive eating scene is moribund.

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Angelo Cataldi has a Wing Bowl 14 FAQ on his website. He assumed that eliminating previous competitors would ensure that the victor would be from the Delaware Valley and that the Wing Bowl movie is several years away from a premier. Cataldi is considering a format change for future Wing Bowls.

phillyfuture has a blog entry with an eyewitness account of Wing Bowl 14.

phillysportsline has a gallery of Wing Bowl 14 (free registration is required to see the pictures)

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Ryan of the losanjealous blog has a writeup of yesterday’s chili cheese fries contest at the Queen Mary. He was asked by George Shea to help judge the contest. Several pictures are available.

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The Vallejo Times Herald has a rare pro competitive eating (or at least pro competitive eater) editorial praising local boy Joey Chestnut.

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Please post any results or other information about the chili cheese fries contest in Long Beach in the comments for this entry.

Updated 7:35 pm – Official results from IFOCE.com and SonyaTheBlackWidow.com:

Updated 11:02 pm – almost complete results from Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough

A breakdown of the $10,000 prize money allocation would be appreciated.

Sonya mentions on her website that she is going to cut down on the number of events she enters. I hope her reduction in contest frequency is her own choice and not the result of other factors.

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Justin Mih established a claim to being at least an honorary member of “The New Kids on the Block” with two money-winning performances last October. The only competitors the UC-Irvine doctoral student lost to were Rich LeFevre and Jed Donahue. Mih is probably a better student than competitive eater, as he was selected as a Fulbright scholar to study space biology in Russia in 2003-04. With the IFOCE’s return to Southern California for the Queen Mary chili cheese fries contest, Mih will have a chance to validate his status as southern California’s second best eater behind Donahue if he competes in that event.

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about.com has a Wing Bowl 14 article and captioned photo gallery. I agree with the article’s claim that Rich’s blonde wingette should have definitely been one of the 10 finalists. The captions say that one of the 10 finalist wingettes, Lisa Marie, was 6’5 (she should maybe consider entering Wing Bowl 15)

zwire.com has profiles of Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick and Bill “Robocop” Sampolski.

A Sports Illustrated blog has a fake quote from Joey Chestnut which a reader might not notice is bogus if s/he is not paying close attention.

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Syracuse.com has an introduction to IFOCE along with its eaters and records. IFOCE expects to sanction 93 or 94 events in 2006 (almost 2 per week) and an increase of about 20 from 2005.

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(This is for the commenter who complained that I was not writing enough about female celebrities last fall 😉 )

(from cluckbucket.com) The Sofia News agency reports that Bulgarian TV personality and ex-gymnast Nelly Atanassova won a charity chicken wings eating contest.

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The News of Delaware County has a profile of two competitors from that region, Eric “MacWing” Livingston and Scott “Boss Hog” Zimmerman.

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The Queen Mary website has a page about Saturday’s chili cheese fries contest. The list of expected entrants includes the top two finishers in last Friday’s Wing Bowl 14, Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre, along with Southern California’s top eater, Jed Donahue. Sonya Thomas is not listed as one of the expected competitors. Garret Morris, a member of the original Saturday Night Live cast, will compete in a celebrity sausage eating contest.

Updated 2/9 9:48 am The LA Times has a brief preview of the contest

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Wing Tut is undeterred by his disqualification from Wing Bowl 14 and looks to continue in competitive eating. He is seeking the Guinness jalapeno record which is claimed to be 8 in one minute. It is difficult to see how this could be listed as a record when Jed Donahue has consumed 152 jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, an average of over 10 a minute for a quarter of an hour.

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“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has the fourth episode of his TV series available. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein is the main phone interview. The Shredder describes his frustrations with qualifying for Nathan’s in 2005. There is also a shorter phone interview with Cookie Jarvis. Footage from the grilled cheese contest at Planet Hollywood is aired in which Charles Hardy, Crazy Legs Conti, Sonya Thomas and others appear.

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Wing Bowl 14 clips are available at ripe.tv A show about Wing Bowl 14 will be aired at 11 pm on Saturday on UPN 57 in the Philadelphia TV market. The WIP website has podcasts of the audio broadcast along with some pictures.

The new poll question asks who should play Sonya Thomas (or a Sonya Thomas based character) if that role exists in the upcoming Wing Bowl movie.

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Wing Bowl 14 contestant Wing Tut has an account of his participation in that event in his blog. He believes that he did not receive credit for 21 wings that he ate. More on Wing Tut can be found here.

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Angelo Cataldi has a long commentary about Wing Bowl 14 on his website. The most interesting point in his writeup is that the next Wing Bowl will lose its “virginity”:

There was no close finish in WB14, unlike the last two overtime events. Next year, when the other previous contestants rejoin the field, this should not be a problem.

Other notable points include:

• The FCC would not allow WIP to restrict the field to Delaware Valley residents.
• The Wachovia Center would not let Wing Bowl 14 occur there if tickets were not required
• Crowd scenes for the Wing Bowl movie were filmed at the contest
• Cataldi is disappointed in the performance of the most hyped locals like Robocop

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Philly.com describes how Joey Chestnut met his girlfriend.

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The three names above are consecutive entries in Wikipedia’s list of famous Korean Americans. Ward’s Korean background is described in this article from Yahoo sports. Golf phenom Michelle Wie’s stated goal is to beat all the men, but she has yet to back up her words with actions to the extent Sonya has.

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610 WIP is sending a cease and desist letter claiming trademark infringement to the Columbus radio station sponsoring a Wing Bowl. They could rename their event the Wing HorseShoe after the Ohio State stadium. No legal action is apparently being taken against the Salt Lake City Wing Bowl.

An excerpt about Wing Bowl 13 mentioning documentarian Jennifer Drumgoole from Jere Longman’s book about the 2004-5 Eagles is available at foxsports.com

angelocataldi.com has a photogallery of Wing Bowl 14.

Some pictures from that gallery include:

You can’t spell Team Chestnut without chest
The White Widow
Joey’s Wingette at work
Black Death
The Special Canadians
Dave the Dumpster
Wing Tut
Norseboy
Black Death #2
Burger King? 😉

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Pat Bertoletti has found photo galleries for two contests:

Jan 14 Hot Springs Corned Beef: http://www.freshsquid.com/BeefWeb/

November Krystal Square Off contest: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0511/gallery.competitve.eaters/content.1.1.html

Ken Wong notes that a five minute IFOCE video is available from Google video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=competitive+eating&so=0

(The Cookie Jarvis basketball & 2005 grilled cheese finals video can also be accessed with this link)

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sfgate.com has a profile of Joey Chestnut and an interview with his mother.

The Vallejo Times Herald has an article about local boy Joey Chestnut.

The Philadelphia Daily News has a contest writeup.

The Delaware County Times has a contest writeup focusing on the contestants from Delaware County.

The Daily Local has a profile of Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick

The Courier Post has an article focusing on the entrants from South Jersey. 10 competitors were from South New Jersey, 5 more than Philadelphia

The Courier Post also has an anti Wing Bowl commentary.

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Here are all the results I am aware of. Any additional results would be appreciated

1. Joey Chestnut 173 wings
2. Rich LeFevre 156 wings
3. Dr. WingLove 114 wings
4. ?
5. ?
6. MacWing 105 wings
7.-25. ?

If you picked 41+ wings as the gap between Chestnut/LeFevre and the rest of the field in the recent poll, you were correct.

Dr. WingLove threw up in his corn eating stunt and needed to win the WingOff to make the Wing Bowl, where he was the highest finishing local.

It is nice to see Rich LeFevre was a crowd favorite. Philly fans have not always been as kind to sub 150 pounders from out of town.

The LA times has a good article on the Wing Bowl.

philly.com has a Wing Bowl article with more information about the planned Wing Bowl movie.

The Courier Post has an article focusing on South Jersey entrants.

Yahoo has a photo gallery.

Philadelphia Weekly has an article with several pictures (adult content)

SFist has a blog entry

MacWing has sent me three pictures he took as a contestant.

Rich LeFevre meditating

MacWing and Dr. WingLove

MacWing and Joey Chestnut

Two other Wing Bowls will be held this week. (I am surprised that the term Wing Bowl is not trademarked.)

Gentleman Joe Menchetti won the Columbus Wing Bowl. Menchetti has lost 60 pounds in the past year.

A Salt Lake City Wing Bowl will be held tomorrow. The “Wingettes” for that event will probably be less scantily clad than the Philly Wingettes.

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Liz and Krista have posted their article and photo gallery of Wednesday’s Grilled Cheese Bowl. A few interesting facts from their article:

• Sonya was interviewed by 20/20 at the contest. I do not think she will appear on tonight’s episode
• Cookie Jarvis will not appear on the “The Biggest Loser”
• Eaters were required to use Planet Hollywood’s cups, clearing up the mystery about Humble Bob’s banned cups
• Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on MTV’s True Life which will air February 22
• Sonya considers Ron Koch one of her top four rivals

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Joey Chestnut (not Chestnutt) has set a Wing Bowl record with 173 wings beating Sonya’s record from Wing Bowl 12 by two wings. Rich LeFevre was second. LeFevre was apparently a crowd favorite. The arena was apparently only half full despite the sellout.

Updated 12:02 pm
nbc10 has a video and slideshow
kyw has a slideshow
philly.com has a video of the first half of the contest (real player required)
humblebob.com has some pictures on his main page

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Philly.com’s Early World blog, written by Peter Mucha, is posting from the Wing Bowl this morning. El Wingador has just been inducted into the Wing Bowl Hall of Fame.

Updated 9:04 am: The liveblogger is not bothering to blog the actual contest. He has listed the second round advancers. Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre are leading.

9:20 Comments on the blog have
1. Joey Chestnut 173
2. Rich LeFevre 156
3. Dr. WingLove 114

Note to philly.com: “liveblogging” does not mean write the article then get around to blogging when and if you can find time for it.

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