IFOCE.com announces that an 8 minute jalapeno pepper eating contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 8. Will Don “Moses” Lerman come out of retirement to compete in his speciality?

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The Salt Lake City weekly has a report from the goldenpalace.net Italian Sausage contest held at the Utah State Fair. The author competed in the event and finished last.

Much to my surprise, an IFOCE-sponsored eating competition is exciting. I’ll probably never again be introduced to the heavy beat of Eminem’s 8 Mile theme. The music swelled louder and louder until finally LeFevre, Bertoletti and Chestnut took their places center stage. On the way past, Bertoletti touched fists and wished me “good luck.” I’d need it.

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Hall “Hoover” Hunt has some pictures from the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier in his flickr gallery.

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Krystalsquareoff.com announces that Tim “Eater X” Janus and Chip “Burger” Simpson are expected at the Atlanta qualifier. This will be the first matchup of top 10 ranked eaters in a qualifier. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow are among the expected entrants representing Georgia. The contest could see the return of the mystery eater who reportedly gave Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas everything they could handle at the waffle eating contest before DQing.

Updated 3:07 pm – The preliminaries will be held throughout the Atlanta area and will start tomorrow at the Georgia Tech football stadium:

September 21 Georgia Tech Football 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM
September 22 Southlake Mall 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
September 23 Cumberland Mall 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
September 24 Local Finals–Lenox Square 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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I have added a list of the Krystal qualifiers and wild card leaders in the sidebar.

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Memphis Eyewitness News has a preview of the Krystal qualifier to be held October 1. No expected entrants are listed in the article.

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krystal-lovers has a post responding to the criticism of the webcam The main issue appears to be that the wireless internet provider they are using does not have sufficient upload speed.

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Steakbellie has decided to compete in the Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He currently has three blog entries describing his preparation: Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3.

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(Thanks Liz & Anita) The Greeley (CO) Tribune has a report about Saturday’s jalapeno eating contest. The winner, Jerry Esparza, ate 58 peppers in 10 minutes and had to skip the awards ceremony because he was tending to more pressing affairs.

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(Thanks Brian Seiken) Slashfood has a post with currently 100 comments about the death in the “Chubby Bunny” marshmallow stuffing contest in Canada last week.

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The Fenway park area will not enjoy a baseball championship in the autumn of 2006, but it will host an eating champion. IFOCE.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston this Saturday. (The festival has already sold out) Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs whose total will be combined. The contest is apparently closed to all other competitors.

Kobayashi has an entry about the lobster roll contest in his blog which mentions Rona Conti.

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From IFOCE.com & Chip Simpson

Harrah’s Pulled Pork Eating Championship Council Bluffs, IA

1. Joey Chestnut, 9.6 lb. (new record – previous 7.1)
2. Chip Simpson, 7.4 lb.
3. Rich LeFevre 6 lb.
4. Jim Hamrick, 4 lb.

Updated 4:06 pm – The IFOCE page says that Rich LeFevre was not present to defend his title and Jim Hamrick finished 3rd, but Chip Simpson disputes that and says LeFevre was present.

6:28 from Domenico Alesi – Brent “Zero” Curtis – who competed in the contest, has a picture of the competitors on his blog which obviously shows Rich was present

Updated 9/18 10:19 am Brent “Zero” Curtis has a blog entry about the contest

4:04 pm nonpareilonline.com has an article with mentions of “Chris Simpson” and “Marie” LeFevre.

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(From newsok.com & IFOCE.com)

1. Sonya Thomas, 9.75 lb.
2. Pat Bertoletti, 9.5 lb.
3. Erik “the Red” Denmark, 5 lb.
4. Miles Karpe 4.5 lb.
5. Jason McCormack 2 lb.

Tim Janus & Larry McNeil missed the contest due to bad East Coast weather

Updated 9/17 5:03 pm newsok.com has an article & gallery of the contest. The article links to beautifulbrian.com for the video of Pat Bertoletti’s ice cream record. The okra was in bite sized chunks, which probably plays to Sonya’s strengths since a lot of chewing was not required.

Updated 9/18 9:05 am Lahunta has some pictures, a video and a contest report in her myspace blog

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from krystalsquareoff.com

1. Pat Bertoletti 48
2. Arturo Rios 35
3. Juris Shibayama 34
4. Larry McNeil 28

Updated 9/18 1:02 pm – full results are available

The liveblog of the webcast is available after the jump
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krystalsquareoff.com has the list of expected competitors in today’s qualifier in Knoxville. The webcast should start around 6pm eastern.

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The Hartford Courant has a long profile of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti. Menchetti dreams of becoming an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas and claims a bench press of 405 lb.

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From AICE news:

1. Tom ‘the Goose’ Gilbert 5.6 pounds
2. Ian Hickman 4.0 lb
2. Mark Lyle 4.0 lb
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 3.75 lb (.5 lb chipmunking penalty)
5. Christian Musk Ox McCarthy. 3.5 pounds

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Users can now add or modify results in the database. Click on the “Add Results” or “Edit Results” button on a contest’s page to add or modify results. Changes must be approved before they show up in the main database. I want to add the capability for users to add new contests and for registered users changes to not require approval in the near future.

If official contest records do not exist, I will generally record whatever an eater claims. Any controversy about a result will be listed in the results comment field.

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(Thanks Rhonda Evans) Philly.com has a list of highlights from the first ten years of the Wachovia Center. Sonya’s victory in Wing Bowl 12 appears under “Nonsports highlights”

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(From anonymous comment) – A video of Joey Chestnut drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds in the WIP studios to qualifiy for Wing Bowl 14 is available on youtube.

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(from http://krystal-lover.blogspot.com/) A clip of “Humble” Bob Shoudt attempting to break the two minute Krystal record last week has been uploaded to youtube. Hopefully the full qualifiers can be posted in the future.

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The new poll asks what you think the minimum number of burgers will be needed to win a Krystal Square Off wild card slot. The current cutoff is 33 burgers after three qualifiers and five remaining.

This concludes the “Trenchie Award” series of polls. The results of those votes can be seen at http://eatfeats.com/wp-polls.php Thank you for voting.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has tracked down an article about the kolache eating contest at the Nebraska State Fair. Skinnyboy has some pictures from the newspaper article that are not in the online version on his blog.

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Brian Seiken has grades for seven young eaters’ personalities on his website. The grades were determined by an email poll and Seiken’s own observations.

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From IFOCE.com & Rhonda

1. Tim Janus: 26 (ties Jarvis’ record last year)
2. Crazy Legs Conti: 22
3. Justin Mih: 18

Updated 9/16 9:00 AM MosesNews.com has galleries of:

The contest and
Cookie Jarvis’ lifetime achievement award. There is a new Major League Eating T shirt out.

(fixed 1:14 pm – Thanks Don “Moses” Lerman)

1:45 pm – NY1 has an article and video of the contest. Tim Janus says he has a sports psychologist.

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