Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin will compete in an egg nog drinking contest on the Opie & Anthony show Friday (XM 202). Pat will also compete in the Atlantic City meatball contest on Saturday.

updated A Wackbag thread reports Pat won. His total and opponents are not listed.

updated #2 A rather gross post-contest video is available on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNaQm559Mw Watch at your own risk. forum thread with pictures

updated #3 A video capture of Pat’s reversal is after the jump if you are sure you want to see it

updated #4 The video has been removed from youtube due to terms of use violations. It can be seen at http://www.collegeslackers.com/video/592
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The Wing Bowl page at philly.com has been updated with information about Wing Bowl 15. The page will have videos of qualifying stunts. The initial stunt performer will be Humble Joe?? on Monday.

The b.good website has a picture and brief article about Gretchen Salyer, who won the Garlicky Greens championship two weeks ago. If Ms. Salyer is a female impersonator, s/he is doing a much better job than “Helen Haggerty”

updated boston.com has a paragraph about Gretchen’s victory, which states she ate 2.9 lbs. in five minutes. The Harvard article says she ate 2.73 lbs.

Wouldyouhitthis.com is taking bets (with virtual money) on the number of pounds eaten by the meatball contest winner. Betting closes tonight. The most bets are on 11 - 13 pounds.

Dec 1, MegaMunch 20 taco challenge, Harrisburg, PA, $5 (and cost of 20 tacos) entrance fee
Dec 2 Pizza eating contest, Home Slice Pizza, Austin TX, 30 minutes, prize is pizza for a year
Dec 8 Hard Boiled Egg Eating contest, The Locker, Marietta, OH, 1st prize is $100

Steakbellie’s qualifiying stunt attempt has been accepted by WIP. The parameters are:

2 Foot Wawa Hoagie
Half Gallon Lemonade
Small bag of chips

5 minutes 30 seconds

The stunt will be atttempted at 8:30 am on December 6

All residents of southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey are not eligible to attempt a Wing Bowl qualifying stunt or enter a Wing Off qualifier. The Wing Bowl rules have the following restriction:

The contest is open to all WIP listeners who are 21 years of age or older who reside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area - Philadelphia Metropolitan area as defined by Arbitron is the following counties: Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, counties in Pennsylvania; Camden, Gloucester, Mercer counties in New Jersey (the five contestants who are entered through the IFOCE’s automatic bids are exempted from the residence requirement).

A map of the region is available. (The map includes Burlington County, NJ, the largest in the map in New Jersey, which is not part of the Wing Bowl area.) This restricts residents of Allentown, Lancaster, Atlantic City and north Delaware from entering and shuts out Garden Staters Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin and Arturo Rios. Residents of Princeton / Trenton, NJ can enter (Mercer County) but the most famous eater from that area would be prohibited by the 21 age minimum in the minimal chance she wanted to enter.

The Chock full o’Nuts (Coffee) World Date Nut Bread Eating Championship, to be held December 20 in New York City, has been added to the IFOCE schedule. The purse is $5000.

Asbury Park Press has a brief preview of Saturday’s meatball contest in Atlantic City. Bob Shoudt, Chip Simpson, Tim Janus along with defending champion Sonya Thomas are listed as expected entrants. The most interesting part concerns who will MC the event:

The contest will be hosted by the “Jersey Guys” Craig Carton and Ray Rossi of NJ101.5, and they will be qualifying one winner through their radio show which airs Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Carton & Rossi have some previous competitive eating experience. They interviewed Kate Stelnick during her post-Denny’s media blitz.

from Wookey Hole Caves Big Eat web page

Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 46 mince pies £1000
Shane Bridle - Sign Maker, Somerset 15 £500
Gary Harrison - Chef, Wells 13 £250
Simon Davies - Wells Town Mayor 10
Roberto Mendez - Brazil 10
Terry Harrison - Chef, Wells 9
Nick Francis - The Sun, London 9
“Fat Kenny” - Circus Director, Devon 8
Paris Troy - GWR Radio, Bristol 7.5
Jayne Fryer - The Daily Mail, London 7
Andy Bush - DJ, Bristol 7
Mattie Andrew - Chef, Wellls 6
A D Tree Pirate - Pirate, Somerset 6
Ellie West - Wildlife Worker, Somerset 5
Lisa Knights - South West Tonight 1

The IFOCE.com results apparently get 3rd place wrong

updated metro.co.uk has a picture and brief article

updated #2
Independent article
Daily Mail article

updated #3
BBC article

Slashfood has a post on the two main formats for eating contests, fixed duration and fixed amount, focusing on the decision of the “World” Pie Eating contest to change from a three minute duration to awarding victory to the eater who can eat a single pie in the shortest amount of time.

The Krystal Square Off was not Kobayashi’s last contest of 2006. He will do a contest in Taiwan on Sunday.

Brian Seiken makes allegations against Dale Boone in a recent page on his website:

The Inqlings and Dan Gross column on philly.com have sections about Wing Bowl 15. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Rich LeFevre are listed as three of the five out of towners. Former 76ers owner Pat Croce is rumored to be the next Wing Bowl commisioner. The current projected opening date for El Wingador’s restaurant is sometime in mid-December and it will have a grand opening the day of Wing Bowl 15.

truefan reports that Liz’s & Krista’s eater magnets sold for $51 on ebay.

Steakbellie first person report

AP video

Chicagoist blog entry (has picture of Bertoletti w/ Boone doll)

Qualifying contests for Wing Bowl 15 have been announced. Unlike qualifiers for last year’s contest, participants do not need to be college students.

Thursday December 7, 2006
Landmark Americana Tap + Grille
1 East West Street Glassboro, NJ 08028
REGISTRATION TIME: 8:30-9:30
CONTEST STARTS: 10:00 pm

Thursday January 18, 2007
Trappe Tavern
416 Main Street - Trappe, PA 19462
REGISTRATION: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
CONTEST STARTS: 9:30 pm

“The Glen Macnow Eating Competition.” Competitors must be present at the Slack’s Hoagie Shack between the hours of 10am and 3pm on Saturday January 20, 2006 to compete in a 20 minute Buffalo Chicken Hoagie eating competition. Entrants must call into the Glen Macnow show to register

The new poll asks the amount of Wing Bowl 15 posts you would like this website to provide. At least one commenter feels that the Wing Bowl is too fraudulent to merit coverage. (Results will not be binding)

Channel 4 has a video clip of an on site interview Sonya Thomas did to promote Wednesday’s mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole Caves.

610wip.com has been updated with Wing Bowl 15 information. The only apparent difference between Wing Bowl 15 and 14 is that veterans are allowed back in and the Philadelphia area winner will also receive a car regardless of his/her overall finish. The contest rules say that the duration remains 30 minutes and AICE eaters are still explicitly banned. 5 IFOCE eaters gain entrance automatically to the contest.

(from R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone has started blogging on her home page

Brian Seiken has a full video of Wednesday’s turkey contest at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/page8.html and a 10 minute clip on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQJN72Wf5f4

Beautiful Brian has also posted a clip of Don “Moses” Lerman breaking the bologna eating record on Feats of Strength at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/mas44.html

Comments have been turned back on. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.

from timesonline.co.uk:

With the news that the Wigan-based World Pie Eating Championship has changed its rules to join the fight against obesity — and introduced a vegetarian option — sport in the town needed to regain its credibility, and were it not for a nightmarish 90 seconds shortly before half-time, this might have been Wigan Athletic’s fifth win in six matches.

The logo for Wing Bowl 15 appears at the top of 610wip.com The only information offered is that there will be eating & wingettes; other details will be provided tomorrow morning.