Tomoko Miyake has revamped her website and changed its URL from miyaketomoko.com to tomokomiyake.net The website has a flash introduction, but still can be accessed via HTML links, enabling translation with the Google translator. A cartoon Tomoko wearing various national costumes appears on the new site’s pages, which is appropriate for a website making its debut near Halloween.

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Kobayashi has a post about Krystal Square Off IV, which contains some pictures with Pat Bertoletti and Rich LeFevre from a training session at a Krystal franchise last year.

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Liz K has posted a video of “Humble” Bob Shoudt giving Juliet Lee a wing eating lessson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oL1v1J8T0M

update Juliet Lee has posted a Krystals finals trip report in her WriteNow page.

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Some captures from the Krystal Square Off IV broadcast:

Contest Introduction Eaters Introduction Contest

Paul Barlow also has some contest pictures on his website

update ChuckyPurdue has a flickr gallery of over 100 pictures from the Krystal Square Off finals.

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Footage from the side of the stage
Lower quality crowd video from in front of stage
Video from press release, includes non-contest segments

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“Joey Chestnut” is currently (3:50 pm eastern) the #8 search term on the front page of yahoo.com

A screen capture is available after the jump
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The new poll asks how you rank the top 5 IFOCE members from the United States.

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Brandeis University hot dog winner defends competitive eating
“Human Regurgitator” invited to Boston College
Albany, GA pizza contest Nov 2, $250 first prize
challenger eats 13 different types of hot dogs in Tacoma, WA
Northeast Florida Fair pizza & hot dog contest results
Japanese article about Joey’s Krystal victory
Article about the Tower Bar’s (San Diego) weekly eating contests

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According to this 2003 article in the Washington Times, Stacey Dales might be the ESPN sideline reporter with the best background for next year’s Nathan’s finals broadcast:

Dales-Schuman is at home behind both a microphone - she cut her promos flawlessly - and a dinner plate. Tough, double-session practices have burned off the calories and she works out on her own, but she still is one of those high-metabolism types who can live on the buffet line and stay maddeningly thin. Some mayonnaise with that? Absolutely. She proceeded to liberally apply the stuff, with apparent glee, from a squeeze bottle. “I’m a hog,” she said while chomping on a giant turkey hoagie.

“She eats like a madwoman,” said Indiana Fever coach Nell Fortner, who worked with Dales-Schuman in the studio during ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is one of many who marvels at her appetite. “It’s hilarious. There was food all over the desk. Then with 20 seconds to go before we went on, it’s, like, clear the desk. I tell her she eats like a cow. She grazes all day long.”

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BeautifulBrian.com was mentioned in a thread about televised competitive eating on a Japanese language message board: (automatically translated / original in Japanese)

921: 名無SHI good! @ Broadcast live during the board: 2007/10/29 (Mon) 09:12:11 ID: Y0p8EXo +0
Krystal Square Off IV finals of Animation
http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/krystal.html

Joey 103 units / 8 minutes in the championship? And Takeru Kobayashi’s record (97) is one disappeared?
Water-saturated it is not as it is a cormorant, eating a lot of territory.
Especially glasses spilling his food is terrible.

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The list of future events on IFOCE.com is now empty. I think this is the first time that there have been no upcoming contests listed since this blog was started.

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PRNewsWire.com has videos and some pictures of Saturday’s ramen noodle eating contest.

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Full results from the “Wedges & Wings” contest are available after the jump:
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A transcipt of the introduction of the competitors from the Krystal broadcast follows after the jump:
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Krystal Square Off IV finals updated with official results

1. Joey Chestnut 103
2. Bob Shoudt 95
3. Pat Bertoletti 94
4. Tim Janus 74
5. Sonya Thomas 58
6. Rich LeFevre 53
7. Hall Hunt 52
8. Chip Simpson 49
9. Erik Denmark 45
10. Crazy Legs Conti 45
11. Juliet Lee 44
12. Tim Brown 38
13. Allen Goldstein 34

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beautifulbrian.com has a video of the contest

The Times Free Press has an article.

A video posted by skinnyboy is available on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS1-2Kxkeco

The Gaston Gazette has a plea for picnic style rules

update
Blog entry by a competitor in the amateur 2 person contest.

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A video of Crazy Legs Conti practicing his Krystal technique at IFOCE headquarters overseen by Tim Janus can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yisNKMIr_As

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BeautifulBrian.com has a page on the dispute with Cookie Jarvis. I will link to a response from Cookie Jarvis if he wants to provide one.

BeautifulBrian.com also has the second music history podcast. The subject is soundalike songs.

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No reruns are scheduled on ESPN or ESPN2 for the Krystal Square Off finals in the next two weeks, so watch it or record it tomorrow at 2:30 pm eastern on ESPN if you are interested in seeing it.

A live bowling match precedes the Krystal finals, hopefully it will not run over.

With a 30 minute contest length, it does not appear there will be enough time for much more than introductions, the contest and a post-contest interview. From the schedule

2 p.m. - 2:40p.m. - Introduction of eaters by George Shea, Chairman of the IFOCE.
* 2:40 - 2:48 p.m. - 8 minute Krystal Square Off World Championship Final.
* 2:55 pm - Award Presentations

Liz will be counting for Pat Bertoletti, so she should appear on television.

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AICE news reports that the Clinton Station Diner intends to create a burger larger than 123 pounds to break the world record and that a team of 25 eaters is being assembled to attempt to consume it.

DennysBeerBarrelPub.com reports that Team Hawg won a 15 pound burger eating contest that was held on October 20 involving four teams of 10 people. The time and amount eaten was not listed.

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From IFOCE.com

Naruto Clash of the Ninja Ramen Noodle Eating Championship, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 10 minutes

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 10.5 lb.
2. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, 7.2 lb.
3. Arturo Rios, 6.64 lb.
4. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 6.46
5. Crazy Legs Conti 6.16
6. Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston 5.74
7. Pete Davekos 4.95
Justin Mih: DQ, reportedly led through much of contest

PR Newswire will have videos

update, added full results from Steakbellie

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Krystal Lover has a picture from today’s press conference at the Krystal Square Off finals site which Joey Chestnut & Pat Bertoletti both attended.

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RealityTVWorld has a recap of last night’s immunity challenge in “Survivor: China” which consisted of eating contests involving Chinese foods which are generally not found in a typical Chinese restaurant in the United States:

Frosti quickly ate his 10 chicken hearts ahead of Peih-Gee, and Fei Long took a 1-0 lead. Courtney and Jaime were close as they both tried to choke down three pieces of eel — which included the heads — however Jaime was just a hair quicker opening her mouth and allowing Zhan Hu to tie the score.

Erik also won a close round against Amanda — chomping and swallowing three baby turtles and narrowly being the first to reveal an empty mouth — giving Zhan Hu a 2-1 lead. James faced Denise next and both had to eat two chicken fetuses with feathers. James tried his damndest to throw the challenge, but Denise couldn’t choke back the chicken. James put on a good show, but once he realized Denise wasn’t going to finish her dish, he solemnly ate all that was on his plate and gave Zhan Hu a 3-1 lead.

Needing only one point to win Immunity, Erik ate a 1,000-year-old egg faster than Frosti and clinched it for Zhan Hu.

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Epicurious has a preview of tomorrow’s ramen noodle contest which states that 9 eaters will compete in that event. Joey Chestnut is the only entrant listed who was not in the original press release, leaving 3 other unnamed eaters. A picture of Kevin Carr at the 2004 noodle contest appears in the preview.

updateNYMag.com also has a preview:

This masticating Felix and Oscar have been competing against each other frequently, with the younger, leaner, but less eloquent Janus trumping Conti every time. (The elder statesmen of the New York competitive-eating scene, such preening behemoths as Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Eric “Badlands” Booker, and “Hungry Charles” Hardy, are now retired from the game.) World champion Joey Chestnut, the man who returned the Nathan’s Mustard Yellow Belt to America, will likely win the contest, but he doesn’t count. He’s from California.

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Takeru Kobayashi has a page on AllAmericanSpeakers.com. The page does not appear to have been updated since 2004 and does not list his fee.

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BodogLife is taking bets on the Krystal finals and has a page listing the odds it also has a detailed schedule of the the finals.

Liz has a guest post on the Krystal-Lover blog

TideSports.com has a video (in the “In The Trenches” section) from the Tuscaloosa qualifier containing an interview with Joey Chestnut and other competitors (from Paul Barlow)

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