New Poll: 2008 IFOCE rookie of the year
The new poll asks who you think is the leading candidate to be named the IFOCE rookie of the year at the 2008 Nathan’s finals. I am defining rookie as someone who emerged in 2007.
Archive for February, 2008
Beautiful Brian’s CD over half done
Beautiful Brian announces that he has completed 6 out of a planned 11 tracks for his upcoming CD, “Stick to Blogging”, and has moved up the release date to early March. One finished track is titled “Moses is Great”, which appears to go against the critical tone of the majority of the lyrics. Brian is considering closing the CD with a “We Are the World” type of song.
Megamunch & Humble Bob WB 16 reports
Megamunch has written a blog entry about Wing Bowl 16 and his attempts at pre-contest tailgating. He was forced to migrate between 4 different parking lots before entering the Wachovia Center to be a part of “Big” Brian Subich’s entourage. Megamunch has a captioned gallery of his trip.
“Humble” Bob Shoudt has also posted his report about his participation in Wing Bowl 16. Like other eaters, he has questions about the counting and ranking of his first round results:
At the end of the 14 minutes, I had eaten 108 wings. I was nervous that would not be enough as these wings were much faster then the cold rocks I had last year.
We waited for a while and then a guy came around and told us if we were in the 2nd round or not. I was told no, so I picked up my stuff. My judge came by and asked where I was sitting for the 2nd round. I said I wasn’t, I didn’t make it. He said “Those guys must have eaten a _ _ _ _ load of wings (refering to the other eaters). I asked him how he scored me. He said 17 and 18s on each plate (5 full plates). I was satisfied that I did not make it as that put me at 17+17+17+17+18 – worst case = 86 plus 6 on the last plate = 92 total. I assumed 92 would not be enough. When they announced that 70 was the 10th place total, I thought they they had just made a mistake. Nope. Next year…
Joey looking for San Jose matzoh balls
The Vallejo Times Herald reports that Joey Chestnut has not started practicing for his next contest:
“I’ve never had a matzoh ball,” Joey said Friday. “There’s not much of a Jewish community in Vallejo. I’m looking for a place in San Jose that sells ’em.”
Joey has sold the Toyota Tundra he won at the Wing Bowl and is undecided if he will keep the motorcycle he won for winning the first half.
Link Buffet: February 11, 2008
Rich “Big Rig” Brooking attempts 32 inch pizza challenge in Charlotte
“Super Burger” constructed after reading about “Super Burger” kit on eatfeats via the New York Times Freakonomics blog.
Contest report and tips from Krispy Kreme Challenge participant
Juliet Lee updates her WriteNow page
Jill Stoler is down
Article about Jillian McCleaf, winner of top Wingette (no pictures)
Tomoko Miyake endorses convenience store meals
Tomoko Miyake is endorsing three meals sold by SaveOn, a convenience store chain. Convenience stores are called “konbini” in Japan.
BeautifulBrian on new rankings and Philly Guy
Beautiful Brian has posted his commentary for February which deals with who he thinks should rise and fall in the next installment of the IFOCE rankings. He also has some thoughts about his dispute with Pete “Philly Guy” Miernicki.
Pat Bertoletti’s Wing Bowl 16 report
Pat Bertoletti has a myspace blog entry about his trip to Philadelphia to compete in Wing Bowl 16. He arrived in Philadelphia the morning of the contest at 3:15 am.
Micheal Springer interview in PC newspaper
The website for the newspaper of Providence College has an interview with Michael Springer. Springer was prohibited from competing in the finals for the “Eat The Meat” wing contest after winning a qualifier, but that ban was not mentioned in the interview.
In other news about big eating Friars, this Rhode Island Monthly article about former Providence basketball player, and current ESPN announcer, Doris Burke, reports she is the second biggest eater in women’s basketball:
She’s hungry, and as she parks in the darkness of a casino garage she hopes she isn’t too late for the crew lunch. She works out ninety minutes most days at a gym near her house, and she is as slender as she was twenty years ago when she played at PC. You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she can out-eat any woman on the basketball circuit but one, and she’s half Burke’s age.
Link Buffet: February 9, 2008
Juris Shibayama answers 10 questions on IFOCE.com
U of Penn student newspaper report about the Wing Bowl
Cornell Sun report from Wing Bowl 16
philadelphia.about.com Wing Bowl 16 gallery, has pictures of Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark, Wing Kong, Humble Bob, Wing Tut, US Male, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and others
Gallery of Hamtrack, MI paczki eating contest
Takuya Yamamoto thinks the root beer he drank in the USA is Coke with a “drug-ish kind of taste”
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell eats a 1 pound burger and then a half pound ostrich burger
Collegiate eating championships April 19 in San Diego?
Furious Pete / Dedicatedforlif of youtube eating challenges fame announces in a forum thread on bodybuilding.com that he is being sponsored for the North American Collegiate Eating Championship in San Diego, California. That contest will take place on April 19. He says he was contacted by IFOCE last month, so this might be an IFOCE contest.
Groundhog Day trip to Denny’s
Philip Maramba of the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail went to Punxsutawney, PA on Saturday for the Groundhog Day festivities and then drove an hour to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub to attempt the two pound burger challenge.
Man eats only chicken wings in January
Fred Barnet had an unusual diet last month:
Hi, my name is Fred Barnet and I love Chicken Wings. I love them so much that for the entire month of January 2007, I will be eating nothing but Chicken Wings (and carrots and celery). Track my daily progress on the website and the blog, and PLEASE tell your firends so this groundbreaking project can have the support it deserves!
The project was documented at http://chickenwingproject.blogspot.com/ (January archive) and a myspace page. Mr. Barnet appeared on Atlanta’s local Fox news to promote his endeavor. 587 wings were consumed in total last month.
Houston Chronicle matzo ball preview
The Houston Chronicle has a preview of the matzo ball eating contest that will be held March 2 at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. The restaurant’s web site also has a page about the contest.
Major League Eating video game announced
A press release announces that Mastiff Games has acquired the rights to make a video game based on Major League Eating.
Major League Eating: The Game features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across twelve different food types. Built much like a fighting game, MLE: The Game requires players to show brilliant on-screen eating; a mastery of offensive and defensive weapons including burps, belches, and mustard gas; and of course the technical mastery necessary to avoid emptying one’s stomach in a vividly colored reversal of fortune.
ifoce.com has no additional information except for a link in the sidebar to the Mastiff home page. The platforms and expected release date for the game were not announced.
It will be interesting to see how much eaters receive, if any, for use of their electronic likenesses.
update This AFP article reports that Mastiff hopes to release the game in time for the July 4 Nathan’s finals.
Kotaku has a blog entry with 77 comments currently
Japanese article about the game
update #2 ripten has an interview with game developer Bill Swartz He says that eaters will have signature moves (Will the “Baby Bird” be one of them? 😉 ) and evades the question of whether game characters will be based on real world eaters.
update #3 The San Jose Mercury reports that Joey Chestnut will appear in the game.
update #4 SoupyTrumpet produced a demo of the game box (see above)
New Poll: Wing Bowl judging
The new poll asks how you would describe the judging of the Wing Bowl.
Joe Menchetti wins $5000 in Canadian wing contest
AICE news reports that Joe Menchetti won $5000 at a wing eating contest in at the Wing Shack in Whitby Ontario sponsored by the Rock FM
The contest entry form, which had the country field fixed at “Canada”, implied that only Canadian citizens could compete in that event.
Joe mentions his victory in the wing contest in this news video about the paczki contest.
“Ham & Eggs” draws 863k viewers
The New York Post’s television column lists the ratings for last Sunday’s contest on Spike TV:
* Spike’s “Ham N’ Egg” gorgefest snared 863,000 viewers during halftime of Sunday’s Super Bowl – a Spike record for a competi tive eating event. Winners: Eric Denmark (61 hard- boiled eggs), Joey Chestnut (7.14 lbs. of ham) and their cardiologists.
Beautiful Brian plans “diss” CD
Beautiful Brian announces an upcoming rock & roll CD titled “Stick to Blogging”. The lyrics will contain criticisms of people in the competitive eating community. Joey Chestnut is mentioned as a target. Brian says he might retire from competitive eating after the album’s release.
Lerman & Lipsitz in Mental Floss
The Mental Floss blog has a list of 6 restaurants and their eating challenges. A picture of Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz is used to illustrate Pinata’s Monster Burrito challenge. Joey Chestnut is also mentioned as a finisher of the Belly Buster Pizza. There are two challenges I was not previously aware of: a Seattle 12 egg omelet (which is not free if finished under a certain time) and a spicy ice cream challenge in North Carolina. The entry has 63 comments. There are also a lot of comments on digg.
Sweet corn registration opens at noon today
The Palm Beach sweet corn eating contest now appears on the IFOCE schedule for April 27 and registration for that contest will open at noon today.
Wing Tut in NY Post
(Via “Pleasure and Payne”) Derek “Wing Tut” Payne designed some anti New England Patriot T shirts. The New York Post mentioned that line of clothing:
Derek Payne, 28, of Pittsburgh, designed a line of “18-1” shirts that are being sold on zazzle.com.
On his shirts, the numeral 1 is replaced with a graphic of a hand flipping the bird.
“I’m a Steeler fan, so I’ll give the Pats the middle finger as much as anybody,” he said. “I was definitely cheering for the New York Giants as they knocked the Pats off their perch last night.”
Pig skin contest is #1 UK comedy video
The English network ITN uploaded footage from the Spike TV pig skin eating contest to youtube, and today that clip is the most viewed British video tagged as comedy. (The clip is the #19 comedy video regardless of country of origin.) Beautiful Brian has also uploaded video of the entire pig skin contest.
A full list of the video’s honors is available after the jump:
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Oyster Bowl 9 report and results
The top 10 finishers at Sunday’s oyster bowl are now listed on the Oyster Bowl blog. PacPub has a report about that contest
GJoe wins “one for the thumb” in paczkis
If the paczki eating contest held at Eddy’s Bake Shop in Ansonia, Connecticut awarded a ring to the victor, “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti would now be able to adorn each finger on one hand. ConnPost reports that Menchetti won his fifth paczki title and a prize of $200 by eating a record 13 paczkis in five minutes. NBCI5.com has a gallery and news video.
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