Buffalo Buffet Bowl results from a Mike Landrich comment:

1. Sonya Thomas
2. Juliet Lee
3. Badlands Booker
4. Jim Reeves

• Ian Hickman repeats in a Taste of Hamburg-er contest
• Jill Stoler has a blog entry about her competitive eating souvenirs
• Food Battle Club drinking contest videos
• Spicy dosa eating contest in Toronto
• UK haggis eating contest attracts international field
• PalinFacts.com: “Sarah Palin once one [sic] a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou”

The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady set the record for consuming the Super Pub Challenger burger, which contains three pounds of meat, on July 31. Her time of 20 minutes was 10 minutes faster than the previous record of a half an hour and almost halved the previous female record held by Lori Weiss of 36 minutes.

Elizabeth Canady is not the most recent female finisher of the Super Pub Challenger, April Frisco (picture on right) completed the challenge on August 8.

According to information entered into the eatfeats database, Dale Boone won the Skin’s hot dog eating contest held at the balloon festival in Anderson, SC:

1st 18 $500 Dale Boone Atlanta, GA
2nd 14 $250 Michael Diebold
3rd 12 $125 Jason “The Polish Love” Skrzypek Atlanta, GA

WLOCE is sanctioning another Skin’s hot dog contest at the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair September 12

Full results from the wing eating contest held at the Buffalo Wing Festival courtesy of “Wild” Bill Myers:

1st 4.23 $1500 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas
2nd 4.15 $750 Eric “Badlands” Booker
3rd 3.98 $300 Juliet Lee
4th 3.52 Russ “The Black Hole” Keeler
5th 3.24 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
6th 2.85 “Big” Brian Subich
7th 2.83 Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo
8th 2.77 Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein
9th 2.02 Mike Landrich
10th 1.88 William “Wild Bill” Myers
11th 1.65 Matthew Ventre
12th 1.27 “Beautiful” Brian Seiken

update WKBW.com has a video

update #2Beautiful Brian has a contest video

Today’s results from the pork barbecue sandwich eating contest held at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC according to IFOCE.com via a Crawfish comment

Joey Chestnut 49.5
Pat Bertoletti 49
Humble Bob 46
Hall Hunt 36

update WPDE has an article about the contest

update #2 MyrtleBeachOnline has a video

This week’s episode of “Hurl” on the G4 network, “That’s Bull”, will have only females competing according to the episode list. The program will air at 7 and 10:30 pm eastern. This will be the first women-only competitive eating program broadcast on American television to the best of my knowledge.

G4’s website has an interview with one of the competitors, Cassie Jenkins.

SportsBubbler.com has a list of the expected entrants at the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest: Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee, Badlands Booker, Buffalo Jim Reeves, Russ Keeler, Dave “US Male” Goldstein, Brian Subich, Wild Bill Myers, Beautiful Brian Seiken

Sonya is the only listed entrant in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl contest on Sunday (presumably most, if not all of the wing contest competitors will also enter that event.)

Juliet Lee is still listed on the Myrtle Beach pork barbecue sandwich eating contest roster despite also being in the buffalo wing list

Joey Chestnut, Bob Shoudt and Tim Brown are expected at the spaghetti chili eating contest in Cincinnati.

KrystalSquareOff.com has yet to list all the non-amateurs competing in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day. The most recent blog entry has a video interview Hall Hunt did this morning. The Krystal twitter page is taking predictions for the contest.

• Article about A Taste of Hamburg-er eating contest which reports that “Ian Hick” was last year’s winner
• Furious Pete gains 5.5 inches in 7 minutes during recording of “Sports Science”
• Entire office attempts pancake challenge at Charlie Parker’s in Springfield
• Message from Miss Busy Lady’s nephew to Joey and Pat
• National Cheese Eating Championship to take place at Arthur, Illinois Amish Country Cheese Fesitval tomorrow

Miami.com reports that a mini burger will be held at Quarterdeck Seafood Bar and Neighborhood Grill in Miami Beach on Monday. The first prize is $500 and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders will attend.

Podcast interviews of Sonya Thomas and Hall Hunt are available on the Krystal Square Off blog.

Hall Hunt has released a new poll. The new top 5:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (9) (242) [1]
2. Takeru Kobayashi (221) [2]
3. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (213) [3]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (196) [6]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (190) [4]

• Preview of Sonya Thomas vs. Hall Hunt matchup
• Humble Bob expected at Cincinnati spaghetti chili contest
• Baloney eating contest during Republican convention in St. Paul
• NYC deathwings eating contest September 3
• Bacon eating contest to raise money for the American Heart Association
• Interview with Miki Mia of The 40 Year Old Virgin at the gyoza contest

Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off rib eating contest results from Jason Erb and anonymous comment

1st: Joey Chestnut 9.8 pounds, new record
2nd: Pat Bertoletti 7.4
3rd: Erik Denmark 4.7
4th: Rich LeFevre 4.6
5th: Ron Koch 3.4
6th: Jason Erb 2.8
7th: Sean Kirby 2.5
8th: El Toro 2.2

update RGJ.com has a contest report

EmilyPie has some pictures

update #2 Full results are now available on IFOCE.com

A press release announces the Japanese launch of the Major League Eating Wiiware video game which will be available on October 14. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara have been added to the game, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee.

update TokyoMango has an English blog entry about the release

Kobayashi has two blog entries with pictures from his appearance at the New York City Nike Sportswear Store opening Thursday Part 1, Part 2. Joey Chestnut does not appear in any of the pictures.

The German magazine Der Spiegel has an English article and gallery about La Tomatina, a annual tomato fight that will be held in Buñol, Spain tomorrow. During the event, 150,000 kg (330,000 lb.) of tomatoes are ruined. Despite wasting orders of magnitude more food than any American eating contest, the event does not seem to have drawn the same amount of criticism that competitive eating does.

A press release lists four expected entrants at tomorrow’s Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, Nevada: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark.

In a forum thread on bodybuilding.com, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports that he is going to Los Angeles today to record a competitive eating themed episode of “Sport Science” which appears on the Fox Sports Network. This is the second competitive eating program announced for Fox Sports; the Krystal Square Off finals will be televised on Fox Sports South.

• Val Bromann has a contest report and gallery from the Busey Executive Sweetcorn Eating Contest
• Venus and Serena Williams to compete against Peyton and Eli Manning in an eating contest in an Oreo commercial
• Pre contest interview with the “LA Assassin”
• 12 pound burger challenge in Lincoln, Nebraska offers $200 reward
• Gallery of Andy’s “Big A” burger eating contest

Michael Phelps devotes several pages of his 2004 autobiography, Michael Phelps: Beneath the Surface, to his eating exploits, which can be read online on Google Books. After mentioning his typical breakfast at Pete’s Grille: three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions and mayonnaise, an omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast with powdered sugar and three chocolate chip pancakes, Phelps describes his competitive eating history, which includes living food items:

My friends and I used to make bets about eating food. At an all-you-can-eat buffet one day, we decided to eat all we could. Our table tried to eat the place out of everything, and we nearly did. Of all my friends, Matt is the one who is usually up for a good eating challenge. And when teenage guys get together, some of the challenges can be kind of . . . teenage. Matt made $30 from me once by mixing wasabi paste with soy sauce and inhaling it through his nose. He won a DVD from me one night after we ate dinner and then went for burgers. There was no way we were ready for more food, but at the drop of a challenge, Matt added a quarter pound burger for dessert. Three years ago, we were at my old girlfriend’s house, watching a guy on TV trying to swallow some small fish whole. He couldn’t so Matt and I figured we could. Swimming really came in handy, because I was able to hold my breath during the full swallow. Goldfish aren’t that big, but they start flopping around in there and they can gross you out. The money is never an issue during these challenges. If you win a penny, you feel you’ve accomplished something, though I’m not really sure what it is. I only won a dollar for downing my 50th chicken wing at Bill Bateman’s in Towson, but just think, with that dollar, I could buy another chicken wing. Believe it or not, there is really something I don’t like to eat: angel hair pasta. I don’t like the texture of it.

The Krystal Square Off blog confirms that Sonya Thomas will compete in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day and the twitter page is seeking input on questions to be asked in Sonya Thomas’ and Hall Hunt’s podcast interviews.

A gallery of the Chattanooga qualifier is also available.

In his yardbarker blog, Pat Bertoletti announces the opening of his personal website at DeepDishEats.com Bertoletti intends to have recipes and other cooking information on his website in addition to news about his competitive eating career. The contest calendar says that he will compete in the Nugget rib eating contest on Wednesday.

• Colley Handspike wins Atlanta La Costena jalapeno eating contest
• Seattle clam contest report
• $100 awarded to finishers of 7 pound Frankenstein burger in Sikeston, Missouri
• Sonya Thomas adds 2 FAQs
• Article about Gal Sone’s nail salon, “Jill & Lovers”. One of Jill’s products is called “Jewnail”, presumably short for jeweled nail
• Takuya Yamamoto eats a 10 kg cake

According to the eatfeats database, Sonya Thomas is 12-0 in all qualifier contests in her career: (list of results is available after the jump)
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