SonyaTheBlackWidow.com is currently down and brings up a generic search page. It also experienced an outage of several days after Sonya announced she would miss last year’s Krystal finals and for more than a week after the controversial 2006 meatball contest.

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The new poll asks how you think contest slots should be allocated when the demand exceeds the supply.

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• News video from the corny dog contest
• Jill Stoler has a contest report from a Brooklyn wing eating contest won by Will Millender
• MosesNews.com will stop covering competitive eating and offer political commentary and restaurant reviews
• News video from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has uploaded a song about the Nashville Krystal qualifier called “The Cheater” based The Who’s “The Seeker”
• Clips from Sunday’s Gluttonous King broadcast with Scandinavian subtitles

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Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell reports in a forum thread that she has sent an application to the IFOCE, which has not yet responded. She also announces her intention to attempt the Pointersaurus Pizza challenge with her fiance, who says that Isabelle once ordered five multiple-patty burgers from McDonald’s

IFBB North American Lightweight Champ Lori Steele claims in the thread that she is the niece of Rich LeFevfre

Isabelle Turell’s myspace page lists her ethnicity as Hispanic. Orange County taco champion Karina Muniz and “Nurse” Caterina of the Heart Attack Grill would be Isabelle’s only rivals for the title of top Latina competitive eater that I am aware of.

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The Morning Call has an article about Wild Bill Myers. There are some outtakes from the column in the reporter’s blog.

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Sonya Thomas’ most recent update to her website reports that she did not receive a slot to the Famous Famiglia pizza contest despite signing up on-line soon after registration opened.

The contest press release, available on the Famous Famiglia news page, is dated September 11 and lists several expected entrants even though registration officially opened on September 15.

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• Texas State Fair corny dog results, competitor factoids, Patrick Michels gallery
• Press relase for Famous Famiglia pizza has the following competitors: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti, Bob Shoudt, and Tim Eater X Janus
• Beautiful Brian has his personal IFOCE chronology
• British man dies after consuming homemade ultra hot sauce
• Video of Kevin Ross speed eating hot dogs
• Tomoko Miyake has a blog entry that Google translation titles “Wang Eating”
• Paul Newman dies at 83. This tribute says his hard boiled egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke was responsible for starting a wave of eating contests involving college students and troops in Vietnam.

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R Suzuki has blog entries about the Gluttonous King contest that was televised today on TV Tokyo. Results from the final round:

1. “Doctor” Nishikawa, 33 bowls of noodles in an hour
2. Takuya Yamamoto, 32 bowls
3. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara, 27 bowls

Nishikawa’s mark breaks the previous record held by the now retired Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota.

(I think Nishikawa is an actual medical doctor like Juris Shibayama but am not 100% sure.)

The Gluttonous King home page has pictures of all the finalists which included Mio “Sakura” Takahashi (5th place) and “Essen” (9th place). Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Tomoko Miyake apparently did not compete.

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From the Krystal Square Off twitter:

1. Joey Chestnut 93 burgers
2. Pat Bertoletti 85 burgers
3. Takeru Kobayashi 84 burgers

update #4 Fox 61 video
blog entry by Kevin the Cool Guy
blog entry by unexpected spectator
youtube video recorded from the audience

update #3 A gallery of the finals is available

update #2 Times Free Press has an article
DNJ.com has a report on Dr. Big Time’s 10 place finish

Kobayashi has a blog entry which concludes (automatically translated)

First of all, I would from next year through the IFOCE, or do believe in freedom.

Of course, is also free to Nathan and Crystal would want to be a challenge.

update The Krystal Square Off blog has full results

IFOCE.com reports Kobayashi received a 2 burger deduction, which cost him second place and $5,000 in prize money

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(From Crawfish comment) The Glutton Bowl will be rerun on the Fox Reality Channel tonight at 10pm and 1am eastern. The show duration is two hours. Five hours of competitive eating programming on various channels is probably a record for one 24 hour period.

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• Times Free Press article and video
• WDEF blog entry with video (from Fred Patech)
• Blog entry and gallery about today’s autograph session
• Hall Hunt blog entry
• Sponichi article in Japanese

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update #4Wicked Local has a contest report

update #3 The Harvard student paper has a contest report

update #2 Some videos have been uploaded to youtube

update Results from a comment which is supported by an IFOCE.com report:
1st PrettyBoy Davekos 7.1lbs
2nd Mike Springer 5 lbs
3rd Betsey’s Boy (last year’s winner) 3.5 lbs

Please place results from todays Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge, MA in the comments of this thread.

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update The Dallas News has an article about the contest (from City of Lewisville)

A press release posted to the comments has the results from today’s tamale contest in Lewisville, TX. Patrick Vandam won his first non-qualifier contest by eating 44 tamales.

44 Patrick Vandam, Eagan, Minn., $1500
41 Tim Brown, Chicago, Ill. $1000
34.5 Eric “the Red” Denmark, Seattle, Wash., $500
34 Nate Biller, Briarwood, NY, $250
25.5 Kevin Ross, Temecula, Calif., $150
24 Bill Myers, Breinigsville, Penn., $100
23.5 Brent Ricord, Keller, Texas
20 Charles Johnson, Abilene, Texas
19 Frank Wach, Chicago, Ill.
18.5 Nic Fry, Grant Bend, Kan.
15.5 Jim Clawson, Addison, Texas
10.5 David Cagle, Houston, Texas
10.5 Patrick Owen, Corinth, Texas
5 Trey Beauregard, Moore, Okla.
5 David Marston, Frisco, Texas

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• Pat Bertoletti has a report on the Czech plum dumpling contest
• Rerun listing of the KSO V broadcast
• KSO V Press conference gallery and video
• Erik Denmark feels more positive about missing the Krystal finals
• Ginormous Burger Challenge finisher receives free T-shirt a year after completing the burger, along with some cookies to apologize for the delay
• Second Philadelphia Eagle ice cream qualifier report (from megamunch)

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AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.

The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com

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TheStreet.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he describes his training regimen and says that he has eaten 114 burgers in a Krystal practice session.

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Some competitors in the Krystal finals will sign autographs and pose for pictures at the Krystal in Hixson, TN tomorrow. Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Humble Bob Shoudt are expected to appear.

A list of the competitors in the Lewisville, TX tamale contest has been provided in a comment. It does not appear that anyone will compete in both the Krystal finals and the tamale contest. Expected entrants include: Nate Biller, Tim Brown, Erik Denmark, Nic Fry, Bill Myers, Brent Ricord, Kevin Ross, Damon Serignet, Patrick Vandam and Frank Wach.

A listing of all contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar is available after the jump.

update A press release with competitor profiles is available on the city of Lewisville’s website. It is interesting that the press release mentions Frank Wach competing in Bartolini’s meatball contest.

update #2 Pete Davekos’ appearance on Fox 25 this morning can be viewed online.

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• Ex-”Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
• More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
• $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
• Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.

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WDEF has a blog entry about Kobayashi’s appearance today at a Chattanooga Krystal. Kobayashi has a message for Joey Chestnut in an embedded video.

Bodog is taking bets on Krystal Square OFF V. In addition to betting on the winner (the amateur is available at 99 to 1 odds) there are several proposition bets.

In other local television news, Pete Davekos will appear on the Fox 25 morning news to promote the Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good.

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The new poll asks who you think will win Sunday’s Krystal Square Off finals.

Paul Barlow predicts that Kobayashi will eat 110 burgers to edge Joey Chestnut by 3 in his myspace blog.

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• Kobayashi checks into a hospital, but recovers and practices with 100 burgers and plays the MLE video game
• Articles in the UAB and UTC student papers about the Krystal Square Off
• Home page for Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader, who has won several Chicago contests (from AICE news)
• Entry form for local competitors in the Garlicky Greens contest
• Competitive Eater Ben Griffith wins the trip to the Krystal finals
• Don Lerman is questioning his future in competitive eating

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Erik Denmark has a blog entry about the Memphis Krystal qualifier which concludes with his top 10 benefits of missing the Krystal Square Off finals. His final 3 items in the list:

3 - Not having to convince my friends and family to get in their car and drive 60 miles to the nearest bar that carries FSN South to watch me for a split second while the camera pans to the middle of the table
2 - Avoid the depressing realization that I won’t get the final burger count because I have to sprint off the stage and straight to the airport to catch the last flight back to Seattle because it is Sunday and I have to work tomorrow
1 - I still have a chance to win a contest and a title in Lewisville on Saturday!

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The Chicago Sun Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti and his first place finish in the recent jalapeno contest in Chicago.

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A bratwurst eating contest for four person teams will be held in the Washington, DC area over the next two weekends. The contest will be a relay in which each team member has to finish 4 brats before the next can start. Qualifiers will be held in 9 locations on Sunday and the finals will take place on October 5. The grand prize is $300 cash, four tickets to a Redskins home game, and a limo to the game. Qualifier winners will receive a $50 bar tab and a Beck’s shwag bag. The registration deadline is tomorrow.

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• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

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