update #4 Gothamist blog entry NY1 news video
update #3 The Times of London has an article and a youtube video is available
update #2 The New York Daily News has an article with a picture of all the competitors

updateThe Urbanite blog has an entry about today’s Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest in Times Square which lists the top 3:

1. Joey Chestnut 45
2. Pat Bertoletti 43
3. Humble Bob Shoudt 41

These results are supported by comments from Wing Kong, Pat Philbin and anonymous.

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update A video is available

The Newark Advocate has an article and gallery about Pete Maurizio’s victory at the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s pork BBQ sandwich qualifier.

The top 7 have been posted. The top 3:

1. Pete Maurizio, 11.25 sandwiches, $500 8 minutes
2. Mark Lyle, 10.50, $250
3. Kevin Kordalski, 10.25, $100

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Bloomberg.com has an article about competitive pumpkin growing which says that the Wallace pumpkin farm in Rhode Island received $10,000 from a Japanese game show for hosting a pumpkin eating contest.

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BeautifulBrian.com has reposted the “Bits & Pieces” from five years ago. Brian had the following information about Dale Boone:

At the Pelmeni contest last month i couldnt understand why Badlands walked away from Dale Boone after Boone gave him a friendly pat on the back. Badlands had explained to me that Boone was calling all the eaters in Buffalo and waking them up at 4 AM. I dont know Boone that well but that doesnt seem like a very nice thing to do.

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The Van Duzer Foundation’s website has the following announcement:

That’s right, the Van Duzer Foundation is teaming up with the one and only International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) to host THE BATTLE AT THE BIG APPLE! Featuring world-class competitive eaters, the likes of Joey Chestnut, who stunned the world twice at the famed Fourth of July Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Mark your calndar right now for Saturday, November 8th, 2008, and please keep watching this site for more information on preliminary contests (you might even eat your way into a chance to compete in this once-in-a-lifetime event).

The location is not listed on the foundation website. TCPalm says that it will take place in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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Crazy Legs Conti is a guest on the “Fat Guys at the Movies” podcast co-hosted by Kevin Carr. (His segment begins around the 34 minute mark.) Crazy Legs mainly talks about his movie watching record attempt, but he does reveal some unconventional attire he wore during a Johnsonville bratwurst contest.

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A list of this weekend’s contests follows after the jump. Independent contests with notable prizes:

Oct 10 Jalapeno contest, Greenville, SC $600 total purse
Oct 11 Cranberry Pie Eating contest, Fort Langley, BC, Canada, first prize is Vancouver Canucks tickets
Oct 12 Wing Eating Contest Raleigh, NC, first prize is a trip to Las Vegas

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• Picture of Juliet Lee at the Nashville qualifier
• Favorite KSO V pictures at Krystalist
• Kobayashi has some pictures from the Krystal Square Off on his blog
• Tomoko Miyake has posted a FAQ using questions sent by her fans (Her favorite baseball team is the Hanshin Tigers)
• Craigslist posting about Raleigh, NC wing contest Sunday

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Paul Barlow has released his list of the top 25 best-dressed IFOCE competitors (which actually contains 33 eaters, I think). His top 5:

1. Tim Brown
1.5 Paul Barlow
2. SykoBozo
3. Ron Koch
4. El Toro
5. Kevin Ross.

If there was a best dressed female rookie category, I would have awarded it to Old Home Week pierogi runner-up Larell Marie Mele and her leopard-print tank top. 😉

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Hall Hunt has compiled the October edition of his top 25. The top 10:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (9) (243) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (237) [3]
3. Takeru Kobayashi (229) [2]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (212) [4]
5. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (200) [7]
6. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (198) [5]
7. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (177) [8]
8. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (174) [6]
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (131) [13]
10. Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama (130) [14]

Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz was the only eater besides Joey Chestnut to receive a first place vote.

Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has posted his poll votes.

The new poll asks when you think the next IFOCE poll will come out. The last poll was released in April.

Jason Petrie has set up a ranking system which awards 100-10 points for major contests and 25-1 points for other non-qualifiers. His listing is available after the jump:
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• Joey Chestnut to appear at Edmonton Oil Kings minor league hockey game on Friday
• Badlands Booker to perform “Mamma Mia” rap before Famous Famiglia pizza contest
• Hall Hunt’s Krystal performance mentioned in jacksonville.com
• Big Texan Steak Ranch to appear on the Travel Channel in December
• Wichita State professor has won a local jalapeno eating contest five times

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IFOCE.com has posted a report on Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston’s and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins records attempts on WMMR this morning. The results:

Steakbellie – 3 pounds of haggis in 8 minutes, no official previous record
Wing Kong – 84 ounces of baked beans in 58 seconds, breaks Dale Boone’s record

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• Video of Crazy Legs Conti’s withdrawal from the Netfllix movie watching record attempt
• Pat Philbin will adopt the nickname “Jumbo Slice” for the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
• NY Magazine thinks the Famous Famiglia pizza contest is today
• Gallery of the b.good Garlicky Greens eating contest
• 990 pound Mexican Jose Luis Garcia dies of heart failure (picture on right is of his gravesite)

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The Wing Shack in Whitby, Ontario will be hosting weekly qualifiers for a wing eating contest held on Super Bowl Sunday.

The previous two finals awarded $5000 to the winner. The finals prize for the 2009 contest is not mentioned on the Wing Shack’s website. The website does say that the entry fee is $20 and contests will be winner take all. It is not clear if the overall winner will receive all of the entry fees or if each qualifier winners will receive all the fees for that week. The previous two contests were sponsored by The Rock FM, but the upcoming contest is not mentioned on the radio station website currently.

2008 contest – winner Joe Menchetti
2007 contest – winner Jade Dotzentroth

Some other restaurants holding weekly eating contests during football season:
Court Jester’s – Aberdeen, NJ
Black Horn Bar – Carolina Beach, NC
Buffalo Wild Wings – Sterling Heights, MI
The Pour House – New York City, NY

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BeautifulBrian.com is hosting a poll which asks if the website should be moved to a new provider when hometown.aol.com closes at the end of the month. The choices in the poll are:

• CONTINUE BLOGGING IN IT’S CURRENT FORMAT
• CHANGE IT’S FORMAT TO ALL SPORTS
• CONTINUE BLOGGING WITHOUT BEAUTIFULBRIAN’S CORNER
• BECOME A HATER’S EATING WEBSITE
• REST IN PEACE

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Steakbellie and Wing Kong have blog entries about their attempts to break eating records on WMMR Wednesday morning at 8. Wing Kong will attempt to break Dale Boone’s record for 84 ounces of baked beans and Steakbellie will attempt to set a haggis eating record. No IFOCE record for haggis exists and Steakbellie could find no recorded totals of more than one pound. In an article about the threat posed to haggis production by global warming the BBC reports that the winner of the World Haggis Eating Championship ate 1 pound in 2 minutes and five seconds.

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update Results have been posted:

1. Furious Pete Czerwinski- 22 sandwiches
2. Tom “Goose” Gilbert- 14.5
3. Bob “Killer” Kuhns- 12.75
4. Mark Lyle-The Human Vacuum-10

Please place results from the Wakefield World Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship held today at the National Association of Convenience Stores Show in the comments of this thread.

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A new press release about Sunday’s Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest in Times Square is available. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are the listed expected entrants, who were also mentioned in the September 11 press release.

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• An article listing four eating challenges in Winnipeg (a flickr gallery of the nine pound burger from Blondie’s)
• Dale Boone is about to return to India according to his myspace page
• Primanti Brothers sandwich eating contest at the University of Pittsburgh
• Columbia Heights cupcake eating contest gallery
  
• Minnesota “Juicy Lucy” burger eating contest with qualifiers this month (dates not listed)

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The Kinetic Carnival blog reports that a benefit auction will be held for the Coney Island USA cultural arts organization on November 3. A Nathan’s judgeship will be one of the items up for auction. George Shea will be a special guest and tickets will be $40. The dress code is “sideshow chic”. Tickets can be purchased online.

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• Ian Hickman in CiCi’s pizza contest: part 1, part 2
• J & R Steakhouse’s online Wall of Fame/Shame has been updated but does not include recent notable 76 ounce steak finishers such as Furious Pete or Elizabeth Canady. Maureen Kearney is one of the recently added finishers (picture on right)
• Brad Sciullo has been dropped from the AICE rankings. (Cached previous rankings)
• Women only wing eating contest in Columbus Ohio October 9
• Preview of the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier

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PittsburghLive has an article about Brad Sciullo which calls him the world record holder in cannoli eating even though Tim Janus and Cookie Jarvis have eaten more cannolis. Brad says he has consumed a gallon of milk in 26 seconds, almost halving Joey Chestnut’s qualification stunt for Wing Bowl 14.

Brad Sciullo will compete in the Famous Famiglia pizza contest a week from today, which might upset some IFOCE members who did not get a slot in that competition and have abided by the IFOCE contractual restrictions.

The Star Telegram has an interview with corny dog runner-up Brent Ricord.

A list of the San Genarro cannoli contest winners and their totals follows after the jump:
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In an eatfeats comment thread, Don “Moses” Lerman says he ate at least 30 burgers when he was the runner-up in the 2004 Memphis Krystal qualifier. His official results are listed as 21.

According to a BeautifulBrian.com article, Don Lerman also believes he should have received third place in the 2001 Nathan’s finals

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The following information about a wing eating contest at the Buckhead Saloon in Raleigh, NC has been sent by email:

The contest is on Sunday Oct. 12th, and will be starting at 4pm. Each contestant will have 10 minutes to eat as much wing meat as they can. We will weigh the amout of wings they started with, and weigh the scraps after they are done. The first prize is an all-inclusive trip for two to Las Vegas. Second place will get a month free memebership at Peak Fitness, and third will get a Miller Lite prize package (shirts, hats, etc). The entrance fee is $10, and signup starts this coming Sunday (Oct 5).

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