NJ.com has information about tickets for Wing Bowl 17 going on sale on Monday. The time tickets will become available has been advanced to 9 am. The original time was 10 am. Tickets can be purchased online at ComcastTix.com, over the phone or in person at the Wachovia Complex box office. Ticket prices have been increased to $7.50, a $2.50 increase from last year and there is a $2.50 service charge per phone or online order. The maximum number of tickets that can be purchased in one order is 6.

At 10 am Monday, tickets to the final 76ers game at the Spectrum will become available. The first 500 fans who purchase tickets at the box office will get to take a tour of the Spectrum and meet former 76ers.

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• Samples from Beautiful Brian’s remixed holiday CD are available on reverbnation
• Wendy’s Baconator eating contest held in the Philippines. There were three divisions: heavyweight men, lightweight men and women
• BeefJerky.com finds eating contest sanctioning fees too expensive
• Picture of Dale Boone receiving the 2003 IFOCE Rookie of the Year. Rich LeFevre and Crazy Legs Conti were the runners up
• Travel Channel clip about the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest
• The “Acidic Jew” qualifies for the Wing Bowl by eating 10 lemons
• The youtube page hosting Wing Bowl 17 stunts

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Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page which reports that she will appear in an episode of My Life in Food on the Food Network along with Pat Bertoletti and Crazy Legs Conti. The program will document their preparation for the 2008 Nathan’s finals. The expected broadcast date is January 10.

The program page on the Food Network’s website has the following description:

My Life in Food takes an intimate look at individuals whose lives have been transformed through food. From people with debilitating food phobias, to those searching for a fountain of youth through what they eat, to an entire city attempting to lose a thousand pounds, we examine the powerful force of food.

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A hot dog eating contest will be held in conjunction with Dollar Dog Night when the Philadelphia Flyers host the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow. The first prize is a retro Flyers jersey. There will be no limit to the number of dollar hot dogs spectators can purchase. The Flyers hope to sell 20,000 hot dogs, breaking last year’s mark of 19,000.

The Washington Captals sold 13,700 hot dogs at last week’s Dollar Dog Night, breaking last year’s mark of 12,000.

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Galleries and a promo clip for tonight’s Man vs. Food episodes are available on the Travel Channel website.

Quaker Steak and Lube Atomic Hot wings, Pittsburgh, PA

• Home Page Quaker Steak & Lube has over 30 locations, mainly in the eastern United States
• Menu (.PDF format)

Quaker Steak and Lube has over 20 types of wing sauce at various degrees of spiciness. A list of the sauces and their hotness level is available after the jump. The Atomic Wings Adam Richman will attempt on tonight’s episode are rated at 150,000 Scoville Heat Units. All You Can Eat wings are available on Tuesday night.

The Ohio Deli Dagwood Challenge Columbus, Ohio

• Columbus Dispatch article about tonight’s episode
• Sopressata blog entry about a group attempt at the Dagwood Challenge. The record for the challenge was 6 minutes by John Matko in March (picture on right).
• Video of a challenge attempt by Columbus Underground

The Thurman Cafe Columbus, Ohio

• Home page
• CMH Gourmand blog entry about the Thurman Cafe’s burgers
• Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria had a 4.5 pound burger named after himself after he completed it in October.

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• Dave Shoffner resumes blogging, but not on megamunch
• Encounter with Sonya Thomas at the Washington Capitals game December 4
• St. George Hunt, described by Angelo Cataldi as the Wing Bowl’s biggest fan, passes away
• Bacci Pizza in Chicago starts a 30 inch pizza eating challenge
• Bonita Springs, FL wing eating contest Saturday

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The 610 WIP Wing Bowl 17 page has added links to photos and videos of the qualifying stunts. ClarkieGirl73 has a blog entry about her friend Larry Norris’ successful stunt this morning in which he ate 5 pounds of bacon in 8 minutes and 30 seconds. The Philly.com Wing Bowl page has not been updated with any information about qualification attempts for the upcoming Wing Bowl.

The Wing Bowl 17 logo, which looks like the Phillies logo, has been also been added to the 610WIP page.

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The blog for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that the Travel Channel will be recording at that restaurant on Thursday. The program is not mentioned, but it might be for another episode of Man vs. Food.

The new poll asks if you think Brad Sciullo completed the giant Belly Bruiser burger at Denny’s two months ago. This picture is only documenation of the Belly Bruiser at an intermediate stage of completion I have seen. Kate Stelnick has several pictures documenting her attempt at the Olde 96er burger and Lori Weiss had an eyewitness report for her challenge.

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• Bruno Ruest repeats as Forney (TX) pie eating contest champion and wins a 42 inch plasma TV
• Serious Eats on the mini-burger boom
• Report on the Singapore Vermonster eating contest
• Turkey Eating contest held in Macau. The winner ate 644 grams of a 2.5 kg turkey in 30 minutes
• Paul Barlow has set up a college bowl picking contest group for eaters and fans
• Gal Sone admits to an addiction

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The links in the side bar of the main eatfeats page have been updated. The new links are:

• Major League Eating flickr gallery
• “Furious” Pete Czerwinski bodybuilding.com profile | myspace
• DeepDishEats.com
• Jo “Gavonne” Rose myspace
• Will Millender myspace
• “Wild” Bill Myers blog
• Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara’s blog
• WLOCE | WLOCE myspace
• List of 200+ challenges in eatfeats database
• The Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food home page | forum
• Roadfood
• Miss Busy Lady
• Val Bromann

Please comment or email if you have an unlisted competitive eating related link you would like to see in the sidebar.

A few defunct or inactive links were removed. I will restore an inactive link if requested.

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Here is some additional information about the challenges featured in the Man vs. Food episodes which debuted on December 3:

Big Texan Steak Ranch 72 ounce steak Amarillo, Texas

• BigTexan 72 ounce steak statistics home page
• 72 ounce steak challenge webcam
• List of all finishers 1991-2005 in the eatfeats.com database
• BBC article about the Big Texan Steak Ranch
• Amarillo.com article about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record
• News video (without audio) about Joey Chestnut breaking the record
• Former Big Texan record holder Frank Pastore’s blog entry about Joey Chestnut breaking his record. Pastore was a Cincinnati Reds pitcher when he broke the record for the seventh time in 1987 and is now a conservative talk radio host.
• Video clip from 2000 episode of Ripley’s Believe it or not about the Big Texan starring Rich & Carlene LeFevre

Big Foot Lodge Sasquatch Burger Memphis, TN

update Dec 22, 2008 The Big Foot Lodge changed its name to Kooky Canuck and its challenge burger is now called the Kookamunga Challenge to settle a lawsuit with a California restaurant

• The Big Foot Lodge’s page about the challenge
• The Big Foot Lodge’s Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame. Joey Chestnut is the current record holder at 7 minutes 36 seconds. Roger Robinson has completed the challenge 3 times in 2008.
• Memphis Commercial Appeal article about Jeremy Payne becoming the second finisher of the challenge
• Memphis Flyer article about Pat Bertoletti becoming the first person to finish the challenge
• The picture of the burger below was photographed at a ball in Memphis, so it is probably the Sasquatch Challenge burger. According to the photographer, the woman holding the burger completed it.

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A video clip from a documentary about the burrito eating contest held in South Portland, Maine produced by the New England Film Academy can be viewed on youtube. The video caption says that the full length documentary will be released in January.

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NWI.com has an article about the handsless mashed potato eating contest inspired by the movie A Christmas Story held in Hammond, Indiana yesterday. John Hartman won the adult contest by eating 5 plates of mashed potatoes.

Other contests held yesterday

• Tuscon, AZ tamales
• Oxnard, CA tamales
• Singapore Ben & Jerry’s Vermonsters (for four person teams)

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As he mentioned in a comment, Brian Seiken has posted a myspace blog entry about rereleasing the holiday CD from last year after having it remastered by Eric “Badlands” Booker. The CD will be mailed for free to IFOCE members who have sent in their mailing information.

In another myspace blog entry, Paul Barlow says he is looking for another nickname to commemorate his 7th year in competitive eating.

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• Time lapse videos of the challenges attempted on Man vs. Food December 3 and post-challenge press conferences are available on travelchannel.com
• Steakbellie is looking for freelance web / graphics work. Good luck with the job search SB
• Does “Furious” Pete have a new best friend in chemical form?
• Latke eating contest at Zan’s Deli returns December 21
• Josh & Lynette complete the Fenton’s banana split challenge Part I, Part II
• Pictures from Gal Sone’s 23rd birthday party Thursday

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A ranking of the top 10 AICE eaters who are college students has been released. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski is #1. Justin Mih is ranked #10.

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A video of the hot dog eating contest for Washington, DC area local celebrities held at last night’s Washington Capitals game has been uploaded to youtube. Sonya Thomas did not participate due to a stomach cramp. The winner, Brian Egan of WMZQ, said “Sonya Thomas, put that in your pipe and smoke it” after his victory.

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(From Sara Bozich) Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar in Harrisburg, PA will hold three contests next weekend to celebrate its grand opening:

• Dec. 12 8 pm – Pizza Eating Contest. 1st prize – $20 Arooga’s gift card.
• Dec. 13 7 pm – Wing Eating Contest. 1st prize – trip to Atlantic City.
• Dec. 14 5 pm – Cheesesteak Eating Contest. 1st prize – $100 VISA gift card.

All competitors will receive a free T shirt.

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In a bodybuilding.com forum thread, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces that he finished the Showdown Burger challenge at Philthy MacNasty’s in 3 minutes and 2 seconds. The previous reported best time was 6:20. The challenge consists of a 1.5 pound burger and fries and is free if completed in under 7 minutes.

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Erik Denmark has updated his blog with an entry about the competitive eating off season. Like competitors in other sports, Erik Denmark had off-season surgery. He also reports that Mike Castellano has left the IFOCE, which I dont’ think has been previously mentioned on this website. Erik expects that his off-season will end at the jalapeno eating contest on Februrary 21 in Laredo, Tx.

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A gallery devoted to Major League Eating contests and eaters (and ex-eaters) has been set up at http://flickr.com/photos/32489086@N08/ There over 300 pictures in the gallery. The current top pictures on the main gallery page are from a group expedition to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub.

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• Hatsuyo Sugawara appears in the What’s Up With Japan segment of G4’s Attack of the Show
• Jill Stoler is looking for competitive eating ideas to celebrate her 30th birthday in March
• Faces of Joey Chestnut & Kobayashi on a stick to be handed out during a halftime eating contest
• $1000 to be awarded to a finisher of a 32 inch pizza in St. Louis
• Researchers study buffet patrons’ habits (from Steakbellie)
• Video of the eating contest on the Tyra Banks show that awarded a Volvo to its winner

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The home page for Man vs. Food reports that host Adam Richman will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow to promote the debut episode.

Several promotional videos for Man vs. Food are available on youtube:

• Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge
• Suicide hot wings
• Series commercial

update The Boston Herald has an interview with Adam Richman

update #2 The program home page has slideshows of tonight’s episodes and the Chicago Sun-Times has an article

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Angelo Cataldi has updated his website with information about Wing Bowl 17 which announces his intention to reopen the contest to professionals in 2010. Any previous participation in a professional eating contest will make a contestant ineligible for the upcoming Wing Bowl.

The biggest change is that, for one year only, we are declaring ineligible any contestant who has ever competed in a professionally sanctioned eating contest. This means all members of the Major League Eating organization (formerly IFOCE) are not welcome to participate, including our reigning two-time champion, Joey Chestnut. All of the other great pro eaters of the past – Sonya Thomas, Patrick Bertoletti, Don “Moses” Lerman, and even five-time champ El Wingador – are out for Wing Bowl 17.

We made this decision for one reason: We want to find the absolute best new eater in the Delaware Valley, and we believe opening it up to the Average Joes out there will attract some contestants who have never before tried competitive eating. Next year, our Wing Bowl 17 champion will have to defend his title against the best eaters in the world.

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The website for the Washington Capitals NHL team reports that the team will hold a eating contest for area college students before the game against the New York Islanders on December 4. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas will be a judge and trainer for that event. College students interested in competing should listen to ESPN Radio 980. There will also be a hot dog eating contest for local celebrities that Sonya Thomas will compete in.

This is the second hot dog eating contest for college students the Washington Capitals have hosted in 2008. The first competition was held in January.

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