The Times of India has an profile of Dale Boone, who is currently residing in India. The article contains claims that some readers might dispute:

Boone is the current world champion in competitive eating. Currently, he is based in Bangalore working for the WLOCE. When he enters the competition arena, he becomes the foul-mouthed `Mouth of the South’, a persona he has cultivated over the years, complete with a coonskin hat to celebrate his heritage, large overalls and a cow-bell in his hand.

Ask him his age and he only tells you that he is known in professional circles as the most eligible bachelor. “Revealing my age will lead to diminishing of my value as a competitor,” he says.

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Famitsu.com reports that the Japanese version of the Major League Eating video game for the Nintendo Wii will be released on March 24 and the price will be 900 yen. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara are the new characters, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee. The game was first announced in August and the original release date was October 14, 2008.

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The200MileRun.com announces a non-stop run by Christopher Huang which will begin in Houston on Thursday, March 19 and end in Austin on Saturday. After completing the run, an attempt will be made to break the breakfast taco record at Juan in a Million, which is currently 7 by the “Hong Kong Hero”. The goal of the run is to raise money for Space12, a community center in East Austin.

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Episode slideshow

• The Roast Grill – challenge 17 hot dogs
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  NewsObserver.com article about the filiming
  Art & Literature blog entry about the Roast Grill
• The Pit meal: pork BBQ
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  A Food Network program was filmed last week according to the restaurant’s twitter
• Time Out Chicken – meal: shredded chicken sandwiches
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Kobayashi’s latest blog entry reports that qualifiers for a Chinese contest he will compete in have been held. Translated Chinese news articles from those competitions are available. The semifinals & finals Kobayashi will compete in will take place on March 28 and 29. Johnny Wu from Hong Kong, who previously competed against Sonya Thomas, is another recipient of a bye into the semifinals.

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Pat Bertoletti now has a 4 contest corned beef contest streak dating back to early 2006 (2006 Arkansas, 2006 Boston, 2007 Savannah, 2009 NYC). The only people to have defeated Bertoletti in a corned beef contest are Cookie Jarvis and Molly Carey in a 2004 competition in Milwaukee.

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update #7 The Philadelphia City Paper has a blog entry about Bob Shoudt’s third place finish

update #6 March 17 NBC and CBS have local news videos

update #5(from NewYorkology) Vidiot has uploaded a gallery

update #4 GiggleSugar has some pictures

update #3 The New York Post has an article and full results are available on IFOCE (from comment)

update #2 A twitter update from George Shea announces that Pat Bertoletti wins the contest with 16.75 sandwiches in 10 minutes. The top 5
1. Pat Bertoletti, 16.75 sandwiches
2. Joey Chestnut 15.5
3. Bob Shoudt 13
4. Tim Janus 12.5
5. Hall Hunt 11.25

Please place comments about today’s corned beef sandwich eating contest held at Gallagher’s Steakhouse in this thread. 5 of the IFOCE top 7 will compete according to an anonymous comment:

Pat Bertoletti Joey Chestnut Juliet Lee Eric Booker Hall Hunt Bob Shoudt Brian Seiken Tim Janus Crazy Legs Conti ?????????

UpdateGeorge Shea has started providing updates from the contest site at http://twitter.com/gcshea. Vidiot is also twittering from the contest site.

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The twitter for KookyCanuck reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of 7:36 for the Kookamunga Challenge on March 20.

The Memphis restaurant is also developing a 12 pound burger and a burger with pizzas as buns.

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(from Serious Eats twitter) EatMeDaily reports that the creators of ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com are seeking a six-figure book contract. To obtain content for the upcoming work, picture submitters now must agree to the following disclaimer:

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s picture of the 7 pound burrito from Jack n Grill is one of the images present on thisiswhyyourefat.com

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The website for Mel’s Country Cafe in Tomball, Texas (suburban Houston) has a web page with pictures of several finishers of the Mega Mel burger and their times. Lindsay has the fastest time of 19 minutes on that page.

The page about the restaurant on localism reports that the all time record is 9 minutes and apicture of the finishers list reveals that Eric Attayi is the record holder.

In a youtube comment, the son of the restaurant’s owner reports that Lindsay is the new female record holder and she came back a month later and finished another Mega Mel in 21 minutes.

FullFiguredFella is organizing a Mega Mel eating contest.

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A listing of this weekend’s independent contests is available after the jump:
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