Results for today’s running of the Krispy Kreme Challenge in Raleigh, NC are available on the event website. Eric Mack’s time of 27:48 won the contest, which entails running 2 miles to a Krispy Kreme, eating a dozen donuts and running 2 miles back. TechnicianOnline has a race diary by a competitor which reports that light snow flurries fell during the event.

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Wing Bowl 18 Final 5
1 238 Jon Squibb, 3 off Joey Chestnut’s Wing Bowl record
2 145 Not Rich, 2nd runner-up in a row
3 138 Cheesecake Beefcake
4 132 Hot Pockets
DQ Lights Out, reversed between second & final round

Other second round qualifiers and their first round amounts:
Tiger Wing 98 wings
Farmer Bob 85 wings
Obi Wing & Big Bambino 81 wings
Snack Jack & Freak of Nature, 80 wings

update #3 Feb 6 Courier-Post article | Morning Call column mentioning “Wild” Bill Myers | DelCo Times article | PhillyBurbs article #1 | article #2 | video of a fight between a Wing Bowl fan and a security guard

Philly.com reports that pros will be allowed in Wing Bowl 19, but it was originally announced that pros would compete in Wing Bowl 18.

update #2 More links: MyPhl17 article & gallery | PhillyBurbs gallery | DelCo Times article | Deadspin blog entry | Philebrity slideshow

update 12:28 Wing Bowl 18 coverage: 610WIP galleries & videos | Philly.com galleries & videos | CBS3 article & video | 6 ABC gallery | Deadspin gallery (NSFW)

Bill “El Wingador” Simmons mentioned he just started a new facebook fan page. Simmons noted that Squibb’s 93 wing margin was greater than the total amount of 90 wings “Tollman Joe” Paul ate to win Wing Bowl 8.

djms200 has a video of Snooki flipping the bird live on Fox 29 after being booed.

The live blog is available after the jump. Philly.com | 6ABC | csnphilly and BustedCoverage also have live blogs

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Peanut Butter & banana sandwich results from the eatingcontest twitter:

1) “Notorious” Bob Shoudt 36 sandwiches
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 27
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24.5
4) Erik “the Red” Denmark 23.5
5) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 19.5
6) Adrian Morgan 18.5
7) “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 17.5
Crazy Legs Conti 17
9) “Nasty” Nate Biller 15
10) “Super” Paul Barlow 9
10) Damien Boykin 9
12) “Beautiful” Brian Seiken 7
13) Anita Jones 3

This is Bob Shoudt’s 7th victory in his last 8 contests (only loss at KSO VI finals)

6th place finisher Adrian Morgan has a facebook page devoted to his eating challenges called Adrian Against

The Isle Casino twitpic page has some photos

update #2 Adrian Morgan has a facebook gallery

update #3 SunHerald has a gallery

update #4 Dan On the Street has a video with quotes from Paul Barlow, Tim Janus and Bob Shoudt, who claims Kobayashi is avoiding him.

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SkyNews reports that Barry Rigby ate a meat pie in 43 seconds to win the annual pie eating contest at Harry’s Bar in Wigan, England today.

The Wigan pie contest is probably the best publicized English contest. This year’s gimmick of checking for performance enhancing substances was noted by the BBC. (Gravy is listed as a performance enhancing substance). Pitch Weekly also had a blog entry about the contest (from Liz K)

update The Guardian, Daily Express and Manchester Evening Post have articles.

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CompetitiveEaters.com reports that Don “Moses” Lerman won the latke eating contest at Zan’s Deli today. Paul “Pork Slap” Arcaria was second. According to the eatfeats database, this is Lerman’s first win in a sanctioned contest since the August 2004 Nathan’s qualifier in Saratoga Springs, NY.

update Don Lerman has posted a video announcing his retirement from competitive eating to his blog.

update Dec 15 Recent comments for this post not pertaining to the latke contest have been moved to the “Abuse Room” thread

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update #5 Jose’s facebook has a contest gallery

update #4 SDNN has a slideshow

update #3 NBCSanDiego has a video and article which calls the winner “Ben Munson”.

update #2 The rest of the results are on the MLE facebook

update The top 5 from the MLE facebook:

1) Ben Monson 65 flautas
2) Joey Chestnut 56
3) Erik “The Red” Denmark 45
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 43
5) Ben Taylor 41

Joses twitpic page has some pictures

Joses’s flauta contest is expected to start a 4 pm Pacific time (7 pm eastern)

Badlands Booker has posted a picture from the contest site.

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From the eatingcontest twitter:

1) “Notorious” B. O. B. Shoudt, 9.75 32 oz. bowls
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 9.5
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 5
4) Crazy Legs Conti 4.25
5) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein

update Full results are available on IFOCE.com

A video of one of the amateur contestants reversing after the contest is available

update #2 Philly.com has a column reporting that Shoudt consumed 2.4 gallons, which will be a total volume record.

update #3 A video of the entire contest is available

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The Aiken Standard reports that Dale Boone won the eating contest held at the Chitlin Strut in Salley, SC. Dylan Davidson was second. update The Augusta Chronicle has an article reporting that Dale Boone claims to have just returned from a cobra eating contest in Bangalore, India.

update #2 Jamie Brinck has a contest video

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Here are the top five IFOCE winning percentages according to the eatfeats database. The list was inspired by Joey Chestnut’s claim that he did not know his winning percentage. The first column is the number of victories, the second the total number of contest results and the third is the ratio of wins to contests.

A list of all the IFOCE eaters with 5 or more victories in the eatfeats database follows after the jump
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