Pat Bertoletti wins w/ 47 burgers (67 points)
Pat Bertoletti’s twitter reports that he won today’s Krystal qualifier in Chattanooga by eating 42 regular Krystal burgers and 5 Angus burgers worth 5 points. “Wild” Bill Myers was second.
George Shea’s twitter has the top 5:
1. Pat Bertoletti 67 points
2. “Wild Bill” Myers 34 points
3. Rick Petralia 31 points
4. “Chef” Mike Nafziger
5. Paul Barlow
update The Krystal Square Off blog already has full results
update Aug 25 The Chattanoogan has a gallery
update Aug 26 Flickr has galleries of the qualifier, running of the grill and media event.
Thomas Gilbert sets Battle of the Bone record
The Battle of the Bone website reports that Thomas Gilbert set a record at Wednesday’s qualifier in Anthem, Arizona by eating 3 pounds and 5 ounces of wings, defeating 2008 Nathan’s Arizona Mills qualifier runner-up David Cohn by over a pound. It is not clear from the website pictures if Thomas Gilbert is Tom “Goose” Gilbert. The contest rules ban professional eaters and former or current members of Major League Eating.
update The blog entry about the contest has been updated to say that the results are under review.
Linda won tonight's oyster eating contest at Ceili House in Toronto by eating 148 oysters in 3 minutes and will represent Canada in an oyster eating contest in Ireland next month.
Metromix has a picture of Sara Ramon, who won the contest held at Cupcake Station in Birmingham, Michigan last Friday by eating 18 cupcakes in 8 minutes.
TimesOnline reports that Pete Maurizio won yesterday's hot dog eating contest at the Bridgewater-Beaver County River Regatta by eating 19 hot dogs in 5 minutes.
Minnesota funnel cake results thread
Bryan Beard just posted funnel cake results:
1. Tim Janus
2. Hall Hunt
3. Bob Shoudt
4. Erik Denmark
5. Tim Brown
6. Bryan Beard
update CNN has a video and WCCO has a slide show (from A Bomb)
update #2 7th place finisher Jon Lapolla has posted full results and a contest report to a bodybuilding.com forum thread.
The website for the Texas Testosterone Festival reports that Whitney, Miss January in Bikini's Bar and Grill 2009 Calendar, was the runner up in yesterday's raw onion eating contest. Chris Cubas was the winner.
Val Bromann has posted a blog entry and gallery on Saturday's Pepe's taco eating contest at Balmoral Park and her experiences travelling to and from the contest on the party bus.
NWTimes has a profile of Pat Bertoletti containing a report on Saturday's Pepe's Taco Eating Contest at Balmoral Park.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has started a bodybuilding.com thread about his two record-breaking victories (Jake's Burgers & Dani's Pizza) this weekend. The thread has pictures which display Pete's new hair dye job. (Kobayashi is the only other competitive eater to change his hair color for a contest I am aware of.)
Mike Fitzgerald won his third straight victory at Sheboygan Brat Days yesterday after running a marathon earlier in the day. update Sheboygan Press has an article and video
Sound on the Sound has a report on Billy "The Fridge" repeating as champion at Top Pot's doughnut eating contest in Seattle.
Balmoral Park Pepe’s taco results
Pat Bertoletti’s twitter has the top 4 from this evening’s taco eating contest at Balmoral Park race track:
1 Pat Bertoletti 33 tacos
2 Tim Brown 28
3 Erik Denmark 25
4 Nate Biller 19
YFrog has a picture of the winner of tonight's Jake's Burger contest. It appears to be Furious Pete, but the picture is too vague to tell conclusively.
A video of Dale Boone winning Woody's hot dog eating contest in Honolulu yesterday is available on youtube. StevesSnappinDogs.com has a report on yesterday's hot dog contest. Jimmy "Jimineater" Mares won and defending champ Phil Soderborg was second. Andrew Lane finished fourth.
Jimmy John’s makers vs. eaters reports
Decider Chicago has a report on Saturday’s contest between Jimmy John’s sandwich makers and Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Tim Brown and Steven Dokho. update ChicagoFoodies has an interview with Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt.
update #2 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery about the contest.
Tim Cain has emailed results from Sundays' Sloppy Joe Showdown: Pete Maurizio won w/15 quarter pound sandwiches in 8 minutes. Derek Payne and Chris Strnisa tied for second with 11. Downey's House website has some pictures and videos.
The SouthTown Star has a report on Sunday's Bartolini's meatball eating contest.
The Hudson Reporter reports that 71 year old Joseph Wigdor ate 14 hot dogs in Saturday's hot dog eating contest in Bayonne, NJ, which placed him third at the end of reguation time.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has emailed that he won yesterday's Jakes burger qualifier by eating 5 burgers in 1 minute and 36 seconds. Wing Bowl 17 winner John Squibb was the runner up with a time of 2:33.
The Alternative Press has a report the Coney Island wing eating contest held Saturday sponsored by Atomic Wings. Sean Lennon (age 39, too old to be the son of Yoko Ono) won the contest and Elise Rosenberg was the runner-up. 100 people signed up for 10 slots.
NJ.com has an article about the hot dog eating contest at Petridis Hot Dogs in Bayonne, NJ won by Giovanni Costa with 19 hot dogs. The top 3 won health club memberships of varying length.
(from email) Dale Boone qualified for the Jake's Burgers finals after winning last night's qualifier by eating 5 double hamburgers in 2 minutes 40 seconds. Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky finished 11 seconds behind.
StevesSnappinDogs.com has the results from yesterday's qualifier. Jimmy Mares and Bryan Beard tied for first.
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