Desiree, the only female entrant in the Singapore qualifiers, has a blog entry with videos about her contest experience. She wound up receiving a wild card slot in the finals this weekend.

• Nathan’s finals gallery
• Lamb’s rib eating contest in California
• Dani’s Pizza qualifier galleries and results (from MissGluttonsBliss)
• Coney Island taco eating contest video
• Octopus ball eating contest in Japan

• MosesNews.com reports that Kevin Lipsitz received the IFOCE Lifetime Achievement Award
• WLOCE fan blog is now accepting comments (from Crawfish comment)
• Boston.com preview of Italian sausage contest
• Joey Chestnut is Chris’ first competitive eater of the week
• Report on Asbury Park, NJ pizza eating contest with a lot of comments
• Preview of Bayonne, NJ hot dog eating contest
• Report on a Singapore qualifier

• The Boston Herald has a preview of the Italian sausage contest
• Reporter competes in Singapore qualifier
• Seattle doughnut eating contest during concert July 26
• Will Millender’s CE mixtape list
• Picture from the Chinook Winds ribs contest
• Video of beef patty contest

• Hall Hunt completes the Grandfather Mountain Marathon (Boone, NC area)
• Singapore qualifier videos and photos
• Fort Wayne hot dog contest report (full results)
• Manning brothers compete in Oreo Double Stuf Lick Race with $10,000 prize
• Two questions by Skinnyboy
• Greenwood, SC hot dog contest results
• CBS 46 video of Atlanta bacon contest
• Michelle Lesch wins 10th South Africa oyster eating contest

• Kevin Ross article on pe.com
• Pete Davekos article in the Boston Herald
• Podcast of the Lefevres’ appearance on Nevada Public Radio
• column about Brooklyn Stinky Cheese contest
• Wall Street Fighter’s blog entry about attending the Nathan’s finals
• Mindy Kaling to compete in the Office Games beet eating contest
• Rich Shea clips from Awful Announcing
• Qualifier schedule on nathansfamous.com still lists June 24 Tokyo qualifier
• Michelle Lesch to go for 11th oyster eating contest at the Knysna Oyster Festival in South Africa

• July 4 Peoria hot dog contest results
• MLE Singapore contest - first qualfier report, Joey Chestnut interview
• Fort Wayne, IN hot dog contest preview
• Passerby wins Frederick, MD hot dog contest
  
• New trailer for Nacho Mountain (PG rated)
• Bass player wins Tampa hot dog eating contest, vomits, then performs
• Pat Philbin article in NJ.com
• The LeFevres will be on Nevada Public Radio today
• Nathan’s Kevin Ross segments on youtube
• No MLE game release this week

ExpressIndia reports that Anita Choudhary won the women’s division of the mango contest at the New Delhi Mango Festival by eating 1.194 kg of mangos in 3 minutes. A youtube video of the contest is available and says she is the repeat winner.

ifiy has a link to MajorLeagueEating.asia, which announces that Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will face off in an eating contest in Singapore July 27. Three qualifiers to select local entrants will be held and the purse is $3,000 (it is not stated if that is in US or Singapore dollars) Five different types of foods will be used in the contest, including fishballs, premium otah and sotong head.

Earthtimes has an article about the contest.

The contest might result in a schedule conflict for Joey Chestnut, who has been announced as the co-star for Nacho Mountain. Principal photography for that movie has been scheduled for July 20 through July 27.

• Video of Arturo Rios showing his hot dog eating techniques. Pete Davekos also appears. (from Andrea Fasano)
• Possible location change for next UEPa meeting
• Current leaders in bodybuilding.com water drinking contest
• Results of UK nettle eating contest
• Canada Day hot dog eating contest in Canada
• Canada Day pepper eating contest in Beijing

Update Skinnyboy says he made no such comment to the initial commeter “News at Five” on his blog - ojrifkin

A British documentary from 2003 about Takeru Kobayashi competing in Food Battle Club: The Speed can be viewed on youtube. The video shows Kobayashi lifting weights, practicing at a sushi buffet and training for the 1.5 liter water bottle round, which he would lose to Ken Domon.

• Interview with Jill Stoler in CheapAssFood.com
• Logo made for “Furious” Pete
• Regrets email from Crazy Legs Conti
• Austin, TX Veggie Dog contest Saturday
• French supermarket chain Carrefour sponsors eating contest for Thai children

• Article and gallery of crawfish eating contest at the Mudbug Festival in Shreveport, LA
• Report about Niko Niko’s gyro eating contest in Houston
• Pat Bertoletti’s May 16 appearance on the Steve Dahl show is praised
• Man with Mohawk wins shoo fly pie eating contest held on Amish Night at Wilmington, DE minor league game
• http://swallowyourpridemovie.com/ appears defunct
• Geeling Ng, who co-starred in David Bowie’s “China Girl” video, competes in oyster eating contest in New Zealand

• York (PA) Revolution to offer all you can eat seats where you can enjoy the company of former Baltimore Orioles
• Japanese commercial featuring a ramen eating contest
• Pat Bertoletti posts a picture of a hot dog training session (see above) to a yardbarker comment (The Waffle House belt is to remind Pat that Joey can be beat)
• Kansas State Games to have a hot dog eating contest July 18
• UK hot dog eating contest May 23
• Twins closer Joe Nathan to appear (but not compete) at tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier
• Today is Cookie Jarvis’ birthday according to a comment
• Furious Pete has posted an article about the Collegiate Nationals to bodybuilding.com
• China and the Philippines ban conversion of rice paddies to golf courses (via Freakonomics)
• Chicago Nathan’s qualifier next weekend to take place in Matteson
  

• Lake Tahoe jalapeno eating contest May 3, $150 first prize
• San Diego Tribune front page story about the Collegiate Nationals draws criticism
• Minnesota Twins have AYCE tickets for May 19/20
• “Furious” Pete reports eating 50 wings in 3 minutes
• “Doughman” triathlon / eating contest in Durham, NC May 24
• Crocodile Egg eating contest in Thailand

• Jed Donahue competes in a grilled cheese cooking contest and comes in second place. (From Liz K)
• Video of man choking during impromptu hot dog eating contest at Wrigley Field (via FrogSoda & Awful Announcing
• Krystalist challenges chef Gordon Ramsay to a Krystal eating contest
• Megamunch announces return from competitive eating blogging hiatus
• New motto for MosesNews: “When Eating News Breaks…. We Feed It To You”
• Stockton asparagus contest press release
• CBC News article about “Furious” Pete
• USA Today blog commenter wants to meet Joey Chestnut
• Gyudon eating contest in the Philippines

The video from “Food Battle Club” in which Ken Domon drinks 1.5 liters of water in less than 5 seconds has just exceeded one million views according to YouTube, probably making it the first competitive eating clip to reach that mark. The Kobayashi vs. the bear video is probably the second most viewed competitive eating video with just under 900,000 views currently.

Registration for the Nathan’s qualifiers is now open on nathansfamous.com. The list of qualifiers contains 3 contests outside the United States:
June 1, London England
June 17, Hanover, Germany
June 24, Tokyo, Japan

• Deadspin on the Collegiate Nationals
  
• Mike Golic receives a bib from a fan for his upcoming contest
• “Eating Levi” gets into the Newport Beach Film Festival
• NPR podcast on all you can eat sections at ballparks
• Milk Bone eating contest for humans
• Parody of a hot dog eating contest documentary

Registration for Nathan’s qualifiers opens at noon eastern today

Added 11:15 pm

• Article about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski in which he attempts to break his personal record for a 72 ounce steak
• “Black Day” eating contest for South Korean lovelorn
• Leader board for journalists in the Oakland A’s all you can eat section (PG rated pictures) via Deadspin

Mainichi has an English article about Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara’s victory in a women-only okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes containing vegetables) eating contest in Osaka Wednesday:

Each okonomiyaki weighs one kilogram and measures 30 centimeters in diameter.

Hatsuyo Sugawara, a 44-year-old housewife from Iwate Prefecture, won the contest after eating 5.2 pancakes, and received 550,000 yen in prize money, a solid gold spatula, and the privilege of having the restaurant’s largest okonomiyaki named after her.

Mio “Sakura” Takahashi reports she finished second with a total of 4.7 pancakes.

Contest video

See also msn.co.jp

A video of the end of the last round of the “Gluttonous Queen” competition that Natsuko “Gal” Sone competed in is available on youtube. She missed advancement to the next round by just a few grams of steak.

CalorieLab has a paragraph in English about this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest won by Hatsuyo Sugawara.

Ameba and J-Cast have articles

R Suzuki has part two of her contest report

The contest page on TV Tokyo’s website now has pictures of all the competitor.

BlogLive reports that Hatsuyo “the witch” Sugawara won the Gluttonous Queen contest televised today, denying Natsuko “Gal” Sone a threepeat in that contest.

R Suzuki has a writeup of the first half of the program.

TV Tokyo has set up a page about this year’s edition of the “Gluttonous Queen” contest that will be televised on Sunday. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara is listed as one of the rivals for “Gal” Sone’s crown.

TV Tokyo also has a page with links to all the Gluttonous King / Queen contests since 2005.

A video of the giant burger eating contest for three person teams recorded at the Clinton (NJ) Station Diner on February 2 televised on NTV March 20 can be seen at http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6482620yWdSfN4E The video focuses on the Japanese team consisting of Takuya Yamamoto, Tomoko Miyake and Taku Izumi and the team of Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady and Pete Maurizio, but Jill Stoler’s team also makes an appearance. The video also contains footage from a contest for Japanese team members at a Windmill Hot dogs.