The ColemansBandG twitter is giving away trophies from Krystal Square Off qualifiers to make room for new trophies. (Coleman's Bar and Grill is the name Crazy Legs Conti has given to his apartment.)
Nation's Restaurant News reports that the Krystal restaurant chain is for sale. Perhaps the new owners will restart the Krystal Square Off. (via Kenny Hammontree)
TimesFreePress.com has an article on how Krystal's burger box design contest has replaced the Krystal Square Off eating contest.
Val Bromann noticed that KrystalSquareOff.com brings up a placeholder page; the competitive eating content is no longer available.
Jacksonville.com has posted a press release about the discontinuation of the Krystal Square Off qualifier held at Jacksonville Landing Labor Day weekend.
A Times Free Press article about the 2010 Southern Brewers Festival in Chattanooga mentions the lack of a Krystal Square Off qualifier at this year's event.
(via comment) WDEF reports they have received a statement from Krystal announcing that no Krystal Square Off burger eating contest will take place in 2010. The Square Off had the largest payouts in competitive eating with total prizes of $50,000 for last year's contest.
The Times Free Press has an article on the lack of information about the qualifier circuit for this year's Krystal Square Off, which traditionally starts on Labor Day weekend. No official statement about the 2010 Krystal Square Off (or lack thereof) has been released by Krystal or the IFOCE.
The 2009 Krystal Square off was announced on July 3. It has now been a month since that date and no official statement about this year's contest has been released. The new poll asks when (and if) you think Krystal Square Off VII will take place.
Krystal Square Off VII news (or lack thereof)
Has anyone heard any news about this year’s Krystal Square Off? KrystalSquareOff.com and the corresponding twitter have not been updated this year. Last year, the date of the finals (and 2 unspecified rules changes) was announced on July 3.
Notorious B.O.B. has posted a review of the 2009 Krystal Square Off finals to humblebob.com. He believes that three unnamed competitors should have been disqualified.
Rob Gale has a gallery of last month's Krystal Square Off finals and JahnaviB has a gallery of the Garlicky Greens contest
The Krystal Square Off VI results post has been updated with Val Bromann's blog entry and other links.
Kobayashi ends 3 year major drought at KSO VI
update #4 Oct 1 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery
Jamie of Hungry Sisters also has a blog entry
Krystal has a flickr gallery of the contest
AOL has an article
A UTC Echo columnist did not have a positive experience at the finals
update #3 The Hungry Sisters have a contest report about serving as bunnettes and a contest video is available. The Crossvile Chronicle also has a column.
update #2 Bobby DeBarge has a flickr gallery
update The Chattanoogan and Times Free Press have articles and the KSO blog has a contest report
The full results via the eatingcontest twitter & a post-contest twitpic
1 Takeru Kobayashi, 93 points
2 Joey Chestnut 83
3 Pat Bertoletti 78
4 Bob Shoudt 71
5 Sonya Thomas 65
6 Hall Hunt 50
7 Tim Janus 59
8 Erik Denmark 58
9 Tim “Gravy” Brown 52
10 Jim Reeves 50
11 Eric “Badlands” Booker 47
12 Tyler Keys 8
The teleblog of the webcast is available after the jump
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A video of Joey Chestnut's appearance on WDEF this afternoon is available. Joey predicts the winning total will be between 85 and 90. Kobayashi has also posted a blog entry from Chattanooga.
Val Bromann has uploaded her pictures from the La Costena jalapeno contest. She also has several entries previewing the Krystal Square Finals on SillyAmerica.com
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga student newspaper has an article about the Krystal Square Off.
The Krystal finals on Sunday will be webcast on KrystalSquareOff.com.
The new poll asks how many points the winner will have in Sunday's Krystal finals.
2 point penalty costs Juliet Lee WC slot
update #5 The KSO blog has the full results
update #4 George Shea has the top 4:
1) Tim Janus 55 points
2) Juliet Lee 49 points (originally had 51 but received 2 point deduction)
3T) Nate Biller 42 points
3T) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 42 points
The two point deduction cost Juliet Lee a wild card slot since Erik Denmark was the only other non-winner to exceed 50 points.
update #3 The top 2 are now posted on the ksquareoff twitter – Tim Janus won with 55, Juliet Lee was second with 49.
update #2 The contest is over but results have not been announced. The KSO twitter reports that there is controversy about Juliet Lee’s result.
update The contest has started.
Krystal WCs: hang a half hundred or stay home
Here are all the non-winning 40+ results from the Krystal qualifiers. Wild card hopefuls at tomorrow’s qualifier in Knoxville will have to break Jim Reeves 50 points to receive a slot.
| 2009 Aug 29 | 2nd | 55 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | San Antonio, TX |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 2nd | 52 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Nashville, TN |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 3rd | 50 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | Nashville, TN |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 4th | 47 | Benjamin “The Wolf” Taylor | Nashville, TN |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 5th | 45 | Crazy Legs Conti | Nashville, TN |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 5th | 45 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | Nashville, TN |
| 2009 Sep 12 | 2nd | 42 | Erik Unger | Birmingham, AL |
| 2009 Sep 13 | 2nd | 42 | Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston | Atlanta, GA |
Nashville Krystals: Gravy take the gold (jacket)
update #2 The KSO twitter has the official top 3:
1) Tim “Gravy” Brown 54 points
2) Erik Denmark 52
3) Jim Reeves 50
Bryan Beard reports that Tim Brown won with 54 points.
update The contest is over, but the winner is not clear according to the KSO twitter
Bryan Beard might have contest reports on his twitter
The Krystal Square Off blog has a previews of Saturday's qualifer in Nashville and Sunday's qualifier in Knoxville listing confirmed and possible entrants.
A Krystal eating contest was held on East Tennessee This Morning to promote Sunday's qualifier in Knoxville.
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