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.
The KSO blog lists the ranked eaters expected for this weekend's qualifiers in Nashville and Knoxville.
The Atlanta & Birmingham Krystal qualifier posts below have been updated with more links.
The Nashville Scene reports that Crazy Legs Conti will compete in Saturday's Krystal qualifier in Nashville. No other competitors are mentioned.
KSO VI wild card leaders
With two Krystal qualifiers left, here are the wild card leaders:
update The Atlanta results on IFOCE.com have been updated to give Steakbellie 42 points.
2009 Atlanta Krystal qualifier thread
update Sept 15 Official Krystal blog entry | video
Creative Loafing gallery | Life in the Left Lane blog entry | Paul Barlow “Maaad” as Hell interview video
update #2 Full results are available on IFOCE.com
update Rich Shea has the top 3
1) “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 66 points
2) Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston, 42
3) Jon Bello, 39
The KSO twitter has started contes updates from Lenox Mall.
Badlands Booker is best in Birmingham
update Sep 15/b> Official Krystal blog entry | gallery | video
update #2 Full results are available on IFOCE.com
updateThe official top 3 have been announced
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 51
2) Erik Unger 42
3) Anthony Reganato 37
Unger and Reganato were the first pair to complete the Carnivore Challenge at Big Pie in the Sky
The qualifier at the University of Alabama Birmingham has started on the KSO twitter. Erik Unger is close behind Badlands Booker.
The Krystal Square Off blog lists Bob Shoudt's competition in Sunday's qualifier in Atlanta which includes Pete Davekos, Juris Shibayama, Mike Landrich, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins , Steve Martin and Brian Subich.
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with "Humble" Bob Shoudt.
KSO blog interviews Badlands Booker
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with Eric “Badlands” Booker, who will compete in the Birmingham qualifier on Saturday. “Humble” Bob Shoudt will compete in the Atlanta qualifier on Sunday and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston, Kevin Ross and Paul Barlow will compete in unspecified qualifiers this weekend.
The Krystal Square Off blog has a post previewing Monday's qualifier in Jacksonville. Hall Hunt is expected to make three TV appearances to promote the contest.
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