KSO VI September 27, 2009 w/ 2 rule changes
The Krystal Square Off twitter has a link to a blog entry announcing that this year’s finals will take place on September 27. The blog also announces two new rules changes: one will limit “detritus”, the second modification is not described.
As for the other change, Brad Wahl, the vice president of marketing at The Krystal Company, shared, “Let’s just say it’s a really big change; one that will make this year’s competition the most exciting in the six-year history of the Krystal Square Off. Much like the way the three-point shot revolutionized the game of basketball, this new rule will drastically alter the way eaters approach our contest from a strategic level.”
The krystalist twitter announces that information about Krystal Square Off VI will be posted on http://twitter.com/ksquareoff tomorrow.
Wicked PR has uploaded a gallery from last year's Krystal Square Off finals. Juliet Lee is mislabeled as Sonya Thomas in one picture.
Article about Hall Hunt’s Krystal HoF induction
Clay Today has an article about Hall “Hoover” Hunt being inducted into the Jacksonville Krystal Hall of Fame with more information about the boxes that Hall Hunt will appear on:
A total of 15 customers are being recognized and inducted to the Hall of Fame. Three of those are from the Jacksonville area and all of those individuals will have their faces stamped on Krystal boxes that surpass one million units per person present in the states where the fast food restaurant can be found– “from Texas to Virginia and everywhere in between”.
Link Buffet: October 10, 2008
- Picture of Juliet Lee at the Nashville qualifier
- Favorite KSO V pictures at Krystalist
- Kobayashi has some pictures from the Krystal Square Off on his blog
- Tomoko Miyake has posted a FAQ using questions sent by her fans (Her favorite baseball team is the Hanshin Tigers)
- Craigslist posting about Raleigh, NC wing contest Sunday
Val Bromann goes to KSO V
Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery about her trip to the Krystal finals. Her father drove her from Chicago to Chattanooga from midnight to Sunday morning.
Hall Hunt also has some pictures on his blog.
update Jamie of Hungry Sisters has a pre-KSO report which includes her selection as Kobayashi’s bunnette and several videos. (She will post a contest report later)
update #2 The trip report on hungrysisters has been extended to cover the contest and a gallery has also been uploaded.
Link Buffet: September 30, 2008
- News video from the corny dog contest
- Jill Stoler has a contest report from a Brooklyn wing eating contest won by Will Millender
- MosesNews.com will stop covering competitive eating and offer political commentary and restaurant reviews
- News video from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
- Beautiful Brian has uploaded a song about the Nashville Krystal qualifier called “The Cheater” based The Who’s “The Seeker”
- Clips from Sunday’s Gluttonous King broadcast with Scandinavian subtitles
Joey Chestnut repeats in the KSO
From the Krystal Square Off twitter:
1. Joey Chestnut 93 burgers
2. Pat Bertoletti 85 burgers
3. Takeru Kobayashi 84 burgers
update #4 Fox 61 video
blog entry by Kevin the Cool Guy
blog entry by unexpected spectator
youtube video recorded from the audience
update #3 A gallery of the finals is available
update #2 Times Free Press has an article
DNJ.com has a report on Dr. Big Time’s 10 place finish
Kobayashi has a blog entry which concludes (automatically translated)
First of all, I would from next year through the IFOCE, or do believe in freedom.
Of course, is also free to Nathan and Crystal would want to be a challenge.
update The Krystal Square Off blog has full results
IFOCE.com reports Kobayashi received a 2 burger deduction, which cost him second place and $5,000 in prize money
Krystal Square Off V finals previews
- Times Free Press article and video
- WDEF blog entry with video (from Fred Patech)
- Blog entry and gallery about today’s autograph session
- Hall Hunt blog entry
- Sponichi article in Japanese
Link Buffet: September 27, 2008
- Pat Bertoletti has a report on the Czech plum dumpling contest
- Rerun listing of the KSO V broadcast
- KSO V Press conference gallery and video
- Erik Denmark feels more positive about missing the Krystal finals
- Ginormous Burger Challenge finisher receives free T-shirt a year after completing the burger, along with some cookies to apologize for the delay
- Second Philadelphia Eagle ice cream qualifier report (from megamunch)
Kobayashi arrives in Chattanooga
WDEF has a blog entry about Kobayashi’s appearance today at a Chattanooga Krystal. Kobayashi has a message for Joey Chestnut in an embedded video.
Bodog is taking bets on Krystal Square OFF V. In addition to betting on the winner (the amateur is available at 99 to 1 odds) there are several proposition bets.
In other local television news, Pete Davekos will appear on the Fox 25 morning news to promote the Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good.
New Poll: KSO V winner
The new poll asks who you think will win Sunday’s Krystal Square Off finals.
Paul Barlow predicts that Kobayashi will eat 110 burgers to edge Joey Chestnut by 3 in his myspace blog.
Link Buffet: September 25, 2008
- Kobayashi checks into a hospital, but recovers and practices with 100 burgers and plays the MLE video game
- Articles in the UAB and UTC student papers about the Krystal Square Off
- Home page for Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader, who has won several Chicago contests (from AICE news)
- Entry form for local competitors in the Garlicky Greens contest
- Competitive Eater Ben Griffith wins the trip to the Krystal finals
- Don Lerman is questioning his future in competitive eating
Erik Denmark’s top 10 on missing the Krystal finals
Erik Denmark has a blog entry about the Memphis Krystal qualifier which concludes with his top 10 benefits of missing the Krystal Square Off finals. His final 3 items in the list:
3 - Not having to convince my friends and family to get in their car and drive 60 miles to the nearest bar that carries FSN South to watch me for a split second while the camera pans to the middle of the table
2 - Avoid the depressing realization that I won’t get the final burger count because I have to sprint off the stage and straight to the airport to catch the last flight back to Seattle because it is Sunday and I have to work tomorrow
1 - I still have a chance to win a contest and a title in Lewisville on Saturday!
Link Buffet: September 24, 2008
- Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
- Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
- Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
- Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
- FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)
Eaters with 5+ KSO qualifier appearances
A listing of eaters who have competed in 5 or more Krystal Square Off finals qualifiers according to the eatfeats database follows:
Sonya Thomas on KSO V finals absence
Sonya Thomas has updated her website to mention that she will not be competing in this year’s Krystal finals, but does not provide much information on the reasons for her absence.
Last year Sonya Thomas also reported that she would miss the KSO IV finals due to a work related schedule conflict, but that conflict was resolved.
Link Buffet: September 23, 2008
- Jill Stoler has reports on the bun & cheese and loukoumades eating contests she competed in this weekend.
- If you missed the update below, Sonya Thomas declined her wild card slot which will go to Crazy Legs Conti
- Krystal amateurs Info: Sackful challenge pregame contest for pairs (
$500$100 prize), finals slot registration - Saint Louis Sushi gallery. The top 3 - last years winner did not repeat, the winner is not named
- Mount Union College hot dog contest
- Phoenix area hot dog contest with qualifiers for high school students
- “Furious” Pete to do eating contests at the Mr. Olympia expo this weekend
Krystal Square Off broadcast information
Zap2It.com has broadcast information about the Krystal Square Off finals. It does not appear that the program will be rerun in the immediate future, but it will not be preceded by live programming that could pre-empt it.
Rich and Sonya go 5 for 5 in KSO finals
The results of today’s Memphis qualifier have kept two streaks alive. Rich Lefevre and Sonya Thomas are the only American eaters to have qualified for all five Krystal Square Off finals. A list of eaters who have qualified 3 or more times follows:
update IFOCE.com reports that Sonya Thomas has declined to attend the finals and that Crazy Legs Conti will take her slot.
Rich LeFevre wins Memphis Krystal qualifier
The Krystal Square Off twitter has the top 3 of this afternoon’s qualifier in Memphis:
1. Rich LeFevre 52 burgers
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Erik Denmark 50
If these are the official results the 3 wild cards will be:
1. Sonya Thomas 55
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Badlands Booker 51
If a fourth wild card is added Crazy Legs Conti or Erik Denmark would claim the slot with 50 burgers depending on whether Conti broke Denmark’s previous result of 43.
Memphis qualifier expected entrants
The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of today’s qualifier in Memphis. Listed ranked entrants include Rich LeFevre, Crazy Legs Conti, Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark and Chris Abatsas, Damon Serignet. Juris Shibayama’s competing in a second qualifier will give him the tiebreaker over Badlands Booker regardless of how much he eats.
Sonya Thomas will get in unless the top four breaks 55. Booker will have to hope that the runner-up does not exceed his total of 51.
Erik Denmark has blog entries about last weekend’s jalapeno contest and Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He has the following account of the Krystal overtime in Memphis:
In the 10 burger overtime eat-off, Rich Shea announced clearly to keep the eating clean - Juliet did not, she continued to stuff multiple burgers in and around her mouth getting about half of them in and half of them on the table and ground. She raised her hands in the air when her 10 burgers were out of the boxes, the crowd booed and the judges told her to eat the mess she had made. She continued to sweep up the sloppy burgers from the table and with every sweep of burger mess in to her mouth she raised her hands again looking for victory and the crowd booed louder. This continued for about the next 60 seconds, the crowd was now hoping that either Badlands or Juris would get through their 10 burgers before Juliet was done cleaning her mess.
But it didn’t happen, Juliet finally ate enough of what she had spilled to get the decision. Not a popular decision at all.
Erik Denmark also says that Kobayashi’s bye slot in the Krystal finals will be filled by an amateur pulled from the crowd and not a fourth wild card entrant.
Kobayashi sets Krystal qualifier record w/89
update #5Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a trip report
update #4 The Krystal Square Off blog has a contest report which says that Kobayashi ate 100 burgers in 8 minutes the day before the contest. There is also a gallery in which Kobayashi shows off his post-contest stomach.
Al.com has another article
update #3 AL.com has a gallery
update #2 UAB student life has some short videos. The contest was not held inside the stadium
update Steve Ramirez was second w/24, the 3.5+ ratio might still be a record.
According to the Krystal Square Off twitter, Kobayashi ate 89 Krystals in Birmingham today, breaking Joey Chestnut’s qualifier record by 2. Super Paul ate 20. The 4+ ratio between first and second place might be an IFOCE record.
Here is a flashback to another famous international visitor to Alabama - a video of the Rolling Stones recording “Wild Horses” in Muscle Shoals before the infamous Altamont concert.
The most significant previous intersection of competitive eating and UAB athletics probably occurred when UAB soccer player Pam Cooney became half of the first all female pair to finish the Pointersaurus Pizza challenge.
Kobayashi does interview partially in English
A video of Takeru Kobayashi’s appearance on the Fox 6 morning show is available. Kobayashi answers in English when he is asked for his Krystals personal best. Kobayashi also oversees, but does not compete in, a contest in the studio.
Videos from the Nashville and Knoxville qualifiers are also available on the Krystal youtube page.
Link Buffet: September 19, 2008
- Badlands Booker, Paul Barlow and Andrew Lane are the other listed entrants for the Birmingham qualifier, but Booker’s twitter says he will probably pass on the contest and hope 51 suffices for a wild card
- NYC Famous Famigila pizza contest prize format restructured according to comment - first prize reduced to $5,000 and number of cash prizes increased to 7
- Article with the official results and video about the Chicago jalapeno contest
- Article about Stu Mesnier’s attempt to repeat as St. Louis sushi champion
- MissBusyLady unveils her apparel for female competitive eating fans.
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