BeautifulBrian.com has reposted the “Bits & Pieces” from five years ago. Brian had the following information about Dale Boone:

At the Pelmeni contest last month i couldnt understand why Badlands walked away from Dale Boone after Boone gave him a friendly pat on the back. Badlands had explained to me that Boone was calling all the eaters in Buffalo and waking them up at 4 AM. I dont know Boone that well but that doesnt seem like a very nice thing to do.

Crazy Legs Conti is a guest on the “Fat Guys at the Movies” podcast co-hosted by Kevin Carr. (His segment begins around the 34 minute mark.) Crazy Legs mainly talks about his movie watching record attempt, but he does reveal some unconventional attire he wore during a Johnsonville bratwurst contest.

• 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

Paul Barlow has released his list of the top 25 best-dressed IFOCE competitors (which actually contains 33 eaters, I think). His top 5:

1. Tim Brown
1.5 Paul Barlow
2. SykoBozo
3. Ron Koch
4. El Toro
5. Kevin Ross.

If there was a best dressed female rookie category, I would have awarded it to Old Home Week pierogi runner-up Larell Marie Mele and her leopard-print tank top.

Hall Hunt has compiled the October edition of his top 25. The top 10:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (9) (243) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (237) [3]
3. Takeru Kobayashi (229) [2]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (212) [4]
5. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (200) [7]
6. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (198) [5]
7. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (177) [8]
8. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (174) [6]
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (131) [13]
10. Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama (130) [14]

Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz was the only eater besides Joey Chestnut to receive a first place vote.

Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has posted his poll votes.

The new poll asks when you think the next IFOCE poll will come out. The last poll was released in April.

Jason Petrie has set up a ranking system which awards 100-10 points for major contests and 25-1 points for other non-qualifiers. His listing is available after the jump:
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• Video of Crazy Legs Conti’s withdrawal from the Netfllix movie watching record attempt
• Pat Philbin will adopt the nickname “Jumbo Slice” for the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
• NY Magazine thinks the Famous Famiglia pizza contest is today
• Gallery of the b.good Garlicky Greens eating contest
• 990 pound Mexican Jose Luis Garcia dies of heart failure (picture on right is of his gravesite)

BeautifulBrian.com is hosting a poll which asks if the website should be moved to a new provider when hometown.aol.com closes at the end of the month. The choices in the poll are:

• CONTINUE BLOGGING IN IT’S CURRENT FORMAT
• CHANGE IT’S FORMAT TO ALL SPORTS
• CONTINUE BLOGGING WITHOUT BEAUTIFULBRIAN’S CORNER
• BECOME A HATER’S EATING WEBSITE
• REST IN PEACE

• Ian Hickman in CiCi’s pizza contest: part 1, part 2
• J & R Steakhouse’s online Wall of Fame/Shame has been updated but does not include recent notable 76 ounce steak finishers such as Furious Pete or Elizabeth Canady. Maureen Kearney is one of the recently added finishers (picture on right)
• Brad Sciullo has been dropped from the AICE rankings. (Cached previous rankings)
• Women only wing eating contest in Columbus Ohio October 9
• Preview of the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier

• BeautifulBrian.com will lose its web provider at the end of the month with the demise of hometown.aol.com
• Beautiful Brian compares Brad Sciullo with other sports eccentrics
• A higher quality version of “The Cheater”, which Brian says is not meant to embarrass or belittle Juliet Lee.
• MosesNews.com is rebranded as the “The World “Leada”….
  In Political Commentary™”
• Three pound burger debuts in Morgantown, NC. Naming rights will go to the first finisher
• Oyster eating contest for models seeks sponsorship

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.

SonyaTheBlackWidow.com is currently down and brings up a generic search page. It also experienced an outage of several days after Sonya announced she would miss last year’s Krystal finals and for more than a week after the controversial 2006 meatball contest.

• 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

(From Crawfish comment) The Glutton Bowl will be rerun on the Fox Reality Channel tonight at 10pm and 1am eastern. The show duration is two hours. Five hours of competitive eating programming on various channels is probably a record for one 24 hour period.

AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.

The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com

TheStreet.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he describes his training regimen and says that he has eaten 114 burgers in a Krystal practice session.

• Ex-”Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
• More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
• $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
• Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.

• 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)

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.

• Behind the scenes video at the gyoza contest
• Megamunch’s report from the whoopie pie contest. Ian Hickman threepeated.
• Article and video about the beanie burger eating contest at the Texas-Oklahoma fair
• Doc Chey’s noodle eating contest in Atlanta October 5. Dale Boone won last year’s contest
• Possible entrees for a restaurant specializing in competitive eating challenges.

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.

• 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.

The WLOCE myspace page has a picture of Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough captioned WLOCE NEW MEMBERS.

update This post somehow overwrote the previous one, which was about videos from the previous weekend’s contests:

610WTVN cannoli contest video
New York Post cannoli contest video
Grits contest video with interviews of Tim Janus and Joey Chestnut
Jalapeno contest video from AKA Media

The Krystal Square Off blog has Kobayashi’s appearances on local news today

Frank 151 has a blog entry about Friday’s cannoli eating contest with a video and several pictures.

At this moment, results from only one of the five IFOCE contests this weekend (Nashville Krystals) appear to have been posted on IFOCE.com

The La Contena “Feel the Heat” jalapeno eating contest in Chicago yesterday was listed at #7 in the Sportscenter top 10 plays of the weekend.