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.

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

• 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

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.

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

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

No results from Saturday’s Skin’s hot dog eating contest at the Great Southeast Balloon Festival appear to have been posted on WLOCE.com

The location for the second Skin’s hot dog contest on September 12 is not explicitly listed. It is probably the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair based on the logo.

In his yardbarker blog, Pat Bertoletti announces the opening of his personal website at DeepDishEats.com Bertoletti intends to have recipes and other cooking information on his website in addition to news about his competitive eating career. The contest calendar says that he will compete in the Nugget rib eating contest on Wednesday.

A blog has been started on the Krystal Square Off website at http://krystalsquareoff.com/blog/. The two most recent posts are about Sonya Thomas’ absence from the Chattanooga qualifier and Humble Bob’s hope to break the triple digit mark. The blog mentions a rumor that Sonya might compete in the Jacksonville qualifier Labor Day weekend.

A Krystal Square Off twitter page has also been set up at http://twitter.com/ksquareoff

update A podcast interview with Bob Shoudt is now available on the blog.

• WLOCE myspace page started
• Megamunch resumes The Circuit online comic
• Highlands, NJ clam eating contest report
• Policeman wins Minnesota doughnut eating contest
• NYTImes: average American eats 18.2 pounds of food per week (up 1.8 lb. since 1970)
• Green Bay, WI area hamburger eating contest and festival August 9

A blog about Pat Bertoletti has been started at http://deepdisheats.wordpress.com/. Most of the entries were previously posted on Bertoletti’s myspace or yardbarker blog.

On the Joey Chestnut / Pat Bertoletti yardbarker blog, a video of the Jimmy John’s sandwich makers vs. Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick VanDam event has been uploaded.

A facebook page for Takeru Kobayashi has been set up at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Takeru-Kobayashi/17974913485. The page lists an incorrect birthday for Kobayashi of May 24 (Kobayashi’s actual birthday is March 15), so it might have been created by an impostor.

• 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 database of challenge finishers on Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s website has been set up after being empty for over a year. There are still two listed finishers for the 6 pound burger.

The comments for the Baltimore Sun’s blog entry about the Bowie burrito contest has a link to another baseball themed eating contest. 999AllStar.com has been set up as the home of the 9 hot dogs & 9 beers in 9 innings challenge. Competitors can register on the website and an all star list has been set up.

The URL http://www.yardbarker.com/eating will bring up all competitive eating related posts on the Yardbarker blog. This will list not only Joey Chestnut’s and Pat Bertoletti’s blog, but also MissBusyLady’s fan blog and other eating related entries, such as this report from the Nathan’s finals.

Does anyone know if the traditional July 3 weigh in for Nathan’s finalists will take place tomorrow? I have not been able to find any coverage online about that event. The IFOCE.com websites have yet to be updated with any information about the upcoming Nathan’s finals (or Kevin Ross’ qualifier victory).

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.

A comment by Crawfish contained a link about Dale Boone’s victory in the corndog eating contest at Corndogorama. In the pictures, Dale Boone is wearing a World League of Competitive Eating baseball cap and has a shirt with a .com address. Trying WLOCE.com reveals that a website has been set up at that address. The site has a standings list which Dale Boone leads. P.Thayagarajan, mentioned as an Indian giant and a possible entrant in last year’s Nathan’s finals on IFOCE.com, is #6. Most of the links on the page are inoperable, but a contact page and safety guidelines are available.

update The Salisbury Post has a report about Dale Boone’s victory in the Apple Ugly qualifier last night

• 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

(via Hugging Harold Reynolds) Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti have started a group blog at http://yardbarker.com/users/PBandJC. Pat’s first post describes his techniques for the upcoming asparagus contest. Yardbarker is a blog host for famous athletes. Recent posters include Darren McFadden, Greg Oden and Rasheed Wallace. (Rasheed Wallace gave thumbs up to Joey Chestnut’s first post)

It has now been over 48 hours (and one full working day) since the eating contest at Broadway at the Beach concluded and there does not appear to be any contest results or other coverage on IFOCE.com or any of its affiliated websites.

(From skinnyboy & supersizedmeals) A Yahoo! group devoted to eating challenges has been set up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foodchallenges/ Membership is required to view the group in its entirety, but non members can read the groups message board.

(From IGN.com) The website for the upcoming Major League Eating video game, MLEGame.com has been set up. The website has screen shots, videos (Badlands Booker provides a soundtrack for the trailer) and a list of the game’s characters: (from left to right in the cartoon above) bunette, Crazy Legs Conti, Rich LeFevre, paramedic, Kobayashi, El Toro, Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee, Tim Janus, Erik Denmark.

The official release date is May 12. A weekly drawing awarding gift certificates will be held for each of the 12 types of food in the game. Registration for the first drawing opens today.

Other links: Kotaku, direct link to game trailer

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.