| 2009 Sep 27 | 6th | 60 | 8 min | Krystal Square Off finals | Chattanooga, TN |
| 2009 Sep 19 | 4th | 15.5 | 10 min | Harrah's Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship | Bossier City, LA |
| 2009 Sep 18 | 2nd | 30 | 10 min | World Burrito Eating Championship | Albuquerque, NM |
Hall Hunt repeats in Jacksonville qualifer
update #4 Sun-Sentinel has a blog entry
update #3 The KSO blog has a gallery and video and Kerry Speckman has a blog entry:
At first, my 12 point total doesn’t sound all that impressive until you consider I, a mere amateur in my very first eating competition, finished only one point behind The Hangman, who is currently the number two ranked eater on the Competitive Eating Senior Tour.
update #2 Full results are available
update Jacksonville.com has an article and the FirstCoastNews has a video (from the Hangman)
The Krystal Square off has the top 3 from today’s qualifier in Jacksonville
1) Hall Hunt 65 points
2) John Bello 36
3) RJ Frasca 35
Jimmy John’s makers vs. eaters reports
Decider Chicago has a report on Saturday’s contest between Jimmy John’s sandwich makers and Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Tim Brown and Steven Dokho. update ChicagoFoodies has an interview with Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt.
update #2 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery about the contest.
epesantes: Hall Hunt wins Palm Beach corn
update #5Promo contest with Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos on CBS 12 Saturday morning news show
update #4 Erika Pesantes has posted her contest report to sun-sentinel.com
update #3 (from comment) CE News has a report which says Sonya Thomas competed
update #2 from http://twitter.com/epesantes/statuses/1622798669 “winner is Hall “Hoover” Holt of Tampa with 33 ears of corn in 12 minutes.”
George Shea has the rest of the top 3: hall hunt wins with 34 ears of corn even in 12 mins, Joe LaRue in second, Legs in third
There was 33 minutes between the contest end and results announcement on http://twitter.com/epesantes
update The contest is over – http://twitter.com/gcshea & http://twitter.com/epesantes should have results
Some entrants in today’s eating contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta according to George Shea’s twitter: Competing in corn tomorrow at 3 pm: Legs, Davekos, Hall Hunt, Sonya Thomas, Joe LaRue. Also: Treavor Eaton, Bill Myers, Nate Biller?
Hall Hunt at Rays Fan Fest & Corndog Party
Hall Hunt attended Saturday’s Tampa Bay Rays Fan Festival where Joey Chestnut signed autographs and has a blog entry with several pictures of that event.
Hall also has a blog entry about “The World’s Biggest Indoor Corndog Party”, an eating contest held at a radio station between competitors from the Universities of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. The U of Florida competitor did not show up and Hall was apparently not allowed to substitute.
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: December 13, 2008
- Hall Hunt to be inducted into the Jacksonville Krystal Hall of Fame on Monday
- Furious Pete interview on youtube – bodybuilding.com forum thread about it
- Beautiful Brian has
set upemailed about a Sonya Thomas quiz - MissBusyLady is considering entering some contests in 2009
- Registration for the Princeton, NJ Oyster Bowl opens
- Detroit Pistons Dollar Night hot dog contest December 19
Link Buffet: October 9, 2008

- Joey Chestnut to appear at Edmonton Oil Kings minor league hockey game on Friday
- Badlands Booker to perform “Mamma Mia” rap before Famous Famiglia pizza contest
- Hall Hunt’s Krystal performance mentioned in jacksonville.com
- Big Texan Steak Ranch to appear on the Travel Channel in December
- Wichita State professor has won a local jalapeno eating contest five times
Sonya Thomas & Hall Hunt podcasts available
Podcast interviews of Sonya Thomas and Hall Hunt are available on the Krystal Square Off blog.
Hall Hunt Czech trip repot
Hall Hunt has posted a blog entry about his trip to the Czech Republic to compete in eating contests at the Trnkobrani festival. He had difficulty extracting the plum pits from the plum dumplings, which he believed was required for counting purposes, but was actually unnecessary. Saturday’s contest was a pizza / pickles / ice cream triathlon. (If a pregnant woman competed, she might have won that event
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Czech contest coverage

Several Czech language articles and a gallery about the eating contests held at the Trnkobraní festival this weekend are available. Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt participated in a pizza contest held yesterday. An hour long dumpling eating contest will take place today. Pat Bertoletti hopes to break the record of 191 dumplings set in 2003.
update An article with the results of the dumpling contest is available (from Steakbellie)
1. Pat Bertoletti 233 dumplings, new record (had 200 after 35 minutes)
2. Kamil Hamersky 162 dumplings
3. Hall Hunt 134 dumplings
Bertoletti & Hall Hunt in Czech contest August 17
(from Hall Hunt) The website for the Trnkobraní festival in the Czech republic reports that Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt will be competing in an eating contest at that event on August 17. Kamil Hamersky, who participated in the 2006 Nathan’s finals is also expected to compete.
Link Buffet: July 18, 2008
- Hall Hunt article in U of Florida student paper. Hall had a bad knee while he ran a marathon last Saturday. An article about Erin Andrews appears in the same issue.
- Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appear in music video by Low Water (myspace)
- Wing Tut previews the contests he will MC this weekend. Samatha Brown of the Travel Channel might compete in the Italian sausage contest.
- MissBusyLady contemplates a Burritozilla attempt
- News items after May 8 removed from IFOCE home page
- Article about Randy Harrison, participant in the US Open of Competitive Eating
- WLOCE registration is open (from Crawfish comment)
- MTV’s video game blog has footage of the first two minutes of the MLE game
- Blog entry about Pauliesaurus challenge. The current prize is $250.
Hall Hunt’s post Nathan’s poll released
Hall Hunt has compiled the votes for his new poll taken after the Nathan’s finals. The new top 5:
1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (10) (292) [1]
2. Takeru Kobayashi (1) (279) [4]
3. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (1) (257) [2]
4. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (238) [5]
5. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (233) [7]
Link Buffet: July 14, 2008
- Hall Hunt completes the Grandfather Mountain Marathon (Boone, NC area)
- Singapore qualifier videos and photos
- Fort Wayne hot dog contest report (full results)
- Manning brothers compete in Oreo Double Stuf Lick Race with $10,000 prize
- Two questions by Skinnyboy
- Greenwood, SC hot dog contest results
- CBS 46 video of Atlanta bacon contest
- Michelle Lesch wins 10th South Africa oyster eating contest
Link Buffet: July 11, 2008
- Joey Chestnut on the Today Show after defending his Nathan’s title
- Short article about Hall Hunt on jacksonville.com
- Mini burger eating contest in Long Beach Monday. Purse is $600 in restaurant gift certificates.
- FCC affirms $4000 fine of WIP for not following listed rules in Wing Bowl 13.
- Parody about alleged performance enhancing drug use in the Nathan’s finals
- Southington, CT hot dog contest also goes into overtime
- Kobayashi has a blog entry about Hungry & Focused 4 showing Super Paul Barlow’s cover art
- Kobayashi also has a link to Erin Wigger’s gallery of competitive eaters
Link Buffet #3: July 3, 2008
- Tampa Bay Online article about Nathan’s finals
- Joey Chestnut interview for Tampa Bay Online
Q: Do you and Kobayashi actually hate each other?
A: We might like each other in 15 years when we’re done. A lot of us are close friends. - Hall Hunt article in First Coast News
- AFP article about Nathan’s finals. Kobayashi says he will eat at least 60 HDB
- Japan Today article about Nathan’s finals
- Little Italy pasta contest July 5
- Updated odds on gambling911.com
- re-release of 2007 Jason Fagone article about C E injuries (from Wing Kong & Megamunch)
- Youtube video of QVC qualifier
- More comments on the WSJ Health blog
Link Buffet: July 3, 2008
Articles about Nathan’s finalists
- Pat Philbin – NJ.com
- Hall Hunt – Orlando Sentinel
- Nate Biller – MySanAntonio.com
- Pete Davekos – Boston Herald
- Takeru Kobayashi – NY Daily News
- The Wall Street Journal’s health blog on competitive eating
- Will Millender and Sal Carbone expected at Peggy O’Neil’s hamburger eating contest
- IFOCE BBQ sandwich eating contest near Tulsa July 26 – registration opens Monday (from Crawfish)
- The Sporting News blog thinks Nathan’s hype is down in 2008
Hall Hunt repeats at Charlotte qualifier
Charlotte / Concord results from IFOCE.com Hall Hunt repeats with a victory margin considerably larger than in 2007.
1. Hall Hunt 34.5 HDB
2. Todd Hennessey 18
3. Chris Wooten 11, UNC Charlotte student
The Salisbury Post has an article about the qualifier which says that Hall “Hoover” Hunt, Pierre “The Real Deal” Abry and C. Todd “Can’t Ya See?” Hennessey are expected entrants.
update Charlotte.com has a video and Sadie of Hungry Sisters served as Hall’s bunette.
update #2 Jeff Chapman has a contest report
update #3 Hall Hunt has a blog entry with pictures
FoxNews has an article and video clip
David Arnott of SportingNews.com competed in the qualifier and has a blog entry
BeautifulBrian.com has a page about Hall’s victory
Link Buffet: May 16, 2008
- AOL FanHouse responds to Canadian Catholic newspaper’s criticism of the eating contest held on Mike & Mike in the Morning (The first competitive eating post on FanHouse since Sonya Thomas oversaw a contest at a Washington Capitals game)
- Hall Hoover begins selling T shirts
- May 24 Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier to take place at Greensburg Sam’s Club
- Something for the 2005 commenter who wanted more posts about female Hollywood celebrities
- Pittsburgh area hot wing contest today (from “Bubba”)
- All you can eat seats at Minnesota Twins games Monday and Tuesday
- 68 year old German man, Heinz Asthoff, eats up to 12,000 calories a day without gaining weight (translated German article)
- Video of Takuya Yamamoto and Tomoko Miyake attempting eating challenges
Link Buffet: April 25, 2008
- Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with information about her last two contests
- Hall Hunt says the press release for the sweet corn eating contest announces that Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti and Joe LaRue will compete
- Wing Tut wants the next UEPa meeting to take place in the Pittsburgh Pirates AYCE section
- Steakbellie has thoughts about the new rankings, the MLE video game and Nathan’s
- Wing Kong also has thoughts on Nathan’s
- Charlotte Nascar track to offer AYCE seats (from the Hangman)
- Dan Rubenstein, who is traveling around the country producing videos for Sports Illustrated, competes in the qualifier for the Collegiate Nationals