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| 2012 Mar 11 | 1st | 13 | 1 min | Grilled Cheese Sandwich Eating Contest | Austin, TX |
| 2012 Feb 3 | 1st | 337 | 30 min | Wing Bowl 20 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2011 Nov 23 | ? | 7.5 | 10 min | Takeru Kobayashi turkey record attempt | Manhattan, NY |
Takeru Kobayashi is currently accepting questions from fans on reddit.com. He will answer the questions in a video posted on his new youtube page on Wednesday.
SI.com has a video of Takeru Kobayashi eating Christmas cake and drinking a gallon of egg nog at the sports Illustrated office. (via Kobayashi twitter)
SI.com has a gallery of Takeru Kobayashi's visit to the Sports Illustrated office on Tuesday where he drank a gallon of egg nog faster than a team of staffers could.
Takeru Kobayashi has been officially announced as a competitor in Wing Bowl 20.
FreeKobayashi announces that a big announcement will be made tomorrow. Will Takeru Kobayashi commit to competing in the 2012 Wing Bowl?
Takeru Kobayashi has posted a picture of his turkey eating exhibition in the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated.
RecordSetter announces Takeru Kobayashi's total in today's turkey record attempt was 8.52 pounds in 10 minutes. update The official amount was 7.5 pounds (gallery) update Nov 24 Huffington Post has a video update Nov 24 #2 Huffington Post report |
Takeru Kobayashi has started a new facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/KobiEats
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for eating turkey at Turtle Bay in New York City on Wednesday. The event will be broadcast on Kobayashi's ustream channel.
The FreeKobayashi twitter announces that Takeru Kobayashi will be a guest of The Daily Show tonight on Comedy Central at 11 pm. update The clip containing Kobayashi's short appearance is available online (via Free Kobayashi twitter)
GuinnessWorldRecords has video from a Japanese television program where Kobayashi attempted to break the Guinness record for burgers by eating 10 burgers in 3 minutes. (Audience video from the record attempt in New York City in August 2010)
Takeru Kobayashi was reportedly at the office of Sports Illustrated today and ate 32 hardboiled eggs and drank a gallon of milk.
MikeSteadyBurn has a video of Takeru Kobayshi drinking a gallon of milk in 18 seconds at today's Blogs With Balls Sports New Media Conference (via BuzzFeed). Darren Rovell of CNBC had a picture taken with Kobayashi, who he said hit "rockbottom" for appearing at a baseball game in Gary, IN.
Kobayashi wins West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship
update Sept 8 TheSun.Co.UK has an article with a video and OrangeCounty.com has a video
update Sept 7 Personal bests have been updated.
update Sept 6 #2 CBS and KTLA have new videos. A video of almost all of the entire contest is available. Patch has a gallery.
update Sept 6 The OC Register has an article and gallery and Fox News has an article. (via comment)
update 11:13 Naader Reda has the results
1) Takeru Kobayashi, 49 hot dogs, lowest total in a big hot dog contest since 2005
2) Tom Gilbert 29
3) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25
4) Rich LeFevre 23.75
5) Johnnie Excel 22.75
6) Naader Reda 17
7) Dale Bone 16.5
Kevin Ross 16
9) Aaron Ybarra 14
10) Mary Bowers 6.5
update 9:52 Kobayashi’s official total is 49 hot dogs
update 9:30 The contest is over. Rebecca Hall reports that Kobayashi ate 47 hot dogs. (Dale Boone reportedly quit)
Naader Reda has a preview of this evening’s West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship at The Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, which will start at 6pm Pacific (9 pm eastern).
At least six competitors in the ten person field have eaten at least 30 hot dogs in a contest. Here are the personal bests according to the eatfeats databse (contests only, no exhibitions)
Takeru Kobayshi 64.5 HDB in 10 minutes
Tom Gilbert 34.5 12 minutes + OT
Rich LeFevre 34 HDB in 12 minutes / 31 in 10 minutes
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski 33 12 minutes + OT
Dale Boone 31 in 10 minutes
Johnnie Excel – 30 HDB in 15 minutes
Kevin Ross 20 HDB in 10 minutes
Naader Reda – 17.5 HDB in 12 minutes
Aaron Ybarra – 17 HDB in 12 minutes
Mary Bowers – 8 HDB in 12 minutes
If Tom Gilbert finishes ahead of Pete Czerwinski, it would be the third time in a row he has bested “Furious” Pete and Tom Gilbert would have a strong claim as the top non-IFOCE competitive eater besides Kobayashi. Here are their head to head results:
WLOCE3 has posted a video of Takeru Kobayashi and Dale Boone at yesterday's press conference at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA to promote the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championhip.
PIE in has produced a video of its pizza eating contest held earlier this month in Barrie, Ontario.
Takeru Kobayashi is listed as a speaker at Blogs With Balls 4 (billed as the "leading sports new media event series in the country") in New York City on September 24.
Kobayashi repeats as Pie Pizza champion
update Aug 24 “Furious” Pete has uploaded a contest video.
update Aug 22 Simcoe.com and The Barrie Examiner have galleries
1) Takeru Kobayashi 43 slices in 10 minutes
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25 slices
3) Meredith Boxberger 21 slices (ate pizza in 2 minutes to qualify)
?) Lara Martin 12 slices
update 7:45 The Toronto Star has a gallery. Meredith Boxberger was third with 21 slices
Frank Ferraigne reports that Takeru Kobayashi repeated as the winner of the contest held at Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario with a total of 43 slices in 12 minutes. Aylan Couchie has some twitpics of the contest, which was held while it was raining. update “Furious” Pete Czerwinski ate 25 slices, 4 less than he ate in 2010.
The youtube page for the Gary, Indiana RailCats has a video of Takeru Kobayashi throwing the first pitch and doing a hamburger eating exhibition in yesterday's game. update Kobayashi ate 6 burgers in 47 seconds in the 7th inning
MetroNews.ca has a short article about Takeru Kobayashi defending his title in the pizza eating contest at PIE in Barrie, Ontario on August 21.
Takeru Kobayashi competed in a one minute pizza eating contest on MTV After Hours. (via comment)
2011 Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge
update August 5 Furious Pete has a travelog which includes his opinion about Brad Sciullo.
update August 4 OC Weekly has a blog entry and gallery about the challenge. Brad Sciullo now has a beard. A podcast of Takeru Kobayashi’s appearance (35 min) on the Loveline radio show with Dexter Holland of the Offspring is available (via ultimate guitar)
Naader Reda has the official top 4)
1) Takeru Kobayashi 81 tacos
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 49
3) Brad Sciullo 45
4) Johnnie Excel 41
Videos from the webcast can be viewed online.
6:16 The second head is over. Kobayashi appears to have won easily with an unofficial count of 81 tacos.
6:06 The second heat has started.
5:14 The first heat of the main contest has started
4:32 A women-only undercard contest has started.
The Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge will be the first United States contest against other competitive eaters for Takeru Kobayashi since the Krystal Square Off 6 finals in September 2009. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm eastern and can be viewed online at http://www.livestream.com/gringobandito.
Takeru Kobayashi will compete against fans at the Gary (Indiana) SouthShore Railcats game on August 17. I think this will be Kobayahi's first Chicago-area appearance.
The new poll asks if you think Takeru Kobayashi will eat more tacos than the second and third place combined in tomorrow's Gringo Bandito taco eating contest in Huntington Beach, CA.
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