The new poll asks what eater currently ranked in the IFOCE top 50 who has been competing since at least 2006 and has never made the Nathan’s finals would you most like to see appear on the Coney Island stage. (If I missed anyone who meets these criteria, I will add him to the poll)
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Galleries of the recent Nathan’s qualifiers held in Las Vegas and Apple Valley, Minnesota are now available. Captions for the Las Vegas gallery report that Rich LeFevre ate 32 hot dogs and not the 31 in the official report.

The Las Vegas Sun has an article containing a picture of Rich LeFevre and Sarah Jane [...]

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Gluttonous Queen 2006 clips
introduction
Tokyo Qualifier – Miyuki Iwata vs. Tomoko Miyake
Osaka Qualifier – Gal Sone vs. Nurse

Clips from a show where Gal Sone eats food items with national flags on a conveyor belt. There are women in the audience from the countries corresponding to the flags.
Part 1
Part 2
Reuploads of removed videos
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A table of all 15+ HDB performances by women in Nathan’s contests follows after the jump:

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Tomoko Miyake has a blog entry about her dinner with Miyuki Iwata, who was runner up in last year’s “Gluttonous Queen” and Tokyo Nathan’s qualifier, but has had a low profile since those events.

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tvspot reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s defense of her Gluttonous Queen title will be televised on TV Tokyo April 1 and provides a summary of the program(automatically translated by Google:)

Winning with the woman match which is held 1 years ago the is gal 曽 root.　Now we have become the star talent which is large [...]

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The first round of the 2005 “Gluttonous King” contest televised on TV Tokyo has been uploaded to youtube. Natsuko “Gal” Sone avoided elimination by eating 6 grams more of bread than Miyuki Iwata.

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Jason Fagone has kindly sent me his list of Japanese eating contest results provided to him by Kenji Aoki. The results (available after the jump) come from the book “Ogui Senshuken” and were translated by Marina Kinno. The information confirms the Food Battle Club results on the Japanese website.

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Following the jump is a list of all known performances of 15 or more hot dogs by eaters eligible for the July 3 qualifier. Dale Boone and probably some other southerners will be attending the ribs contest in Memphis.

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Toro attended today’s Nathan’s Tokyo (Roppongi) qualifier, won by Kenji Oguni with 19 HDB, and wrote a blog entry about it. Oguni’s mark is the lowest winning qualifier amount so far. Miyuki Iwata placed second with 15.5 HDB.
This blog entry (in English) focuses on three martial artists who participated in the contest.
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(Since some readers don’t care for posts about Japanese eaters not named Kobayashi, I will combine these links into a single post to make them easier to ignore)
Miyuki Iwata has an interview (in English) from after her victory in Shanghai.
Tomoko Miyake has a video (apparently some type of audition tape). Toro has a translation of [...]

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The Shanghai Daily reports that Miyuki Iwata (岩田ミユキ) , runner up in last month’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest, won the Asia Eating Contest held at the Shanghai Jiuguang Department Store. Iwata’s non-contest meals are at least as impressive as her contest performance. A typical meal for her weighs 6kg (13.2 lb, more than Denny’s 96er burger) [...]

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China Daily reports that the first round of an eating contest was held in Shanghai last Sunday. The 28 eaters who could finish 10 puff pastries the fastest advanced to a semifinal round this Saturday in which hot dogs will be eaten. Miyuki Iwata, runner up in the “Gluttonous Queen” competition, and Chang Wing-man, the [...]

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You Tube has a 9 minute video of the final contest of the “Gluttonous Queen” program broadcast last month at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAm8AJ-RMfk
Natsuko “The Gal” Sone claimed the crown by eating more bowls of spicy noodles than the other two finalists: Iwata and “The Nurse.”

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“The Gal” has been crowned the new queen of Japanese competitive eating.

Here are the results of the final rounds of the “Gluttonous Queen of Japan” contest televised on TV Tokyo yesterday obtained from Everyday of the R sea bass gluttony Part 1 (Google Translation) Part 2 (Google Translation) and Much & Fast [...]

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I have been able to track down information about the Japanese television series about female competitive eaters I wrote about earlier this week. The show, Oogui 2006, is broadcast on TV Tokyo and the second episode will be televised Sunday night. (The program debuted on Tuesday.) The program’s home page is http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/oogui2006/ (Google translation) If [...]

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