New Poll: Outside the mouth chipmunking
The new poll asks what action judges should take when eaters have food outside their mouths after a contest is finished.
Archive for June, 2006
takeru-kobayashi.com opens
Takeru Kobayashi has opened a web site at takeru-kobayashi.com (Translated version) The site has a blog, but no entries have been added to it. Kobayashi lists his current weight at 75kg (165 lb), about the same weight he received a major scare from Joey Chestnut at the Krystal finals last November.
Cookie Jarvis’ jacket to be retired
IFOCE announces that Cookie Jarvis’ embroidered jacket listing his eating titles will be retired on July 4 in a ceremony before the Nathan’s finals.
3 ribs contests July 3-15
Upcoming IFOCE ribs contests in July:
July 3, Memphis, TN – GoldenPalace.net World Series of Competitive Eating
July 7, Cherokee, NC – Harrah’s Rib Eating Contest
July 15, Lincoln City, OR – Chinook Winds World Rib Eating Championship
Post-buzzer Las Vegas video captures
The following video captures were taken from the video of the goldenpalace.net grilled cheese contest on the contest page at goldenpalaceevents.com after the contest timer expired (around 2:20 – 2:26 in the video)
It is obvious from the video captures that Sonya has a significant amount (probably 1/4 to 1/2 a sandwich) outside her mouth after the contest is finished. I assume that the man with sunglasses and a notepad is a contest official and he apparently took no action after he saw the amount of food outside Sonya’s mouth.
If the chipmunking rule is going to be interpreted liberally, then Sonya has every right to take advantage of that interpretation, but IFOCE should clarify the details of that rule so other eaters can take advantage of it as well.
SJ Mercury: Joey has a message for Kobayashi
The San Jose Mercury has an article about Joey Chestnut’s record breaking performance at the goldenpalace.net grilled cheese contest Saturday which ends with a message to Takeru Kobayashi:
“I hope he knows I’m working hard, and if I do beat him, he’ll know I was coming to get him.”
(Does anyone know what the prize money for the grilled cheese contest was? Joey won $2,500, but I have been unable to find what the other prize amounts were.)
Las Vegas grilled cheese videos & gallery
Erik Denmark has a video of Eater X’s grilled cheese exhibition & Andrew Lane has a gallery by El Toro on their blogs.
Dale Boone returns to the United States?
In this comment from March 5, Dale Boone says he will return in 97 days. If he adhered to that schedule, he would have returned to North American on June 10.
Brian Subich Digest interview
Liz interviewed “Big” Brian Subich after he won the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday.
Ham steak contest in Richmond June 24?
The calendar on Badlands Booker’s myspace page announces that he will appear at the Virginia State Lottery Ham Steaks Contest in Richmond on June 24. This contest does not appear on the IFOCE list of contests.
Updated June 12 1:50 PM Ian Hickman has confirmed that the Virginia Lottery will sponsor a contest on the 24th in Lynchburg, not Richmod. Sonya Thomas is expected.
A new goldenpalace rib contest in Memphis on July 3 has also been announced.
Kobayashi videos on YouTube
The video below is a clip from MTV’s True Life documentary in which Takeru Kobayashi eats a huge meal of noodles and then a mountain of spicy shaved ice:
Other Kobayashi videos on YouTube:
US Open of Competitive Eating – Pasta
Nathan’s Hot Dog finals
Andrew Lane: Joey sets record w/47 GC sandwiches
from dogsarefunyes.blogspot.com
ArenaBowl XX FanFest, Las Vegas, NV
1) Joey Chestnut 47 grilled cheese sandwiches – world record
2) Sonya Thomas & Pat Bertoletti 37 – tie
4) Rich LeFevre 35
5) Chip Simpson 33
6) Ron Koch 20
7) Erik “the Red” Denmark 17.5
Other results – not necessarily complete
Jason “Erbavore” Erb 15
El Toro 12.5
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 10
Doug “Cerberus” Ecks 8
Tim Janus 18 in five minute exhibition against Arena Football player
Mike Justice 9 in amateur contest
updated 10:00 pm
updated June 11, 9:47 am – Marketwire has a press release and video about the contest.
updated 7:34 – Andrew Lane has a trip report (which is a must-see for females who have ever wondered what men’s bathrooms in Las Vegas look like)
Updated 8:43 PM – KESQ has an AP article about the contest
Brian Subich wins Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier
from IFOCE.com & Brian Seiken – Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier results:
1. Brian Subich, 20.5 HDB
2. Hall Hunt, 20.375 HDB
3. Seaver Miller, 18 HDB
4. Justin Mih, 17 HDB
Gluttonous World Cup Group
Last Wednesday’s televised contest between Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota featured German sausage in honor of the location of the World Cup. Shirota defeated Gal-Sone 49 sausages to 42 and they both wore the jersey of the Japanese national soccer team. Additional eaters wore the uniforms of Japan’s first round opponents: Brazil, Australia and Croatia. Miku Matsumoto, who wore Croatia’s jersey and ate 10 sausages, has a blog entry about the contest.
WSJ on Guinness challengers
The Wall Street Journal has an article on how Guinness is being challenged by alternate record-maintaining organizations including IFOCE. (Sonya Thomas is not the only woman from South Korea who can claim a world eating record)
New Poll: Best amateur grilled cheese performance
Tomorrow a potential $100,000 will be awarded if an amateur eater from Las Vegas eats more than 36.5 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes. The new poll asks if you believe if a feat is possible for the best amateur eater in North America.
Paging Mr. Bertoletti
On Father’s Day, Harry Caray’s restaurant in Chicago will offer a 6 pound tallgrass steak burger for $37.95. The first person to finish that sandwich will receive 4 tickets to a Chicago Cubs game in Harry’s personal seats and his or her name in lights on Wrigley Field’s centerfield scoreboard along with a week’s supply of steaks. $500 will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for each finisher of the burger.
“Eat This Book” appears in MSNBC’s list of summer non-fiction books
A review of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz appears in MSNBC’s roundup of non-fiction books suitable for summer vacation reading.
Hackensack Quick Chek qualifier
NorthJersey.com has a report on yesterday’s Quick Chek Italian sub qualifier held in Hackensack, New Jersey. Ian Hickman won the contest, and Joshua “the Lumberjack” Hearne and Mike Grove also gained entrance into the finals.
TV Champion type program to be adapted from Japanese TV for ABC
TV Tokyo has a program called “TV Champion” which tries to determine who is best in a particular field such as brick laying or eating. A program similar to “TV Champion” called “World Records” on the Nippon Television Network will be adapted into the program “Master of Champions” which will air this summer on ABC. The home page for “Master of Champions” does not say if any eating contests will be televised.
Bilingual Kobayashi blog entry
A hot dog for breakfast inspired the Grumpy Care Bear to write a blog entry about Kobayashi in both English and Japanese. It is interesting to see how differently Google translates apparently equivalent statements.
Russell “the Black Hole” Blackwell starts a blog
Russell “the Black Hole” Blackwell, third place finisher in last Saturday’s Tempe Nathan’s qualifier, has started a blog at http://russellblackwell.blogspot.com/
Ex-vegetarian from India to compete in Norfolk qualifier
The Hampton Roads Daily press has a profile of Partha Peddi, a former vegetarian from Hyderabad, India, who will compete in the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday. (Perhaps Peddi has learned the secrets of Indian competitive eating that Dale Boone has boasted about in his comments)
Offer to link to AICE response
If the AICE leadership believes that they have been censored in the comments of this blog, I will post a link to whatever content on competitiveeaters.com they desire. (This will eliminate the possbility of impostors that is present with blog comments)
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