The singing group Morning Musume, consisting of 13 girls, had a cake eating contest against Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota in their Christmas special. The totals of all 13 girls were combined and Shirota only ate for about 5 minutes of the 10 minute contest. (I hope Shirota got paid well for his appearance)

Part 1, Part 2 (videos are subtitled)

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With the new month, beautifulbrian.com has added some new material which include:

A video of Brian Seiken rapping on “Calling All Night” filmed at the IHOP with Badlands Booker

A weight loss update

A call for an IFOCE senior league

competitiveeatingnews.com reports that Brian Seiken and Krazy Kevin Lipsitz might appear in the pickle eating contest at the North Carolina State Fair October 16.

Eater X’s cigarette brownies might have been a more appropriate food for the North Carolina State Fair than pickles.

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You would assume a passenger on JetBlue would experience fewer tribulations than a pioneer travelling in a covered wagon, but that assumption does not appear to hold in Liz’s move to Denver.

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DallasNews.com reports that American Idol runner up Bo Bice competed in the Corny Dog Eating Contest at the Texas State Fair Sunday and ate a single corny dog. Nathan Biller, 5th place finisher in the Lewisville tamale contest, won with 12 corny dogs in 10 minutes, 6 behind Rich LeFevre’s mark from last year.

updated khou has a picture

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The new poll asks what type of team eating contest you would most like to see.

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Mid South Fair, Memphis TN

1st Tim Janus, 53
2nd Rich LeFevre, 51
3rd Seaver Miller, 41
4th Arturo Rios, 36

The current wildcards with two contests left are Rich, Seaver, Arturo and Crazy Legs.

The webcam quality was by far the best I have seen. Good job to the Krystal people improving its quality.

updated 10/2 Full results are available

The liveblog follows the jump
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From Much & Fast

“Gluttonous King” final:
1) Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota
2) Takuya Yamamoto, fails to threepeat
3) Natsuko “Gal” Sone
4) – 6) ?
7) Tomoko Miyake – ate french fries with chopsticks while everyone else uses hands, later
drops chopsticks

Shirota has an entry about his victory in his blog.

updated R Suzuki has round by round results: Part 1, Part 2

Videos of the preliminary round can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ec4s

Part 1 – Tokyo preliminary round
Part 2 – Osaka preliminary round
Part 3 – Shirota does a restaurant’s eating challenge cheered on by his groupies
Part 4 – Yamamoto works out in a boxing gym
Part 5 – Gal Sone meditates in a Buddhist temple
Part 6 – 1st round – french fry eating contest in Hokkaido farm

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