As of November 13, Wing Bowl 15 has yet to be listed on the Wachovia Center Schedule. If the Wing Bowl is held the Friday morning before the Super Bowl on February 2, the Wachovia Center will have to switch from a hockey rink to the Wing Bowl configuration to basketball in 24 hours.

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(from supersizedmeals.com) The owner of Bob’s BBQ in Thailand, which created a cheeseburger weighing approximately 80 pounds, left a comment in supersizedmeals.com disputing the Guinness record status of the 105 pound “8th Wonder” burger made by the Clinton Station Diner due to its meat being undercooked and having too many condiments. (Lavish use of condiments did not deny Denny’s 96er burger from having the official Guinness record for a time)

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Google Video has footage of the 2004 Pumpkin Pie Eating contest, won by Eric “Badlands” Booker at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2212699343578141015

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Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live had a cartoon about Kobayashi in Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse that can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=4hkq6Qn0nQY The cartoon had a live action segment which Kobayashi describes the filming of in a blog entry. William “Refrigerator” Perry is the only person who has competed in an IFOCE contest besides Kobayashi to appear in the clip.

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Brian Seiken has a new television show out and his guest is Eric “Badlands” Booker.

In other Badlands news, the preview for Hungry & Focused III on IFOCE.com says that Badland’s son Brandon (seen on Wife Swap) will perform on it.

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The whaler breaks an almost one month hiatus with a review of the Olive Garden. The quality of that restaurant’s entrees are all but irrelevant to the review.

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In a youtube video, Natsuko “Gal” Sone eats a mountain of curry and 75 pudding cups (after aiming for 100), then gets an ultrasound examination with a full stomach.

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WIP host Angelo Cataldi answers a question about Wing Bowl 15 in his blog. He says that tickets will probably go on sale the first week of December and a new contest theme and commisioner to replace the late Eric Gregg will be named at that time. The new theme will “address growing concerns that Wing Bowl has become too much of a national event, at the expense of Philadelphia.” We will have to wait until next month to see if those concerns will be addressed by banning or discouraging out of market eaters from competing.

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A list of every IFOCE eater to win money after July 5 is available after the jump:

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Versus (formerly OLN) will broadcast a barbecuing contest. The competition will be in the format of a multiround tournament. You would think if they can show competitive cooking, they can also televise competitive eating.

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An article about the Toyota Scion in today’s Wall Street Journal says that Toyota intends to drastically reduce television advertising for that brand and focus more on event marketing and branded entertainment. Toyota trucks sponsored an IFOCE contest at the Indiana State Fair and an IFOCE blurb said that several top IFOCE eaters drive Scions.

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It is surprising that absolutely no information about Wing Bowl 15 regarding eligibility, format, tickets or other aspects of that event have been made public yet given that qualifying stunts usually begin the week after Thanksgiving. WIP’s Wing Bowl page still only has information about Wing Bowl 14. Last year, tickets had been sold out by October 24.

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Some clips from last month’s Gluttonous King program are available at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=oogui&search=Search TV Tokyo will have the clips removed when they find out about it, so what it soon if you are interested.

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“Humble” Bob Shoudt has a report from his trip to Chattanooga to compete in Krystal Square Off III in his blog.

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(from megamunch) Last Saturday’s meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has made the home page of that restaurant.

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(from Wing Tut) The Heart Attack Grill’s controversy with nursing advocates made CNN and can be viewed online at: http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/11/09/beyer.heart.attack.grill.knxv
The clip originally appeared on local news and can be downloaded (along with another local news clip) at http://nursingadvocacy.org/press/coverage/profiles.html#heart_attack

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thecitizen.com has an article profiling Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Larry “The Legend” McNeil

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In a recent blog entry, Wing Tut is skeptical about the claims that Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to finish Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound 96er burger in under three hours. Neither woman has participated in any public eating contests or challenges outside Denny’s. The new poll asks how many people you think have actually finished the 96er in under three hours.

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Happy Birthday to SupersizedMeals.com The website is celebrating with Meatcake Week from Nov 6-12.

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(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone takes a break from competing with Shirota in her weekly contest to take on the “Atrocious Alliance”, a group of four people dressed like wrestlers in a sushi restaurant with a conveyor belt. Only one member of the alliance can eat at a time.

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Newly ranked eaters:
20. Chris Abatsas
31. Paul Sakelarides
34. Juris Shibayama
37. Juliet Lee
40. Pete Davekos
46. Molly Zakarian
48. Donovan Busta (previously ranked)
50. Mike Nafziger (previously ranked)

Dropping out of previous ranking:
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (officially retired)
22. Ron Koch (competed at Reno ribs)
23. Bryan Miller (competed in Jacksonville qualifier)
28. Don Lerman (officially retired)
32. Levi Oliver
46. Eddie Hardy
47. Eric Broe
48. Nathan Kunce

Ranked eaters with no contests in database from July 5 – present:
40. Pete Davekos
41. Kevin Lipsitz

Unranked moneywinners
“Mongo” Marquez – 3rd place green chile grilled cheese

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(From Castro Intestinal) New IFOCE rankings were released today. The top 10 are:
1. Takeru Kobayashi
2. Joey Chestnut
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Sonya Thomas
5. Bob Shoudt
6. ChipBurger Simpson
7. Timothy Janus
8. Richard LeFevre
9. Arturo Rios, Jr.
10. Seaver Miller

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(from iht.com) The web page for the mince pie eating contest to be held at Wookey Hole Caves can be found at http://www.wookey.co.uk/bigeat/ Sonya Thomas is definitely an expected entrant.

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EmeraldCoast.com has more on the Apalachicola Oyster Festival. The women’s & overall winner, Mel Tyler, has a married daughter.

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Matt “Foracious” Forss, who will compete in the posole contest on November 18, has forwarded me some of the expected entrants in that event:

Pat Bertoletti
Joey Chestnut
Tim Janus
Matt “Foracious” Forss

Rich LeFevre will probably participate as well since he has done almost all southwestern contests.

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