(Thanks Mike Wooldridge) There was a competitive eating records category on Thursday night’s episode of Jeopardy. The clues for that column can be seen at the Jeopardy archive for November 2. (If anyone recorded that show, a clip of its competitive eating questions would be appreciated) The 5 answers were about the feats of Rich LeFevre, Oleg Zhornitskiy, Cookie Jarvis, Sonya Thomas and Buffalo Jim Reeves.

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Wing Tut has a report from last night’s second Uncle Charley’s qualifier and says that Pete Maurizio was the victor. Wing Tut was fighting a cold and placed 4th, denying entry into the finals.

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The official IFOCE rankings have not been updated since sometime in July. It is obvious that Joey should retain #2 and reasonably clearcut that Pat should move to #3 if only results from the second half of 2006 are taken into account. Positions #4-#7 are more debatable. To assist in deterning these slots, I have listed the head to head results of eaters currently ranked #3-#8 for post-Nathan’s contests. Click on the results to see the breakdown.

Sonya 2 Pat 2
Sonya 0 Bob 2 Tie 1
Sonya 1 Tim 2
Sonya 1 Chip 2
Sonya 4 Rich 1
Pat 3 Bob 0
Pat 2 Tim 0
Pat 2 Chip 0
Pat 5 Rich 1
Bob 4 Tim 0
Bob 1 Chip 4
Bob 2 Rich 0
Tim 0 Chip 3 Tie 1
Tim 5 Rich 0
Chip 2 Rich 0

Combining all these results gives the following records:
Pat 14-3 .824
Chip 11-4-1 .733
Bob 9-7-1 .563
Sonya 8-9-1 .471
Tim 7-10-1 .412
Rich 2-18 .100

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The Connection has more information about the pizza eating contest to be held at Bugsy’s restaurant in Alexandria, VA on Saturday. The first place prize is tickets to the Redskins Giants game with transportation by limousine included.

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Film critic Richard Roeper digresses from writing about movies to offer congratulations to fellow Windy City resident Pat Bertoletti for his third place finish at the Krystal Square Off. Roeper also mentions Don “Moses” Lerman’s baked beans record.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.

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Ernie attended the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a blog entry and recorded the last 39 seconds of it from the audience.

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The Sonya Thomas tribute video produced by Brian Seiken is now available at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/engine.html

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The new poll asks how the best eater will perform at the United Eaters of Pennsylvania meeting at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA Saturday.

Megamunch that the gathering will be advertised in a local paper, so some unexpected eaters might show up.

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(Thanks Adam of AHamburgerToday.com) The Park Slope Gastronome attended a Halloween party as Sonya Thomas.

(If I made a Sonya Thomas costume, I would include the orange gym shorts she wore to a lot of contests this summer)

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Metacafe has a clip of a 20 foot sushi roll eating contest between Takako Akasaka and Misao Fujita that was held in a bowling alley. A brief segment of that contest appeared in Takako Akasaka’s career highlights video which was available for a short time on youtube. The contest has narration in English, but the narrator provides nothing but insults.

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