I have uploaded the hot dog eating contest from last week’s episode of CSI: Las Vegas at CSIHotDogContest.wmv (13MB 5 min). The contest is sponsored The Extreme Eating Federation and has eaters based on Tim Janus, Carlene LeFevre, Cookie Jarvis and Sonya Thomas (who does not get an introduction). The Carlene LeFevre character wins the contest (or at least holds a trophy aloft at the end). The contest announcer repeats the defintion of a competitive eating situation involving cavemen and a rabbit given by the Sheas. (Despite all these similarities, some people would probably say that the EXEF paying a cash prize to the third place finisher of a hot dog qualifier would definitely place it in the realm of fiction)

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Las Palapas 25th anniversary Macho Burrito contest results from Dan Calderón:

10 hungry hopefuls scarfed down two of Las Palapas’ famed Macho Burritos. The three fastest times were rewarded with checks for $1,000, $500 and $250.

Chris Flores, a 32-year-old San Antonio resident who lives near Helotes, won the top prize of $1,000 and set a new record by finishing his Macho Burritos in 68 seconds. Flores said it was his first eating contest.

Adolph Perez, a 19-year-old Converse resident who played right guard for the Judson High School football team last season, took the $500 second place prize. Perez, who is studying radiology at St. Philip’s College, took 1 minute, 15 seconds to finish the two one-pound burritos.

The $250 third-place prize went to San Antonio’s John Smavely, a 19-year-old construction worker with Handy Solutions. Smavely also was entering his first eating contest.

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(Thanks Skinnyboy) In his blog entry about the AZ Fry bread contest, Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a link to a direct video capture of the Krystal Square Off final (.ASF format, 11 MB).

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Liz & Krista have calculated the results for their fantasy competitive eating scoring system for Krystal Square Off III and posted their scorecard.

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Brian Seiken has the Krystal finals video on his website. The video was recorded by pointing a camera at the screen and not via a direct capture.

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Fiset35 has the only competive eating / hockey themed blog that I am aware of. He lives in North Carolina, but does not root for the Hurricanes (which will make Eater X happy); instead, he supports the now defunct Quebec Nordiques.

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A video of the Fry Bread Eating Contest is availabe on the AZCentral videos page (under AZ Republic videos) and a picture of the contest is currently on the home page of azcentral.com

UPI has an article about the contest which says Rich LeFevre competed and Kobayashi ate 95 Krystal burgers yesterday.

Updated Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed (he thinks he finished 5th) and has a blog entry about the contest

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(from AICE News) The Clinton Station Diner unveiled, its latest creation, a megaburger with the working title of “The 8th Wonder of the World” which weighs 105 pounds, the same weight as Sonya Thomas.

In the three person team nano bite burger eating contest the results were:

1st Place: “Champion Stomachs” (Ian “The invader” Hickman, King Van Laar and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman) $1,000 and “Eighth Wonder ”

2nd Place: “Nano-Ninjas” (Elliot “The Savage” Cowley, Chris “The American” Schlesinger and Sean “Flash”Gordon) $300 and “Mt. Olympus”

3rd Place: “Meat Manglers” ( Joel “The Cannon”Podelesky, John ‘Chowin’ McGowan, Brian ‘ Food-University’ Stanford) “Zeus Burger”

4th Place: “The Hamburglars” (Debbie ‘The Package’ Sisco, Joe ‘Killer’ Krongold and Demetris ‘Meatis’ Zambus)

updated Pictures are available, including a gallery of the 8th wonder burger

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AZCentral reports that Erik “the Red” Denmark won yesterday’s Sky City Casino Fry Bread Eating Contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue was 2nd. Jason Erb took 3rd place according to a result entered into the eatfeats database. Congratulations to Erik for winning his first non-qualifier contest.

1. Erik Denmark 9.75 fry bread slices in 8 minutes
2. Jed Donahue 8.5
3. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 6.5

Also listed as competing:
Jeremiah “El Toro” Jimenez, Frank “Fraggle” Wach, Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell, Shane McBride and Ralph Cunningham

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The new poll asks what eater you think will break Joey’s US (or non-Kobayashi) winning streak.

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Here are today’s results from the Krystal Square Off III finals and the difference between the eater’s previous personal best:

Congratulation to everyone for some amazing performances. The top three eaters beat their previous records by an amazing 28, 29 and 28 burgers. All eaters living someplace besides Northern Virginia at least tied his or her previous best. Kobayashi led most of the contest, but Joey was on his heels the entire way. For KSO IV, they should have signboards with three digits, at least for Kobayashi and Joey.

I am curious what happened with Sonya. She was in the 3rd position after a minute and a half with 22 and a significant gap between 4th, but she seemed to hit a wall at that point and fell out of the top five after three minutes so I am not sure what happened to her after that point.

I hope we do not have to wait seven months to see Kobayashi challenge the top American eaters. Kobayashi at the Wing Bowl would be an interesting possibility, but I assume he would want a more objectively judged contest with better crowd control.

The Times Free Press has an article about the contest

updated A list of the top 5 every 30 seconds follows after the jump:
Read the rest of this entry »

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I will not be able to blog this afternoon due to other commitments. Krystal-lover will have a live blog of all the events in Chattanooga, not just the telecast, so I doubt my absence will be missed.

krystaladventure is a blog I just discovered which has some posts about the Square Off finals and qualifiers I you need some KSO material to read while you are waiting for the telecast to begin.

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The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Heart Attack Grill’s dispute with nursing organizations in which the owner of the restaurant, Jon Busso is quoted as saying “To say there is any massagany (sic) here is absolutely ridiculous”

It is somewhat difficult to accept the denial of misogyny in light of the restaurant’s blog entry for October 25:

The entire Grill was taken aback at the sight of this woman as she literally decimated a Quadruple Bypass Burger in front of our very eyes. Every macho man at the bar suddenly gave up his chauvinistic preconceptions of meat being a “man’s game” when she put us all to shame.

SADLY THOUGH, we found out that she was cheating! It turns out that she’s four months pregnant, so it’s obvious the little guy inside of her was helping her eat all that beef in record time. Our Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge is a sport of honor among gentlemen. Her cheating brought such disgrace to the Grill that we had to take her out back and work her over a bit. Hey, I know what you’re all thinking, but we confined our punches to the upper rib cage section to avoid the fetus. I mean we’re not Barbarians for Christ sakes!

Absolutely hilarious, if you find violence against pregnant women a laughing matter. The claims of male superiority in meat eating are difficult to accept given that Sonya Thomas is the only person to win the 9 pound Barrick Burger contest and Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger. Closer to the Grill, 115 pound Becky White of Tucson has completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Grill.

The nurses have put out a press release detailing their grievances against the restaurant.

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has a preview of todays Krystal Square Off finals. Kobyashi says his main bottleneck in eating Krystal burgers is removing them from their boxes.

Krystal-lover has some pictures from Friday’s press conference

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The calendar now lists non contest events and competitive eating themed TV shows, so please send me any information about relevant upcoming events. Crazy Legs Conti on Eats of Strength will be rerun three times over the next three days. That is apparently the last rerun scheduled for Eats of Strength.

You can also enter a contest yourself by clicking on the “Add Contest” button in the sidebar or database query page. Contests require approval before they appear in the main database.

Click on “All 2006 Money Winners” to see everyone who has won a cash prize this year, not just the top 10.

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Don “Moses” Lerman announces in his blog that he will have the tumor on his foot removed on December 8. He does not report if the tests have come back to determine if the tumor is malignant, but he is optimistic that he will be able to return to competitive eating soon after the surgery.

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Zwire has a preview of tomorrow’s Nanobite burger eating contest at the Clinton Station Diner. The recipe for the 70+ lb. megaburger to be unveiled has apparently not been finalized and there is a $300 prize for naming it. Contest spectators are encouraged to bring at least $15 worth of groceries which will be used in care packages sent to overseas troops by Operation Shoebox.

The wayawesome blog has a picture of the Nanobite burger on top of a Mt. Olympus burger claiming that the burger patty weighs .4 oz, and the total weight is 1.4 oz, only .6 oz less than a Krystal / White Castle burger.

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The USA Today TV Sports column has a section on the Krystal Square Off which says that Paul Page, who has appeared on several recent IFOCE broadcasts, will handle announcing duties for the Krystal Square Off III finals. Let’s hope that Page is correct in his assessment in the dangers of competitive eating versus auto racing.

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In a recent blog entry, megamunch had a list of suggestions for the MLE web site. One request was to keep track of the total money won for the year. It was not difficult to have the eatfeats database compute that automatically, so I have made a list of the top 10 money winners in the sidebar, based on the prize information I could find. Click on the name in the sidebar to see the breakdown. I have not been able to find prizes for all IFOCE and AICE contests. I only have the first place prize for the Fairfield rib contest and I can’t find any prize information for AICE Coney Island hamburgers or Italian sausage. You can modify the prizes in the database. The prizes do not take into account the list prices of non monetary prizes. If they did, Joey’s total would be about $20K higher due to the car he won at the Wing Bowl, and Burritos For Life winner Mike Shelley might be the overall leading money winner (the announced list price of the custom motorcycle he won is $62K)

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IFOCE.com has a preview of Saturday’s Fry Bread eating contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue will return to the Grand Canyon State after destroying the Heart Attack Grill’s Quadruple Bypass Burger record. Erik “The Red” Denmark, Frank Wach and “El Toro” Jimenez are expected. Fry bread is powdered sugar covered deep fried flat dough.

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Liz & Krista have written a post for truefan about their new system for fantasy competitive eating. The system will have more subjective scoring than conventional fantasy sports. (Krista has also started working for the NFL, so if you need Super Bowl tickets, that’s who to ask 🙂 )

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(Thanks megamunch) Supersized Meals has some pictures from Pat Bertoletti from his trip to Pointer’s Pizza in Missouri in which he and Tim Janus finished the 10+ lb 28 inch Pointersaurus pizza in under an hour, winning $250 each. Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt also succesfully completed the challenge. The best team needed only 14 minutes to complete the challenge.

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The Washington Jewish Week reports that Leon “Justice” Feingold has signed with the Israel Baseball League. Feingold has pitched in the Cleveland Indians organization and has been ranked as high as 12th by the IFOCE. The article claims his personal best is 152 hot dogs in 12 minutes, which should probably be 15 1/2 hot dogs.

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The Krystal Square Off odds on bodog.com have changed considerably since betting began. The current odds for the top 5 favorites:

Takeru Kobayashi 1/7
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 5/1
Chip “The Phenom” Simpson 11/2
Tim “Eater X” Janus 11/2
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 4/1

The opening odds were:

Takeru Kobayashi 1/1
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 3/2
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 7/3
Chip “The Phenom” Simpson 9/2
Tim “Eater X” Janus 4/1

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See the contest calendar for more details

San Diego, Sushi Fix Sushi eating contest, qualifiers Nov 11, finals Nov 18, $750 first prize
Los Angeles, Tamale Festival Tamale Eating Contest, Nov 12, $100 first prize
Kent Ohio, Mugzee’s Wing Eating Contest, Nov 2, proceeds to benefit Hatti Larham center
San Antonio, Macho Burrito finals, Las Palapas, Oct 29 $1000 first prize, qualfiers have all taken place unfortunately

updated Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest Oct 28 & 29 at ZooBooo! at the Baltimore Zoo, prizes include restaurant gift certificates and stays at top Baltimore hotels

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