“Humble” Bob Shoudt (Happy 38th birthday) recently ran 5 miles in 41 minutes. This is a slightly slower pace than the record 10K (6.2 miles) time of 48 minutes for 300+ pound runners AICE news claims that Joe Menchetti set at a race in Juarez, Mexico on Labor Day weekend (see bottom of link). I am not sure what the Humble One’s current weight is, but if it is above that threshold, that record appears attainable.

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In a recent comment about the Mobile Wing Bowl, Hall Hunt said he had never heard of a wing eating contest as short as three minutes. Youtube has a clip of a wing eating contest a quarter of that length for sorority members. The winner, Keighrah (last name unknown), ate an impressive 24 wings to win the contest.

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The Globe and Mail has an article about a company with offices in Toronto and Hyderabad, India which has eating contests between the two branches over its video conferencing system.

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I did not realize that Kobayashi was a punk/alternative music fan, but apparently he is one based on his blog entry about the closing of the CBGB club in New York City.

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The Krystal finals will not be the only southeastern eating contest to be held later this month:

Northeast Florida Fair

Other new features at this year’s fair include a pizza-eating contest at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.
Five contestants will be drawn at random from those who register to participate between 3 and 4 p.m. The person who eats the most pizza in 10 minutes or finishes four 10-inch pizzas before the 10 minutes is up will be the winner. The champion pizza eater will win $100 and bragging rights for a year. Second- and third-place winners will win $50 and $25 respectively.

But hamburger-eaters still get their day at the fair. The third annual hamburger-eating contest will be 7 p.m. Monday. Five contestants drawn from those who register between 6 and 7 p.m. will vie for a top prize of $100, with the other contestants each winning $25.

Mobile, Alabama Wing Bowl

Wing Bowl II kicks off Saturday in Bienville SquareThe region’s top wing-cooking specialists will be going beak to beak at the Wing Bowl II Chicken Wing Cook-off on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Wing Bowl’s three-minute eating contest, open to anyone 18 or over, has a $500 prize. Entrants must sign up at Wings Sports Grille in Mobile or Daphne before to the event.

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(from meathaus) Jenny Drumgoole has opened a website showcasing her artwork at JennyDrumgoole.com The full version of “Husky” can be viewed there, which has Jenny appearing as plaintiff and defendant in Judge Mathis’ court. The Wing Bowl 13 documentary is also hosted there, but there is no additional footage not present in the youtube clip. Ms. Drumgoole’s photographs are also available for viewing.

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Full results from the Jackson qualifier have yet to be posted. If you competed in the contest, or know any other results, you can enter your total into the eatfeats database

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(from Philly Guy) MajorLeagueEating.com has opened, but there appears to be currently nothing more to the website other than an entry page. It is surprising that Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus and Rich LeFevre would not be among the eaters pictured on that page.

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(from Wing Tut) The Whoopie Pie eating contest will be held at the Whoopie Pie Festival on Saturday at Hershey Farm near Rockvale outlets. No information about the contest is provided on the website other than it will take place at 2pm and is for amateurs only.

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The new poll asks how many burgers the winner of Krystal Square Off III will eat. (There will be other Krystal polls before the contest)

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From AICE news:

Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 3.84
Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 3.80
Chris “The American” Schlesinger 2.97

This is Mark Lyle’s fourth AICE victory in 2006. The other three are meatballs, fair food and reuben sandwiches.

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“Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz has been translated into a Japanese version by Basilico. The English translation of the Japanese title is “Banquet of Gluttony”

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From an email:

Good afternoon! My name is Tim Ahn and I am writing on behalf of Checkers and the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF. We are in the middle of a marketing campaign for Checkers which we have based on a Checkers Burger eating contest between individual contestants on campuses at UF, UCF, USF, and FSU. The name of our contest is the Checkers Burger Bowl with the slogan, “The Ultimate Cross Town Challenge.” I heard through word of mouth that you had actually mentioned our first event at UF on EatFeats.com. I am guessing that Hall Hunt is the one who provided the heads up as I had dialogue with him prior to the event. I just wanted to also mention that our UCF event was this past Friday, 10/13, and we will conclude the contest with stops at USF on 11/11 and FSU on 11/18. Prizes are awarded to the top two entrants for each school ($250 for first, one year supply of Checkers for second place). The 10 contestants from each school will also combine their scores to determine the winning school for the Checkers Burger Bowl. The winning school will receive a trophy.

We truly appreciate the mention of our first event and would welcome and be grateful if you would add our two remaining events to your calendar of events. If there is any more information I could provide, please feel free to contact myself or the Checkers Burger Bowl Team at checkersburgerbowl@gmail.com. Thank you!

Regards,
Tim Ahn

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Three highlight clips from “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s TV show have been posted to youtube by quality333

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From KrystalSquareOff.com

Mississippi State Fair Krystal qualifier results, Jackson, MS

1) Crazy Legs Conti, 38 burgers
2) “The Natural” Arturo Rios, 35 burgers
3) Erik “the Red” Denmark, 32

DQ) Justin Mih, had 37 burgers at end of regulation, but was disqualified after Erik Denmark claimed that Mih had a reversal and video replay confirmed this claim

Final wildcard results
1) Rich LeFevre 51
2) Seaver Miller 41
3) Justin Mih, 36
4) Arturo Rios, 36 (extremely consistent in other 2 qualifiers where he did 35)

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The eating contest videos on goldenpalaceevents.com have been uploaded to youtube and can be viewed at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=tgp1969+eating&search=Search

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krystalsquareoff.com has the list of entrants for the qualifier at the Mississippi State Fair tomorrow. Expected ranked eaters include:

Crazy Legs Conti
Erik Denmark
Hall Hunt
Jim Reeves, having difficulty flying out of Buffalo
Larry McNeil
Arturo Rios, ate 17 burgers in 2 minutes
Justin Mih

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From Badlans Booker:

The winners for the “Gimme A Call III” Song Contest are as follows:

-Jason Satterwhite
-Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
-Berenice Baker

Congrats to all the winners! They will receive a official Autographed Badlands Booker T shirt and a copy of H&F III before you can buy it. And all the other entrants will receive 2 songs from the new album via email. Thanks for all who signed up for the drawing and remember, Hungry & Focused III – The Reframing comes out on Thanksgiving 2006. pre-order your copy on Halloween at the badlands booker store and at the ifoce store at http://www.ifoce.com .
Stay Hungry & Focused always!

updated Berenice Baker has a myspace blog entry about her appearance

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Posting & comment moderation will be limited this weekend and I doubt I will be able to live blog the Jackson qualifier.

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Don “Moses” Lerman announces that he will undergo tumor removal surgery to remove a nuro fibroma from his foot which grew back after 15 years. Lets all pray that the tumor will turn out to be benign when the biopsy report comes back.

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AICE news announces that the Clinton Station Diner will unveil a burger weighing over 70 pounds called the “8th Wonder of the World” in conjunction with the Nano Burger contest on October 28. The burger will have to exceed 78.5 pounds to take the title of “World’s Largest Hamburger” from Bob’s BBQ in Thailand.

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As far as I know, Sonya Thomas is the only woman to compete in any Krystal Square Off III qualifer, but that might change next year. The Krystal Lover’s blog has entries about a former Miss Chattanooga (and top 10 finisher for Miss Tennessee) who enjoyed $20 of food from Krystal with another female friend in a single meal.

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Congratulations to Liz Kellermeyer who found a (paying) job in Denver after just two weeks of residency there.

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krystalsquareoff.com has a list of the expected out of town entrants in the Krystal qualifier at the Mississippi State Fair on Sunday. Three of the leading wild card contenders, Crazy Legs Conti, Erik “the Red” Denmark and Justin Mih will battle for the last remaining berths. Hall Hunt will come if he can find transportation. Buffalo Jim Reeves will travel south to try to threepeat the qualifier. Larry McNeil is also expected.

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“Humble” Bob Shoudt recently obtained a new look for his website and a new coach. His coach has got Bob running 5 miles at an almost 8 min /mile pace.

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