(from Philly Guy) Oct 13 7pm Stan’s Deli, Philadelphia, PA, miniature corned-beef sandwich contest 5 minutes Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Oct 14 2:30pm, Oct 15 2pm, Houston Italian Festival, Houston, TX Pasta Eating Contest, 1st place prize, registration before contest

updated Oct 14, 2pm Oyster Festival, Oyster Bay NY Oyster shucking and eating contest I am not sure if the shucking & eating are a single contest or two different ones.

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The blog for the conservative magazine “National Review” has an entry about the port security / internet gambling ban bill which takes an unexpected position on it.

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Wing Tut reports that the first meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania will take place at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA on November 4 at 3pm.

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The UCLA student newspaper has a column praising Rich LeFevre’s performance in the jalapeno contest which calls for a UCLA eating championship to start the school year.

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KrystalSquareOff.com has an extremely detailed list of wildcard scenarios similar to late season NFL playoff possibilities. In all scenarios, Crazy Legs Conti must go to the final qualifier at the Mississippi State Fair on Sunday and put up a solid total to advance to the finals.

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The AICE home page says that the Clinton Station Diner will unveil the new heavy weight 8th Wonder of the World burger at the nano burger contest on October 28. The burger will presumbaly exceed the new burgers at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub and Bobs Barbecue in Thailand.

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ABC has an information page about yesterday’s Wife Swap episode featuring the Booker & Alcorn families. The family instruction manuals offer some information that was not shown in the broadcast:

• Badlands wanted to appear to promote his rap career. Regina did not want to appear at all
• Badlands leaves for work at 2am
• The Bookers are very active in their church, which was not mentioned
• Regina works for a major phone company as a supervisor in business collections and says “Being stern with customers all day means when I get home the last thing I want to do is be a disciplinarian”
• Brandon has contributed beats to his father’s CDs
• The episode was filmed during the summer, so Brandon did not need to go to school. (I thought the show made it look like the Bookers were condoning Brandon skipping school
• The Alcorns have 23 pets, which were not displayed probably because it would have made them appear softer

Video captures of the episode are available after the jump:
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(Thanks Skinnyboy) “Wife Swap” was not Eric “Badlands” Booker’s only appearance on television last night. The Food Network reran a show about record breakers. One of the segments of that show was about a burrito contest from 2002 won by Booker. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane recorded clips from that show and uploaded them.

The plugins did not work for me in Firefox. Here are the direct links to the videos if you need them:
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/IFOCE.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Steak.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Hamburger.ASF

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Eater X has another anti Bo Bice blog entry.

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In his latest blog entry, Wing Tut predicts that some ranked IFOCE members will leave IFOCE because the loss of GoldenPalace’s sponsorship will decrease the amount winnable by eaters ranked outside the top 10.

The new poll asks if you think the standard prize distribution for IFOCE contests should be changed to award more to lower finishers to prevent this possibility or is there another change (if any) you would more like to see.

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In a recent blog entry, Dave “megamunch” Shoffner announces that for every item of food he eats in competition, he will donate the list price of that item to America’s Second Harvest

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The Daily Citizen has an article about Jessica Beall of Bloomfield Indiana who won a pizza eating contest for high school students. Jessica was the only member of the mostly male field to finish her large pizza under the time limit of 8 minutes. Jessica says her role model is “Mushmouth” Machetti (actually “Mushmouth” Mariano) who competed in pizza eating contests on local Cleveland television in the 1970s (and is mentioned on page 67 of Horsemen of the Esophagus) Jessica hopes to eventually compete in the Nathan’s finals, but she will have to wait until she turns 18 to qualify.

The Daily Citizen also has an article about the 2005 pizza contest. Jessica was ineligible to compete in that because she was an employee of the restaurant sponsoring the contest, but she claims to have won her age category the preceding three years and has also won pizza contests in Cincinatti, Indianapolis and Terre Haute.

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(from Mike Merrill) Liz’s receives a mention in urbanhonking’s blog for publicity received by its members.

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A live blog of Badlands Booker’s appearance on “Wife Swap” occurs after the jump:

updated beautifulbrian.com has an article about the episode and reality TV calendar has a longer synopsis than can be found in the liveblog. I will try to post some video captures later today.

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(from AICE news) The AICE contest at the Clinton Station Diner on October 28 will use “Nano” burgers, claimed to be the world’s smallest hamburger instead of the restaurant’s giant Zeus or Mt. Olympus burgers. The contest will be a team event. The goal will be to eat 1,000 miniburgers to celebrate the diner’s 1000 days of operations.

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(from “the Hangman” & “Wild Bill”) The ifoce schedule no longer lists the chicken strips contest that was to be held at the South Carolina State Fair on Friday, so it is safe to assume it will not take place. This denies Dale Boone an opportunity to see if his momentum continues from his Krystal win.

A posole eating contest will be held at the Sky City Casino in New Mexico on November 18. This is the second posole contest held at that site.

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The Meathaus blog has an entry about Jenny Drumgoole’s video projects. I addition to her documentary about Sonya Thomas at the 2005 Wing Bowl, she has also done a more non-linear project called “Husky” (Part 1/2, Part 3):

In Husky, Jenny weaves together a dream/ reality hybrid that combines the real-life footage of herself drunkenly harassing the cops, riding a tow-truck, and taping her gynecology check-up from a secret camera hidden in her bag with the elements of her other-self, a leopard-print unitard wearing hoagie-loving “husky bitch” who wears her lipstick all over her neck and loves to fling thousand island dressing all over herself and the frat boys who mistakenly think that they are about to get a free-show.

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Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on ABC’s “Wife Swap” tonight at 8pm.

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I have updated the links in the sidebar. Please let me know if you have a website with competitive eating content (or other material you think would be of interest to the readership of this blog) and would like to be added.

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From krystalsquareoff.com

Krystal Square Off qualifier, Perry GA
1. Dale Boone 37, triumphant return from suspension
2. Justin Mih 36, moves into last wildcard position
3. Hall Hunt 33

The wildcards with 1 contest left are Rich LeFevre, Seaver Miller, Arturo Rios and Justin Mih. Arturo Rios, Justin Mih and Crazy Legs Conti are all tied with 36, but Crazy Legs loses out on the tiebreaker since he has only done one qualifier.

updated full results have been posted. Burritos for Life finalist Michael Parlaman only finished with 14.

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email from Eric “Badlands” Booker:

I want to say Thanks to all the fans who emailed me interested in making an
appearance on “gimme a call 3”. Due to popular demand, I will extend the contest
registration period to Wed. Oct.11th. Every fan who registers will receive a
download of 2 songs from the forthcoming album. The 3 finalists will receive a
free official autographed Badlands Booker T. shirt and a copy of Hungry & focused
III before you can buy it. The drawing will take place on Oct. 13 and will be
aired on my myspace page via YouTube. Hungry & Focused III – The Reframing will
be in stores on Thanksgiving, Pre Order your copy on Halloween on
www.badlandsbooker.com and on www.ifoce.com . Good luck and stay Hungry and Focused

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from IFOCE.com: Rich LeFevre won the jalapeno eating contest at the Texas State Fair, beating Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti and Erik “the Red” Denmark. No other places were given. The Locust’s total was given as 247 peppers, more than Pat Bertoletti ate in a contest (177) almost twice as long in New Mexico.

updatedResults from SonyaTheBlackWidow.com & dfw.com:
1. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre: 247 Peppers
2. Sonya Thomas 239 (1st try at jalapenos)
3. Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti: 226
4. Erik “The Red” Denmark 108
? Allen Earl Jones 90

Rich LeFevre has won a Texas State Fair contest in the past 4 years. He won the corny dog contest 2003-5.

update #2 dfw.com has an article about the contest

update #3 dallasnews.com has an article and blog entry about the contest. The blog says that Sonya did not immediately accept the result and waited for a recount to be completed.

update #4 AP has an article which has received wide distribution

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Here is Brian Seiken’s answer to who inspired the following eaters: Charles Hardy, Cookie Jarvis, Don “Moses” Lerman and Brian Seiken:

Hardy’s union boss insisted he compete in a Nathans hot dog civil service contest for publicity in 1998 and he refused until his wife told him to go out and have some fun.
Jarvis father in law bet that jarvis couldnt win a matzah ball contest because he wasnt jewish. Jarvis entered a Bens matzah ball qualifier in 2001 . rest is history
Lermans nephew Ryan who used to accompany him to the contests for support saw a sign for the same Ben’s contest a year earlier and thought his uncle could take the title which he did.
My sister saw a sign for a Nathans hot dog contest in 1997 in oceanside ny. I thought it would be fun. Never knew it would get me to this level 9 yrs later

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krystalsquareoff.com has a list of the expected entrants in tomorrow’s qualifier in Nashville. Most of the ranked competitors, including Hall Hunt, Justin Mih, Bubba Yarbrough and Larry McNeil, have competed in previous qualifiers. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz, will be celebrating his 50th birthday at the contest. Michael Parlaman, a finalist in Moe’s Burritos for Life, is expected.

updated Hall “Hoover” Hunt has a preview in his blog.

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online-gambling-insider.com reports that GoldenPalace.com will continue to accept online bets from the United States for at least 30 days while they determine a course of action. GoldenPalace.net canceled all of its sponsorships for October IFOCE contests this week.

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