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krystalsquareoff.com has a full roster for today’s qualifier in Jacksonville. 7 Top 30 ranked eaters are expected:
Joey Chestnut (IFOCE #2)
Crazy Legs Conti (IFOCE #11)
Hall Hunt (IFOCE #15)
Joe LaRue (IFOCE #16)
Seaver Miller (IFOCE #17)
Bryan Miller (IFOCE #23)
Brickhouse Braunstein (IFOCE #29)
The contest is expected to start at 3pm today (eastern)
The LA Times has a profile of Joey Chestnut with coverage of last month’s gyoza contest.
(from Todd Bertch) old-bay.com has the results from Friday’s Peel & Eat Shrimp contest in Baltimore. Todd Bertch won the $10,000 first place prize. wjz.com has an article with a video clip. The contest was closed to “professional” eaters and required an essay about Old Bay seasoning to gain entrance to the qualifiers.
from “Super” Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow & sonyatheblackwidow.com:
Waffle House Waffle Eating Championship, Stone Mountain, GA
1. Joey Chestnut 22.5 waffles $5000, +4 from 2005
2. Sonya Thomas 21 waffles $1500, +3 from 2005
3. Chip Simpson 18? $1000
4. Hall Hunt 14
5. Larry McNeil 12
6. Crazy Legs Conti 11
7T Paul Barlow 10
7T Bubba Yarbrough 10
7T Eric Broe 10
? Shane Baker
? “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz
Paul Barlow says an unknown eater matched Joey & Sonya in the first half of the contest up until about 11 waffles, then had a DQ.
It will be interesting to see what contests (if any) Sonya does before the Krystal finals. Sonya did not compete between Labor Day weekend and Halloween weekend last year.
Updated 9/4 9:45 am – A myspace blog entry has been posted about the contest. There are some videos if you are a myspace member.
The results page of buffalowing.com says that Humble Bob Shoudt won the Buffalo Buffet Bowl eating contest (no other information is given)
Updated 9/4 5:33pm Results from Brian Seiken
1. Humble Bob Shoudt 5:25 needed to eat 5 lb food
2. Arturo Rios
3. Joe LaRue
? Erik Denmark
? Jim Reeves
Food items were 3 roast beef sandwiches 4 large buffalo chicken strips 5 empanadas and loads of chicken wings
Jammin’ Joe LaRue won most creative wing sauce for his apple chipotle chutney
A video of the last 45 seconds of Saturday’s contest is available
The Cincinnatt Post has a brief report on yesterday’s Battle to the Bone contest held at the AVP Beach Volleyball tournament. Reno Bezzina of Waterford, MI won the contest.
The Denver Post has a long profile of Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane which provides the origin of his nickname. Skinnyboy competed in yesterday’s kolache contest in Nebraska where he finished 4th.
From IFOCE.com, Brian Seiken, Luther, City of Lewisville:
Buffalo Wing Festival
1. Chip Simpson, 158 wings
2T. Sonya Thomas 146
2T. Bob Shoudt 146
? Jim Reeves 108
Updated 9/3 9:18am The Buffalo News has an article about the contest which says the contest ran out of wings
The results were given as wings but I think the judging was based on pounds eaten
Lewisville TX Tamale Contest
1st place – Tim Janus, 51 tamales (world record)
2nd place – Rich LeFevre, 50 tamales
3rd place – Seaver Miller, 30 tamales
GoldenPalace.net World Kolache Eating Championship at the Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, NE
1 Pat Bertoletti 44 Kolaches
2 Jason Erb 24
3 Frank Wach 22
4T David Amiel, Michael Netzinger and J. Varuch 19
7 Andrew Lane 18
8 Jason Smith 17
(Updated 9/3 5:32 pm – thanks Laura)
The first round of the 2005 “Gluttonous King” contest televised on TV Tokyo has been uploaded to youtube. Natsuko “Gal” Sone avoided elimination by eating 6 grams more of bread than Miyuki Iwata.
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane caught a rerun of Carlene LeFevre on Food TV’s Unwrapped (originally broadcast in 2004) and managed to record the bulk of her segment and upload the clip.
A Krystal press release says that Joey Chestnut, Crazy Legs Conti, Hall Hunt and Joe LaRue will appear at the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier. Hall Hunt will enter the 2 minute preliminary round. Fox30 has an article about the qualifier. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz is also expected.
A Buffalo Wing Festival press release says that Sonya Thomas will appear at the festival (but does not explicitly state she will compete in the contest) Bob Shoudt and Brian Seiken say they will attend on their websites.
An IFOCE press release says that the top three finishers in last years Waffle House contest: Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Pat Bertoletti are expected back in this year’s contest. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz will also compete.
Hall Hunt has withdrawn from the Lewisville tamale contest and a comment says he will be replaced by Rich LeFevre
The current projected path of tropical storm Ernesto has it passing over western New York state Saturday afternoon and evening.
Updated 9/1 8:28 am – The Buffalo Wing Festival has an inclement weather plan that says they will have several huge tents.
Hall Hunt has a new nickname and blog at http://hallhooverhunt.blogspot.com/
The Reno Gazette Journal has a report on last night’s rib eating competition listing the top four finishers:
1st: Joey Chestnut, $2,500, 4.5 lbs. of ribs
2nd: Pat Bertoletti, $1,500, 4 lbs.
3rd: Rich LeFevre, $750, 3.8 lbs.
4th: Jed Donahue, $250, 3.3 lbs.
Updated 3:57 pm IFOCE.com has full results. It is interesting they are noting Joey’s 6 month non-Kobayashi winning streak when no attention at all was paid to Sonya’s 7 month (Wing Bowl to Buffalo Wing Festival) streak last year.
azcentral.com has a preview of this weekend’s college football games which says that Eric “Badlands” Booker will do a wing eating contest against students before the University of Buffalo game against Temple. The two teams combined to go 1-21 last season.
Booker has a statement on his retirement on his myspace blog. He says that his third album is expected around Thanksgiving and it will include the anti-AICE track.
Liz has informed me that someone claiming to be Dale Boone’s cousin named Susan Henderson has recently posted a comment to the urbanhonking Digest interview with Pat Bertoletti following the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier requesting contact information for Dale. If Dale does not read this, I assume that someone who knows Dale will see it and forward it to him and then he can decide how or if he wants to respond.
courier-gazette.com has a preview of Saturday’s tamale eating contest in Lewisville, TX. Expected competitors include Tim “Eater X” Janus (who returns to his college (SMU) metropolitan area), Hall Hunt, Seaver Miller and Larry McNeil.
Joey Chestnut appeared on Adam Corolla’s radio show yesterday. This blog entry has a recap of his appearance. The blog says that there will be yet another rib contest in September.
Krystal Lover’s blog and The Chattanoogan have galleries of Sunday’s Krystal Square Off qualifier where Sonya Thomas almost doubled the runner up by eating a personal record 62 burgers.
Don “Moses” Lerman has some pictures from Saturday’s jalapeno pepper eating contest on his blog.
Full official results from the GoldenPalace.net horseshoe sandwich contest at the Illinois State Fair have been posted. Hopefully official full results from the ND Rhubarb Pie contest (which were never announced) and the July 3 Memphis rib contest (which were mentioned only in a preview for another rib contest) will appear in the not too distant future.
The new poll asks what the best competitive eating themed video podcast of 2005-6 is. All the choices are Brian Seiken shows because those are the only eating themed podcasts I am aware of.
Brian Seiken has put together a gallery of last year’s Buffalo Wing Festival eating contests at http://www.flickr.com/photos/39781226@N00/sets/72157594254310077
The Columbus Dispatch has a review of “This Is Not Chick Lit,” a collection of short stories by female authors. The reviewer has the following comments on one of the short stories in that book:
Most delightfully surprising is The Seventy-two-Ounce Steak Challenge by Dika Lam, who has published only a few short stories in small magazines. Her touching and hilarious story follows two Chinese-Canadian sisters on a working vacation in Calgary, Alberta, where one of them starts down the path that will take her into becoming “the champion you know and love — winner of the International Matzo-Ball-Eating Contest, title-holder of the Conch Fritter Invitational, the girl who downed nine sticks of butter in five minutes.”
A review in econoculture says that Ms. Lam is working on extending her short story into a novel.
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