beautifulbrian.com is hosting a video of the entire Nathan’s Hartford qualifier, courtesy of “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz. The contest is close between Tim Janus and Pat Philbin but Janus is able to hold off his rival from Moonachie at the end.

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Thanks to supersizedmeals.com for making video captures of the video clip of the LeFevres at the Big Texan steakhouse.

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The online casino intertops is already taking bets on Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and they have made Takeru Kobayashi a 4.5 hot dog favorite over Joey Chestnut. You can also bet on whether Kobayashi will eat more than 50.5 hot dogs.

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The IFOCE web page has posted a preview of Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest listing Pat from Moonachie, Loren Yarbrough, Bob Shoudt, Brian Seiken, Pat Bertoletti, Eater X and Crazy Legs Conti as expected entrants.

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Loren Yarbrough has noticed that Joey Chestnut’s home page located at futureofeating.com has opened with a lot of pictures from Wing Bowl 14.

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(Thanks Joe Bertoletti) The Chicago Tribune has an in-depth interview with Pat Bertoletti. Pat says that his competitive eating career will end when he graduates. Pat’s mother is also interviewed.

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The Whaler has an interview with Eater X, who will attempt to break his Doodle Burger record in New Haven tomorrow before competiting in the ice cream contest on Friday. (The Rockford Corner Bar has yet to update its website with Janus’ record set over two months ago)

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Sonya Thomas’ plans to enter the Nathan’s qualifier in Philadelphia this Saturday have not been changed by the recent addition of two contests this weekend according to this paragraph in philly.com (The paragraph claims that Joey Chestnut is from San Diego, so it is possible that this is inaccurate)

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The new poll asks what you think the difference will be between the number of hot dogs eaten by Sonya Thomas in her Nathan’s qualifier and the amount eaten by Natsuko “Gal” Sone in the Tokyo qualifier. (This assumes the Gal enters the Tokyo qualifier.)

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The IFOCE website lists two new contests that will be held this week. The goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest will be held in New York City on Friday ($4000 in prizes) and the House of Blues Wing Eating championship ($1000) in prizes will be held in Cleveland on Saturday.

Corrected 6:24 pm – Thanks Pat Bertoletti

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China Daily reports that the first round of an eating contest was held in Shanghai last Sunday. The 28 eaters who could finish 10 puff pastries the fastest advanced to a semifinal round this Saturday in which hot dogs will be eaten. Miyuki Iwata, runner up in the “Gluttonous Queen” competition, and Chang Wing-man, the “Glutton Lady” from Hong Kong will receive byes into the semifinal round.

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Fans waiting for a competitive eating movie might not need to wait for the Josh Heald and Wing Bowl projects to hit the multiplexes. The Dallas Morning News reports that “Taxidermia”, a Hungarian movie directed by György Pálfi in which one of the protagonists is a competitive eater was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last Thursday. It appears unlikely that the IFOCE will endorse this movie based on this description at msn. Pictures and trailers for the movie (in French and Hungarian) are available.

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Official results for the Hartford qualifier have been posted on IFOCE.com. Russ Keeler surprised with 16 hot dogs and a third place finish.

This East Hartford Gazette article has profiles of some of the Connecticut entrants.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has posted a trip report of his expedition to Las Vegas to compete in the Nathan’s qualifier on Thursday (he finished with 12.5 hot dogs)

beautifulbrian.com has a gallery of the Las Vegas contest courtesy of El Toro

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In this oogui forum, Japanese competitive eating fans react to the news that Joey Chestnut ate 50 hot dogs in the Las Vegas qualifier.

Much & Fast has a blog entry about Chestnut’s performance

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From beautifulbrian.com & mosesnews.com

1. 27.5 Tim “Eater X” Janus
2. 25 Pat Philbin
3. unknown
4/DQ 15 Don Moses Lerman
5 Kevin Lipsitz 15 dogs / 13 buns

Liz has an interview with Tim Janus for urbanhonking.com/digest.

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A clip of the hot dog contest between “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Boyd Bulot from “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” is available at:

http://eatfeats.com/GJoevsBulot.WMV

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The clip from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not of the steak contest at the Big Texan steakhouse in which Rich LeFevre almost finished two 72 ounce steaks and Carlene sets a women’s record is available at:

http://eatfeats.com/LeFevresSteak.WMV

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Video captures of Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s strawberry contest against Nobuyuki “Giant” Shirota are available after the jump. Shirota won 330 strawberries to 283. The contest has a lot of commentators for a small scale event.

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Blogger steakbellie, who finished in the top 10 of the Wing Bowl, has been preparing for the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier which will be held a week from Saturday. Here are some of his training notes.

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In this Buffet post, Bob Shoudt claims that Kenji Oguni, who finished 4th last year with 29 hot dogs, will compete in the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday. If this is true, it does not seem fair that foreign competitors can compete in US qualifiers but American eaters cannot enter overseas qualfiers.

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It is unlikely that any comments will be approved this weekend because I will be away from an internet connection. I have set up a queue for some new posts to come out this weekend.

Good luck to the competitors in the Hartford qualifier.

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Hall Hunt googled Josh Heald, who was listed as a screenwriter who ate 11 hot dogs in the Las Vegas qualfier in the IFOCE report, and found he had written a movie about competitive eating for Disney called “All You Can Eat.” The movie is supposed to come out later this year, but apparently it has not been cast yet.

Articles about studio pickup and director hiring for the movie.

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The only mention in the news I have been able to find this morning about Joey Chestnut’s feat yesterday is this article from Radio New Zealand.

from Bob Shoudt ESPN also has an article about the contest bye Darren Rovell

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The new poll asks what you think is the ideal temperature for an eating contest.

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