The following names appear three or more times in the database of finisher of the 72 ounce steak from the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. The database is incomplete before 1991 and after early 2005.

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The new poll asks how many eaters in the world do you believe are capable of finishing Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 15 pound Belly Buster burger (10.5 pounds of meat) in under 3 hours without assistance. No one has yet to complete that sandwich singlehandedly.

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Crazy Legs Conti has a column on competitiveeating.net which predicts that Brian Seiken will qualify for Nathan’s at the qualifier restricted to civil service workers at the South Street Seaport.

That’s right, Beautiful Brian is going to Coney as the 2007 Civil Service champ. Could it be that in his tenth year of competing Beautiful Brian will walk the catwalk of Stillwell Ave and ascend the grand stage at Coney Island for his debut at the finals? If the stars and spreadsheets align, on June 27th, Double B will rock the Civil Service contest as the lyrical stylings of Stephen Morrissey blare from the speakers. “ Please, Please, Please, Let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time.”

updated Brian has his own thoughts about qualifying for Nathan’s

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Videos of Pat Bruss winning the wing eating contest at the Chicago WingFest can be viewed on Google video at http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bruss+pat (Audio is not safe for work or families)

AICE news confirms that Pat Bruss won the WingFest and says he is expected to compete at Bartolini’s Meatball contest in Illinois.

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(from R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone is the subject of a Japanese web page called the “Interview Room” (Part 2)

Some facts from that interview:

The qualifier for the fall 2005 Gluttonous King contest was her first experience in competitive eating
Her older sister eats about as much as she does in everyday meals.
She wants to continue to cross over into show business and hopes to dance as well as sing
She ran on her high school cross country team and has continued distance running. She recently ran 20km (12.5 miles)
I believe she was kicked off the cross country team after dying her hair (I am not sure I am interpreting that sentence correctly)
She is afraid to run alone in Tokyo.

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The listing for the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown on zap2it says that 12 eaters will be in the first round instead of 8.

The listing on SpikeTV.com (unlinkable Flash only site 🙁 , screen capture is after jump) says the first round will have 8 eaters, but the program is categorized as comedy.

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A women’s eating contest from Chinese television can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9gmk8OIBs

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The Turn Up the Heat Chili Cook-Off, to be held in Harrisburg, PA tomorrow, has a web page at http://yhst-14711175495285.stores.yahoo.net/chilicookoff.html Dave “Megamunch” Schoffner will MC a hot sauce drinking contest and a cooldown eating contest during that event.

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Here is a list of the 2006 Nathan’s qualifier winners ordered by amount. The claim that Kenji Oguni had the lowest winning amount is correct.

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Hall Hunt has updated his eaters poll with new results. The top 10 (of 25) in that list:

1. Joey Chestnut (3 1st place votes, 315 points)
2. Takeru Kobayashi (10 1st place votes, 302 points)
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Bob Shoudt
5. Tim Janus
6. Sonya Thomas
7. Chip Simpson
8. Rich LeFevre
9. Seaver Miller
10. Juliet Lee

Somebody must have left Kobayashi unranked, or ranked him low for him to not be #1 despite receiving 10 of 13 first place votes.

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(from heartattackgrill.com) There is an article about the Heart Attack Grill and its owner, “Dr.” John Basso, in entrepreneur.com:

His advice for wannabe entrepreneurs? “I’d tell people to create controversy,” suggests Basso, who refers to himself as the Patch Adams of the restaurant industry. Though he won’t release any financial information, Basso insists that word-of-mouth marketing has given the grill plenty of business. “What I’ve got, in marketing terms, is the purple cow,” he says. “We’ve designed something that people talk about naturally. We’ve never spent one penny, and never will spend one penny on advertisements. We simply have a website, and that’s it.”

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Chip Simpson offered advice over the phone to an Orlando columnist competing in a single hot dog eating contest for local celebrities.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a tribute to his mother on his blog:

I am coming back to competitive eating soon and I still have very high expectations for myself this year. I will dedicate any and all of my successes and victories this year to the memory of my Mom. She was the first to feed me and she fed me a lot.

I think I can speak for the competitive eating community in saying that it mourns the loss of Erik’s mother and looks forward to seeing Erik back at the table.

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(From RussK) A qualifier schedule listed below with a somewhat different list of sites from the list at ifoce.com appears at nathansfamous.com. All qualifiers with a fixed date on the Nathan’s list are the same on both schedules. Qualifiers preceded with an asterisk do not appear on the IFOCE list:

TBD Florida Panthers
TBD New York, New York Hotel Las Vegas, NV
May 19 E. Hartford, CT
May 26 Independence Center Philadelphia, PA
TBD Arizona Mills Mall Tempe, AZ
June 3 Shea Stadium, Queens, NY
*TBD MacArthur Center Mall Norfolk, VA
*TBD Pembroke Lakes Mall Pembroke Pines, FL
June 22 Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza Cranbury, NJ
*TBD Long Island Ducks Stadium Central Islip, NY
June 23 Zoo Atlanta Atlanta, GA
TBD Civil Service South Street Seaport, NY
TBD Weigh In Shea Stadium, Queens, NY
July 4 International Hot Dog Eating Contest Coney Island, NY

The California (June 23), Charlotte (June 9) and Mall of America (June 16) qualifiers appear in the IFOCE.com list, but not in the nathansfamous.com list.

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Dave “Megamunch” Schoffner has been requested to MC a local hot sauce drinking contest to be held in Harrisburg, PA on Saturday.

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PRNewswire has a press release about the Saint Patrick’s Day contest to be televised on Spike TV. The field will consist solely of the eaters in the top 8 of the IFOCE rankings: Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Patrick Bertoletti, Timothy “Eater X” Janus, Richard LeFevre and Chip Simpson.

The first round food will be corned beef & cabbage, the second round will have jalapenos and green doughnuts will be used in the final round. Beef tongue will not be in the tournament, contrary to early reports.

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The 2007 Nathan’s qualifier schedule has been released. The first qualifier is March 24 at the Florida Panthers arena. The sites are basically the same as 2006, but Norfolk, VA has been replaced with Charlotte, NC

March 24, Sunrise, FL
May 3, Las Vegas, NV
May 19, Hartford, CT
May 26, Philadelphia, PA
June 2, Tempe, AZ
June 3, Shea Stadium, Queens, NY
June 9, Charlotte, NC
June 16, Mall of America, MN
June 22, Molly Pitcher Rest Area, NJ Turnpike
June 23, Zoo Atlanta
June 23, California (Location tbd)
June 27, NYC Civil Service Contest
June 28, QVC L.C.Q. Main Line Philly

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Kobayashi has blog entries with pictures about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan festival and spring training practice.

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ntv.com reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone defeated Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota in bunless hamburgers, 22 plates to 20. This is Gal Sone’s first victory against Shirota in her weekly Wednesday morning contest since early 2006.

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Philly.com’s Inqlings column says that a Wing Bowl movie remains in production even though a script for it has yet to be finalized several years into the project.

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