jininryuichi reports that Tsuji Nozomi, a member of Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s group, Gyaruru, is two months pregnant and is planning to get married in June. No announcements have been made on how this will affect the future of the group and the planned release of their first single in June.

jpopmusic.com has a huge forum thread about the pregnancy.

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Brian Seiken reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti has agreed to be the next guest on his show. He plans to have both IFOCE and AICE members call in to ask questions. I

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(From Krystal Lovers) There will be 4 hours of competitive eating reruns on ESPN2 Saturday night The programs will be one hour long instead of the half hour edited reruns which are often televised.

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The new poll asks who you think who is the world’s best female competitive eater under 25. The current listed choices are below. Please let me know if there are any others you would like added.

Kristina Costa, Oyster Bowl
Tomoko Miyake, runner up “Gluttonous Queen” 2007
Gretchen Salyer, Garlicky Greens winner
Natsuko “Gal” Sone, winner “Gluttonous Queen” 2006/7
Kate Stelnick, Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub 11 pound burger finisher
Amy Walter, Frank’s Red Hot wings contest
Molly Zakarian, #46 IFOCE ranking, participant on 4 person team that competed against Kobayashi

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I have updated the links in the sidebar. Please let me know if there are any competitive eating related websites you would like added that are not present.

I also decided to drop the IFOCE points totals from the sidebar (replacing it with the Nathan’s finalists) and will not restore them unless top 10 results for all 2007 contests are provided.

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In the current contest sponsored by supplement manufacturer Controlled Labs, entrants are to submit videos of eating as many White Castle sliders as possible in 2 minutes. Krystal burgers are acceptable substitutes. It will be interesting to see how close the winner comes to the Krystal 2 minute record of 28.

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Gainesvilletimes.com has an article about IFOCE director of operations Kate Westfall, and her father, who is the director of public health for Gainesville, GA.

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On a recent trip to a Nathan’s restaurant, Don “Moses” Lerman saw a poster promoting the July 4 hot dog contest. Some of the pictures on the bottom are not what you would expect. Andersson is the Swedish competitor Robert Andersson. (Hopefully he will bring his girlfriend again 😉 )

The URL on the poster TheNathansRematch.com redirects to a “Coming Soon” page.

The poster says the contest will be on ESPN, so it will not be part of the Spike TV series.

MosesNews.com also has some great pictures of all the competitors in some of the Nathan’s contests earlier this decade.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a travelog of Thursday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas with numerous pictures. He has a picture of the undercard for hotel employees, won by Ron Koch with 18 hot dogs in 6 minutes.

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BerryHill Grill Tamale Eating Contest results from erikdenmark.blogspot.com
Joey Chestnut – 53.5
Pat Bertoletti- 51
Humble Bob Shoudt – 45
Chip Simpson – 39
Erik the Red Denmark – 27
Nathan Biller – 21

For the second time in a week, Joey breaks a record by about 20%

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ContraCostaTimes.com has an article by Eric Louie about his participation in the asparagus eating contest last week. There are several quotes from winner Joey Chestnut:

“A lot of it’s building up tolerance,” says Chestnut, a down-to-earth 6-foot-1-inch 230-pound civil engineering college student from San Jose. Talking with me after the contest, Chestnut, 23, shows none of the arrogance that typifies competitors at the top of their game. He even apologizes for drinking my water during the competition.

To him, being a successful competitive eater is “really mental.” And he’s right, I learned. The food will fit, but the key is being able to resist gagging, which is kind of the body’s shut-off valve. The truth is, even as I was stuffing my face with more asparagus than many people eat in a season, my stomach was only at a third of my capacity. While the thought of eating and burps that taste of oily batter ruined my appetite until the next day, I did not throw up, or have to let loose in any way at a festival porta potty.

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GameShowNet has a writeup of Crazy Legs Conti’s and Tim “Eater X” Janus’ appearance on “Cash Cab” on the Discovery Channel this past Monday.

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(From R Suzuki) NNN’s news video page has a clip of Takuya Yamamoto completing a noodle challege at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/070421053_300k.asx The weight of the noodles and bowl is 9.3 kg (20.4 lb) Yamamoto’s waist increased from 68 cm to 90 cm (27 in to 36 in) and his weight increased from 58 kg to 64.7 kg (128 lb to 142.3 lb)

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Chron.com has an article about Houston Cinco de Mayo festivities with a paragraph about the tamale contest:

A professional tamale-eating contest will debut at the Cinco de Mayo festival this year and will be covered by ESPN. Berryhill Baja Grill coordinated the contest with the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Seven of the top 10 competitive eaters will compete to see who can eat the most tamales in 12 minutes, Lopez said. Last year the winner ate 57 tamales in 12 minutes, he said.

No tamale eating contest appears on the ESPN or ESPN2 schedule for this weekend

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(The web provider server was down around 30 minutes starting about 2:30 pm eastern, so eatfeats was inaccessible during that time period)

Some videos from last weekend’s contests have been posted to youtube:

Asparagus eating contest

Windmill hot dog qualifer part 1

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Official results for the top two finishers in yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas have been posted to MLE and ifoce.com/news

1. 46 HDB Pat Bertoletti
2. 33 HDB Rich LeFevre

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(From steakbellie and Chip Simpson) Liz K has submitted her bunette video to majorleagueeating.com. There is also a story about the video on competitiveeatingnews

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Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifier results from a Laura Flynn comment:

1. 46 HDB Pat Bertoletti
2. 33 HDB Rich LeFevre
3. 23 HDB Mongo Marquez
4-5 14? Kevin Ross
4-5 14? Jason Erb

Pat Bertoletti becomes the third person to break 40 hot dogs and buns. Rich LeFevre’s 33 is also a personal best.

update Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane also has results on his blog which report Bertoletti ate 46 HDB.

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The hot dog eating contest from last season’s “Grey’s Anatomy”, won by the intern played by Sandra Oh, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=ObmSkXjumLg

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A video of Eric “Badlands” Booker performing “The Sweet Science” with backing provided by The Knobs can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJY_LlhYYM

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(From GizmoCafe) After a woman died following a water drinking contest in which the prize was a Nitendo Wii, another ill considered eating contest held in conjunction with a video game has taken place. The Daily Mail reports on a contest to promote the launch of “Gods of War II” for the Sony PlayStation 2:

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.

The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.

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At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.

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The new poll asks which eaters you think are better off financially joining IFOCE and who do you think will do better in AICE / Independent contests.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from Saturday’s fried asparagus eating contest in which he was runner up in his blog along with a flickr gallery of that event.

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JapanProbe has a clip from a Japanese program about Buffalo wings. The restaurant visited is in New York City and not Buffalo. Several wing eating techniques are exhibited.

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(Thanks Erik Denmark) KCRA has a video clip of Saturday’s asparagus eating contest over 6 minutes long with a brief interview with Joey Chestnut at the end.

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