The Brookings (South Dakota) Register reports that Brandon Brody, a sophomore at South Dakota State, ate 34 hamburgers in an hour at Nick’s Hamburger Shop, breaking the previous record by 10. Brody weighs only 118 pounds, lighter than any male IFOCE eater.

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KVAL.com reports that Joey Chestnut repeated in today’s rib eating contest at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR. No other results are listed. A video clip is available.

update the top 6 according to Erbivore
Joey – 7.65lbs
Rich – 5.75lbs
Erik – 4.7lbs
Erb – 3.6lbs
Braunstein – 2.95
Ronto – 2.9

update #2 OregonLive.com has an article about the contest in which Joey says he is considering competing in Japan.

update #3 The Chinook Winds website has a contest video

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The Springfield Journal review has an article about Jim Hamrick.

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This week’s edition of Sports Illustrated (print version only, not online) has a short interview with Joey Chestnut in a sidebar. Joey says that his most embarrassing moment occurred when his mother called out his name during the Stockton Asparagus Festival and that he would increase prize payouts if he was the commissioner of the IFOCE.

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The “Science of Speed Eating” will be rerun on the National Geographic Channel at 2pm eastern today.

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(From sonyatheblackwidow.com) The website for the supermarket chain Harris Teeter has a press release about Sonya Thomas’ commerical for house brand paper plates. The other three commercials in the advertising campaign star former wrestler Hulk Hogan, speed drummer Mike Mangini and radio Host Art Bell. Harris Teeter is based on the east coast with most locations between Maryland and Georgia. Some of the ads have the products used in unconventional manners:

Bell promotes aluminum foil for Harris Teeter by shaping it into a hat with an antenna. Why, you may ask? It’s Art Bell, he needed to see if the yourhome aluminum foil protected his brain from paranormal frequencies.

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Kobayashi has posted a blog entry with some pictures about his experience at Coney Island with

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An NYTimes article about a policeman whose beat is the Coney Island boardwalk has a sad footnote to Joey Chestnut’s Nathan’s victory:

Joey Chestnut, 23, established a world record by eating 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes in the annual Nathan’s contest. Officer Nevandro posed for pictures with the new champion.

Then, at 4:11 p.m., a 46-year-old man on the beach approached a lifeguard, shouted, “Call 911!” and pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot himself in the face. Officer Nevandro had been talking with workers at Astroland, the amusement park, and when the call came across, he rode his golf cart to the scene. The lifeguard and the police tried to revive the man, who was from Pennsylvania, but he was pronounced dead a short time later.

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R Suzuki reports that a movie based on the “Gourmet Fighter” anime is in production. Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota are in the cast listing.

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The current issue of the Brooklyn Papers has an article by Gersh Kuntzman about his experience as Kobayashi’s judge and an interview with the Frankster mascot.

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The website for The Starboard has information about Sunday’s wing contest.

Sunday is the famous WINGS TO GO SUICIDE WING EATING CONTEST!!! In at least our 20th year of this contest, 3pm this Sunday, you can get your chance to win $500 in CASH by eating the most Suicide Wings within the 30 minute time frame. No Drinks, No other Food, just WINGS!! To sign up, be here before 2pm on Sunday, and see our DJ to get yourself signed up for a shot at the title!

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La Costeña will sponsor the “Feel the Heat” Jalapeño Eating Challenge to be held in Chicago on September 16. Registration will open August 1.

Regarding other possible IFOCE September events, it is not clear if the Buffalo Wing Festival will retain its IFOCE affiliation. Registration for the buffet bowl contest does not appear to be handled by IFOCE, and the page for the wing contest brings up an error.

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A video of Tuesday’s P’Zone Challenge is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=f7O9b8HtpdM WhatPushesMyButtons.com also has a video and pictures.

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“Super” Paul “Bonebreaker” Barlow, Jr. has compiled his list of the top 20 top best dressed IFOCE competitiors at the midpoint of 2007. The top 5 in that ranking follows:

1. Crazy Legs Conti – the man does it all…creativity, style, hair, entrances (Coney Island was my favorite), and is nuts to begin with, which may give him an unfair advantage!!
2. Tim Eater X Janus – We are getting so used to his facepaint, it almost cost him here. But, the man’s color-co-ordination on his mug, the Helen Haggerty incident, and his Hartford hollerings keep him in the fashion frontlines!!
3. Super Paul BBBMB- my pictures provide my evidence, and I think I’ve been a good influence on Crazy Legs, Hall Hunt, my daughter (a well-dressed neat eater) and some others who now know how important grooming has become!!
4. Steakbellie- a kilt!! That alone almost put him higher on this list – the tattoos are just gravy.
5. Russ Keeler – It’s not only the tie-dye, but to get your family in on the act, that’s just groovy!!

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Brian Seiken has uploaded his second podcast. He also has commentary about Krazy Kevin Lipsitz’s omission from the new IFOCE rankings.

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(From SonyaTheBlackWidow.com) The KoreAm Journal has a long article about Sonya Thomas with coverage of the Long Beach chili cheese fries contest.

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(from Laura Flynn) The website for the Chinook Winds Casino, the site of this weekend’s rib eating contest, has a video clip of a “Big Bertha” burger contest in which the LeFevres and Joey Chestnut competed. I am not sure what year the contest took place.

update from Rich Lefevre The contest took place in 2007 and the top 3 were:
Joey Chestnut 9:30
Rich LeFevre 9:45
Carlene LeFevre 15:15, first competition in almost 2 years.

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The trailer for “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating”, which will be available on DVD later this month, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kNR_3rFFjE

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Registration for the second Three Brothers Pizza contest will open on July 13 at noon eastern. The contest will take place on August 18 in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will also be an amateur contest.

Another August IFOCE contest will take place at the Ash Creek Saloon Rib Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his title. Former WWF/WWE wrestler King Kong Bundy will act as celebrity judge.

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(From the Godfather & Luther & Chip Simpson) The IFOCE rankings have been updated for the first time this year. Joey Chestnut has taken the top spot. Seaver Miller has dropped out completely, and Pat Bruss is ranked despite his competing in several AICE events. I am unaware of any results for about half of the eaters ranked 41-50.

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(From Carey Poehlmann) The blogger for whatpushesmybuttons attended the P’Zone challenge and wrote a blog entry about it. He had to agree to not disclose the results of the challenge.

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From Gothamist:

So it’s only in the interest of each borough having its own event that we bring you this next story- the 4th Annual Dumpling Eating Contest, taking place on Sunday August 5th as part of the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing. For all of those who watched Joey Chestnut eat 66 weenies last week and exclaimed, “Hell, I can do that,” here’s your chance: the Dumpling Eating Contest is accepting registrants until the end of the month.

The contest is two minutes long with prizes of $1000, $500 and $300. Last year’s festival had separate contests for men and women with equivalent prize money for both genders.

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(From Jeff Chapman) “The Science of Speed Eating” documentary will be rerun on Sunday on the National Geographic Channel at 2pm eastern.

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Gal Sone vs. Saori Nakayama in a recent Wednesday morning contest: Part 1, Part 2

Gyaruru appearance on “Music Fighter”: Performance, Interview Part 1, Interview Part 2

Amimi’s (Gyaruru member with glasses) dance lesson videos for the “Boom Boom Meccha Maccho” dance (7 parts)

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Hall Hunt has compiled his IFOCE top 25 for July.

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