Bloomberg.com has an article about redevelopment plans for Coney Island which quotes Mike DeVito:

Michael Devito, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president, has a special attachment to Coney Island. He’s a three-time winner of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot-dog-eating contest and loves the all-beef franks.

“The big draw has to be the original Nathan’s,” said Devito, 45, whose last victory was in 1994, when he downed 20 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. “If I’m anywhere near that area, I always shoot over.”

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CheapAssFood.com has a video from the women’s and men’s dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens, NY Sunday. Floria Lee’s technique is quite impressive.

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OCRegister.com reports that Joey Chestnut will not attend Wednesday’s Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich eating contest at Knott’s Berry Farm, but Pat Bertoletti will.

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The Times of London has a report by Andrew Heath, who competed in the Premier Travel Inn breakfast eating contest in order to win money to repay student loans.

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(From Joe Callow) Juliet Lee has opened a website at julietlee.com.

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(From beautifulbrian.com & Kevin Ross) Dale Boone has been removed from the IFOCE rankings, moving everyone up below Boone’s previous #16 spot up a notch.

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(From JapanProbe) A video of a woman (I think it is Suguwara) eating 3kg (6.2 lb) of curry on Japanese television can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcg2WCjNGBM

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Please place results from the dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens, NY today in the comments to this post. BeautifulBrian reports that Dale Boone competed in the contest, which is not an AICE contest, but has had AICE eaters compete in previous years.

This blog entry reports that the women’s winner outate the men’s 43 dumplings to 41. I will be very interested to learn who the female winner is if that is the case.

update results from Joe Menchetti

Men
1. Joe Menchetti, 60
2. Chris Yee, 41 1st ever eating contest
3. Dale Boone, 39

Women
1. Floria Lee, about 43
2. Tang Na Way ?
3. ?

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Kobayashi and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota recently faced off, but it was in a bowling alley and not an eating contest. Shirota reports that Kobayashi broke 200 in his blog entry about the competition.

In his blog entry, Kobayashi has a cartoon of Shirota and the Food Battle Club stars. Tomoko Miyake has a cartoon of herself suitable for placement on a button in her blog.

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TulsaWorld.com has a report from yesterday’s Backyard Burgers qualifier. Stephen “Cue Ball” Cue won set a qualifier record of 5.5 burgers to win.

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BeautifulBrian.com has a new commentary for this month, a picture of Juilet Lee on his entry page and a tribute to Elvis as a musician and a potential competitive eater on the 30th anniversary of his death.

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FDLReporter.com has an article about the amateur bratwurst eating contest held at the Brat Days Festival in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Mike “The Hammer” Fitzgerald of Menasha, WI won the contest with a respectable 19 bratwursts in 10 minutes.

update Sheboygan Press has a slideshow and video of the contest.

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Consumption23 has 7 videos from last Saturday’s blueberry pie eating contest in Oregon at http://www.youtube.com/user/consumption23

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The rib eating contest to be held August 29 at the Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off in Sparks, NV is now on the official IFOCE schedule. Registration for that event opens on August 6.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that federal prosecutors have forced wild animals to be removed from the Hamilton County Fair due to lack of a proper license, terminating the pizza eating contests between a bear and human opponents:

Then, Ingle said, there were complaints that the bear was being treated poorly because he was being “forced” to participate against people in a pizza-eating contest.

That’s true.

“He loves pizza. Pepperoni is his favorite. We think he’s Italian because he likes pizza,” said Mazzola, whose heritage is Italian.

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Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy) of ESPN.com lists Joey Chestnut’s victory as one of the few high points in a bleak summer for sports:

It’s impossible to rank these events from most depressing to least depressing, so I won’t even try. Making matters worse, the enjoyable moments have been few and far between. Basically, it’s been Joey Chestnut’s toppling Kobayashi, Stephon Marbury’s surreal Mike’d Up appearance and the actor who played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx Is Burning’s inadvertently looking like C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man.

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KrystalSquareOff.com has information about registering online for the qualifiers for Krystal Square Off IV. Eaters can register online for two qualifiers, but can attempt to qualify by winning a prequalifier of a third qualifier. The dates registration open follow:

Monday, August 6 at 12:00pm EST
Chattanooga Jacksonville Nashville

Wednesday, August 8 at 12:00pm EST
Knoxville Atlanta Memphis

Friday, August 10 at 12:00pm EST
Perry Jackson Birmingham

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BusinessWire has a press release about the peanut butter & jelly sandwich eating contest to be held on August 8 at Knott’s Berry Farm. Spectators must purchase a ticket to the amusement park to view the contest. No expected eaters are listed.

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SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has added a guestbook and beautifulbrian.com has a blog for reader comments.

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A burrito eating contest will be sponsored by Costa Vida Big Kahuna Burritos in South Portland, Maine on September 22. Registration opens August 9.

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Tim League, who works for the Rolling Roadshow, has a blog entry about the “Stand by Me” event where he competing in the pie eating contest and ate 3 pounds.

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Madison.com has a preview of the frog legs contest to be held before the Madison Mallards minor league baseball game Monday. The game will be against the Green Bay Bullfrogs. Three out of state eaters are expected:

* Ian “The Invader” Hickman of Virginia, who has eaten 4.78 pounds of fried zucchini in eight minutes.
* “Gentleman Joe” Menchetti of Connecticut, whose world records include pumpkin pie (5.89 pounds in five minutes) and Cajun-fried cicadas (89 in one minute).
* Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle of Ohio, who has eaten 8.3 pounds of chili in five minutes, also a world record.

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Slashfilm has a review of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” The reviewer finds Crazy Legs Conti a compelling figure, but wishes the documentary had a wider focus.

Crazy Legs is a great documentary subject because he is such an interesting character. He’s unique and funny, and strangely relatable. He’s that friend that everyone talks about at parties. Watching Crazy Legs eat is pretty gross, but it’s easy to root for him the whole time anyways, even when Conti, who is always trying to push the limits tries to gulp down sticks of butter.

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Dave “MegaMunch” Shoffner has posted a list of upcoming contests in the East PA/MD region.

Listing of independent contests in the eatfeats database has been curtailed somewhat unless the contest has a substantial prize or other notable feature since minimal feedback from eaters or contest organizers have been received. Please let me know if you would like the number of independent contests listed to be increased.

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The schedule of qualifiers for this year’s Krystal Square Off finals is available on krystalsquareoff.com. Sites will be essentially the same as last year. The date for the final has not been fixed, but it will be held in Chattanooga and televised on ESPN.

Aug. 22 – 25 Chattanooga
Aug. 31 – Sept. 3 Jacksonville, Fla.
Sept. 7 – 9 Nashville
Sept. 14 – 16 Knoxville
Sept. 21 – 23 Atlanta
Sept. 28 – 30 Memphis
Oct. 5 – 7 Perry, Ga.
Oct. 12 – 14 Jackson, Miss.
Oct. 19 – 21 Birmingham, Ala.
TBA Chattanooga

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