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CompetitiveEatingNews.com has a short blurb about Thursday’s “Wedges & Wings” telecast with the following information about the field:
The magnificent and hotly anticipated event will showcase the eating talents of Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut, the Mad Greek and Eater X along with Juliet Lee, Wing Kong and the mysterious El Toro among others
KTNV has a short article and video clip about Rich & Carlene LeFevre.
Sonya Thomas’ website is now back up. Her news page makes no mention of an absence from the Krystal finals and only says that information will be “Forthcoming”
A subtitled version of Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s appearance on the show “Cartoon KAT-TUN” is available on youtube. In the program, Gal Sone is interviewed by the boy band KAT-TUN about some of the answers on a 100 question form she filled out before the show. While answering questions, Gal Sone eats a lot of sushi and then plays ping pong.
The SomaIsGood livejournal has a writeup of the show.
With three days until airtime, there is no mention of the “Wedges & Wings” program on any of the IFOCE/MLE websites. The special does not appear on the list of Spike TV programs either. In the Spike TV schedule grid, there is no program description whatsoever. A screen capture of the grid is available after the jump.
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BeautifulBrian.com has a page on why he thinks that certain eaters were chosen or passed over for Spike TV’s “Wedges & Wings” contest along with a commentary on the selection process.
Several articles about competive eating from the New York Times archive which previously required payment are now available for free (in reverse chronological order)
preview of 2005 NJ pizza contest, mentions Pat Philbin
2005 Review of Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
Short article about Kate Stelnick (she claims to have drunk 14 glasses of water while eating the 96er)
Long 2003 profile of Carson “Collard Green” Hughes
Preview of 2003 Wing Bowl, focuses on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and “Belly” Donna Villec
Report on the 2002 pelmeni contest
2002 preview of Nathan’s finals, mainly about the Sheas
2002 article about Don Lerman, Badlands Booker & Cookie Jarvis, calls George Shea a “competitive eater since 1988”
2001 profile of Kevin Lipsitz
Article on quick start controversy at 1999 Nathan’s finals
Report on 1999 Nathan’s finals
preview of 1999 Ben’s Deli’s matzoh ball contest
1998 article about Mike DeVito, also mentions start of the IFOCE, originally the International Federation of Hot Dog Eating
1997 interview with Ed Krachie
Report on December 1996 duel between Ed Krachie and Nakajima
1996 Nathan’s final report
1995 Nathan’s finals results
Report on 1995 Nathan’s New Jersey qualifier, contest was 10 minutes long
article on 1994 Nathan’s finals, mentions Curtis Sliwa’s participation
Report on 1990 Nathan’s, says Jay Green & Mike DeVito tied for first place
Preview of 1987 Nathan’s, registrations were still being accepted by phone on July 3
Report on 1984 women’s only pancake contest
From zap2it.com
ESPN 2007 World Hamburger Eating Championship
Sun, Oct 28, 2:30 PM | Run Time: 30 min.
Genre: Sports
Live From Chattanooga, Tenn.
There will probably be some reruns.
From KrystalSquareOff.com
Jackson Krystal Qualifier, Mississippi State Fair, MS
1. Crazy Legs Conti, 44 burgers
2. “Buffalo” Jim Reeves, 40
3. “Nasty” Nathan Biller 26
update ClarionLedger.com has an article mentioning the contest.
SonyaTheBlackWidow.com currently brings up a generic search page.
Last night the following announcement appeared on that website:
2007-10-13, 22:41:43: I will not be able to compete at the 2007 Krystals Finals, due to job-related obligations. Nevertheless, I wish each and every competitor the absolute best at his and her performance. (I’m pulling for you Juliet …)
The top search terms on the current page are:
The Jackson Krystal roster is out. Eaters from outside Mississippi are below:
Crazy Legs Conti
Justin Mih
Nathan Biller
Jason Erb
Marco Marquez
Pete Davekos
Micah Collins
Eric Livingston
Russ Witzke
Brian Subich
The Korea Times has an article (in English) about Sonya Thomas:
When asked if she gets to eat much Korean food, Thomas said she often goes to Korean restaurants, including an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, in the growing Korean-American community in Virginia. “I usually go for ‘bulgogi,’ spicy-tofu stew and spicy-seafood stew. I also love chewing on Korean dried squid, which I think helps my chewing strength.”
She said she had actually lost some weight since becoming a competitive eater and that her cholesterol levels are normal. She plans to continue competing as long as she can stay healthy.
Aside from being a volume eater, another major advantage she says she has over other competitors is her blazing speed and eating technique. “I am really good when it comes to food where you have to move fast and use hands, like eating chicken wings or oysters or lobsters,” she mused.
The cluckbucket blog has a lot of entries about last month’s Buffalo Wing Festival, a gallery of the wing eating contest and a lot of other wing related pictures.
The only instance of a pre-1972 Nathan’s hot dog eating contest I could find in the Google news archive was a June 30, 1967 competition held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the hot dog:
Champ Eats 127 Hot Dogs
NEW YORK was the 100th anniversary of the hot dog, and Walter Paul, a 400- pound truckdriver, sat down and ate 127 of them with relish, catsup and mustard. Paul, 32, was rewarded for his Ruthian took him one hour (?) a trophy proclaiming him the world’s champion hot dog eater.’ ,The “dog-in” was held at Nathan’s Famous, the Coney Island frankfurter palace. The occasion was to honor Charles Feltman, who slipped a sausage into a roll in 1867 and named the creation “frankfurter” after his birthplace in Frankfurt, Germany.
One of the KTNV news clips on the “Wedges & Wings” contests can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH7Av6uC838 (spoilers in video) El Toro is one of the competitors in the potato wedge contest. I could not recognize another another one of the competitors in that video, who is shown in the capture above.
The Las Vegas Sun reports on the spectators outside the Clark County Regional Justice Center during OJ Simpson’s bail hearing last month.
Another off-Strip show, the Golden Nugget’s “Defending the Caveman,” sent over a guy in a polyester pelt with a plastic club . A guy in black, maybe with the show, maybe not, gave away doughnuts. “That’s the new Scorsese, right there!” he shouted at a cameraman. He added, in a two-minute span, “Four dead in Ohio! Four dead in Ohio!” and “Free Krispy Kremes!”
Local hot dog eating champ “Kid” Cary DeGrosa held a camera to his face and bellowed like a mastodon across a primeval swamp.
“Wait a minute, wait minute, I’ve got Elvis and the caveman!” he said. “Isn’t this great? It’s not as big as in Los Angeles, but we’re not L.A.”
An anti-Joey Chestnut website has been made at http://cluckujoeychestnut.com/ which makes the following prediction:
2008 Wing Bowl February 1, 2008, Wachovia Center. Watch as El Wingador beats last years Champion Joey Chestnut..
The logo can be found at http://cluckujoeychestnut.com/wing_bowl
Ramadan Haleem Eating Contest, Hyderabad, India
The winner of the competition was Mohammad Saleem who managed to eat two kilograms of Haleem in 30 seconds.
“I am feeling really good. They gave us two minutes to finish it but I don’t know in how much time I finished that much,” said Saleem.
An eatery in the city, called ‘Pista House’, started organising this competition in 2003 with vegetarian versions of Haleem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The owner of eatery said he organised the competition despite recent terror attacks in the city to ease tension among residents.
“We have organised this competition to make people feel a little relaxed,” said M. A. Majeed, organiser of the competition.
1000 Year Old Egg Eating contest, Hawaii, winner was V. Ginny Young
Wing Fling, St. Mary’s PA, winner appears to be female despite having the name Chris “Bubba” Young
In a post titled “I Created the Monster”, Don “Moses” Lerman remembers the first time he met Pat Bertoletti before a Krystal qualifier in Knoxville, TN:
ON ROUTE TO KNOXVILLE I HAD A STOP OVER AT NATIONAL AIRPORT IN WASH. D.C I RAN INTO PAT AND INTRODUCED MYSELF TO HIM , HE WAS VERY TIRED AND WENT TO SLEEP ON THE BENCH INTHE TERMINAL . AS THE CALL ALL ABOARD THE AIRLINE WAS CALLED BERTELETI WAS IN A A DEEP SLEEP , I COULD HAVE LET HIM LIE THERE AND WALK AWAY WITH THE CONTEST , BUT IN THE INTEREST OF FAIR PLAY AND GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP I’LL WAKE HIM UP …. HE WENT ON TO BEAT ME BY A SMALL MARGIN IT WA S THE START OF HIS CAREAR AND THE END OF MINE
KTNV has four videos from the “Wedges & Wings” contest. Joey Chestnut gives a wing eating lesson while wearing a “Heart Attack Grill” shirt. Joey also says that he thinks Kobayashi was faking “jawthritis”. Pat Bertoletti estimates his stomach capacity at 25 pounds.
The third & fourth Spike TV specials will be broadcast over the next two months. Today’s foods are ham and hard boiled eggs.
The article containing the video links gives the result of Tuesday’s contest.
A Nathan’s hot dog eating contest will be held at Belmont Park’s New York Showcase Fall Festival on October 20. I am assuming this event is not a qualifier for the 2008 finals, but qualifiers have been held at that location previously.
The Northwestern University student paper has an article about Pat Bertoletti. The article gets the 2006 corned beef contest in Boston, which Bertoletti won, mixed up with a 2004 Milwaukee competition, where he finished behind Cookie Jarvis and Molly Cary.
Determined to show the world the pizza eating contest was a fluke, he registered immediately in a corn beef n’ cabbage competition in Boston.
Without hesitation, Bertoletti hopped on a flight from O’Hare and headed east. He, unlike a few of the other world-renowned eaters, wasn’t sponsored at the time. All expenses came out of his pocket. If he planned to break even on his trip, he would need to place in the contest.
His finish improved, but he still only took third. Bertoletti had a problem: he was smoked by a girl. Bertoletti says while laughing, “I got killed by a girl, man, who has never done anything. I was kicking myself, dude.â€
BeautifulBrian.com has a podcast in which he plays segments from classic songs from the 1960s and 1970s while providing commentary and historical information.
Keeping in line with that theme, the new poll asks what classic rock song should an eating contest be based on. Youtube videos of the songs in the poll are listed below.
Jimmy Buffet “Cheeseburger in Paradise”: official video
King Crimson “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic”: 1972 performance
Led Zeppelin: “Custard Pie”: slide show
Squeeze “Pulling Mussels From the Shell” official video
Steely Dan “Black Cow” : 2003 performance, documentary
The Beatles “Savoy Truffle”: slideshow of Beatles eating
The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar”: 1971 TV appearance
The Who “Heinz Baked Beans”: homemade video
U2 “Lemon”: official video
Van Halen “Ice Cream Man”: 1983 US Festival, 2007 tour
On a Fox5Vegas video, Crazy Legs Conti showed wing eating techniques while Tim “Eater X” Janus provided commentary. Conti will be an announcer on the “Wedges & Wings” program.
In a transcript of a radio interview yesterday on the Steve Dahl show, Pat Bertoletti says that tonight’s contest will feature turkeys and whole hams will be the food on Thursday.
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