(From IGN.com) The website for the upcoming Major League Eating video game, MLEGame.com has been set up. The website has screen shots, videos (Badlands Booker provides a soundtrack for the trailer) and a list of the game’s characters: (from left to right in the cartoon above) bunette, Crazy Legs Conti, Rich LeFevre, paramedic, Kobayashi, El Toro, Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee, Tim Janus, Erik Denmark.

The official release date is May 12. A weekly drawing awarding gift certificates will be held for each of the 12 types of food in the game. Registration for the first drawing opens today.

Other links: Kotaku, direct link to game trailer

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Ken Aoki reports that the 2007 Krystal Square Off finals will be televised in Japan even though there were no Japanese competitors after Kobayashi’s withdrawal. The contest will be televised 12 times over the next two months on various Japanese sports channels. The program will be an hour, longer than the approximately 35 minute duration of the American broadcast.

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A video clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s phone interview on the April 1 “Mike and Mike” show can be viewed on ESPN.com. A graphic lists Crazy Legs’ first name as “Kevin”. That video clip is available for download.

The full interview is available in an audio podcast. Crazy Legs’ interview starts around the 30 minute mark. Crazy Legs will probably be a commentator for Mike Golic’s contest and he suggests Krystal burgers as the food. Conti says that Sonya will not defend her 2005 title at the Acme Oyster eating contest.

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(From Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz) Some information about Saturday’s oyster eating contest is available on acmeoyster.com (no direct link, click on contest, then “oyster eating”) The contest will begin at noon at the French Market.

There is also a link to a contest entry form, but it appears to be for the 2005 contest.

update from SykoBozo (who will also be competing) comment – NewOrleansMagazine.com has a possible field:

Nipping at Bertoletti’s heels will be Eater X, a face-painting burrito champ out of New York City’s who is ranked #4 in the world. Also competing is Crazy Legs Conti who is perhaps best known for launching his eating career by winning the first Acme World Oyster Eating Championships in 2002. Baltimore’s Julie Lee (ranked 10th), Seattle’s Erik “The Red” Denmark (ranked 12th), Chicago’s Gravy Brown (15th) and Birmingham’s Chip Simpson (ranked 6th) will also compete.

Louisiana’s top eater, Damon Serignet of Baton Rouge, has promised to defend the honor of the Pelican State in this competition.

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A video of the end of the last round of the “Gluttonous Queen” competition that Natsuko “Gal” Sone competed in is available on youtube. She missed advancement to the next round by just a few grams of steak.

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A 1973 article in Sports Illustrated about Pete Maravich mentions a halftime eating exhibition by Little Arlene:

Over the last five years the Hawks’ owners have tried five different general managers in the hope of getting reluctant Georgians, who stay home in the hope that Tuesday night football might miraculously appear on the tube, out to watch basketball. The latest candidate is 33-year-old Pat Williams, a promotional wizard fresh from crowd-building stints in Philadelphia and Chicago where he staged such halftime acts as Victor the Wrestling Bear and Little Arlene.

Williams, a mild-mannered, bespectacled, churchgoing sort, remembers Arlene with particular fondness because she was recommended to him in Philly by a player he had farmed out to Scranton of the Eastern League. Arlene, who weighed just 105 pounds, challenged five grown men to an eating contest and won by gobbling 77 hot dogs, 21 medium pizzas and 19 Cokes during a 76ers’ game. She then told the public-address announcer to inform the audience that she would take on any five fans in a postgame oyster-eating bash at Bookbinders restaurant. Hoping to come up with another red-hot attraction, Williams called a meeting of the Hawks and asked for their ideas. The only one he received came from Maravich, who allowed as how he thought a lot of folks would show up if Williams screened Deep Throat every halftime.

The exhibition also appears in a recent book about Maravich.

Pat Williams did an interview last month where he mentioned Little Arlene, but does not offer any additional details about her.

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Beautiful Brian has a page comparing “Stick to Blogging” to the 25th anniversary re-release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Commentary about the release “Stick to Blogging” explains how Michael Jackson has an additional impact on the CD.

Although some of the musical arrangements are the sole property of yours truly like “Dont ever call me again” “Came in as an eater” “Retaliation” and “Weigh my shit” “Black and White” , others are copyrighted material replaced by my own original lyrics but accompanied by tunes from major recording artists such as the Beatles and Billy Preston. In order to clear those hurdles and post on media player applications such as itunes stores and other high profile internet music services i would have to cut a deal with those companies and pay them thousands of dollars. I dont think so.

Michael Jackson currently owns the publishing rights to the Beatles’ songs, although there is speculation that financial difficulties might for him to sell.

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CalorieLab has a paragraph in English about this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest won by Hatsuyo Sugawara.

Ameba and J-Cast have articles

R Suzuki has part two of her contest report

The contest page on TV Tokyo’s website now has pictures of all the competitor.

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Metromix has a gallery of the final contest in the “Munch Madness” team relay bar bite eating tournament, which was nicknamed the “Elite Ate”

The winner is not mentioned in the gallery captions. Team Manchetti was one of the eight finalists.

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The page which formerly had videos from the Major League Eating shows recorded in Las Vegas, http://www.spike.com/show/23406 is now empty. (Cached page)

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(Via Gazizza.net) Babe Ruth was not the only New York Yankee outfielder of the 1910s/1920s famed for his appetite. According to baseball-reference.com:

1919 – One of the most bizarre off-the-field incidents history takes place in Jacksonville, Florida. New York Yankees outfielder Ping Bodie competes against an ostrich named “Percy” in a spaghetti-eating contest! Bodie wins the competition when Percy passes out after his 11th plate of pasta.

Some accounts have “Percy” dying after the contest.

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The new poll asks what eater currently ranked in the IFOCE top 30 is most likely to make his first appearance at the Nathan’s finals this year.

Steakbellie has already made adjustments in his work schedule.

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• Eater X & Seaver Miller on the Tyra Banks show
• Kristy Yamaguchi claims to be regional hot dog winner on April 1 “Dancing with the Stars”
• Pat Bertoletti and Damon Serignet and expected Acme Oyster entrants
• Video from Sutter’s Mill burger contest in Albany, NY
• Cincinnati Reds forum thread about Frank Pastore’s Big Texan steak record
• Battle of the Bone Week 3
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi dines in Hong Kong

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(from SkinnyBoy) Skinnyboy has uploaded a video clip of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped.” Joey estimates he consumed 5,000 hot dogs in preparing for the Nathan’s finals.

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Badlands Booker has started a youtube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/badlandsbooker The page has clips of Bookers appearances on “Wife Swap, “Attack of the Show” and the hard boiled egg eating contest from the “Glutton Bowl”.

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Joey Chestnut is ranked #25 in Sports Illustrated’s list of the 25 toughest athletes in all sports. Joey’s “old school match” is Babe Ruth. The list apparently confuses “reviewing” with “reversing” (of fortune).

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Cookie Jarvis will be competing in an eating contest against an undetermined competitor at the Norwich (CT) Defenders minor league baseball game Thursday.

In other Cookie Jarvis news, he is quoted in Newsday about the cost of moving mobile homes.

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Hall Hunt has compiled the votes for his top 25 for April. The top 10 in that list follow:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (8) (198) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (189) [2]
3. Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi (175) [8]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (171) [5]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (151) [3]
6. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (148) [6]
7. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (138) [4]
8. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (133) [7]
9. Chip “The Phenom” Simpson (120) [11]
10. Juliet Lee (113) [10]

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• 2002 – Steve Rushin article about Thanksgiving contest at Mickey Mantle’s restaurant
  
• 2002 – Letter from George “Garbage Gut” Glum
• 2002 – Competitive Eating: Sport? Not a sport?
• 1999 – Steve Rushin goes roller coaster riding with 1997/8 Nathan’s champ Hirofumi Nakajima after an eating contest (Will he sue the producers of “Hurl” for copying his concept?)
• 1998 – Rick Reilly column about Hirofumi Nakajima

I will try to make another post about pre 1998 competitive eating articles if I can find any.

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