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The blog for the Onion Hamburg Restaurant reports that Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara set a record for its bunless 5 kilogram (11 pounds) burger challenge by finishing it in 47 minutes on July 20. In March, Mio “Sakura” Takahashi became the first person to complete the challenge. Her time was an hour and a half. Ms. Takahashi has an entry about the challenge in her personal blog.
Registration for the 2008 Krystal qualifiers is now available on the IFOCE.com contest pages.
The Independent of London has an article about competitive eating with a lot of quotes from Ryan Nerz which reports that 1.5 million viewers watched the Nathan’s finals. The article also claims that Badlands Booker has released 2 albums (he has produced four “Hungry & Focused” CDs) and that the Sacramento death in the bladder endurance contest happened in January (it took place in 2007). British competitor Lup Fan Yau believes that Sonya Thomas has made millions from competitive eating.
Additional information has been added to KrystalSquareOff about the qualfier circuit. A list of the venues has been posted. Five of the sites are the same as last year’s. The Chattanooga qualifier will be held at the Southern Brewers Festival and the Alabama qualifier will take place at a University of Alabama at Birmingham football game.
The wildcard page says that the top three non-winning performances will receive wild cards. Ties will be broken by second best amounts.
The KSO V finals page lists Joey Chestnut as the only current finalist, so Kobayashi might have to qualify.
Amarillo.com has a column about Joey Chestnut breaking the 21 year old record for eating the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak meal in March. The steakhouse has no plans to start a televised contest despite the fame of its eating challenge.
A page on krystalsquareoff announces the qualifiers for this year’s edition of the Krystal Square Off and a press release on Krystalist has the schedule:
Aug. 23 – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Sept. 1 – Jacksonville, Fla.
Sept. 6 – Atlanta, Ga.
Sept. 13 – Nashville, Tenn.
Sept. 14 – Knoxville, Tenn.
Sept. 20 – Birmingham, Ala.
Sept. 21 – Memphis, Tenn.
There will be three wild cards.
update Times Free Press has an article with podcast interviews of Bob Shoudt and Joey Chestnut. The purse for Krystal Square Off V will exceed the $35,000 last year’s contest awarded. Bob Shoudt says he hopes to eat 120 burgers, a pace of one burger per 4 seconds.
update #2WDEF also has an article
(from Hall Hunt) The website for the Trnkobranà festival in the Czech republic reports that Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt will be competing in an eating contest at that event on August 17. Kamil Hamersky, who participated in the 2006 Nathan’s finals is also expected to compete.
The Krystalist blog has an entry about Jill Stoler’s 3rd place finish in the women’s division of the Chef One dumpling eating contest in Queens which mentions that the qualifier circuit for Krystal Square Off V will start in a “couple of weeks.” If qualifiers take place on weekends, this would put the initial qualifier on August 16/17 or August 23/24 depending on how the two weeks is rounded. This would result in 5 or 6 qualifiers if one qualifier a week is held.
Full results from Saturday’s pierogi eating contest held at Old Home Week in Forest City, PA have been posted. The top 3:
1 Russ Keeler 51 pierogis in 10 minutes
2 Larell Marie Mele 48 (one of the more impressive female debuts of 2008)
3 John Skubic 43
2007 winner Mike Novak ate 38 before being disqualified
The new poll asks how many non-IFOCE eaters will be in the top 10 cash prize winners of 2008 at the end of the year. There are currently 4 non-IFOCE eaters in the top 10: Joe Menchetti, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, Ian Hickman and Dale Boone.
| $15000 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| $12250 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| $11050 | “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti |
| $8500 | Tim “Eater X” Janus |
| $6200 | “Humble” Bob Shoudt |
| $6000 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas |
| $5950 | “Furious” Pete Czerwinski |
| $5000 | Takeru Kobayashi |
| $2400 | Ian “The Invader” Hickman |
| $1747.36 | Dale Boone |
(From crawfish comment) The Houston Kolache Factory World Kolache Eating Championship has been added to the IFOCE calendar for Friday, September 12 (same as the NYC cannoli contest) and its purse will be $10,000. Registration opens today at 1 pm eastern.
The Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship has also been added to the calendar and it will take place September 20 in South Portland, Maine. Registration opens August 6 at noon eastern.
A blog about Pat Bertoletti has been started at http://deepdisheats.wordpress.com/. Most of the entries were previously posted on Bertoletti’s myspace or yardbarker blog.
On the Joey Chestnut / Pat Bertoletti yardbarker blog, a video of the Jimmy John’s sandwich makers vs. Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick VanDam event has been uploaded.
Registration for the Nathan’s hot dog contest that will be held at the Saratoga horse racing track on August 18 is now open on IFOCE.com, which states that the contest will not be a qualifier for the 2009 finals, but the winner will receive a year’s supply of hot dogs.
In other IFOCE contest news, registration for the Los Angeles Nisei Week gyoza eating contest will open in about an hour. Sonya Thomas says she will not enter due to high travel costs (from comment)
Results from Will Millender of the Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest held at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Corona Park, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City
Mens division
1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, 66 dumplings in 2 minutes, $1000
2. Will Millender, 57, $500
3. Ian Hickman, 50, $300
Womens division
1. Floria Lee, 38, $1000
2. Helen Chu, 30, $500
3. Jill Stoler, 28, $300
update Jill Stoler has a blog entry about the contest. Serious Eats has a short post.
update #2Will Millender has a blog entry, ghosty has a gallery and the People’s Daily Online of China has an English article
A video clip of Tomoko Miyake’s DVD is available on youtube. The DVD was released on July 25 and is categorized as a gravure idol video so the clip may not be safe for all workplaces.
Neither are the presence of Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut so overwhelming that you know what they are capable of doing until they begin eating. Different people have different talents and focus on different things I guess.
If there’s one important lesson that I have learnt and reminded of, it is that you just have to be really good at one thing and show it to the world that you are great at it. If you don’t show your stuff, no one knows, no one cares, one is just a face in the crowd.
A cheeseburger eating contest will be held at Peggy O’Neill’s in Coney Island on August 2. Footage from the contest will appear in a TV program. The contest length has not been determined and the first prize is $200.
The Goya National Black Bean Eating Championship has also been added to the schedule for August 16. The contest will take place at the Central Islip Islandia Festival and the total purse is $1750.
A possible spoiler about the identity of the final “boss” character in the Major League Eating video game is available after the jump:
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