Liz Kellermeyer has written a preview of Saturday's Denver-area Nathan's qualifier listing Mongo Marquez, Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos and Russ Witzke as expected entrants.
Archive for June, 2009
The new poll asks that if a competitive eating Hall of Fame was started and top eaters were alleged to have used performance enhancing drugs, should that affect their chances for Hall of Fame entrance.
Challenges by metro area (South Central US)
Here are lists of eating challenges for metro areas for cities in the southern half of the central United States
Austin | College Station | Dallas | Houston | Memphis | Nashville | New Orleans | Oklahoma City | San Antonio | Tulsa
Man vs. Food clone proposed on ESPN.com podcast
In a recent podcast, Bill Simmons of ESPN.com (not El Wingador) proposes a program called “House Record” in which his friend Joe House would travel the country and attempt to break restaurants’ eating challenge records. After being informed the concept is basically the same as Man vs. Food, Simmons calls Adam Richman “annoying” and claims his program would be better.
(“House Record” segment begins around the 32 minute mark)
(via crawfish twitter) PatBertoletti has uploaded a video of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Minnesota.
Val Bromann has posted a blog entry about the Kansas City area Nathan's qualifier.
Dougie's in Brooklyn will host a kosher buffalo wings eating contest on Sunday, June 14. First prize is a $250 gift certificate.
JoshDaleEats.com eating challenge webcasts
JoshDaleEats.com has started webcasting live Wedndesday afternoon eating challenges at 1 PM Central (2 PM eastern). Today’s challenge will consist of items from the Wendy’s Value Menu: Double Stack, Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Spicy Chicken Go Wrap, Homestyle Chicken Go Wrap, Grilled Chicken Go Wrap, 5-piece Nuggets and Value French Fries.
The Portland Mercury has a report on Saturday's fried pie eating contest.
A video of the overtime session in Saturday's contest at Choo Choo's burgers between "Sunshine" and Will Millender is available on youtube.
Gazette.net has an article about Juliet Lee's victory in the eating contest held at Pete's Clam Bar on Memorial Day.
(from Crawfish twitter) The Colusa (California) Casino Resort World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge will take place on June 28. The purse is $1,377 and registration opens tomorrow.
BB.com: Brad Sciullo training Big Brian
BeautifulBrian.com’s Bits & Pieces reports that Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo has been training “Big” Brian Subich, who will compete in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Charlotte. Brad Sciullo reportedly ate 38 hot dogs in a training session and also completed Tiny’s burger challenge at the Niner Diner which includes 5 pounds of fries. When the UEPa visited the Niner Diner in 2007, the only challenge finisher was an unnamed sub 100 pound woman according to the restaurant’s owner.
(via theblackmallard) RudolphFoods.com has a list of some of the competitors in Saturday's pork rink contest which include: Tim “Gravy†Brown, “Wild†Bill Myers, “Buffalo†Jim Reeves, Craig Reed and Rick Petralia
SFunFun has a gallery from the contest sponsored by Rocco's Pizza in Brooklyn.
NJ.com has a report on Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky's victory at a pasta eating contest at Trattoria Bel Paese on Sunday. The first prize was a 26 inch flat screen television.
GBlakeman has some pictures from the Cupcake Cram held at Tee & Cakes in Boulder, Colorado.
Westword has a preview of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Denver listing Erik Denmark (who will probably not compete), Kevin Ross and Russ Witzke as expected entrants.
The Pitch has a blog entry about Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Overland Park Kansas.
(from Matt Rodbard) Metromix has a gallery of Saturday's rib eating contest at Hill Country in Manhattan. Crossfit gym owner Rob Egan was the winner with 2.3 pounds in 12 minutes.
Julie Dey on TwinCitiesLive video
TwinCitiesLive has a video of Julie Dey’s appearance on Friday to promote the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier. She says she was inspired to enter by Pat Bertoletti and his girlfriend. After describing the typical amount of food she eats in a buffet, she competes in a short contest against one of the shows hosts.
Julie Dey ate 11 hot dogs to finish third in her first ever official eating contest. The contest was held in a cold rain and Pat Bertoletti claimed the hot dogs were leathery. If you think that Pat Bertoletti would have eaten %50-%100 more in optimal conditions and adjust Ms. Dey’s performance by a similar amount, it could have rivaled Sonya Thomas 18 HDB in 2003 (in 12 minutes) as one of the top overall competitive eating debuts at a Nathan’s qualifier.
"Lethal" Kristy Lee Spurlock has started a myspace page about her competitive eating career.
Top 25 poll now open
The top 25 poll at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php is now accepting votes.
Votes will be categorized by whether a user is registered and logged in or not.
There is nothing to prevent multiple voting, but only the first vote from a logged in user will be counted in the registered votes.
To assist voting, a list of the top 50 Nathan’s qualifier performances so far is available after the jump.
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Dale Boone at Taste of Brighton, Colorado
Andrew “A-Bomb” Lane is apparently competing at a foot long hot dog contest in Brighton, Colorado today and reports that Dale Boone is also present.
update Boone won with 9.5 foot longs
update #2 Andrew Lane has a blog entry and gallery
AlphaJag: Gravy Brown wins Nathan’s Kansas qualifier
update Fox4KC has a gallery
from http://twitter.com/alphajag/statuses/2056166613 GRAVY BROWN WINS! GRAVY BROWN WINS! Nathans Hot Dog eating contest @ Sams!!!
Mongo Marquez has the top 4:
1. Tim “Gravy” Brown 32 HDB
2. “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 27.5 HDB
3. “Mongo” Marquez 27 HDB
4. Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard 22
The twitters of Mongo Marquez and Bryan Beard report they will compete in the Overland Park qualifier.
Val Bromann is already at the contest site.
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