PressNews.com has an article about Mark Pederson's victory in a Juicy Lucy burger eating contest at the 5-8 Club in Champlin, MN.
Archive for December, 2011
Some of the promotional material for Suzilla bills Suzanne French as the #4 female competitive eater. The new poll asks who you think is the #4 female competitive eater in North America (assuming Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and Stephanie Torres are the top 3)
Sport Bisztró in Debrecen, Hungary will hold the I. Dinner of Champions (Hamburger Eating Contest) on December 17.
Tom Gilbert won a three pound burger eating contest held at the Las Vegas Cheeburger Cheeburger. Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez was the runner up. (gallery)
PJ Whelihan's in Turnersville, NJ will hold a Wing Off qualifier for Wing Bowl 20 on December 15. The only other Wing Off on the calendar takes place at PJ Whelihan's in Downington, PA on January 5.
Vimeo has a promo video for Suzilla The Mouth That Roars consisting of clips from the debut episode that will be televised on the Planet Green channel on December 20. update Dec 14 The video has been moved to a new location. update Dec 16 The video is now also available on youtube.
NY Daily News reports that the Nathan's Famous on the Coney Island Boardwalk (not the site of the annual competition at Surf & Stillwell) has signed an 8 year lease for a larger location on the Boardwalk.
Tickets for Wing Bowl 20 will go on sale tomorrow at 9 am at http://www.comcasttix.com/. All tickets are $10.
The Visalia Times Delta reports Naader Reda was the first person to complete "El Grande" challenge at El Rosal Mexican Restaurant in Visalia, CA.
The Wall Street Journal has an article about publicity stunts with quotes from Rich Shea.
Will Millender announces that he won the wing eating contest held at Manchester Pub in New York City. Will has also started a new blog at bigwillthechampweightloss.blogspot.com
DiagonalUK has a video of the Singapore qualifier for CP Biggest Eater and Pedro TP has videos from the Melbourne qualifier (video 1 | video 2). The Melbourne videos show the prizes for male Australians being awarded with the other divisions, which appears to contradict the claim on CP Australia's facebook that an overtime period was held on a different day from the Melbourne qualifier.
Naader Reda reports that Kevin Ross won Mr Dash's burger eating contest last night in San Diego with a total of 14.75 burgers.
Randy Santel will attempt to eat the Big 70 biscuits and gravy challenge at Midway Truck Stop & Travel Plaza in Columbia, MO for an upcoming episode of the Travel Channel's Truck Stop Missouri on December 13. The public is welcome to attend the recording.
Notorious Bob sets Martorano’s Meatballs record
update Dec 14 SHRHollywood has a video
update Dec 12 Jim The Candle Man has videos of the contest and LA Beast’s introduction and BrandoFoto has a gallery.
update Results
1) “Notorious” Bob Shoudt 52, breaks Joey Chestnut’s 2009 record of 50
2) Adrian Morgan 48
3) Kevin “LA Beast” 31
4T) Yasir Salem 24
4T) Mike Katz 24
6) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 21
7T) Sean “Wrecking Ball” Brockert 15
7T) Bruce Ollis 15
9) Michael Parris
DQ) Steve Piccolo
The contest is expected to start around 5 or 6 pm eastern and Bob Shoudt, Adrian Morgan, Sean Brockert, Yasir Salem, Andrew Kogutkiewicz, Bruce Ollis and Kevin “LA Beast” are expected to compete. Steven Piccolo will attempt to follow up on his 3rd place finish in last months pickle contest.
This will be the fourth IFOCE contest in Broward or Palm Beach county in 2011 (Sweet Corn Fiesta, TooJay’s, Pompano Park Pickles and Martorano’s meatballs)
Naader Reda has produced a video of him and Matt Cohen attempting the 30 inch pizza challenge at Luigi's in San Diego while dressed as characters from the Super Mario Brothers video games.
An article about the opening of BGR in Carrollwood, Florida repeats the claim that its 9 pound burger challenge has been used in an I.F.O.C [sic] eating contest.
CompetitiveEaters.com, the website for All Pro Eating has been retooled with a new look. Eric "Silo" Dahl heads the new top 10 list. (via comment)
The Social House of Soulard in St. Louis will hold a hot dog eating contest on December 14 awarding $200 to the winner. The advertisement has a picture of Joey Chestnut.
CNN has an article about "Super" Paul "Bonebreaker" Barlow's career as a movie extra (via Badlands Booker). Paul's IMDB page lists that he will appear in three 2012 movies.
Analysis of the WLOCE Top 5
A press release about “Suzilla” cites Suzanne French’s #4 position in the World League of Competitive Eating (WLOCE) rankings. Here is an analysis of the top 5 on the WLOCE home page:
- Dale Boone, founder of the WLOCE
- Takeru Kobayashi, has never lost to Dale Boone or competed in a WLOCE contest
- Ron “Cash” Clark, broke Dale Boone’s record for the challenge at Hillbilly Hotdogs in Huntington, WV (which Boone later regained)
- Suzanne “Suzilla” French, two top 3 finishes in summer 2009 in WLOCE contests, finished tied for 8th in 2010 IFOCE Houston gyro contest
- Pete Czerwinski, has never lost to Dale Boone or competed in a WLOCE Contest
Dale Boone’s head to head records against Takeru Kobayashi and Pete Czerwinski are available after the jump:
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640Sports.com has a podcast of an interview "Notorious" Bob Shoudt did today about Saturday's meatball eating contest in Hollywood, FL (via MLE facebook).
A press release about Suzilla: The Mouth That Roars announces it will debut at 10:30 pm eastern on December 20 on the Planet Green cable channel. In the episode, Jerry Ferrara ("Turtle" on HBO's Entourage and one of the restaurant's co-owners) will compete against Suzanne French, in an eating contest at Fat Sal's Deli in Los Angeles.
Easy Street Bar in Dubuque, Iowa will hold a turkey & dressing eating contest on December 17 awarding $500 to the winner.
A new and apparently official Wing Bowl twitter is available at http://twitter.com/WingBowl20 and announces that Stacey "Eat-O-Rama" McCarthy has qualified for the finals by eating 10 items from the McDonald's Dollar Menu in under 10 minutes. (via Andrew Kossuth email)
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