Krystal Square Off V qualifiers announced
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
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Speeding to register said
August 7, 2008 @ 6:47 am
No registration page up yet as of 646am….and I have to go to work now!
nathanbiller said (Registered January 29, 2007)
August 7, 2008 @ 9:16 am
“Also, for the first time, five amateurs will be selected on-the-spot at each of the regional qualifiers to compete in the eight-minute event.”
It sounds like they will do away with the 2 minute qualifiers for each event and just let 5 people in each by signing up.
The_Hangman said (Registered August 30, 2006)
August 7, 2008 @ 9:41 am
Online registration begins at Noon Eastern Time on August 8.
crawfish said (Registered May 24, 2008)
August 7, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
Press release on ifoce.com
http://www.ifoce.com/news.php?action=detail&sn=618
KevinRoss said
August 7, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Only 11 spots at the final table? That’s pretty discouraging. There goes my remote chance of squeaking into the end of the final table. Heck, one could eat over 50 and maybe still not get into the finals. I guess I get to save on travel money!
Tonto said
August 7, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
Weren’t there 14 spots last year? Why the significant drop-off?
Red Frist said
August 7, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Are you sure about that, Hangman?
Rhonda Evans said
August 7, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
Who knows? The way things happen around here Bob may end up “winning” the whole thing. Maybe he’ll be given credit for doing 150.
sho-nuff said
August 7, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
I heard Pat and Hall will b stopping in Hamburg Germany to do some historic studies on Burgers for the Krystal Square Off while they are in Chezk
Anonymous said
August 7, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Rhonda, how many of Bob’s 150 would end up the floor. Give me a conservative number.
Anonymous said
August 7, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
150 wow! maybe he has the fastest hands in competetive eating. rhonda it used to be sonya, guess not anymore
Fred said
August 7, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Hangman is right, the WDEF article says sign-up begins at Noon Friday.
Fred said
August 7, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
Also says Kobayashi will be back and is gunning for 110 Krystals… and the 2 minute qualifier is gone.
Anonymous said
August 7, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Humble Bob will destroy Kobayashi.
Anonymous said
August 7, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
Humble Bob, Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Hall Hunt, Eric the Red, Dr. Bigtime, Rich LeFevre, Chip Simpson, Crazy Legs Conti, and I could go on and on because so many men have shown the world that this is a mans sport. Both of thpose ifoce girls will keep going down in flames and that makes me so proud. Get out you two. Just get out.
Luther
Rhonda Evans said
August 8, 2008 @ 7:25 am
To both Anonymi. It’s not about fastest hands, well, perhaps it is,in a way. I think Humble Bob has masterfully “broken the code” on how to maximize the amount of Krystals eaten, as perceived by the counters. In all seriousness, I expect Joey, Koby, and Bob, and possibly Pat, to eat more than/get credit for 110 Krystals, and it will take 120+ to win it.
I think Hardy’s 5-second rule actually opened doors of opportunity for, and gave several eaters ideas regarding, how to get credit for “consuming” more than what one can ( and does) actually eat. What it says to innovative eaters is that it’s A-OK to drown Krystals in water for not substantially longer than 5 seconds.
So as you alternate between drowning three or four Krystals in water for 4-6 seconds with one hand until they turn to mush, and shoving the remnants of what’s left (after falling apart in and out of the water) into your mouth, and repeating with the other hand, a person can easily get credit for eating the remanants of 3 or 4 Krystals about every 10 seconds or so.
Most of the eaters apart from Koby, Joey, Bob, and Pat (and Tim?) have not mastered this concept of “eating” Krystals, and as such, they will not be able to eat at least 75 or 80, and if not, they won’t even finish in the top five.
This is a far, far cry from the first year results when Koby won with that “phenomenal” total of a whopping 69. (I’ll stop here, for now, but if I’m prompted I have much more to say on this.)
I said
August 8, 2008 @ 9:59 am
Rhonda they do not get the final totals off what it says on the flip numbers..
Rhonda Evans said
August 8, 2008 @ 10:55 am
I’m not talking about “flip numbers.” I am talking about official totals, as recorded by the IFOCE.
No Mercy Percy said
August 8, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Too many qualifiers. You only need three. Joey’s the champ, so you need a qualifier that Pat, Koby, and Bob can win. No one else matters. No one else can win. Just divide the $35,000 four ways. It’s that simple. Anybody who shows up to get pounded into submission by those four has a warped mind.
Anonymous said
August 8, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
If Joey had felt that way in 2005, Koyayashi would still be dominating the big events and there would be no American eaters to challenge him. What Joey did was show what can be accomplished with a brutal training regimen (even more demanding than Kobayashi’s own at the time). Joey then shared his secrets with the likes of Pat, Tim, Bob, Chip and more recently Hall. As you can surely notice, all made extreme improvements in a relatively short period of time elevating competitive eating to a much higher level than it had been with natural eaters like Sonya, Rich, Cookie and Badlands winning the majority of events in the U.S. The latter four are all great eaters but they didn’t want to make the extreme commitment necessary to obtain even greater numbers. Rich would have been a fool to do so at his age as would Cookie and Badlands with their health issues. As for Sonya, she too is in her 40’s which is still young compared to Rich but probably too old to take those kinds of risks with her health.
Rhonda Evans said
August 8, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Regardless of what Sonya might say, I doubt any female will ever be as intense about and dedicated in CE as their fellow male competitors, simply out of sheer vainity. Their mental and emotional make up is different from men. Sonya might be a bit of an exception to some degree, but not enough of an exception to practice like Joey or Pat. It’s neither worth the health risk, nor the trouble—-my perception, at least. But she still has enough natural talent to finish in the top four or five in many contests with the world’s best eaters. How many men can say that? And Sonya is out weighed by almost 100 lbs in most cases. Give her a break!
Kobayashi continues to dominate, overall. When you beat Joey by nearly 3 lbs at any food, I’d say that’s domination. Also, it’s naive and nonsensical to generalize one’s “performance” in Krystals to overall eating ability. Take away the water and see who wins: Koby followed by Pat Bertoletti.
Koby continues tobe the best of his gender: 8 years running. Sonya is the best of hers: 6 years and counting. The best female golfers, tennis players, runners, etc, can’t even compete with the men. Sonya is better than all of them in their respective endeavors.
But as good as she is, in a few years, some female will come along and break most or all of her records, just as some man will break those set by Joey, Koby, and Pat. That’s just the nature of things.
Anonymous said
August 8, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
Rhonda, you don’t know what you’re talking about with the dunking. Nobody dunks three or four burgers at a time. Nobody dunks for five seconds in Krystals. Those buns absord liquid fast enough that a quick dunk is all anyone needs. Stop making stuff up to cover for the inadequacies of other eaters. You do it all the time, and because you do it all the time, people actually consider believing you.
Rhonda Evans said
August 8, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Anonymous, you’re helping to make my case. Thanks ol’ buddy! 🙂
Anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Rhonda, your case is crap. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You never have. You figure if you cite enough results and pretend that you remember events that happened years ago, people will think your viewpoint is intelligent. “I remember…” But you don’t remember it. You just googled crap or looked up a date or a record.
anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
anony 11:49 there is no rhonda evans. How bout a screen capture of her drivers license thats the only way i’ll be convinced she exists
North Pole said (Registered April 28, 2008)
August 11, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
Too bad it couldn’t be about eating. Who can dunk the best? Shouldn’t that be saved for basketball?!?!? Go with the picnic style rules to see who the best eater is, no matter what league. Someone like Pat should do it both ways in qualifiers to show how much of a difference it makes.
Anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
(Butch) Rhonda Evans may or may not be the real name of the individual that posts under that name on this web site, but at least that person uses that same name every time. How can any person who posts using the name Anononymous or anonymous be taken seriously? I visit eatfeats for three major reasons: to read about what contests are upcoming, to read some of the better known eaters’ comments, and to read Rhonda’s thoughts and commentary. If the truth be known she’s probably one of the most intelligent people who posts on this site, if not the most intelligent.
You know nothing. said
August 11, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Maybe Rhonda doesn’t post under the same name every time. Maybe I’m her/him right now. You’re taking the word of a person whose existence is yet to be proven, because he/she writes intelligently.
Anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
But Rhonda isn’t smart about competitive eating. She writes stuff, and she writes so much of it that people believe her, but her thoughts actually are pretty worthless. She has no instincts for the sport, a grasp only of some of the statistics (which she researches as the need arises), and a general ignorance of what actually occurs in the mind and body of an eater during a competition. Rhonda’s not illiterate, so her comments are coherent, but she’s stupid about competitive eating. Don’t flatter her.
Anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
Rhonda has learned the vocabulary of competitive eating without understanding how to use it. It’s enough to allow her to fake intelligence and insight but it doesn’t actually give her any.
I don't exist said
August 11, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
I am so me!!
nic "TheIncredibleBulk" fry said
August 11, 2008 @ 7:54 pm
who cares?
Anonymous said
August 11, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
Enough about her. She hasnt even posted in several days and yet thats all I see. WTF?
Rhonda Evans said
August 12, 2008 @ 7:23 am
That’s true, that’s really true. Not only am I but a neonate in understanding how to properly use the language of competitive eating. I know absolutely nothing about it.
There … the Krystals are out of the sack. (I’d like to be in the sack right now.)
Rhonda Evans said
August 12, 2008 @ 7:35 am
North Pole, I’m like you. I’d like to see MLE set rules to eliminate dunking (that will NEVER happen, however), because that way you would get a truer picture of eating (as opposed to drinking) talent. Eliminate dunking from Krystals and hot dogs and you’ll see the numbers decrease by about 40 percent.
Kobayashi has shown twice why he’s the best eater in the world—-in brats and chicken, where he dominated the best eater in the U.S. Similarly, It is my opinion that Pat Bertoletti is arguably the best eater in the U.S. He doesn’t need the water, and his speed is better than Joey’s.
Said another way, regarding the need for water, Pat’s more of a reptile; Joey’s more of a fish.
Anonymous said
August 25, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Why, oh why, have they done away with the two-minute qualifier? Those of us who are total amateurs but still get a kick out of the whole thing could at least go and have our shot. It may be fun merely to follow the big guys, but aren’t we losing a lot of the fun by missing out on the ability of us ALL to compete in the kiddie round?