• Interview with director Josh Camerote about “Swallow Your Pride”
• Female bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has signed with the WLOCE according to WLOCE.com
• Kobayashi does a pudding eating contest to promote the “Angry Kid” DVD release (this might be the first contest in Japan Kobayashi has done since the last Food Battle Club in 2002)
• Central Michigan University wing eating contest report
• Wing Bowl 17 tickets are already for sale on Craigslist even though they have yet to become available to the general public
• Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest in Singapore December 6
• Austin, TX pizza eating contest Saturday
• Monique Griffin wins a pizza eating contest at Luke Air Force Base

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• Santa Clarita, CA hard boilded egg eating contest Sunday, $250 first prize
• George Shea to be honored at Coney Island benefit November 3
• Mini-documentary about the Garlicky Greens contest
• Video of 3 pound burger attempt at the Cottage Cafe in Traverse City, MI
• Yogurt Eating contest for breast cancer research

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• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

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• BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee
• BeautifulBrian.com also has a poll on who should be the IFOCE commisioner
• George and Rich Shea highlight video clips
• The Brad Sciullo article is picked up by the Associated Press
• Quinnipiac University bans on-campus eating contests, citing the death of an unnamed student competitive eater (I am unaware of any deaths in collegiate eating contests)
• Cancelled lumberjack eating contest receives bad reviews from Jill Stoler and others.
• WalletPop on how buffets trick patrons into consuming less food
• David Letterman says the format of the next presidential debate will involve competitive eating in his monologue.
  Rich LeFevre to attempt 120 ounce steak today

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• An article listing four eating challenges in Winnipeg (a flickr gallery of the nine pound burger from Blondie’s)
• Dale Boone is about to return to India according to his myspace page
• Primanti Brothers sandwich eating contest at the University of Pittsburgh
• Columbia Heights cupcake eating contest gallery
  
• Minnesota “Juicy Lucy” burger eating contest with qualifiers this month (dates not listed)

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• Ian Hickman in CiCi’s pizza contest: part 1, part 2
• J & R Steakhouse’s online Wall of Fame/Shame has been updated but does not include recent notable 76 ounce steak finishers such as Furious Pete or Elizabeth Canady. Maureen Kearney is one of the recently added finishers (picture on right)
• Brad Sciullo has been dropped from the AICE rankings. (Cached previous rankings)
• Women only wing eating contest in Columbus Ohio October 9
• Preview of the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier

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• Ex-“Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
• More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
• $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
• Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.

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The Press Citizen reports that the University of Iowa has reinstated a corn eating contest held in conjunction with Beat [Iowa] State Week after it was cancelled last year due to concerns over the national obesity rate. To allay health concerns, the contest format was changed from a timed event to one that awards victory to the first person to finish a single ear of corn.

The contest took place this afternoon, results have yet to be posted.

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The eating contest held at the Collegiate Nationals in San Diego in April will be rerun on CSTV tonight at 10 pm (all times eastern) and also the following dates and times:

Wed 6/25 7:00 PM
Fri 6/27 11:00 PM
Sat 6/28 5:00 AM

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If you missed this afternoon’s broadcast of the Collegiate Nationals on CBS, the entire contest can be viewed in its entirety on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqJCLFSCYY

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The Harvard student newspaper has an article about the Chickwich Challenge, which entails eating 12 chickwich patties in 12 different dining halls on the Harvard campus (only one bun must be consumed). Two sophomore females, Katherine Tan and Michela DeSantis attempted the challenge and both finished in 2 hours and 43 minutes. As the challenge progressed, the rules were liberalized:

By the time the contestants reached Quincy, they were fading quickly, and a new rule was instituted: each is permitted to approach two strangers and ask them to take one bite out of her chickwich. Though both contestants hesitated to demand this favor of strangers, the thought of less chickwich ultimately won.

DeSantis walked to the end of the dining hall and patiently explained her predicament.

“Is this for some kind of experiment?” asked one doubtful diner.

“No,” DeSantis quickly assured, hoping that the kind soul would agree to her offer.

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• Beautiful Brian starts a “Bigger Bits” page
• Medical researcher Carl DeSelm wins Bar Louie’s national tater tot eating contest with 4.5 pounds in 6 minutes (video of another Bar Louie contest in which the winner ate almost 3 pounds)
• Youtube video from CBS about the Collegiate Nationals
• Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle defends competitive eating in a reader mailbag
• Tampa Bay Rays Fan Fest video, include Hall Hunt’s eating contest
• $10,000 to enter pie eating contest?
• Mango eating contest in India

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• York (PA) Revolution to offer all you can eat seats where you can enjoy the company of former Baltimore Orioles
• Japanese commercial featuring a ramen eating contest
• Pat Bertoletti posts a picture of a hot dog training session (see above) to a yardbarker comment (The Waffle House belt is to remind Pat that Joey can be beat)
• Kansas State Games to have a hot dog eating contest July 18
• UK hot dog eating contest May 23
• Twins closer Joe Nathan to appear (but not compete) at tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier
• Today is Cookie Jarvis’ birthday according to a comment
• Furious Pete has posted an article about the Collegiate Nationals to bodybuilding.com
• China and the Philippines ban conversion of rice paddies to golf courses (via Freakonomics)
• Chicago Nathan’s qualifier next weekend to take place in Matteson
  

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• Lake Tahoe jalapeno eating contest May 3, $150 first prize
• San Diego Tribune front page story about the Collegiate Nationals draws criticism
• Minnesota Twins have AYCE tickets for May 19/20
• “Furious” Pete reports eating 50 wings in 3 minutes
• “Doughman” triathlon / eating contest in Durham, NC May 24
• Crocodile Egg eating contest in Thailand

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• Serious Eats on MLE video game
• Chestnut & Bertoletti expected to meet at Asparagus Festival April 26
• InsideNoVa on last week’s frozen custard eating contest
• Radio report on Sonya Thomas’ hot dog contest at the University of Mary Washington wins award
  
• 9 foot pizza made for festival
• 58 year old Fantasy science-fiction artist wins Flancer’s pizza eating contest
• Gallery of Collegiate Nationals qualifier

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TheCollegiateNationals.com has a report about last night’s eating contest in San Diego. The top 3 were:

1. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, $1000
2. Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, $500
3. Ryan “Big Mac” McMillan, $250

update

• UMD student paper on Brian Keaton’s 5th place finish
  
• SignOnSanDiego.com contest report
• Furious Pete profile in Hamilton Spectator
• BodyBuilding.com forum thread about Pete’s victory

update #2 Pete has posted contest videos to his youtube page

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SignOnSanDiego.com has a report and video about last night’s qualifier for the Collegiate Nationals eating contest. Ryan McMillan won by eating 2 pounds of french fries in 3 minutes and 18 seconds. The other three qualifiers are Darrin Wolff, Chris Hanson and Josh Ballard.

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• April 21 Trenton, NJ New Britain, CT Hot dog eating contest for college students at minor league baseball game. First prize is a flat screen TV.
• Japanese curry eating challenge at Kenka restaurant in NYC. Curry & T shirt are free if eaten in under 20 minutes.
• Food Battle Stadium contest for women only. Gal Sone makes a guest appearance
• St. Louis tater tot eating contest video
• Cartoon of oyster eating contest
• Goliath pizza eating contest for teams of 5 in Midgeville, GA
• Melon eating contest between two elephants Saturday in Columbus, OH

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The Baltimore Sun has an article about University of Maryland student Brian “Eatin'” Keaton. Like Sonya Thomas, Keaton was inspired to enter competitive eating after watching Kobayashi at the Nathan’s finals. Like Kevin Lipsitz, he has competed against a canine in an eating contest. Keaton might have debuted at the 2005 pizza eating contest in Camden, NJ:

Keaton, an agricultural economics major, got his start not long after his Kobayashi epiphany. He learned that the New Jersey state pizza-eating championship, an all-comers event, was to take place a few towns away. He entered, downed a large cheese pie in 10 minutes, and finished fourth, but ahead of several established pros.

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• Deadspin on the Collegiate Nationals
  
• Mike Golic receives a bib from a fan for his upcoming contest
• “Eating Levi” gets into the Newport Beach Film Festival
• NPR podcast on all you can eat sections at ballparks
• Milk Bone eating contest for humans
• Parody of a hot dog eating contest documentary

Registration for Nathan’s qualifiers opens at noon eastern today

Added 11:15 pm

• Article about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski in which he attempts to break his personal record for a 72 ounce steak
• “Black Day” eating contest for South Korean lovelorn
• Leader board for journalists in the Oakland A’s all you can eat section (PG rated pictures) via Deadspin

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OCMexFood has a report on Monday’s taco eating contest held at Tacos & Co. in Irvine, California. Karina Muniz won the contest by eating 8 California tacos in 4 minutes. Muniz was the only female in the field of 23 and entered the contest at the last minute. Jeff Fong came in second. Most of the competitors were students from UC Irvine, which Justin Mih attended.

See also Fast Food Maven

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The University of Maryland student newspaper has an article about Brian “Eatin'” Keaton, who will compete in the North American Collegiate Eating Championship in San Diego next month. Keaton’s major is food science.

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• “Badlands” Booker is Sonya Thomas’ featured eater for the second quarter of 2008
• Page on the eating contest at CollegiateNationals.com – only the winner of the qualifier will appear in the finals
• A press release for Phoenix Battle of the Bone says it is restricted to amateurs. The rules appear to make no such restriction
• Lufkin, TX tamale festival runs out of tamales, but still manages to put on a tamale contest.
• Joey Chestnut’s matzoh ball contest victory mentioned in the Vallejo Times Herald
• Nashua, NH hot dog contest report
  
• “Stretch” eating contest at Missouri University
• Group burger challenge attempt at Mount Airy, NC

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Kotaku illustrates post about MLE game with picture of Gal Sone, who will probably not be in the game
Joystiq thread about MLE game
AICE sets up page about Collegiate Nationals
PittsburghLive.com article about pierogi contest to be MCed by Crazy Legs Conti
Somebody purchased SurfAndStillwell.com and might put a website there.
MegaMunch has a post about his office pizza contest
Come for the baseball stay for the food – Pittsburgh Pirates start all you can eat ticket (via the Big Lead)

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AICE News lists the top four seeds for the Collegiate Nationals:

1. Christian “Muscox” McCarthy University of Kentucky
2. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski McMasters University Hamilton Ontario Canada
3. Carey “Powerhouse” Poehlmann Montgomery Community College, Blue Bell PA
4. Brian “Eaten” Keaton” University of Maryland

update Pete Czerwinski has a poll on bodybuilding.com whether he should be called “Furious” Pete, “Iron” Pete (given to him by Arnie Chapman) or something else.

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