The website for the Buffalo Wing Festival has been set up with information about the eating contests that will take place. The wing eating contest will take place on August 30. The Buffalo Buffet Bowl contest will also return, but its date is not listed.

3update The buffet bowl date is August 31 and the time is 4pm (from US Male & Wild Bill)

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The IFOCE contests page now lists the purse for Saturday’s pork barbecue sandwich eating contest at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa at $10,000. The page also announces that registration is now closed, but slots appear to be available through Star 103 FM.

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• Video of the end of the Apple Ugly eating contest (the trophy was a mounted toilet seat)
• Ian Hickman beats Elizabeth Canady in overtime at Bowie burger contest
• Detailed review of MLE game by Platform Nation
• Skinnyboy eats 8/9 of Big Texan 72 ounce steak
• Gallery of 2008 Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier
• Picture of Samantha Brown at Italian sausage contest
• MissBusyLady describes her start in competitive eating fandom
• Juris Shibayama sends a letter to the editor about last week’s column (from Crawfish comment)
• Boston hot wing eating contest Thursday
• Donut eating contest in Pittsburgh Friday
• Full results for the Singapore qualifiers on MLE.asia
• Vietnamese sub eating contest in Ho Chi Minh City

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InChiCity’s calendar has the following entry for July 26:

Taste of Lincoln

You’ve probably seen the Major League Eaters gobbling down hot dogs and chicken wings on TV and wondered who in the world would ever challenge them. Well, Jimmy John’s, purveyor of all things freaky fast, is doing it. But, this is not just an eating competition. Jimmy John’s is betting that one team of their sandwich makers can make sandwiches faster than three World-Class Major League Eaters can eat them. Starting at 3:00pm on July 26th at Taste of Lincoln Avenue you can experience the Freaky Fast Sandwich Making and Eating Contest! Who will be freaky faster?

Pat Bertoletti said he would be one of the MLE team members on the Steve Dahl show.

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Pegasus News reports that the IFOCE tamale contest will return to the Lewisville, Texas Western Day festival on September 27, the same weekend as the Krystal Square Off finals. The first prize will be $1,500.

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• Hall Hunt article in U of Florida student paper. Hall had a bad knee while he ran a marathon last Saturday. An article about Erin Andrews appears in the same issue.
• Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appear in music video by Low Water (myspace)
• Wing Tut previews the contests he will MC this weekend. Samatha Brown of the Travel Channel might compete in the Italian sausage contest.
• MissBusyLady contemplates a Burritozilla attempt
• News items after May 8 removed from IFOCE home page
• Article about Randy Harrison, participant in the US Open of Competitive Eating
• WLOCE registration is open (from Crawfish comment)
• MTV’s video game blog has footage of the first two minutes of the MLE game
• Blog entry about Pauliesaurus challenge. The current prize is $250.

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• The Boston Herald has a preview of the Italian sausage contest
• Reporter competes in Singapore qualifier
• Seattle doughnut eating contest during concert July 26
• Will Millender’s CE mixtape list
• Picture from the Chinook Winds ribs contest
• Video of beef patty contest

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The Rafu Shimbon reports that a gyoza eating contest will be held on August 23 at the Nisei Week Festival in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. In 2006, the festival held an IFOCE gyoza contest. This year’s contest will probably also be an IFOCE event because the article says that national food eaters will participate.

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• Registration for the Ash Creek (CT, August 17) rib contest and the Myrtle Beach BBQ contest (August 30) opens tomorrow
• Transcript of Joey Chestnut on CNN July 4
• Furious Pete attempts to break Cookie Jarvis’ 76 ounce steak record at J & R Steakhouse (result)
• Jill Stoler’s report on the 120 ounce steak attempts
• Video of amateur contest at Delaplane Strawberry Festival
• 17 Year old eats age in hot dogs
• Video of radio interview of Joey Chestnut and the LeFevres
• Kobayashi has a blog entry about dining at Gray’s Papaya hot dog stand with Stephen Dubner

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• Preview of the Chinook Winds rib contest. Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark are listed as expected entrants.
• Steakbellie on the Camden qualifier
• Megamunch finalizes plans for the UEPa meeting. The 120 ounce steak is free if finished.
• Quotes and podcast of George Shea at the Nathan’s finals.
• According to CNN, Heinz’ sales are up 16.5% and profits are up 30.9% over the past two years. Nelson Peltz got Heinz to co-sponsor Nathan’s.
• 11 “Pushing Daisies” themed pie eating contests at the Orange County Fair from July 11 to August 2

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Registration for the 5th Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest is now open (registration form). The competition will take place at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows, Queens on August 3. The event will have men’s and women’s divisions and both divisions will award $1800 in prize money. Joe Menchetti and Floria Lee are expected to return to defend their titles.

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The Daily News Online has a preview of Sunday’s rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon. The columnist, Rick S. Alvord, turned down an offer from the casino:

The fine folks at the casino told me to call them if I had a craving to interview Chestnut. Yeah, well, my career hasn’t deteriorated to that point yet, but thanks anyway.

For some reason, I think I already know what he’d say …

A mock Joey Chestnut interview follows. (Perhaps the real Joey Chestnut could have informed the author that the Wing Bowl does not take place at night)

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s food blog has an entry about a contest scheduled for Saturday:

A three-person team from local Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich outlets will be attempting to make sandwiches faster than a team of three world-class, competitive Major League Eaters can eat them. It’s called the Freaky Fast Sandwich Making and Eating Contest.

update (from Crawfish) Contest information is now available on IFOCE.com. The three MLE eaters competing are Tim Janus, Tim Brown and Mike Fitzgerald.

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A list of all competitors in the Nathan’s finals along with their qualifier date, location and amount eaten is available after the jump.
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amNY has an article and gallery from this afternoon’s weigh in. The finals have been officially shortened to 10 minutes. The listed weights in the article:

Joey Chestnut, 210 lb.
Takeru Kobayashi, 128 lb.
Juliet Lee 110 lb.

Gersh Kuntzman has a new column disparaging Kobayashi’s chances at reclaiming the belt.

The Big Lead sport blog has a preview of the Nathan’s finals

Sarah DiGregorio, who wrote the Village Voice article about Conti & Janus, will appear on the Ron Kuby show on Air America this evening at 5:45

update

Gothamist has a blog entry about the weigh in

NY1 has an article and video

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A page about next month’s “Smokin’ at the Ocean” BBQ and Brewfest has been set up on Chinook Winds’ website. The festival will have an IFOCE rib eating contest on July 13 and qualifier for amateurs the day before. Joey Chestnut is the only listed expected entrant.

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The northern California Nathan’s qualifier will take place this Saturday at The Shops at Tanforan in San Bruno in the JCPenney Lower Court. Previous qualifiers were held in Daly City.

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The Salisbury (NC) Post has an article about the “Apple Ugly” eating contest that will be held on July 4. A qualifier will be held on June 30. Dale Boone is an expected entrant. Boone says that he will also compete in the Elizabethton, TN hot dog eating contest on July 4 and that he is a member of a another competitive eating organization:

He allowed his contract to run out with the International Federation of Competitive Eating and now belongs to the World League of Competitive Eating, which he considers a step up because of all the international competition.

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The blog for the Dallas Observer has an interview with Marc Laureys, who says he hopes to reach the mid 20s in the Nathan’s qualifier in Plano, TX. The entry also says that the #29 (Kevin Ross) and #30 (Nate Biller) ranked IFOCE members are expected.

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MyrtleBeachOnline has a preview of Saturday’s qualifier at Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, SC listing Allen “Shredder” Goldstein and Richard Foley as expected entrants.

Another page on MyrtleBeachOnline reports that park admission (costing $50 or $39 for SC/NC residents) is required for qualifier spectators and that the finals will have a $20,000 purse like last year.

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Like last year, the Charlotte, NC area qualifier will be held in the Concord Mills parking lot under the midday sun. While the current eastern USA heat wave will subside somewhat, the high temperature Saturday is currently predicted to reach 90, so entrants and spectators should prepare themselves for high heat and humidity.

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(from “Crawfish” comment) The ribs eating contest held at the Chinook Winds casino on the Oregon coast has been added to the IFOCE calendar for July 13.

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• Beautiful Brian has expected entrants for next weekend’s contests in New York
• Cameron McKirdy has videos of the Las Vegas qualifier, including his reversal
• Don Lerman is selling his dentures for $1,000
• Article about Big Goomba pizza challenge attempt in South Carolina
• Jill Stoler and Will Millender of “Fat March” to exercise together
• Hungry Sisters report on the Hog Happenin eating contests
• Japanese article about Brooklyn Pizza contest – 2ch thread

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• Short preview of New Orleans qualifier: Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama, Chris MacVicar and Steve Ulness are expected
• Final batch of bios for MLE game characters – also includes profile of bunnette and paramedic. Juliet Lee’s nickname is listed as “The Lovely”
• End of school year White Castle eating contest for Kentucky teachers. Joey Chestnut is listed as the White Castle record holder
• Pancake contest for Cincinnati area high school students – contest video
• Eating contest from Hey Arnold cartoon (Kobayashi has called Hey Arnold his favorite American TV show
• Tomoko Miyake videos on yahoo: at the department store buffet promo, wearing bikinis with friends, eating big burgers with friends

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The Houston Chronicle reports that Sam Houston Race Park will hold a brownie eating contest during their telecast of the Belmont races on Saturday in honor of Big Brown’s attempt at a Triple Crown. The contest purse is listed at $500.

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