InsideBayArea.com has a preview of today’s Nathan’s qualifier in the San Francisco area. Bert Chi and Jake True are two locals who will take on Rich LeFevre.

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(From Erik Denmark) Erik Denmark has written a preview of tomorrow’s pigs feet contest that he will compete in. Some of the other expected entrants are Crazy Legs, Justin Mih and Skinnyboy.

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LancasterOnline has a preview of tomorrow’s Shoo Fly Pie contest with quotes from “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Pat Bertoletti.

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A press release announces a P’Zone eating contest against Takeru Kobayashi:

Coinciding with the return of P’Zone pizza, Pizza Hut will launch a national competition “Dare You to Still Be Hungry” featuring Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi, world leader in competitive eating. Through the contest, consumers can enter for a chance to win a trip to New York to take on legendary eating champion, Kobayashi, in an event sanctioned by Major League Eating (MLE).

To enter, P’Zone pizza fans should visit pizzahut.com, upload a photo of themselves with their favorite P’Zone and write a brief description stating why they are up to the challenge of competing against Kobayashi. The contest deadline for submitting photos is July 1. The face-off with Kobayashi will take place in early July.

Entries are being accepted at http://www.pizzahut.com/vpofpizza/ The rules announce that one amateur with no competitive eating experience will be selected to compete against Kobayashi. The selected eater will receive $5,000 and a trip to New York City.

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Post-Gazette.com has a preview of Saturday’s AICE pierogie eating contest.

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From an IFOCE email sent to Dave Shoffner:

Pat Bertoletti
Sonya Thomas
Bob Shoudt
Hall Hunt
Juliet Lee
Steakbellie
The Mad Greek
Wild Bill Myers
Brian Subich
The Sane Greek
Russ Keeler
Dave Shoffner (received standby slot)
Pete Miernicki

Tim Janus will miss the contest for the first time. This will be the first matchup of Sonya & Juliet since the meatball contest in Atlantic City.

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EarthTimes.com has a press release about the “Spotlight on New Jersey” to be held at the Molly Pitcher travel plaza on Friday. Spaces in the Nathan’s qualifier are still available according to the press release:

Concerts, giveaways, and special activities will take place throughout the day. Chief among them will be the Nathan’s Famous hotdog eating contest scheduled for 1:00 PM. The winner of this regional qualifying event will compete in Nathan’s national championship on July 4th in Coney Island, New York. HMSHost invites all aspiring hotdog champions to come out this Friday and compete for the right to represent the great State of New Jersey in this classic event.

No expected eaters are listed. Brian Seiken says that he, Brian Subich and Allen Goldstein will attend on the home page of beautifulbrian.com

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From IFOCE.com:

On July 28, the nation’s top Major League Eaters will converge on the small hamlet of Brownsville, Oregon to recreate one of the most iconic moments in both film and competitive eating history.

STAND BY ME was filmed in Brownsville and was released in 1986. For the first time, the IFOCE will sanction a hands-free pie eating contest as a tribute to the movie that helped bring competitive eating into the spotlight.

Registration for this contest will open at 12:00pm on Friday, June 15.

I think this is the first handsless contest IFOCE has sanctioned. The only contests listed in July on the IFOCE calendar are in Oregon.

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From NHRegister.com:

With “Indiana Jones” coming downtown, it’s going to be party time!

A free movie! Aerial acrobats! A matzo ball-eating contest! Poison darts!

Well, the poison darts will be only on the big screen set up on the Green, where “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the movie that made Indiana Jones an instant hero, will be shown.

The celebration, which will be held on the Green and along Temple Street between Chapel and George, will kick off at 5 p.m. June 26, two nights before the fourth “Indy” movie starts filming downtown.

The contest will take place at Katz’s II on Temple (no other details are provided)

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The website for Concord Mills says that the Nathan’s qualifier will be held in the parking lot for AMC Theaters

Charlotte.com’s calendar (which has a picture of Hall Hunt who is described as a “steadfastly Christian eater”) says the contest will take place in the food court. The entry also mentions Juliet Lee and Erik Denmark (who will presumably not be attending)

IFOCE.com & nathansfamous.com provide no Charlotte site information at all.

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Megamunch received the Shoo Fly Pie prize breakdown (and a notice that he is on standy status for that event) which follows:
1st ($4,000), 2nd ($2,000), 3rd ($1,500), 4th ($1,000), 5th ($750), 6th ($500), 7th ($250)

There will also be an amateur contest.

Over the past three years the purse of that contest has increased from a $500 shopping spree, to $2,600 to $10,000

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Here is a list of people I believe will enter Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Concord Mills near Charlotte, NC. Please inform me of any others, and correct those who will not be attending:

Juliet Lee
Hall Hunt
Kevin Carr
Super Paul Barlow
Jeff Chapman http://fiset35.blogspot.com/

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The LAist blog has an entry about the donut eating contest to be held tomorrow morning at Randy’s Donuts to promote the DVD release of CHiPs.

Randys-Donuts.com has a webcam of the restaurant. Hopefully it will broadcast the contest.

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From OregonLive’s article about the “Stand By Me (movie) Celebration and Rolling Roadshow,” to take place on July 28 in Brownsville, Oregon:

Other activities include a sock hop, a “body” scavenger hunt with clues from the movie, photo opportunities at various film locales, and a blueberry pie-eating contest presented by the International Federation of Competitive Eaters.

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Click on the links below to see articles about the independent contests this upcoming weekend.

June 2, Cleveland Heights, OH hot dog eating contest (1st prize has listed value of $300)
June 2, San Jose, CA tamale eating contest
June 2, Windham, NH Strawberry eating contest
June 2, Nanticoke, PA pierogi eating contest
June 3, Louisville, KY Strawberry Eating contest
June 3, Bakersfield, CA Jalapeno eating contest
June 3, Savannah, GA wing eating contest
June 4, Raleigh, NC pancake eating contest

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(from Courtney Jacobs) A donut eating contest will be held at Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood, CA (Los Angeles area) on the morning of June 5 to promote the release of the first season of CHiPs on DVD. Former CHiPs star Erik Estrada will be the contest judge. The winner will be the first person to eat 18 donuts. Participants will be chosen from the first ten entrants to appear at Randy’s Donuts on the morning of the contest and must be residents of California. Contest eligibility, entrance rules and prizes follow:

ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS. MAXIMUM TEN (10) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS. 1. ELEGIBILITY: CHIPS DVD Promotion Donut Eating Contest (“Contest”) is open to individuals eighteen (18) years of age or older who are legal residents of the state of California. Contestants must be present at event in order to enter. Employees and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses), including household members, of Time Warner, Inc. or any subsidiaries or affiliated companies including Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (“Sponsor”) are not eligible to enter or win

HOW TO ENTER: To enter, go to the “Donut Eating” event at Randy’s Donuts on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, by 9:00 AM PDT and be one of the first ten (10) eligible participants in the “Donut Eating Contest” line designated as such.

PRIZES: GRAND PRIZE to the winner (1): Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500) (payment to be made in the form of a check payable to winner within four (4) to six (6) weeks after the end of the Contest). FIRST PRIZE to the first runner-up (1): Portable DVD Player (prize to be awarded the day of the Contest). Total Estimated Retail Value of Prize: (U.S.) One Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars ($175). SECOND PRIZE to the second runner-up (1) “Chips: The Complete First Season DVD” signed by Erik Estrada. Total Estimated Retail Value of Prize: (U.S.) Thirty-Nine Dollars and Ninety-Eight Cents ($39.98).

A website with contest information can be found at http://www.myspace.com/chipscontest

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BeautifulBrian.com has a preview of Sunday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Shea Stadium. He is torn between rooting for Brian Subich and Allen Goldstein in that contest.

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(From Todd “the Butler”) An IFOCE strawberry shortcake contest will be held at the Strawberry Festival in Mattituck (Long Island) NY on June 17. Registration opens May 31 at noon.

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(From Domenico Alesi comment) An IFOCE pigs feet eating contest will be held at the New Jersey State Fair on June 23. Registration opens today at 2pm eastern.

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VeggieDogContest.com has information about a vegetarian hot dog eating contest to be held in Austin, TX tomorrow. There will be both individual and doubles categories and additional prizes will be awarded for style and good sportsmanship.

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CityPaper.net has a paragraph about Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Philadelphia with some of the expected entrants:

The winner of this qualifier will earn a spot at the big table — the Nathan’s Famous championship, held at Coney Island every Fourth of July. Come cheer on last year’s winner, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, as well as Yellowcake, Wing Kong, Steakbellie and Philly’s own “Humble” Bob Shoudt, who put away 28 in 2006. “It’s the same thing as any contest — you need to find a rhythm,” says Shoudt. “You can’t listen to your body telling you to slow down.”

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The website for the Delaplane Strawberry Festival has a list of the expected and possible entrants in the strawberry eating contest:

Expected
# Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Hadley, MA
# Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, Lagrange KY (last year’s champion)
# “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Wallingford CT
# Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Sterling VA (our local competitor)
# Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo , PA

Possible
# Bob “Killer” Kuhns, Freeport PA
# James “The Food Prowler” Fowler, Pittsburgh PA
# Chris “The Amnerican Schlesinger, Bohemia NY (competed last year)
# Eliot “The Savage” Cowley, Audubon NJ (competed last year, placed 2nd with 5.10 lbs)

The Washington Post has a paragraph about the festival and its eating contest

The MC for the contest, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, has posted his contest predictions on his blog

update TimesCommunity.com has an article about the festival with some quotes from Ian Hickman.

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The announcement for the new AICE Backyard Burgers contest refers to another burger contest held in Tennessee:

Some folks may find it cute to eat a 2 oz hamburger. Those same people might also try and justify dropping their mini-burger in water and then actually it eat! (Pretty scary, huh?) Other folks, such as competitive eaters, Backyard Burger Inc., and the league of Real Food Eaters of America, believe that the words ” 2 oz”. And “hamburger” should never occupy the same sentence. It is this belief and conviction that Back Yard Burger and All PRO EATING PROMOTIONS announce their 2007 summer campaign against the epidemic of “Miniburgitis.” Unfortunately, a few misguided souls have been mislead into believing that a hamburger should fit in the palm of their hand. The southern United States has a reputation for eating their hamburgers with both hands because the big, juicy, delicious hamburger they are eating requires it!

There will be four qualifiers with the finals occurring on September 8 in Memphis, TN. Entrants are limited to one previous eating contest. Hopefully the mystery Memphis burger girl will compete.

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The Sun reports that spaces are still available in the breakfast eating championship which will be held in London, England on Tuesday. The contest will last 12 minutes and 35 seconds, which is claimed to be the average breakfast time. Sun employee, Lup Fun Yau, recognized by Guinness as the record holder for jam doughnuts, will participate.

The winner is the person who devours the most breakfast trays in the time allowed, each of which contains a mammoth 1,300 calories.

It contains 1 sausage; 1 fried egg; 1 rasher bacon; 1 tomato; 1 tbsp baked beans; 1 slice white toast with butter; 1 bowl Cornflakes with 200ml milk; 1 pot organic strawberry yoghurt; 1 croissant; 1 blueberry muffin.

And if you’re out in front, you’ll walk away (or maybe waddle away) with a £500 prize and the title of Britain’s Best Biggest Breakfast Eater.

To take part, call 08701 977346 and leave your details.

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(From AICE news) The predictions for the AICE ribs contest in Kansas City Sunday expect half the top 4 to be filled by AICE novices:

1. Veto “The Machine” Porter 4.22 lb.
2. Gentleman Joe Menchetti 4.11 lb.
3. Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum” 3.77 lb.
4. Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady 3.66 lb.

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