The Gallup Independent has a preview of Saturday’s posole eating contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma, NM. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Erik “the Red” Denmark are listed as expected entrants. The article says the contest might be recorded for Japanese television.

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(From IFOCE.com) The Thanksgiving Invitational will take place on November 22 at Artie’s Delicatessen in New York City. Heartburn medication Axia 3 takes over sponsorship from goldenpalace.net. As in 2005, the food will remain whole turkeys, but larger birds will be used this year. Spectators from the general public will not be allowed at the contest.

Eaters invited (not a complete list)
Sonya Thomas (defending champion)
Tim Janus
Crazy Legs Conti
Justin Mih
Arturos Rios Jr.
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
“Big” Brian Subich

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competitiveeatingnews.com says that it is “very likely” that heartburn remedy Axia 3 will sponsor the 2006 Thanksgiving Invitational. Previous Thanksgiving invitationals have been held in New York City, but the food changed from year to year.

Crazy Legs Conti will appear at an amateur wing eating contest at the Wingery in Covington, LA, on Thursday, the first Lousiana IFOCE event since Katrina.

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Matt “Foracious” Forss, who will compete in the posole contest on November 18, has forwarded me some of the expected entrants in that event:

Pat Bertoletti
Joey Chestnut
Tim Janus
Matt “Foracious” Forss

Rich LeFevre will probably participate as well since he has done almost all southwestern contests.

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A press release previewing the posole contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma NM on November 18 is now available. The release does not list any eaters expected to attend.

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has a preview of todays Krystal Square Off finals. Kobyashi says his main bottleneck in eating Krystal burgers is removing them from their boxes.

Krystal-lover has some pictures from Friday’s press conference

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Zwire has a preview of tomorrow’s Nanobite burger eating contest at the Clinton Station Diner. The recipe for the 70+ lb. megaburger to be unveiled has apparently not been finalized and there is a $300 prize for naming it. Contest spectators are encouraged to bring at least $15 worth of groceries which will be used in care packages sent to overseas troops by Operation Shoebox.

The wayawesome blog has a picture of the Nanobite burger on top of a Mt. Olympus burger claiming that the burger patty weighs .4 oz, and the total weight is 1.4 oz, only .6 oz less than a Krystal / White Castle burger.

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IFOCE.com has a preview of Saturday’s Fry Bread eating contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue will return to the Grand Canyon State after destroying the Heart Attack Grill’s Quadruple Bypass Burger record. Erik “The Red” Denmark, Frank Wach and “El Toro” Jimenez are expected. Fry bread is powdered sugar covered deep fried flat dough.

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The Chattanoogan has the schedule for all the events to be held in conjunction with the Krystal Square Off Finals. The festivities will start at 2pm with a tailgating party. The contest will be broadcast live at 4:35 pm.

updated The Chattanooga Pulse also has a finals preview.

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krystalsquareoff.com has a list of the expected out of town entrants in the Krystal qualifier at the Mississippi State Fair on Sunday. Three of the leading wild card contenders, Crazy Legs Conti, Erik “the Red” Denmark and Justin Mih will battle for the last remaining berths. Hall Hunt will come if he can find transportation. Buffalo Jim Reeves will travel south to try to threepeat the qualifier. Larry McNeil is also expected.

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(from AICE news) The AICE contest at the Clinton Station Diner on October 28 will use “Nano” burgers, claimed to be the world’s smallest hamburger instead of the restaurant’s giant Zeus or Mt. Olympus burgers. The contest will be a team event. The goal will be to eat 1,000 miniburgers to celebrate the diner’s 1000 days of operations.

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hotsauceblog has the press release for Sunday’s GoldenPalace.net Jalapeno Eating Contest at the Texas State Fair. Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik “the Red” Denmark are expected to attend. Sonya & Pat had a recent Southern Plains showdown at the fried okra eating contest at the Oklahoma State Fair last month. Pat Bertoletti won a jalapeno eating contest in New Mexico in August.

updateddfw.com also reports that Sonya & Pat are expected

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IFOCE.com has a list of the expected out of town eaters at Sunday’s Krystal qualifier in Memphis which include:

Tim Janus
Rich LeFevre (will compete in 2 minute contest Sat.)
Seaver Miller
Sam Vise
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
Chris “the Mad Greek” Abatsas
Jim Hamrick

Updated krystalsquareoff.com has a preview mentioning Steakbellie and Wing Kong of Drexel Hill, PA

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(from “the Hangman”) Two contests have been added to the goldenpalace.net World Series of Competitive Eating:

Oct 13 fried chicken strips, South Carolina State Fair, Columbia, SC
Oct 16 pickles, North Carolina State Fair, Raleigh, NC

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The full Atlanta qualifier roster has been posted at krystalsquareoff.com. Justin Mih and Brian Subich will join the northern invaders.

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This page on the New Mexico State Fair website is the only information I have been able to find about Saturday’s green chile grilled cheese contest. The $100K rookie grilled cheese challenge will be held as well. No expected competitors are listed. There will be three New Mexico IFOCE contests in about a month and a half.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark announces that he will attempt to break the IFOCE record of 4 lb. 9 oz. of spot shrimp in 12 minutes tomorrow. The record is currently held by “Hungry” Charles Hardy. The attempt will be part of a charity event and broadcast on internet radio around 7:30 eastern / 4:30 pacific.

Crazy Legs Conti claims to have done 5 pounds in 10 minutes:

Q Do you have a favorite eating contest? Hot dogs? Ice cream?

A I turned pro on Acme Louisiana Oysters (20 dozen in ten minutes) and earned the moniker, “The Mollusk King”. I’ve done well in Alaskan Spot Shrimp (5 lbs in ten minutes). I am training for Delaware Crab Cakes, so seafood is my specialty. My father weaned me on seafood, calling it, “low tide food – nothing that grows above the ankle”. Favorite Eating Contest? Lobster, Lobstah, and Ayuh, Lobsta.

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IFOCE.com announces that an 8 minute jalapeno pepper eating contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 8. Will Don “Moses” Lerman come out of retirement to compete in his speciality?

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Krystalsquareoff.com announces that Tim “Eater X” Janus and Chip “Burger” Simpson are expected at the Atlanta qualifier. This will be the first matchup of top 10 ranked eaters in a qualifier. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow are among the expected entrants representing Georgia. The contest could see the return of the mystery eater who reportedly gave Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas everything they could handle at the waffle eating contest before DQing.

Updated 3:07 pm – The preliminaries will be held throughout the Atlanta area and will start tomorrow at the Georgia Tech football stadium:

September 21 Georgia Tech Football 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM
September 22 Southlake Mall 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
September 23 Cumberland Mall 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
September 24 Local Finals–Lenox Square 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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Memphis Eyewitness News has a preview of the Krystal qualifier to be held October 1. No expected entrants are listed in the article.

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The Fenway park area will not enjoy a baseball championship in the autumn of 2006, but it will host an eating champion. IFOCE.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston this Saturday. (The festival has already sold out) Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs whose total will be combined. The contest is apparently closed to all other competitors.

Kobayashi has an entry about the lobster roll contest in his blog which mentions Rona Conti.

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krystalsquareoff.com has the list of expected competitors in today’s qualifier in Knoxville. The webcast should start around 6pm eastern.

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The OK Gazette reports that Patrick Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Larry McNeil are expected at the goldenpalace.net Fried Okra Eating Championship at the Oklahoma State Fair.

The Reader reports that Joey Chestnut, Chip Simpson and defending champion Rich LeFevre are expected at the World Pulled Pork-Eating Contest at Harrah’s Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

zerobxu will also compete in the pulled pork contest. zerobxu competed in the kolache eating contest and has a blog entry and gallery about that contest.

KrystalSquareOff lists Pat Bertoletti, Juris Shibayama, Arturo Rios, Larry McNeil as expected competitors in the Knoxville qualifier.

Updated 9/15 4:28 pm (Thanks Brian Cooley) The U of Tenn student paper has an article about the Knoxville qualifier. Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to break 60.

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The 4th annual Corny Dog contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 1. The first place prize is $500 with 2 Southwest Airlines tickets. The registration deadline is September 18.

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krystalsquareoff.com has the roster for tomorrow’s qualifier in Nashville. Ranked eaters expected are:

Humble Bob Shoudt (IFOCE #5)
Erik “The Red” Denmark (IFOCE #12)
Jim Hamrick (IFOCE #27)
Kevin Carr (IFOCE #31)

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