Austinist has a gallery of the vegetarian hot dog eating contest held last Saturday. Contest results can be obtained by combining the gallery captions with this blog entry by the runner-up.

1. Spencer “Tree” Lockwood 21 VHDB, 12 minutes
2. Colin “Tim Duncan of CE” Kalmbacher 20 VHDB
3. Sean “Mongo” Kelly

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Gabe Venit emails that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won the first qualifier for Jake’s Burgers contest yesterday by eating 5 Jake Burgers (double hamburgers) in 2 minutes 15 seconds. Gabe Venit was second with a time of 5 minutes and 30 seconds to complete 5 burgers.

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• Erik Denmark to compete in the Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Classic today. Kato Kaelin will also be a participant.
• Pat Bertoletti on the Nathan’s finals
• Jamie of Hungry Sisters on her 9 HDB performance at Myrtle Beach
• Jill Stoler has a report with videos of the Brooklyn Stinky Cheese eating contest. Will Millender won the contest.
• “Beautiful” Brian judges the NYC Olive Garden and finds it wanting
• Chicago Pizzafest results
• No MLE video game release this week

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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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“Furious” Pete has started a contest on bodybuilding.com in which participants will submit videos of drinking from a bottle containing 1.5 liters of water. The fastest time will receive a product from Engineered Sports Technology.

Pete has uploaded a video of him drinking 1.5L in 8 seconds (He is not eligible for the prize). His goal is to break Ken Domon’s mark of 4.88 seconds from Food Battle Club: The Speed

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• Parody about Kobayashi and Badlands Booker using their stomach capacity to smuggle heroin
• Pat Philbin’s head is the subject of a bodybuilding.com thread (Picture on the right is the picture originally in the thread)
• Yardbarker blog entry about Pat Bertoletti’s appearance on “The Early Show”
• Spectator report of Mattituck strawberry shortcake contest and Booker’s & BB’s musical performances.
• Blog entry by Dallas qualifier entrant Chris Floyd
• Megamunch’s report on his office “Six Pack Challenge”
• Videos of the Denver hot dog qualifier
• Paul Barlow to do on-air hot dog contest on Star 94 on Friday about 8AM

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(from email) Jake’s Hamburgers will sponsor a hamburger eating contest over the next two months. The finals will take place at a Wilmington Blue Rocks game on July 25 and award $1000 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held at the following locations:

Chadds Ford, PA Rt 202 June 23, 2008
Newark, DE Rt 273 June 24, 2008
Wilmington, DE Kirkwood Hwy June 29, 2008
New Castle, DE Rt 13 June 30, 2008
Dover, DE Rt 113 July 7, 2008
Elkton, MD Rt 213 July 8, 2008
Bear, DE Rt 40 July 14, 2008
Claymont, DE Philadelphia Pike July 21, 2008

The entry form states that tickets for the qualifier must be purchased at the site and that finalists will have to pay an additional $20 to compete in the finals.

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• Interview with Jill Stoler in CheapAssFood.com
• Logo made for “Furious” Pete
• Regrets email from Crazy Legs Conti
• Austin, TX Veggie Dog contest Saturday
• French supermarket chain Carrefour sponsors eating contest for Thai children

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CBS 4 has video of yesterday’s hot dog qualifier held at Steve’s Snappin Dogs in Denver. Donavan Busta was the winner with 7 hot dogs in 3 minutes and Matt Kish was second. It also appears that Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed.

update Steve’s Snappin Dogs website has a contest report. Andrew Lane narrowly missed out on second place.

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(From ChicagoApartmentLife) A pizza eating contest with a prize of $250 will be held next Sunday at Chicago’s Pizza Fest.

Bacci Pizza will also sponsor a Chicago pizza festival with an eating contest on July 19. No other details are provided other than that qualification will take place at all Bacci locations.

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• July 12 Fort Wayne, IN hot dog eating contest, $850 purse ($500 first place), 3 qualifiers, $10 entrance fee
• 15 second podcast about the Dover, DE BBQ sandwich contest
• Video of Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus playing the MLE video game
• Video from 2001 Nathan’s finals
• Video of Stevens Point, WI pizza challenge, $500 prize for finishing

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The PJ Star reports that Todd Rawls of Vertucci’s Chicago Style Eats has high ambitions for the Independence Day hot dog eating contest he is organizing in East Peoria, IL:

“Chicago is, in my opinion, the hot dog capital of the world,” Rawls said. “Everybody knows their Chicago dog. So I’m shocked Chicago hasn’t done this. Well, they’ve had their opportunity. East Peoria’s going to do it, and we’re going to get known. I’d love to be able to see this overtake Nathan’s, and I think it can get done quickly if purse money – the money that can be won by eating – exceeds Nathan’s.”

The contest will start off with $1,000 prize money for the winner, but the eatery is looking for sponsors to increase the pot for next year.

The contest has a page on the city of East Peoria’s web page. Prospective entrants will need to qualify at Vertucci’s Chicago Style Eats by eating as many hot dogs as possible in 9 minutes. The best performances will receive entry into the contest and the qualification fee is $9.99

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• David Mitolo completes the Outrageous Split at BR Frozen Custard – video, gallery
• Furious Pete finishes the Belly Buster Challenge from MT Bellie’s
• Skinnyboy catches Anthony Bourdain on the Big Texan’s webcam
• Orange County sushi bar with hot dog roll named after Kobayashi (from Liz K, link fixed)
• Beautiful Brian will not be entering the Shea Stadium qualifier (update – he will enter)
• Brooklyn stinky cheese eating contest June 22
• The New York Post reports that Dick Zigun, the “Mayor of Coney Island”, has been living rent free in a publicly financed building
• Speculation that a developer was responsible for the information about Zigun
• The New York Times on the future of Coney Island

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June 14 Tigard, Oregon (Portland area), $250 first prize with $30 entry fee. All proceeds to be donated to the Lance Armstrong foundation – craigslist listing, meetin thread

July 5, Payson, Arizona, $200 first prize with $10 entry fee, registration deadline is June 15

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StarHQ reports that Elizabethton, Tennessee will have a hot dog eating contest in conjunction with its fourth of July festivities. $250 will be awarded to the winner, making the contest the first 2008 July 4 hot dog contest to announce a cash prize that I am aware of.

update added 2008

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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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• Charlotte qualifier to take place at Concord Mills Mall parking lot
• Singer/pianist Dr. John competes in a chile pepper eating contest
• Hall of Fame Thurman Thomas to help judge hot dog contest at Watkins Glen
• Video from 2003 Nathan’s finals
• News video of Kansas qualifier captured by Skinnyboy
• Erik Denmark’s Kansas City qualifier report
• Arena Football kicker completes Big Texan 72 ounce steak
  
• Results of Denver hot dog contest qualifier
• Nanticoke PA pierogie eating contest this weekend (date unspecified)
• Steakbellie & sons run in 5K race
• Fake inspirational poster (in the style of despair.com) using a picture of a hot dog eating contest

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Digital Sports has an article about the undercard for the Three Brothers Pizza contest in which four person teams from De Matha and St. Vincent Pallotti high schools faced off. The DeMatha team won the contest 24 slices to 15.75. The top individual was Nick Rivers of DeMatha who ate 7 slices in 10 minutes.

There are several interviews at the bottom of the page, including an interview with Sonya Thomas. Sonya says she has done an eating contest in Korea.

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A video and gallery of the wing eating contest held at the Wing-n-Rock Fest in Marietta, GA on Saturday reveal that Dale Boone competed in that event. It appears (but is not explicitly stated in the video or gallery) that an unnamed Asian won that contest.

update video link fixed – thanks anon

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• Podcast of Crazy Legs Conti promoting the Hot Dog Safari (Crazy Legs Conti’s appearance begins around the 32 minute mark)
• Spectator report from the Carnegie Deli pickle contest
• Gallery from the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier
• Joey Chestnut’s hometown, Vallejo, is bankrupt
• Jill Stoler apologizes to Beautiful Brian Nation
• MLE game not coming out this week according to joystiq
• Tomoko Miyake promotes Tobu Department Store’s new buffet (blog entry)

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The New York Daily News reports that 2005 and 2006 Brooklyn pizza champion Will Millender, who appeared on the weight loss reality show “Fat March”, will attempt to regain his title today from the 2007 winner Salvatore Carbone. Millender’s current weight is listed at 375 pounds.

update Results from WCBS

1. Salvatore Carbone just over 15 slices
2. Will Millender 12.25 slices

update #2 Jill Stoler attended the contest as a spectator and NY1 has an article with video Joel Podelsky was third.

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• Article about some local competitors in the Tempe qualifier: David Cohn, Adam Muñoz & Lindsay Veylupek
• Hall Hunt’s predictions for today’s qualifiers
• Article about the McKirdy brothers, which says their next contest will be the Chinook Winds rib contest on July 11
• The Brooklyn pizza contest is tomorrow
• Picture of Karen “Seedsucker” Clark on the Washington Post web site
• Pictures from “Furious” Pete’s Italian Challenge
• English article about Gal Sone’s movie debut

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• Video of El Toro screaming
• Shannon competes in the men’s division of the Vacaville onion eating contest and finishes third
• Furious Pete to attempt the “Italian Challenge” in Niagara Falls after getting stopped at the US/Canada border crossing update Pete finished the challenge in a record 30 minutes.
• Festival goal of 200,000 brats for the Madison Brat Fest
• Article about the Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon (triathlon + eating)
• Jill Stoler interviews Ian Hickman
• Gal Sone article in the Mainichi Shimbun

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