2012 Rock the Tot results
Rock the Tot results will be listed here as they are announced
Top 4 at this moment: Bob Kuhns 6 7 Chance DeWerth 4 12 Kevin Ross 4 11 Randy Santel 4 7
Denver, CO Andrew Lane
Kansas City, MO Randy Santel 4 lb 7 oz
Murfreesboro, TN Thomas Swartzbaugh 1 lb 15.5 oz
Anaheim, CA 1) Kevin Ross 4 11 2) Johnnie Excel 4 0 3) Jimmy Lin 3 13
Patriot Place, MA Joe Menchetti
Mishakawa, IN Jason Huxford 2 lb. 10.8 oz
Homestead, PA Bob Kuhns 6 lb. 7 oz. (via comment)
Westlake, OH – Chance Dewerth 4 lb. 12 oz.
Buffalo – Chris Zgoda
Richmond – Zack Lapinski – Richmond, VA 4 lb 2nd place
Cleveland – Kirk Johns 2 lb 14 oz
Jamie McDonald won the Providence contest
Russ Keeler won the Wilkes-Barre, PA contest with 3.5 lb
Rock the Tot 2012 preview
A press release announces that the Rock the Tot relay events will start at 8 pm tomorrow and be followed by the individual contests along with other contest information.
Randy Santel is predicting victory at a Kansas City location
Medic23 started a reddit thread about being asked to volunteer as an EMT at a Rock the Tot contest. A list of Bar Louie locations follows after the jump
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2012 Rock the Tot June 7
Bar Louie’s Rock the Tot has been moved from April to June. All Bar Louie locations will hold tater tot eating contests for individuals and four person relay teams on June 7. The individual winners with the five best times will receive a trip to Cleveland for the finals on June 24.
update The top 5 winning times for 2010 Rock the Tot are after the jump (2011 winners were never announced) Competitors who want to reach the finals will probably need to eat at least 4 pounds in 6 minutes.
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2010 Bar Louie Rock the Tot winners
The fourth Rock the Tot tater tot eating contest will take place at all Bar Louie locations tonight. A list of winners of last year’s contests sorted by amount eaten is available after the jump:
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Some Rock the Tot 2010 results
About half the pages for individual Bar Louie restaurants list winners of the Rock the Tot contests held at those sites. Some listed results:
Brad Sciullo 5 lbs. 13 oz. Pittsburgh
Dan Goth 4 lbs. 12 oz. Buffalo
Mark Lyle 4 lbs. 2 oz. Columbus
Stephan Egan 3 lbs 13 oz. Lyndhurst, OH
Bryan Hickman 3 lbs 8 oz. Perrysburg, OH
Carl Deselm 3 lbs. 5 oz. St Louis
Noah Pransky 3 lbs. 4 oz. Tampa
Bob Kuhns 3 lbs 2 oz. West Homestead, PA
Beth Berry 3 lbs Kirkwood, MO
Eliot “The Bone Collector” Rader 3 lbs. Chicago – Dearborn
Elena Gershkovich 2 lbs. 11 oz. Livonia, MI
Lew “The Chew” Porchiazzo 2 lbs. 10 oz. Ann Arbor, MI
Beth Berry and Elena Gershkovich are the first women to win local Rock the Tot contests I am aware of.
Andrew Lane has a blog entry about his Rock the Tot contest.
Rock the Tot 2010 winners
Here are three of the winners in Thursday’s Rock the Tot contests held at all Bar Louie contests. Please list other results in the comments.
- Noah Pransky, Tampa 3.4 lbs.
- Carl Deselm, St. Louis, 3 lbs. 5 oz. (threepeats contest)
- Joe Metz, Flint, MI 2.47 lbs.
Mark Lyle wins national Bar Louie Rock the Tot
The winners of the Bar Louie Rock the Tot contests are listed on the restaurant pages. Mark Lyle won the national contest. Here are the totals with more than 4.0 pounds:
Mark Lyle 4 lb. 5 oz. Columbus, OH
Steve Thompson 4 lb 2 oz. Pittsburgh, PA
Carl Deselm 4 lb 1.5 oz. St. Louis, MO (2008 overall winner)
John Palmgren 4 lbs, Peoria, IL
Bob Kuhns 4 lb. West Homestead, PA
Jeff Dunn of Beavercreek, Ohio, had the largest total, 4 lb. 9 oz., but his contest was 12 minutes long
2009 Rock the Tot results
update #2 Naples, FL report and gallery
update The two Rock the Tot posts have been merged and bumped up
Val Bromann has a gallery of her local Rock the Tot tater tot eating contest
DCist has a gallery of last night’s Rock the Tot contest won by James “Big Bess” Besser
update Skinnyboy has a blog entry about his second place (missing 1st place by .1 oz) finish at a Denver Rock the Tot
Bar Louie “Rock the Tot” returns April 23
According to Metromix, “Rock the Tot”, a tater tot eating contest will return to Bar Louie locations on April 23. The winner will receive a $250 gift card. Performances of the winners at each location will be compared to determine an overall champion. Contest poster