Furious Pete wins Bacci Pizza
A caption for a gallery of today’s Bacci Pizza contest says the unnamed winner ate 8.5 slices. Rich LeFevre’s mark of 7.5 slices in 15 minutes at the 2005 Bacci Pizza contest is listed as an IFOCE record. update A comment for another picture says the winner was from Canada.
update # Videos and a bodybuilding.com thread are available.
TampaBay.Metromix.com has a gallery of the hot dog eating contest held July 3 at the Crowbar in Ybor City which includes pictures of the female winner, who competed under the name "Doll Face Killa"
Deadspin has a gallery of the Nathan's finals which includes a picture of the floor around the eaters' table after the contest.
Yahoo News has a picture of the humans vs. elephants contest which labels Tim Brown as Eric Badlands Brooker [sic].
GoGoCurryUSA.com has a slideshow of its curry eating contest.1010WINS has an article and gallery (solely of Chestnut & Kobayashi) of the Nathan's weigh-in today. update CNN also has an article about the weigh-in, which claims that Eater X has eaten 55 HDBs. update #2 NY1 video
The website for Life magazine has a gallery of Joey Chestnut.
Canadian wins Independence Burger Contest in DC
update #3 MyFoxDC has a video – Dale Boone was second w/ 11 burgers, Joe Menchetti 3rd
update #2 WTOP has an article
update The winner of this afternoon’s Z-burger eating contest has been posted: guyfromva: burger eating contest over- won by furious pete with 14 burgers in 10 minutes… now enjoying one myself #dc
GuyFromVA is posting pictures from the Z-Burger contest. Dale Boone, and Joel Podelsky & Jay Gorman are competing.
(Via sportsradiointerviews, which has a partial transcript) Joey Chestnut & Crazy Legs Conti were the guests ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike show and a podcast of their segment can be downloaded. A gallery of their appearance today at ESPN Cafe today is also available. update A video podcast of the appearance, which was replayed on the 6 PM Sportcenter, is also available.
The twipic page for the group uhhuhhermusic have pictures of two of the members' attempts at big bowls of noodles (Picture #2). (It is not mentioned if they finished them)mrak75 has uploaded a gallery of Joey Chestnut's final pre-Nathan's practice at the Campbell, CA Hooter's last night.
Gurgitweets has posted a picture of a Mount Rushmore consisting of competitive eaters from the United States. A Gurgitwitter.com web site is coming soon.
SFunFun has a gallery from the contest sponsored by Rocco's Pizza in Brooklyn.
GBlakeman has some pictures from the Cupcake Cram held at Tee & Cakes in Boulder, Colorado.
(from Matt Rodbard) Metromix has a gallery of Saturday's rib eating contest at Hill Country in Manhattan. Crossfit gym owner Rob Egan was the winner with 2.3 pounds in 12 minutes.
Val Bromann has a blog entry about the calamari contest at Mallie's with galleries of the competition and the world's largest burger presentation. She also has a blog entry about her road trip.
DennisandLuba has a gallery of the May 15 qualifying session at Go!Go! Curry! With one more qualifier left (May 20) the top three remain 1) Joe Menchetti 2) Paul Arcaria 3) Don Lerman
Robin Leach's blog has a gallery from the Las Vegas Nathan's qualifier.
blog.vegas com has some pictures from Thursday's Nathan's qualifier
VegasNews has several pictures of yesterday's Nathan's qualifier in Las Vegas. Naader Reda has a video from the contest.
RJ Frasca has uploaded some pictures from Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Biloxi.
http://twitter.com/PatFrmMoonachie: Erin Wigger has posted a photograph of Pat "from Moonachie" Philbin to her blog.
ValBromann has posted a blog entry and gallery about her trip to Metropolis, Illinois for the ice cream eating contest.
Gallery of St. Louis eating challenges
Metromix has a captioned gallery of St Louis area eating challenges. The prize for the pizza challenge at Talayna’s is now $2000 (the challenge requires both members of a 2 person team to each drink a pitcher of soda in addition to eating a 30 inch pizza.)
In other St. Louis eating challenge news, bodybuilder Isabelle Turell announces that she intends to take on the Pointersaurus challenge with her fiance in May.
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