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

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Pictures in galleries may not be safe for work:

• Philly.com’s Wing Bowl page has a new gallery
• Action Sports Pics has a gallery (from comment)
• Flickr galleries: Candyman | S. A. Margulies | freshhooker | damncoolpictures (from wire services)
• PASpider’s picasa gallery
• Picture of “Sloth”‘s reversal in Wing Bowl 9 on the video screen

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Here is a list of the contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar:

The Oyster Bowl will award a Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana, the first prize in the Bethesda slider contest is a flat screen TV and $500 will be awarded in the rib contest in Clovis.

The WBCN website has a gallery of last night’s Boston-area Wing Bowl. It is surprising that Joe Menchetti did not compete (assuming professionals were not banned) given that the first prize was $3,000.

WPLR.com has pictures of last Saturday’s “Eat the Meat” Wing Eating contest.

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• Article about South Jersey Wing Bowl competitors
• Brian “Cadillac” Corrigan – the article incorrectly claims that Corrigan is the youngest Wing Bowl finalist ever. Alex “Lord of the Wings” Friedman was 15 when he competed in Wing Bowl 10. Friedman held the Jim’s Steaks record from 2001 to 2007 and retains the amateur record.
• Blog entry about Cadillac Corrigan
• Mike “The Eating Machine” Berger
• Nick “Chicken Caesar” Ventresca
• Richard “Cheesecake Beefcake” Souders
• “Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan

Philly.com has galleries of Wing Bowls 11 through 16

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• Kevin Carr says that he turned down an opportunity to appear on Wife Swap, which went to Badlands Booker and he hopes to become a competitor on Dancing with the Stars
• Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis appears on last night’s episode of Man vs. Food
• Pictures from 2006 and 2007 have been added to Major League Eating’s flickr gallery
• Skinnyboy’s second Denver Wing Bowl qualifier report
• Denver Wing Bowl spectator information
• 21 ounce burger with “bailout” in honor of Obama’s inauguration
• Video of “El Gigante” burrito challenge attempt in Carrboro, NC
• Video of “Big Ass Burger” attempt in Houston, TX

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Click on the thumbnails below to see some screen captures from tonight’s episode of My Life in Food on the Food Network.

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Several galleries of New York City IFOCE contests have been uploaded to flickr recently:

• Famous Famiglia pizza contest gallery with French captions. There are additional pictures in the slideshow embedded in the blog entry about the contest
• Gallery with pictures from both the 2005 and 2006 Nathan’s finals
• 2005 Nathan’s gallery, mainly of the TV van
• 2006 Nathan’s gallery, with no pictures of the actual contest
• The men’s record is not turned on in a picture of the Wall of Fame taken today

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• Joey Chestnut wants to drop below 200 lbs. before resuming eating contests
• Hungry Sisters look back on their 2008 competitive eating goals
• Music City Bowl rib eating contest between members of the Vanderbilt and Boston College football teams
• Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 6 pound burger serves 17
• Videos from the Minnesota Chicagoland Nathan’s qualifier
• IGreggor attempts the Muddy River Smokehouse Challenge and dedicates it to Furious Pete’s charity challenge
• Hot dog eating challenge at Philadelphia Eagles game
• Furious Pete wants a big facebook group to promote his charity stunt
• Cartoon about eating as a sport from Will Millender

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• Pictures from 2005 have been added to the Major League Eating flickr gallery
• Video clip about the Buffalo Wing Festival contest containing a Sonya Thomas interview
• Kobayashi highlight video clip
• Man vs. Food videos playlist on youtube
• Gal Sone and Tomoko Miyake have late birthday parties

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A gallery devoted to Major League Eating contests and eaters (and ex-eaters) has been set up at http://flickr.com/photos/32489086@N08/ There over 300 pictures in the gallery. The current top pictures on the main gallery page are from a group expedition to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub.

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MSN.com has a list of the ten species with the biggest appetites compiled by the Animal Planet television network. The number 7 animal in the list, the Tasmanian devil, has the following caption:

Good thing the Tasmanian devil can’t compete in the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest every Fourth of July; Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi couldn’t hold a candle to this creature’s pace. The Australian outback native can swallow up to 40 percent of its body weight in just 30 minutes — that’s the equivalent of a human eating 216 hamburgers in the same amount of time! The Tasmanian devil will actually eat to the point that it can barely waddle around, and is particularly fond of anything that smells like flesh. So if you’ve got some old boots or smelly socks, pass them to your left, along with the salt and pepper.

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• Gallery and video of the 42 inch pizza at Big Lou’s Pizza in San Antonio.
• The Heart Attack Grill segment was televised yesterday on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. I have not been able to track down an online clip.
• Video of an attempt at the Spike’s hot dog record in Boston. An unnamed woman is still was the record co-holder with 14 hot dogs in 90 minutes.
• Video of the pie eating contest for the case models on Deal or no Deal last Friday (Another video)
• Jo “Gavonne” Rose has a report on the Firehouse wings contest he competed in.
• Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara eats 6.3 kg of (13.8 lb) of curry in 15 minutes. One of her competitors was the masked “Mr. Oh” who has a blog entry with some pictures from the contest.

update The Spike’s record challenger broke the store record with 15 hot dogs. Congratulations.

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A gallery of the wing eating contest held during Mike & Mike in the Morning in which Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos competed against co-host Mike Golic is available on ESPN.com

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A video and galleries by angrysong and someguynamedcarlfrom Saturday’s Carninval O Pizza eating contest at the Home Slice Pizza. The picture captions indicate that Chris (no last name provided) won the contest for the third straight year. A Tic-Tac-Toe T-shirt was made to outfit Chris’ entourages, which is one of the larger fan groups competitive eating

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• Videos from the San Antonio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier
• Gallery of IHOP All You Can Eat
• Kate Westfall’s food blog from Brian Seiken
• 76 ounce Pompano Beach, FL steak challenge
• Kobayashi has some Halloween costumes on his blog, including the Kobayashi & bun couple

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