The WLOCE myspace page has a picture of Joe LaRue under the heading of "WLOCE new members"
New poll on AICE rankings
The new poll asks how many of the AICE pre-contract top 50 will remain listed in the rankings.
Will Millender has announced he will not sign the AICE contract and has already been unlisted. (Ian Hickman has also been moved from the Hall of Fame back into the active rankings)
A letter about the new contract is available on the AICE website.
Similarities between the AICE & WLOCE contracts
Here is section 5 of the WLOCE contract according to Andrew “A-Bomb” Lane’s blog:
5. Entertainer is free to enter into this agreement and does not have any other agreement or obligation that would conflict with the provisions hereof. Entertainer understands that Entertainer is not an employee of WLOCE or any related party for any purpose and expressly waives any right to receive benefits accorded to the employees of WLOCE or any related party. This agreement contains the entire understanding between the parties, supersedes all prior understanding an agreements, whether written or oral and cannot be terminated, modified or any of it’s provisions waived except by a written instrument signed by both parties. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of applicable to contracts entered into and fully performed therein. Each of the parties irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any Georgia State or United States Federal Court sitting in Dekalb County, GA, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement. WLOCE may freely assign this Agreement and it’s rights and obligations hereunder to any third party.
And here is the corresponding section in the new AICE contract according to Furious Pete (see also)
13. Performer is free to enter into this agreement and does not have any other agreement or obligation that would conflict with the provisions hereof. Performer understands that Performer is not an employee of ALL PRO EATING Promotions or any related party for any purpose and expressly waives any right to receive benefits accorded to the employees of ALL PRO EATING Promotions or any related party. This agreement contains the entire understanding between the parties, supersedes all prior understanding and agreements, whether written or oral and cannot be terminated, modified or any of it’s provisions waived except by a written instrument signed by both parties. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of applicable to contracts entered into and fully performed therein. Each of the parties irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any New York State or United States Federal Court sitting in New York County in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement. ALL PRO EATING Promotions may freely assign this Agreement and it’s rights and obligations hereunder to any third party
The it’s represent improper use of an apostrophe which should not be used in a possessive pronoun.
AICE / All Pro Eating is under new management as of today
“A-Bomb” blows up the WLOCE contract
Andrew Lane, now going by “A-Bomb” instead of “Skinnyboy” has a blog entry about the agreement competitors are required to sign before participating in the upcoming WLOCE Boulder cupcake eating contest. The agreement requires signees to pay 20% of their (non-contest competitive eating updated) earnings back to WLOCE, indemnification for Shea Communications (?) and a restriction on participating in non-WLOCE sanctioned events.
2nd half IFOCE prize money 2007 vs. 2008
Summing the cash purses in the IFOCE contests list (and adding the missing 2008 Krystal finals) reveals that the combined amount of the purses increased from $128,650 to $156,050 ($10,000 was not awarded due to the Kolache Factory’s contest cancellation by Hurricane Ike) The increase was mainly due due the adding of the Oklahoma BBQ ($10,000 purse) and Famous Famigia pizza ($14,000 purse) and the increase of the Krystals finals purse from $35,000 to $50,000.
Combining the first half purses of $51,750 (2007) and $28,250 (2008) from a previous blog entry produces a total purse of $180,400 for 2007 and and $184,300 for 2008 (of which $174,300 was awarded)
The 2007 purse does not include any amounts for the Las Vegas Spike TV contests since those values have never been publicized.
A list of all the contest purses is available after the jump.
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Link Buffet: October 24, 2008
- Gallery of Famous Famiglia pizza contest with French captions
- Kobayashi meets fashion designer Diane von Furstenburg
- Student wins Don Lerman style hot dog hat after eating 9 HDB in 3 minutes
- Bubba Yarbrough leaves IFOCE for the WLOCE according to comment
- Dale Boone finishes unnamed 4 pound burger in Morganton, NC and names it “Dale’s Daniel Boone Burger” according to WLOCE.com
- BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on the new rankings
- Video of Cookie Jarvis at the WBAB studios last week
Link Buffet: October 17, 2008
- BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee
- BeautifulBrian.com also has a poll on who should be the IFOCE commisioner
- George and Rich Shea highlight video clips
- The Brad Sciullo article is picked up by the Associated Press
- Quinnipiac University bans on-campus eating contests, citing the death of an unnamed student competitive eater (I am unaware of any deaths in collegiate eating contests)
- Cancelled lumberjack eating contest receives bad reviews from Jill Stoler and others.
- WalletPop on how buffets trick patrons into consuming less food
- David Letterman says the format of the next presidential debate will involve competitive eating in his monologue.
Rich LeFevre to attempt 120 ounce steak today
Bubba Yarbrough to join WLOCE?
The WLOCE myspace page has a picture of Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough captioned WLOCE NEW MEMBERS.
update This post somehow overwrote the previous one, which was about videos from the previous weekend’s contests:
610WTVN cannoli contest video
New York Post cannoli contest video
Grits contest video with interviews of Tim Janus and Joey Chestnut
Jalapeno contest video from AKA MediaThe Krystal Square Off blog has Kobayashi’s appearances on local news today
IFOCE.com bats .200 on weekend contest results
At this moment, results from only one of the five IFOCE contests this weekend (Nashville Krystals) appear to have been posted on IFOCE.com
WLOCE points standings updated
WLOCE.com has updated its points standings. Michael Diebold is not ranked even though he came in second in the Skin’s hot dog contest in Anderson, SC.
No Skin’s results on WLOCE.com
No results from Saturday’s Skin’s hot dog eating contest at the Great Southeast Balloon Festival appear to have been posted on WLOCE.com
The location for the second Skin’s hot dog contest on September 12 is not explicitly listed. It is probably the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair based on the logo.
New Poll: non-IFOCE eaters in top 10 money winners
The new poll asks how many non-IFOCE eaters will be in the top 10 cash prize winners of 2008 at the end of the year. There are currently 4 non-IFOCE eaters in the top 10: Joe Menchetti, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, Ian Hickman and Dale Boone.
| $15000 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| $12250 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| $11050 | “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti |
| $8500 | Tim “Eater X” Janus |
| $6200 | “Humble” Bob Shoudt |
| $6000 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas |
| $5950 | “Furious” Pete Czerwinski |
| $5000 | Takeru Kobayashi |
| $2400 | Ian “The Invader” Hickman |
| $1747.36 | Dale Boone |
WLOCE announces SC hot dog contest
WLOCE.com announces that registration is now open for a hot dog eating contest that will take place at the Great Southeast Balloon Fest on Sunday, August 30. The calendar for the festival’s website says that the competition will occur on Saturday, August 30 and Hooters will sponsor a wing eating contest the following Sunday. The purse for the hot dog contest is $850 $875. Dale Boone and Jason Skrzypek are expected entrants.
The balloon festival will take place in Anderson, South Carolina which is near Clemson University. Crazy Legs Conti wore a Clemson pin in this year’s Nathan’s finals.
WLOCE becomes bi-coastal
Peter Smith, who encountered Dale Boone on a trip to India, has returned to Seattle and reports on his myspace page that he is now the West Coast representative for Boone’s World League of Competitive Eating.
In other WLOCE news, Keatin Shelton, runner-up to Boone in the Apple Ugly eating contest, is now listed in the WLOCE rankings.
Link Buffet: July 18, 2008
- Hall Hunt article in U of Florida student paper. Hall had a bad knee while he ran a marathon last Saturday. An article about Erin Andrews appears in the same issue.
- Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appear in music video by Low Water (myspace)
- Wing Tut previews the contests he will MC this weekend. Samatha Brown of the Travel Channel might compete in the Italian sausage contest.
- MissBusyLady contemplates a Burritozilla attempt
- News items after May 8 removed from IFOCE home page
- Article about Randy Harrison, participant in the US Open of Competitive Eating
- WLOCE registration is open (from Crawfish comment)
- MTV’s video game blog has footage of the first two minutes of the MLE game
- Blog entry about Pauliesaurus challenge. The current prize is $250.
Jason Skrzypek profile on WLOCE.com
An anonymous commenter noted that a profile page for Jason Skrzypek, ranked #5 on WLOCE.com, has been added to that website. Jason Skrzypek is listed in the eatfeats database, which reports he finished 9th in the 2006 Atlanta Krystal Square Off qualifier.
Dale Boone starts WLOCE website
A comment by Crawfish contained a link about Dale Boone’s victory in the corndog eating contest at Corndogorama. In the pictures, Dale Boone is wearing a World League of Competitive Eating baseball cap and has a shirt with a .com address. Trying WLOCE.com reveals that a website has been set up at that address. The site has a standings list which Dale Boone leads. P.Thayagarajan, mentioned as an Indian giant and a possible entrant in last year’s Nathan’s finals on IFOCE.com, is #6. Most of the links on the page are inoperable, but a contact page and safety guidelines are available.
update The Salisbury Post has a report about Dale Boone’s victory in the Apple Ugly qualifier last night
2008 first half IFOCE cash purses down 45% vs. 2007
According to the IFOCE.com contest list page (along with the St. Pat’s Chowdown page), $28250 has been awarded in contests so far this year, while $51750 was the sum of the cash prizes for the first half of last year, resulting in a 45% decrease.
There were 3 contests with a 5 digit purse in the first half of 2007 ($10,000 Long Beach chili cheese fries, $15,000 St. Pat’s Chowdown, $10,000 shoo fly pie), while $5,000 is the largest purse so far this year.
The comparison does not attempt take into account the value of non-cash prizes. There were two contests with non-cash awards (not counting Wing Bowls) in the first six months of 2007 (TripRewards wings and the amateur shoo fly pie contest) while all contests so far this year have cash prizes.
The decline in the second quarter (2007:$21750 vs. 2008:$16750) was considerably less than the difference for the first three months of the year (2007:$30,000 vs 2008:11,500)
A listing of the contests and their prizes follows after the jump.
Number of IFOCE contests by state
Here are top 10 states for IFOCE contests since the start of 2003 according to the eatfeats database. The list includes scheduled contests.
80 NY
*51 NV
23 CA
23 PA
22 TN
21 GA
19 FL
19 NJ
19 TX
11 AZ
*(Nevada has 21 contests if the US Open is counted as a single contest and not 31 individual matchups)
A listing of the remaining states follows after the jump:
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IFOCE ranking release dates
The dates on which the previous 5 IFOCE top 50 rankings were released and the durations between them are listed below.
The current gap of 251 days (8 months and a week) since the most recent ranking on July 8, 2007 now exceeds the previous longest gap between the five rankings, which was 242 days between November 8, 2006 and July 8, 2007.
July 8, 2007 – 242 day gap
November 8, 2006 – 106 day gap
July 25, 2006 – 116 day gap
March 31, 2006 – 198 day gap
September 14, 2005
Number of IFOCE contests: 2003-2007
| 2003 | 33 | |
| 2004 | 78 | |
| 2005 | 119 | |
| 2006 | 87 | |
| 2007 | 69 |
The table above gives the total number of IFOCE contests in the eatfeats database for the years 2003-2007. (Click on the number to see the list) Every matchup in the US Open of Competitive Eating or the title rallies counts as a contest, which contributes to 2005 having the most contests. I am going to try to get the database to count the total number of IFOCE events each year, defining event as a date and site that had one or more contests.
BB.com: Ray Meduna claims pepper prediction doctored
BeautifulBrian.com reports that Ray “The Bison” Meduna claims that the Laredo jalapeno prediction appearing on IFOCE.com was not the prediction he sent to IFOCE:
After reading the final column which appeared on CEN on Feb 25th , Ray Meduna was obviously quite upset. “I didnt say anything about doughting me at their own peril or that crap. I was set up by Livingston and Rich and i am disturbed by this. Meduna knew Bertoletti was the favorite and basically write about why he thinks Erik is good with hot foods.
Meduna would like the competitive eating world to know that the column the IFOCE wrote on his prediction was doctored by Rich Shea because Meduna claims he wrote an entirely different article.
I will post the original prediction on this website if it is emailed to me.
Denver eating contest meetup group calendar
With 4 events on its calendar, the Denver eating contest meetup group has as many scheduled events as the IFOCE upcoming contest list. Contests will generally be held on Friday night:
Fri Feb 15, 7:00 PM Chili Dawg Challenge
Fri Feb 29, 7:00 PM Slyder Slugfest
Fri Mar 7, 7:00 PM Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Chow
Mon Mar 17, 7:00 PM St Patty’s Corned Beef & Cabbage Carnage
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