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The penultimate episode of season 1 of Stuffed features a team calzone challenge at Rocco's Tavern in Studio City where Miki Sudo and Jimmy Lin face off against Pat Bertoletti and Tim "Gravy" Brown. Miki Sudo and Jimmy Lin will face off in the finale which will be webcast live tomorrow at 3 pm eastern / noon Pacific at http://www.youtube.com/user/Whatstrending.

June 19, 2013 at 4:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calzone Eating Challenges, Miki Sudo, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Hotel Chatter Reports that Kobayashi will compete against seven unnamed "acclaimed competitive eaters" at the Eventi Hotel in Manhattan on July 4. He will also unveil his new line of hot dogs called "Kobi Dogs".

June 19, 2013 at 10:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Merchandise, New York City, Records | Permalink * Comments (19)

In the new episode of Stuffed, contestants design a giant burger at Slater's 50/50 in Pasadena, CA and then eat it.

June 19, 2013 at 12:47 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Los Angeles, Miki Sudo, Videos | Permalink * Comments

High Noon Entertainment posted a casting notice for Southern California competitive eaters who would like to appear on TruTV's Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (via examiner.com)

June 18, 2013 at 9:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Records, Television | Permalink * Comments (13)

Dave Brunelli won the Curley Fry eating contest held at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, NJ with a total of 4.5 pounds in 5 minutes. Joe Menchetti was the runner-up.

June 17, 2013 at 8:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlantic City, Contest Results, Dave Brunelli, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments

In the new episode of Stuffed, the competitors are allowed the use of only one hand while attempting the 5.5 pound "Are You Texas Enough?" barbecue feast at Smoke City Market in Sherman Oaks, CA.

June 14, 2013 at 4:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Barbecue Eating Challenges, Los Angeles, Miki Sudo, Videos | Permalink * Comments (20)

Kobayashi recorded a Guinness World Records program for Turkish television. While in Istanbul, he visited the protest site and took some pictures.

June 14, 2013 at 4:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Records | Permalink * Comments

A 19 year old man in Virginia was hospitalized after drinking a bottle of soy sauce. He reportedly had the highest level of sodium intoxication that did not result in permanent damage.

June 13, 2013 at 8:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (11)

The television schedule for this year's Wimbledon tournament lists that ESPN will televise the women's semifinals from 9am - 1pm eastern on July 4, which will conflict with live coverage of the Nathan's finals on that channel. Last year's Nathan's finals were webcast live on ESPN3.com and tape-delayed on ESPN. update June 14 An IFOCE.com page about the finals (which lists the defending women's champion as Sonya Morgan) says they will be televised live on ESPN2.

June 13, 2013 at 12:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2013 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (11)

The challenge for the new episode of Stuffed is the 54 inch pizza at Big Mamma's & Papa's Pizza in Burbank, CA, which has an unconventional topping. One of the four competitors will be eliminated after the challenge.

June 11, 2013 at 11:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Mama's and Papa's, Los Angeles, Miki Sudo, Naader Reda, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

An unnamed competitive eater will host the new series "All You Can Eat", which will debut on the National Geographic network in Canada on August 29.

June 6, 2013 at 1:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Canada, Television | Permalink * Comments (15)

Jamie McDonald appeared on yesterday's episode of Better Connecticut (video) to promote Saturday's opening of his new restaurant, Bear's Smokehosue BBQ. There will be a $1,000 bonus if someone eats more than Jamie in the macaroni & cheese eating contest.

June 6, 2013 at 1:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hartford, Jamie McDonald, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

ESPN Magazine: Joey Chestnut 2012 earnings down $40K+ from 2011

June 5, 2013 at 5:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Joey Chestnut, Prizes

The Money Issue of ESPN Magazine reports that Joey Chestnut earned $161,400 in 2012. His earnings from previous editions of that issue:

2012 $161,400
2011 $205,000
2010 $218,500

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Chuck from The Bronx's audition for America's Got Talent was televised on NBC last night (video). He did three food related challenges, one requiring an ice filled bathtub.

June 5, 2013 at 4:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Television | Permalink * Comments

Molly Schuyler competed against Vernon J in a cannoli eating contest on today's Omaha Morning Blend (video).

June 4, 2013 at 12:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Omaha, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (24)

"ZehHeifer" has produced a photo montage video containing pictures of her with pictures of competitive eaters taken at contests in California in 2011-12.

June 4, 2013 at 11:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:California, Galleries | Permalink * Comments

Wayne Algenio has a video of Sunday's hot dog eating contest for 3 person teams held at D & D Dawg's in Fair Lawn, NJ won by the "US Wonder Champs" with a total of 65 hot dogs in 12 minutes. The team consisted of Wayne "Wonder" Algenio, Dave "US Male" Goldstein and Will "the Champ" Millender".

June 4, 2013 at 8:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dave Goldstein, Newark, Unafilliated Contests, Videos, Wayne Algenio, Will Millender | Permalink * Comments (33)

History.com has a clip from the June 26 episode of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy of a burger eating contest recorded at the Heart Attack Grill won by Miki Sudo. Larry says Miki could be the next Sonya Thomas and also mentions Joey Chestnut's Krystal burger record. (via Pilgrim Studios)

June 3, 2013 at 9:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas, Miki Sudo, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

Nathan’s wild card standings June 3, 2013

June 3, 2013 at 2:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2013 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Statistics

Here are the current Nathan’s wild card standings according to results in the eatfeats database: Read the rest of this entry »

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Frank Zaccanelli, former CEO of Hofmann Sausage Company, stepped down from his position in April after a group of investors sued him. (The @FrankZaccanelli twitter has not been updated). Takeru Kobayashi became a partner and brand ambassador for the company last year, but no 2013 events with him have been announced. (HoffmanHotDogs.com has results from an October contest on its main page.)

June 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments (1)

Tonight's rerun of the Cleveland Show> on Fox at 7 pm ET/PT will be "The Wide World of the Cleveland Show" (trailer) in which Junior will compete in an eating contest in Japan.

June 2, 2013 at 8:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television | Permalink * Comments

MLE Rankings based on head to head competition – June 2013

June 1, 2013 at 1:25 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

The list of head to head comparisons over contests from the past 12 months for people who have results for three or more MLE contests in the database during that time period follows after the jump. The top 10:

1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 97.9% 137-3
2 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 86.8% 46-7
3 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 86% 92-15
4 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 85.8% 69-11-1
5 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) 82.7% 62-13
6 Miki Sudo (M Su) 78.3% 18-5
7 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) 71.3% 58-23-1
8 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 69.1% 47-21
9 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) 63.1% 53-31
10 Jamie “Bear” McDonald (J Mc) 62.5% 10-6

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KARE 11 had a promo contest (starts at 2:30 mark) for Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in St. Paul, MN. No expected competitors for that event were mentioned besides promo contest participant Nicholas Johnson.

June 1, 2013 at 7:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2013 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Minneapolis, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is #2 on Awful Announcing's ranking of ESPN alternate programming. (The World Series of Poker is #1).

May 31, 2013 at 2:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Rankings | Permalink * Comments

Dale Boone appeared on Fox 2 this morning to promote tomorrow's taco eating contest at the Bethalto (IL) Jaycees County Fair. The Riverfront Times also has a blog entry about the contest.

May 31, 2013 at 12:33 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dale Boone, St. Louis, Videos | Permalink * Comments (16)

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