Competitive Eating category

Aaron Wakamatsu has http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4d7GCFzeM">produced a video about the spicy challenges and a video about eating challenges Naader Reda did in Oregon Memorial Day weekend.
RockingTheBayou has a video of Crazy Legs Conti's and Mia "Meatballs" Davekos' appearance on Bayou 95.7.
Nathan's Famous of Canada has a link to Aaron and Heather Osthoff's appearance on Breakfast Television Calgary today. The Calgary Herald has a preview focusing on Lee Vilinsky.
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi will partner with Large Animal Games to promote the Nomsters mobile video game. When 100 million virtual fruit items have been collected in the game, Takeru Kobayashi will attempt an eating challenge in New York City. update The Kickstarter page for the project needs to raise over $18,000 by June 6.

Review of Hooters wing circuit

The Hooters circuit is supposedly being judged according to weight of wing meat consumed, but results have generally been announced using count of wings eaten. In addition to the divergence in units of measurement, there have been interesting results from most of the qualifiers which are described after the jump. (Weights listed below are unofficial except for the Augusta qualifier.)

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MLE Rankings based on head to head competition May 31, 2012

The list of head to head comparisons over contests from the past 366 days for people who have known results for two or more MLE contests during that time period follows after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

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Epic Meal Time will appear on ABC's Nightline tonight.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has a video of a yogurt eating contest versus his dog.
ESPN Front Row has a blog entry and video about the eating contest held Friday at ESPN headquarters in which Crazy Legs Conti defeated Maria "Edible" 13.5 hot dogs to 12 in the five minute competition. Conti will attempt to qualify in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
MiddleEasy.com has a video of a burger eating contest between UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon and firearms enthusiast "FPS Russia".
RJO Photo has produced a video to promote the eating contest to be held at the Chicago Ribfest on June 8 starring Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and a person in a pig costume.
Fox5News has a video of Matt "Sweet Tooth" Cohen's victory in a Nutella eating contest in San Diego yesterday. update May 29 ireport.CNN.com has a video about the contest.
TV9Kannadnews has a video of Dale Boone's (pronounced "Delay Boone") victory in a burger eating contest in Bangalore last week.
Social Cam has a video of a hot dog eating contest between Crazy Legs Conti and Maria "Edible" on the ESPN campus today.
CSNBayArea.com has a video of Dax "The Ginger" Swanson's wing eating contest on Chronicle Live.

Victories in different states on consecutive days

Pat Bertoletti won contests this past weekend in Pennsylvania and Texas. According to values in the eatfeats database, competitors have won contests in different states on consecutive days 21 times previously. (Dale Boone also won contests in North Carolina and Tennessee on July 4, 2008.) A listing of these results follows after the jump.
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A press release announces that the Nathan's finals will be televised on ESPN through 2017. The 2012 broadcast will begin at 3pm eastern and last one hour and coverage of the women's division will be included. Paul "Joey Chitwood" Page will continue as announcer.
Dax "The Ginger" Swanson will be competing in a wing eating contest on (San Francisco) Chronicle Live on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area tomorrow.
The facebook page for Criss Angel announces that he will compete against Flavor Flav of Public Enemy in a chicken eating contest during the magician's livecast on June 23.

Total cash winnings since Jan 1, 2012 & May 23, 2011

Listings of people who have won more than $2000 in the past year and/or $1000 in the current calendar year according to values in the eatfeats database are available after the jump. These listings are incomplete; several independent contests (Sylvester’s Burgers, San Antonio tamales, etc.) have not announced results. Please put any unlisted cash awards not entered in the database in the comments.

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"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of his recent attempt to defend his "Big A" Burger title in North Carolina.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a recent College Humor video (language may not be safe for work.)
WJACTV.com has a video of Brian Subich training for the Pittsburgh Nathan's qualifier, where he hopes to eat 30 hot dogs.

IFOCE head to head comparison table May 22, 2012

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"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has produced a video of him eating an orange in super slow motion.
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