Competitive Eating category

A judgeship in the Nathan's finals is up for auction on biddingforgood.com. The current bid is $300 and bidding closes May 9. (via YPC_at_CMA).
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of a beer chugging contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti held after the asparagus eating contest. Pat Bertoletti finished his pitcher in about five seconds.

IFOCE head to head table, end of April 2012

With 2012 about a third over here is the list of head to head results over the past year for people who have competed in two or more IFOCE contests over the past 12 months
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Wreckless Eating has started a sub-channel devoted to Naader Reda, who has posted a blog entry about doing three Los Angeles challenges in four hours and a behind the scenes outtake clip from various eating contests and challenges.
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez appeared on KTNV this morning to promote Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at New York New York. He said that Sean Gordon and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the qualifier.
NY1 has a video about the DietBet in which Will Millender, Joel Podelsky and others participated. (via Will Millender)
An unnamed Travel Channel program will record a "calf fry" (rocky mountain oyster) eating contest at Tumbleweed in Stillwater, OK on Thursday.
Men's Health has an article about Ed "Cookie" Jarvis loosing almost 200 pounds (from 575 to 279 pounds).
LosAngeles.Craigslist.org has a casting call for 8th, 9th and 10th graders who want to appear on a new program described as "Wild & Crazy Kids meets Man vs. Food". The program will be hosted by an unnamed Disney Channel star.
Pat Bertoletti reports that Joey Chestnut has offered to bet him $10,000 that he will not come within 10 hot dogs at the Nathan's finals. The gap last year was 9 HDB, but that is the only year the difference has been in single digits. Here are the differences between their totals at Surf & Stillwell on July 4. List of results available after the jump (more…)

Aaron Osthoff wing contest amounts

Aaron Osthoff’s total was announced as one pound in last night’s Hooters qualifier. This is the smallest reported amount he has had in a wing contest. (In a two minute charity contest earlier this year, he ate 1.3 pounds.)

2012 Apr 18 3rd 125 wings 10 min Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship Qualifier Indianapolis, IN weight announced as 1 pound
2012 Jan 28 1st 1.3 lb. 2 min Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff Wing Eating Contest Dubuque, IA
2011 Oct 1 3rd 3.64 lb. 10 min Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff Jacksonville Wing Ding Festival Wing Eating Championship Jacksonville, AR
2011 Sep 4 5th 4.17 lb. 12 min Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff US Chicken Wing Eating Championship Buffalo, NY
2011 Aug 7 1st 3.466 lb. 12 min Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff Toronto’s Festival of Beer Wing Eating Championship Toronto, ON, Canada

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Crazy Legs Conti wins Hooters Indianapolis wing eating qualifier

update The top 3
1) Crazy Legs Conti 148 wings
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 101 wings (more weight than Aaron Osthoff)
3) Aaron Osthoff 125 wings (not 100% happy with the judging)

update Apr 19 If the reported amounts are accurate, there was a big discrepancy in the competitors’ weight per wing.

1) Conti 48 oz / 148 wings = .324 oz (9.1 g) / wing
2) Brown 17 oz / 101 = .168 oz (4.7 g) / wing
3) Osthoff 16 oz / 125 = .128 oz (3.6 g) / wing

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Fox 59 has a video of a contest held this morning to promote tonight's Hooters wing eating qualifier in Indianapolis. Tim "Gravy" Brown, Crazy Legs Conti and Aaron Osthoff are expected to compete.
Rob Rains has an article about Randy Santel's appearance on Truck Stop America on the Travel Channel on Thursday. Tomorrow, he will attempt to break the Crown Candy Kitchen record on Fox 2 News and then attempt an eating challenge at O'Learys in St. Louis. (episode photos | video) update April 18 Randy announces that he did the challenge in 2:29, breaking Ben Monson's (as "Kevin Ross") record.
Phoenix market city has a video of Dale Boone eating a 17 inch pizza from Sbarro in Bangalore, India in 2:51.
The twitter for Simon's Deli announces that it will be the site of a cannoli eating contest on tonight's episode of Mama's Boys of The Bronx on TLC at 10 pm eastern. One of the characters on the program is "Pretty Boy" Pete D(iFiglia), which might be a trademark violation.
The facebook for Panhandler Pizza in San Marcos, TX announces that Stephanie Torres was the first person to finish the 7 pound pizza challenge in under one hour and win $250. Videos: Part 1 | Part 2
Naader Reda has a video of his attempt at the 28 inch pizza topped with ghost chilis with "The Spicialist" at Surfer Joe's in San Bernardino, CA. Stephanie Torres provided advice.
MLE has a video of Sonya Thomas' victory at the first Hooters wing eating qualifier in Augusta, Georgia.
WWL-TV has a video of the last 20 seconds of this morning's crawfish eating contest between Crazy Legs Conti and "Fireman" Mike. (picture)
The new poll asks who is the top non-MLE eater in North America besides Pete Czerwinski, Tom Gilbert and Takeru Kobayashi.
The beta version of the new FuriousPete.com can be viewed by the public.
Joel Podelsky announces he lost the most weight (18 pounds) among the competitive eaters who participated in the DietBet challenge.
Brian Seiken has uploaded "Gutbusters" to youtube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. The 2002 Discovery Channel program documents the efforts of Ed "Cookie" Jarvis, Don "Moses" Lerman and "Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz to qualify for the Nathan's finals.
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