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IFOCE head to head comparison table October 11, 2011

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Yahoo! Sports' golf blog has a list of the top 8 moments involving hot dogs and sports. Nathan's hot dog contest is #1 and Tiger Woods' hot dog attack yesterday is #2. Washington Capital Olaf Kolzig's hockey card is #3, which is appropriate given that Sonya Thomas has participated in hot dog eating contests at the Capitals' arena.
Don Lerman has updated the appearance of TheLermanReport.com
Epic Meal Time has a video with footage of the team of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and "Muscles Glasses" competing in Sunday's eating contest at Poutineville in Montreal. "Muscles Glasses'" reversal is not shown and the contest segment concludes with the team holding an empty dish while the narrator calls them the champs. (via email)
The eatfeats IFOCE top 25 poll for October is now open and accepting votes at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php
The Daily Mail reports that a spicy curry contest held in Edinburgh, Scotland hospitalized two competitors.
Don Lerman announces he intends to sue the United Nations for using his image in a video titled "Don't be a Pig".
SI.com has a gallery and video of Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at the Sports Illustrated office where he ate 32 hard boiled eggs in a minute and drank a gallon of milk.
The new poll asks how you would currently rank Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Takeru Kobayashi.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has uploaded a video of him drinking a half gallon of Gatorade in 14 seconds.

IFOCE head to head listings Oct 2, 2011

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IFOCE October 2011 top 25 poll choices

The current set of choices for the next IFOCE top 25 poll follows after the jump. The list consists of people with two or more IFOCE results in the database from the past 12 months combined with people who have won money in a non-amateur IFOCE contest in the past 12 months. Other choices can be added or removed if requested.
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The Man vs. Food: Nation eating challenge picture contest closes today. Photos should be posted on the MvF facebook wall and the top pictures will appear on travelchannel.com.
Food Service Warehouse has produced an infographic titled An Unbalanced Diet: Competitive Eating.
Ian's Pizza has a gallery of the pizza contest held last Friday in Madison, WI won by Eric "Silo" Dahl.
TIOGaming has uploaded a video of Sonya Thomas competing in a wing eating contest held at a military base, probably recorded yesterday at Fort Lewis McChord in Tacoma.
Tonight's episode of Man v Food: Nation will feature food trucks. The challenge will be the six pound burrito from the White Rabbit Truck in Los Angeles, which has only been finished by Aaron Ybarra and Naader Reda. The Taco Bus in Tampa will be another visited restaurant.
NESN.com has a video of Sonya Thomas eating 41 meatballs (with the flu) and Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos eating a fruit basket at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston on Saturday.
Dale Boone has started a facebook fan page titled "World Champion Dale Boone".
Aaron Ybarra has produced more competitive eating themed songs about Kevin Ross, Mary Bowers and Matt Cohen and three songs not about a specific competitive eater.
Richard Shea will appear on a panel of New York City game changers at Advertising Week's convention on October 4. Al Dejewski, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for Specific Media / MySpace will be another member of the panel.
http://www.facebook.com/eatfast/posts/10150333596584551">"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of Pat Bertoletti drinking a pitcher of beer in 5 seconds.

IFOCE head to head results table Sept 25, 2011

The table of head to head results for the past 12 months for all competitors who have two or more IFOCE results in that time period has been updated with results from contests on September 24. (All people with two or more known placements have been listed even if they have subsequently been ejected from the IFOCE.) Here is the list of top 10 winning percentages, the entire list follows after the jump.

The first number represents the number of times someone has finished ahead of someone else in the list in the past 12 months, the second number represents the number of times some has finished behind someone else in the list and the third number represents the number of ties.

1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 97% 97-3
2 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) 94.7% 161-9
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 86.2% 59-9-1
4 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 84% 63-12
5 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) 81.3% 91-21
6 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 75% 44-14-2
7 Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (R Le) 72.7% 8-3
8 Sean “Flash” Gordon (S Go) 67.7% 41-19-2
9 Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres (S To) 66.7% 12-6
10 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) 64.7% 61-33-1

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MikeSteadyBurn has a video of Takeru Kobayshi drinking a gallon of milk in 18 seconds at today's Blogs With Balls Sports New Media Conference (via BuzzFeed). Darren Rovell of CNBC had a picture taken with Kobayashi, who he said hit "rockbottom" for appearing at a baseball game in Gary, IN.
Patch.com reports that the crab cake eating contest held at Michael's Cafe Crab Ball in Timonium, MD was cancelled after a contestant choked and was hospitalized. (via Mike Longo) u pdate A Patch.com update lists the man's name as Mike Solano and says he remains hospitalized after lacking a heartbeat and pulse after the contest. (via comment)
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