The first attempt at a listing of combined head to head records for IFOCE and non-IFOCE eaters follows after the jump. The list compares the past two years of contest results for people with four or more contests with known placement in the past two years. The listing is probably not that accurate as a unified ranking even when people with 10 or less head to head matchups are removed, but improves if it is split into IFOCE and non-IFOCE lists.

The top 5 for IFOCE is 1) Joey Chestnut 2) Pat Bertoletti 3) Bob Shoudt 4) Sonya Thomas 5) Tim Janus. For non-IFOCE the top 5 (after omitting people with 10 or less match ups) is 1) Takeru Kobayashi 2) Tom Gilbert 3) Pete Czerwinski 4) Jon Squibb 5) Bob Kuhns.

Kobayashi’s position will decline in about a week when the 2009 Krystal Square Off falls outside the two year window.

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The head to head results displayed in a grid posted on Tuesday can be viewed as a list after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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A 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 created. (All people with two or more results 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:

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update 11:15 Ekavet has a flckr gallery. Will Millender has videos of the women’s contest and first heat of the male contest. Feeding the Dragon has a video of the second heat won by Joe Menchetti.

update 2:41 Miss Korea BBQ reports that Joe Menchetti won the men’s contest with a total of 69 dumplings, breaking his record of 66. Will Millender reports that he took 3rd w/ 45 and that Dave Brunelli was runner up with 60. Marcos Owens was 4th with 44.

update 2:30 Floria Lee has repeated as the women’s winner with a total of 37 dumplings.

update 2:20 Will Millender reports that Dave Brunelli is the current leader of the men’s contest with 60 and that Joe Menchetti broke the stairs to the stage, which others confirm.

Today’s eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival should start at 2pm. Will Millender reports he is at the contest site along with Joe Menchetti, Mike Longo and Marcos Owens. Floria Lee and Olia Zaitseva will attempt to fill the top two spots in the women’s contest for the third straight year.

The shirt Will Millender is wearing at the contest displaying Mike Longo’s severed head can be purchased online.

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The MLE facebook announces that Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will attempt to break the record for banana eating on tomorrow’s episode of Live with Regis & Kelly.

Regis Philbin had previous involvement with competitive eating before the debut of Live with Regis & Kelly. In 1963, he served as a referee for an eating contest between San Diego Charger defensive lineman / pro wrestler Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd and Nick Cordileone. Flickr has a picture of the program for the contest.

Pat Bertoletti will stay in New York City and compete in Thursday’s cannoli contest in an attempt to obtain his 36th record. Eric “Badlands” Booker and Maria “Edible” have also been announced as entrants.

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A commenter noted that Stephanie Torres has been removed from the #21 spot in the IFOCE top 50, apparently for competing in the non-IFOCE burger eating contests held at the Lone Butte Casino last month. Andrew Kogutkiewicz enters the rankings at #45. His latest competition was a victory at the non-IFOCE Sheboygan Brat Days contest where he won $500.

Brad Sciullo competed as Eric “The Herald” Durst in the non-IFOCE Bartolini’s meatball eating contest in 2008 and was allowed to remain in the organization and win the San Gennaro cannoli eating contest. (He was later ejected for completing Denny’s Beer Barrel Belly Buster challenge burger. )

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