Competitive Eating category

The facebook for the National Food Court and Wisconsin Collegiate Eating Championship announces that footage from the February 5 contest will be recorded for an upcoming episode The College Experiment on Fox Sports & Fuel TV.
The Coloradoan has an article about 3 teams of 2 attempting to eat a 30 inch pizza at Pizza Casbah in Fort Collins for an upcoming episode of Outrageous Food. According to the article, Outrageous Food will be recording at Digger's Diner in Brush, which has a burger billed as the largest in Colorado.
A press release announces that the January 22 of Unwrapped on the Food Network will feature the 1.67 pound Fifth Third burger available at West Michigan Whitecaps games.
Jon Squibb produced a video about his quest to threepeat the Wing Bowl next month.
Andrew Lane has a blog entry about competing in a wing eating contest at Rock Rest in Golden, Colorado recorded for an upcoming episode of Outrageous Food.
The HungryGirl twitter announces that Joey Chestnut will be a guest on Saturday's episode of the Hungry Girl Show on the Cooking Channel (4 pm ET / 1 pm PT)

End of 2010 poll choices part 2

A list of choices for the next batch of end of 2010 polls follows after the jump. Please make any suggestions about choices you think should be added in the comments

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Culinary Neophyte has a blog entry about Outrageous Food recording at Jake's Sandwich Board in Philadelphia last week.
MileHighSoapbox reports that Outrageous Food will record at Corona's Mexican Grill in Broomfield, CO on January, which has a 6.66 pound taco salad challenge.
In a response to a twitter question, Bonnie Bernstein of ESPN says she would not only have joined a collegiate competitive eating team if it existed when she was a gymnast at the University of Maryland, she claims she would have been a four time national champion in eating. update A facebook page about the team has been started.
Randy Santel has uploaded a video of him completing the five malt challenge at Crown Candy Kitchen in St. Louis.

Female competitive eaters on Outrageous Food

In a December episode of Outrageous Food Stephanie Torres faced off against four men in an Extreme Grizzly (7 pound) burrito eating contest at Marianito’s in San Antonio. A clip of her segment has been uploaded:

StephVsGrizzly.avi (6MB 2 min)

In last night’s episode, Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” was part of a group of women that attempted to eat a single Dog Pounder burger at Lumpy’s Diner in Antioch, CA (She has finished the burger without help) The results of the team challenge was not televised. Stephanie Wu’s name could also be read on the plaque listing the finishers of the “Initimidator” omelet.

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Outrageous Food Jan 7, 2010 (“Nuclear Wings”) episode links

Food Network episode guide

Restaurants

List of Oakland / East Bay eating challenges & contests in the eatfeats database
List of Philadelphia eating challenges & contests in the eatfeats database
List of Pittsburgh eating challenges & contests in the eatfeats database

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Outrageous Food will be recording footage tomorrow at Jake's Sandwich Board in Philadelphia for a segment about the Philly Challenge defeated by Dave "US Male" Goldstein. [City Paper Meal Ticket]
Don Sturdy reports that Jessica "Queen of Cuisine" will appear on tonight's episode of Outrageous Food on the Food Network (10 pm & 1 am eastern).
The requested updates have been made to the end of year polls and voting will start tonight tomorrow morning. update The polls have been added to the sidebar.
The New York World has an article about Ed "Cookie" Jarvis and the health issues he has faced. Jarvis has lost 150 pounds since retiring from the IFOCE in 2006. (Via The Lerman Report)

Most 2010 eating contest results in database

A top 10 list of the people with the most eating contest results for 2010 in the eatfeats database follows (challenges & stunts not included)

37 Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky
19 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
19 “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
19 Dale “Mouth of the South” Boone
17 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas
17 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
16 Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane
16 “munchin mike” Longo
15 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
15 Crazy Legs Conti


In his facebook
, Joel Podelsky lists his 2010 contest count at 52

A list of everyone with 5 or more 2010 results in the database is available after the jump
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The University of Maryland competitive eating team's appearance on CSN Washington last night can be viewed online. (via Josh Weissman)
Courier Post Online has a gallery of last night's Wing-Off held at Skeeter's Pub in Blenheim, NJ won by David "Tiger Wings & Things" Brunelli. MyFoxPhilly reports that tickets are still available for Wing Bowl 19.
Scott Bickel's appearance on a segment about Cleveland's most interesting people on today's episode of WKYC's Good Company today can be viewed online.
BrowardPalmBeach.com has an article about the appearance of Shelby's Kitchen on a recent episode of Outrageous Food which claims that a petite woman came closest to completing the undefeated Terminator pancake challenge.
The facebook for the University of New Mexico announces that Man vs. Food is looking for a UNM student with the first or last name Travis to attempt the 6 pound Travis on a Silver Platter burrito at K & I Diner.
Jon Squibb has started at twitter page at http://twitter.com/jonsupersquibb
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