Competitive Eating category

The home page for Man vs. Food reports that the first episode of the second season will debut on August 5 and feature restaurants from San Antonio.
The Philadelphia restaurants Man vs. Food recorded at yesterday were Tommy Dinic's Roast Pork and Beef and Miller's Twist in Reading Terminal Market. Today's sites were cheesesteak restaurants on South Street.
Val Broman has posted her report and gallery from the 2009 Nathan's finals.
SportsMediaWatch reports that the 2009 Nathan's finals broadcast received a 0.9 rating corresponding to 1.3 million viewers. The 2007 contest reportedly drew a 1.3 rating and 1.632 million viewers. (I have not been able to find last year's rating)

Furious Pete wins Bacci Pizza

A caption for a gallery of today’s Bacci Pizza contest says the unnamed winner ate 8.5 slices. Rich LeFevre’s mark of 7.5 slices in 15 minutes at the 2005 Bacci Pizza contest is listed as an IFOCE record. update A comment for another picture says the winner was from Canada.

update # Videos and a bodybuilding.com thread are available.

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A video of the knish eating contest held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game on Wednesday is available.

IFOCE July 2009 top 25 poll started

The IFOCE poll for July 2009 can be voted on at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php The poll has been modified to allow only one unregistered vote per connection per day.

Rankings of the voters in the previous poll who wanted their votes made public are available after the jump:
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The Washingtonian has a video from the July 2 Z-burger eating contest containing interviews with "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Dale Boone and Joe Menchetti.
411Mania.com reports that the second season of Man vs. Food will debut on August 5. Tony Luke, Jr. confirms that the program recorded at his restaurant in Philadelphia on July 9.
Craigslist has a posting requesting competitive eaters to appear in a 5 minute comedic short filming this weekend in Manhattan.
http://twitter.com/morningsideband/status/2549857996: Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is at Tony Luke's in Philadelphia today and Bill "El Wingador" Simmons will be a guest.
TampaBay.Metromix.com has a gallery of the hot dog eating contest held July 3 at the Crowbar in Ybor City which includes pictures of the female winner, who competed under the name "Doll Face Killa"
A post on bodybuilding.com reports that ptflyforatallguy (6'8") and Dolfan_714 broke the challenge record at Red Devil pizza in Southern California by eating a 28 inch pizza in 11 minutes and 30 seconds. (The previous record was 18 minutes) Videos of the entire challenge are available: Part 1 | Part 2
The program where "Furious" Pete Czerwinski took on German restaurants' eating challenges was televised in Europe today and a clip of that program is available on youtube. Bodybuilding.com thread 1 | thread 2
Sportnation debuted on ESPN2 today, and one of the topics they discussed was whether there should be more televised competitive eating. You can vote on a poll on the program's web page (from anon comment) and also follow the twitter responses.
Deadspin has a gallery of the Nathan's finals which includes a picture of the floor around the eaters' table after the contest.
Badlands Booker reports that his fifth CD, Extended Play is available on his myspace page.
PinoyFood has a blog entry about Tom "Goose" Gilbert's appearance in the Philippines promoting 7-11's hot dog eating contest. A video of Gilbert eating 10 hot dogs (using non-"picnic style" rules) in 3 minutes and 23 seconds is available. Another video promoting the contest features lookalikes of boxer Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach. update July 6 The contest website has a report on the event.
Yahoo News has a picture of the humans vs. elephants contest which labels Tim Brown as Eric Badlands Brooker [sic].
This evening's ESPN Sportcenter had a long story on competitive eating which can be viewed online. The segment originally ran on E:60 in October and a reporter roundtable about the clip is also available.
GoGoCurryUSA.com has a slideshow of its curry eating contest.
CNN has an article about the health risks of competitive eating. Don Lerman is listed as a retired competitive eater even though he participated in the Go! Go! Curry! contest in May.

KSO VI September 27, 2009 w/ 2 rule changes

The Krystal Square Off twitter has a link to a blog entry announcing that this year’s finals will take place on September 27. The blog also announces two new rules changes: one will limit “detritus”, the second modification is not described.

As for the other change, Brad Wahl, the vice president of marketing at The Krystal Company, shared, “Let’s just say it’s a really big change; one that will make this year’s competition the most exciting in the six-year history of the Krystal Square Off. Much like the way the three-point shot revolutionized the game of basketball, this new rule will drastically alter the way eaters approach our contest from a strategic level.”

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1010WINS has an article and gallery (solely of Chestnut & Kobayashi) of the Nathan's weigh-in today. update CNN also has an article about the weigh-in, which claims that Eater X has eaten 55 HDBs. update #2 NY1 video
SportsMediaNews reports that all five previous Nathan's broadcasts from 2004-2008 will be rerun on ESPNU on July 3 between midnight and 5 am eastern.
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