JoshDaleEats.com has started webcasting live Wedndesday afternoon eating challenges at 1 PM Central (2 PM eastern). Today’s challenge will consist of items from the Wendy’s Value Menu: Double Stack, Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Spicy Chicken Go Wrap, Homestyle Chicken Go Wrap, Grilled Chicken Go Wrap, 5-piece Nuggets and Value French Fries.

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BeautifulBrian.com’s Bits & Pieces reports that Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo has been training “Big” Brian Subich, who will compete in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Charlotte. Brad Sciullo reportedly ate 38 hot dogs in a training session and also completed Tiny’s burger challenge at the Niner Diner which includes 5 pounds of fries. When the UEPa visited the Niner Diner in 2007, the only challenge finisher was an unnamed sub 100 pound woman according to the restaurant’s owner.

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TwinCitiesLive has a video of Julie Dey’s appearance on Friday to promote the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier. She says she was inspired to enter by Pat Bertoletti and his girlfriend. After describing the typical amount of food she eats in a buffet, she competes in a short contest against one of the shows hosts.

Julie Dey ate 11 hot dogs to finish third in her first ever official eating contest. The contest was held in a cold rain and Pat Bertoletti claimed the hot dogs were leathery. If you think that Pat Bertoletti would have eaten %50-%100 more in optimal conditions and adjust Ms. Dey’s performance by a similar amount, it could have rivaled Sonya Thomas 18 HDB in 2003 (in 12 minutes) as one of the top overall competitive eating debuts at a Nathan’s qualifier.

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The top 25 poll at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php is now accepting votes.

Votes will be categorized by whether a user is registered and logged in or not.

There is nothing to prevent multiple voting, but only the first vote from a logged in user will be counted in the registered votes.

To assist voting, a list of the top 50 Nathan’s qualifier performances so far is available after the jump.
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Furious Pete has added a picture of an advertisement for bodybuilding.com to his gallery. A caption says the ad will run in the August and September editions of Muscle and Fitness, Flex and Ironman Magazine

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A clip of the Travel Channel’s Samantha Brown competing in the 2008 World Italian Sausage Eating Championship is available on youtube. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, “Tiny” Tim Rauscheder (in the background of the thumbnail above), Carey Poehlmann and others appear in the clip. The entire episode of Great Weekends: Boston will be televised on Saturday night.

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The next poll will ask who you think is the top eater who has never been associated with the IFOCE, AICE or WLOCE. The current choices are listed below, please suggest additional possible choices in the comments.

• Sal Carbone – 3 time Brooklyn Pizza winner
• Carl Deselm – winner of the national Rock the Tot contest in 2008, top 5 in 2009
• Greg Malloomian finisher of several New England challenges A video of his most recent attempt at the “World’s Largest Corned Beef Sandwich” from Gus & Paul’s
• John Squibb – won Wing Bowl 17 with 203 wings eaten
• Lori Weiss – Denny’s 96er finisher

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An inactive form for an IFOCE ranking poll has been set up at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php The choices consists of all of the current IFOCE top 50 who have a result in the past year, Sean Gordon, RJ Frasca, Yasir Salem, Bryan Beard, Pat Bruss, Matt Ventre, Mongo Marquez, Pete Miernicki, Bruce “the Hangman” Pobanz and Steven Ramirez II.

If you think someone who has a contest result from the past year should be added to the poll choices, comment or email and he or she will be added. (If you would like to be removed, that request will also be accomodated)

The poll will start accepting votes in a day or two. I would like to do a non-IFOCE poll and eventually a unified poll.

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