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The blog for the Village Voice has an entry about this afternoon’s watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center between Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti. Conti won the six minute contest by one bite. After the first contest completed, Conti and Janus had a virtual watermelon eating contest by playing the Major League Eating video game. The blog entry closes with an announcement that an article about Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will appear in the Village Voice this summer.
IFOCE.com also has a report about the event.
update AppScout has a blog entry about the event with pictures and videos, including a recording of the performances of Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker.
update #2 Serious Eats has a gallery and MTV has a blog entry.
Nintendo has put out a press release about the WiiWare games that will be released today. The Major League Eating game is not included in that document.
NokiaUsers.net has a blog entry with an embedded commercial starring “Lisa Kissick”, a competitive eating fan who uses the Nokia N95 8GB to download competitive eating videos and receive instant contest results. One of the videos she downloads is a butter eating record, which is listed as seven sticks in 4 minutes.
update Don Lerman has posted his response to the video on mosesnews.com:
Nokia has put an add on the market that is a slap in the face to great Moses Lerman it belittles his title and discounts the truth and if you check the glutton bowl tape it is actually 71/2 sticks in 5 min
Erik Denmark has a blog entry about his appearance on the Groz & Gas radio show today, which is available online. Erik talks about the Major League Eating video game and his compensation for it. Like Pat Bertoletti, he is not clear about the terms of the royalty agreement. He will attempt to qualify for Nathan’s in Kansas City, but makes no mention of tomorrow’s gyro contest in Houston.
There is also a press release for the MLE video game with descriptions of four of the game’s characters.
Pat Bertoletti appeared on the Steve Dahl show today. One of the subjects was the upcoming Major League Eating video game and the compensation received:
6:23 Sometime during this week there’s going to be a Nintendo Wii competitive eating game. There’s new software for he Wii where you can download games, including the competitive eating game. It’ll feature Patrick, Joey Chestnut, The Black Widow, Kobayashi and 6 or 7 other eaters.
6:24 Patrick’s character looks freaky because they went with his mohawk and mustache look. All of the eaters got some money and were told there’d be royalties depending on games sold.
6:25 It sounds like it’s about time for Patrick to get representation. He doesn’t like the way he looks in the game and now he’s probably not getting as much money as he should be getting. He should have gotten money up front against the royalties.
6:26 Every eater got $500 up front but there were no specifics about the royalties. It sounds like he got ripped off.
6:27 Patrick signed a contract with the IFOCE and they own his image. That contract is up next year. We might have to go in and Urlacher it.
The press release for the Houston gyro contest lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt and Erik Denmark as expected entrants.
Next-Gen.biz has a joint interview with developers of WiiWare games in which Bill Swartz, head of the company that developed the Major League Eating game, participates. He says that while future MLE games might appear on different platforms, they will not be ports of the upcoming game:
Swartz: Well, this game is for WiiWare, that is what it was developed for. In the future would I be open to doing other games using the characters and the settings and the universe? Yeah, of course. I really, really believe in Major League Eating and the franchise, but would I take this particular game and just move it over? No. This game is for WiiWare.
Swartz also says that the development team began work in September and that twelve employees formed its core.
Contrary to Darren Rovell’s blog entry, the Major League Eating video game was not among the inaugural batch of six WiiWare games released yesterday.
Wired.com’s video game blog reports that it is apparently Nintendo’s policy to not announce a release schedule for WiiWare games.
The sidebar has been updated with finalists for the upcoming Nathan’s finals and the total cash winnings for this year. Joe Menchetti is currently the leader in cash prizes (Joey Chestnut’s Wing Bowl prizes would make him the overall winner in total value won)
I do not have the prize breakdown for the pig skin eating contest after first place. Please inform me of any incorrect or missing prizes. Here are the current top 10 cash winners for 2008:
$6200 “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti $5250 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti $3000 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas $2500 Tim “Eater X” Janus $2500 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut $1000 Juliet Lee $1000 J. D. Castile $1000 Chris “The Big Cat” $1000 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski $1000 Erik “The Red” Denmark
Galleries of the recent Nathan’s qualifiers held in Las Vegas and Apple Valley, Minnesota are now available. Captions for the Las Vegas gallery report that Rich LeFevre ate 32 hot dogs and not the 31 in the official report.
The Las Vegas Sun has an article containing a picture of Rich LeFevre and Sarah Jane from one of the galleries. Sarah Jane was the only female competitor and previously auditioned for “American Idol”. Like Ron Koch, she works as a casino photographer. She finished with 8.5 hot dogs, which puts her in the company of 8 females who are known to have broken the 8 HDB mark:
39 Sonya Thomas, 2007, 12 minutes
28 Juliet Lee, 2007, 12 minutes
25 Carlene LeFevre, 2005, 12 minutes
22.25 Takako Akasaka, 2000, 12 minutes
18 Miyuki Iwata, 2004, 12 minutes
12 Melody Andorfer, 1972, 5 minutes
9.5 Birgit Felden, 1984, 10 minutes
8.5 Sarah Jane, 2008, 10 minutes
Darren Rovell reports in his CNBC blog that the Major League Eating video game is now available.
Local news video broadcast March 24 on KAMR about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record has been posted to youtube.
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a blog entry and gallery about his attempt at the Big Texan.
Beautiful Brian has posted a tribute video of Pat Philbin to his website which can also be seen on youtube. The video features the song, “Piggy in the Middle”, which is based on “I am the Walrus” and is sung by The Rutles, a parody of the Beatles.
The morning show of KVBC.com has a video about El Toro showing him training with watermelon. There is also a video of Rich LeFevre competing in a one minute hot dog eating contest in the sidebar.
A press release on gonintendo.com announces that a watermelon eating contest between Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will take place at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center in New York City on May 20.
The meals Gal Sone endorsed for the Lawson convenience store chain debuted yesterday. Gal Sone has a blog entry about the release containing pictures of a store containing her advertisement. Gigazine has reviews of the meals. Lawson stores will sell the meals until May 19.
The New Scientist has an article about a study conducted by a research team led by Alain Dagher at McGill University in Montreal about the effects of the hormone ghrelin:
Made in the stomach, ghrelin levels rise when people are hungry and wane after a meal. People who get injections of the hormone gorge themselves, while those suffering from a rare disease that keeps ghrelin levels unusually high tend to be obese overeaters.
“I think it’s the most powerful appetite stimulant that has ever been found,” Dagher says.
The article says that drugs that block ghrelin are in the under development at pharmaceutical companies.
Hall Hunt has published his latest poll. The top 6 remain unchanged, the remainder of the top 10 follows:
7. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (182) [8]
8. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (181) [7]
9. Erik “The Red” Denmark (160) [12]
10. Chip “The Phenom” Simpson (153) [9]
Badlands Booker and Joe LaRue are the newcomers to the rankings, replacing Justin Mih and Nate Biller. Arturo Rios (now #15) and Brian Seiken (now #21) both jump four slots.
The blog for Discover magazine has an entry about an artificial mouth which is the subject of an article in an upcoming issue of the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The chewing simulator—which was maintained at 98.6 °F, sported artificial teeth, and included artificial saliva and helium flow “to reproduce the breathing phenomenaâ€â€”went up against actual human mouths in a Golden Delicious apple-eating contest. These human mouths chewed apple pieces “as naturally as possible†before spitting out the chewed up mass when they would have otherwise swallowed. The resulting mush was tested for texture, color, and volatile compound release, parameters which the group will soon use to optimize the device for aroma release.
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