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Some more reports on the Major League Eating video game from last week’s Nintendo Game Summit:
Crazy Legs Conti and Arturo Rios were guests of Dr. Billy Goldberg’s Sirius radio show and competed in an on air cake eating contest. Goldberg wrote a column for MSNBC about their appearance. MSNBC also has a poll asking what eating contest would you like to see.
(From skinnyboy & supersizedmeals) A Yahoo! group devoted to eating challenges has been set up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foodchallenges/ Membership is required to view the group in its entirety, but non members can read the groups message board.
A review of “Beautiful” Brian’s CD, “Stick to Blogging”, has been posted on the main page of IFOCE.com:
From the very first words of his seminal work of competitive eating themed rock and roll, Beautiful Brian Seiken announces himself as the underdog who has finally made good – “the phenom, coming out of nowhere.” And if his self-released CD is any indication of what’s to come, this Brooklyn native will remain a major player in the realm of competitive eating media for some time.
Though the album displays a remarkable range of genre – from post-punk to ’50s-style ballad – the themes are fairly consistent. Each song is either a tribute or a protest song, and the object is always a member, or a phenomenon, associated with the MLE competitive eating circuit.
There is also a wrapup of the Acme Oyster contest which mainly consists of Crazy Legs Conti’s itinerary.
update Brian has responded to the review by ending his moratorium on writing “Bits & Pieces”. His most recent update announces that Lorraine and Kevin Lipsitz have had twins.
Attendees of last week’s Nintendo Game Summit are now free to report about the Major League Eating game and the following material has came out today:
Added 11:11 pm
The video from “Food Battle Club” in which Ken Domon drinks 1.5 liters of water in less than 5 seconds has just exceeded one million views according to YouTube, probably making it the first competitive eating clip to reach that mark. The Kobayashi vs. the bear video is probably the second most viewed competitive eating video with just under 900,000 views currently.
Registration for Nathan’s qualifiers opens at noon eastern today
Added 11:15 pm
(From daytimetalk.com) A video of a contest on the Ellen Degeneres show involving giant pizzas is available on redlasso.com. The competitors did not eat the pizzas; they searched for a ticket hidden in the toppings with their mouths as if bobbing for apples.
Ripten reports that Mastiff Games held a promotional event for video game journalists in which Tim “Eater X” Janus ate 141 pieces of avocado sushi. The blog entry contains some additional details about game play:
To keep your gastrointestinal tract clear, you have to hold the A button and wiggle the Wiimote, which makes your character wiggle around to pack in the food. This is actually a real tactic that we saw employed by Eater X.
Depending on which food you are gorging on in the game, you will use different types of controls. I took part in a virtual jalapeno eating contest, where you “flipped†the remote to toss ‘em in your mouth. In the watermelon eating competition, you have to move the remote from side to side. Pressing the B button will chomp your teeth, but if you press it at the wrong time, you’ll bite your tongue instead.
As weird and disgusting as all of this sounds, this actually plays like a good party game.
IGN reports that the game could be played at the Nintendo Media Summit, but journalists cannot report details of the game until Tuesday.
update crave.cnet.com has a blog entry with a gallery and video of Janus’ exhibition.
The new poll asks what expansion pack containing additional characters would you most like to see for the upcoming Major League Eating Video game.
(From Wild Bill comment) The first IFOCE rankings of 2008 are out. A comparison of the old rankings with new rankings follows after the jump. #1 – #4 and #10 – #12 remain the same, but #5 – #9 are completely different.
(Via Serious Eats) Trends in Japan reports that Nobyuki “the Giant” Shirota will open a temporary udon noodle restaurant in Osaka called Shirotaya on April 25. The restaurant will serve bowls of udon that are 16 and 32 times the size of a standard portion. The restaurant is expected to close on August 31.
Shirota has a blog entry and Yahoo of Japan has an article about the restaurant
(From IGN.com) The website for the upcoming Major League Eating video game, MLEGame.com has been set up. The website has screen shots, videos (Badlands Booker provides a soundtrack for the trailer) and a list of the game’s characters: (from left to right in the cartoon above) bunette, Crazy Legs Conti, Rich LeFevre, paramedic, Kobayashi, El Toro, Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee, Tim Janus, Erik Denmark.
The official release date is May 12. A weekly drawing awarding gift certificates will be held for each of the 12 types of food in the game. Registration for the first drawing opens today.
Other links: Kotaku, direct link to game trailer
Ken Aoki reports that the 2007 Krystal Square Off finals will be televised in Japan even though there were no Japanese competitors after Kobayashi’s withdrawal. The contest will be televised 12 times over the next two months on various Japanese sports channels. The program will be an hour, longer than the approximately 35 minute duration of the American broadcast.
A video clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s phone interview on the April 1 “Mike and Mike” show can be viewed on ESPN.com. A graphic lists Crazy Legs’ first name as “Kevin”. That video clip is available for download.
The full interview is available in an audio podcast. Crazy Legs’ interview starts around the 30 minute mark. Crazy Legs will probably be a commentator for Mike Golic’s contest and he suggests Krystal burgers as the food. Conti says that Sonya will not defend her 2005 title at the Acme Oyster eating contest.
A video of the end of the last round of the “Gluttonous Queen” competition that Natsuko “Gal” Sone competed in is available on youtube. She missed advancement to the next round by just a few grams of steak.
Beautiful Brian has a page comparing “Stick to Blogging” to the 25th anniversary re-release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Commentary about the release “Stick to Blogging” explains how Michael Jackson has an additional impact on the CD.
Although some of the musical arrangements are the sole property of yours truly like “Dont ever call me again” “Came in as an eater” “Retaliation” and “Weigh my shit” “Black and White” , others are copyrighted material replaced by my own original lyrics but accompanied by tunes from major recording artists such as the Beatles and Billy Preston. In order to clear those hurdles and post on media player applications such as itunes stores and other high profile internet music services i would have to cut a deal with those companies and pay them thousands of dollars. I dont think so.
Michael Jackson currently owns the publishing rights to the Beatles’ songs, although there is speculation that financial difficulties might for him to sell.
Metromix has a gallery of the final contest in the “Munch Madness” team relay bar bite eating tournament, which was nicknamed the “Elite Ate”
The winner is not mentioned in the gallery captions. Team Manchetti was one of the eight finalists.
The page which formerly had videos from the Major League Eating shows recorded in Las Vegas, http://www.spike.com/show/23406 is now empty. (Cached page)
(from SkinnyBoy) Skinnyboy has uploaded a video clip of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped.” Joey estimates he consumed 5,000 hot dogs in preparing for the Nathan’s finals.
Badlands Booker has started a youtube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/badlandsbooker The page has clips of Bookers appearances on “Wife Swap, “Attack of the Show” and the hard boiled egg eating contest from the “Glutton Bowl”.
Hall Hunt has compiled the votes for his top 25 for April. The top 10 in that list follow:
1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (8) (198) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (189) [2]
3. Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi (175) [8]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (171) [5]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (151) [3]
6. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (148) [6]
7. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (138) [4]
8. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (133) [7]
9. Chip “The Phenom” Simpson (120) [11]
10. Juliet Lee (113) [10]
Competitive eating will apparently appear on ESPN / ESPN2 before July 4. According to Mike-Greenberg.com, Mike Greenberg won his NCAA bracket challenge with Mike Golic. Golic’s penalty for losing will be competing in an eating contest against pro eaters during his radio show which is simulcast on ESPN2. It will be interesting to see who Golic faces in his contest.
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