from beautifulbrian.com:

Ron the “Undertaker Koch” has informed the IFOCE to go —— yourself after being rejected from competing in the Peanut Butter and Jelly contest which was held on Aug 8 in CA. A dejected and disgusted Koch (as seen in photos below) has made his feelings known that he is not a happy camper. It was apparant that the IFOCE had good reasons for not letting Koch compete in this event but the Undertaker seemed to take it personal.

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Tim Brown has uploaded a video of himself practicing for the September jalapeno eating contest in Chicago.

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(From truefan) KrystalSquareOff.com will let users compete in fantasy comeptitive eating leagues starting tomorrow. Scoring will be based on both the qualifiers and finals:

Leagues can have a maximum of seven teams but no fewer than four. Once teams have been drafted, owners can drop, add or trade their competitive eaters up until midnight on the day before the regional qualifier final. Eaters cannot be dropped, traded or added once they’ve competed. Points will be accumulated based on the average number of Krystal Hamburgers that each eater consumes in the local qualifier finals and their total at the Krystal Square Off IV World Championship.

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A video of Tim “Eater X” singing at the Nathan’s finals can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=EL-DwZ5D_KA

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CheapAssFood.com has a video from the women’s and men’s dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens, NY Sunday. Floria Lee’s technique is quite impressive.

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(From Joe Callow) Juliet Lee has opened a website at julietlee.com.

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(From beautifulbrian.com & Kevin Ross) Dale Boone has been removed from the IFOCE rankings, moving everyone up below Boone’s previous #16 spot up a notch.

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(From JapanProbe) A video of a woman (I think it is Suguwara) eating 3kg (6.2 lb) of curry on Japanese television can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcg2WCjNGBM

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BeautifulBrian.com has a new commentary for this month, a picture of Juilet Lee on his entry page and a tribute to Elvis as a musician and a potential competitive eater on the 30th anniversary of his death.

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Consumption23 has 7 videos from last Saturday’s blueberry pie eating contest in Oregon at http://www.youtube.com/user/consumption23

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Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy) of ESPN.com lists Joey Chestnut’s victory as one of the few high points in a bleak summer for sports:

It’s impossible to rank these events from most depressing to least depressing, so I won’t even try. Making matters worse, the enjoyable moments have been few and far between. Basically, it’s been Joey Chestnut’s toppling Kobayashi, Stephon Marbury’s surreal Mike’d Up appearance and the actor who played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx Is Burning’s inadvertently looking like C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man.

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SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has added a guestbook and beautifulbrian.com has a blog for reader comments.

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Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded two videos from last Saturday’s handless pie eating contest to http://youtube.com/user/iamskinnyboy

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The Sheboygan Press has an article about the amateur bratwurst contest to be held at the Brat Days festival this weekend which includes the following quotes on the cancellation of the IFOCE contest:

Officials at Johnsonville Sausage, which sponsors the brat-eating contest and the festival itself, declined to comment Tuesday.

Johnsonville dropped the event as part of a public relations “strategy shift,” Johnsonville Marketing Manager Cory Bouck said early in July. The contest “wasn’t the exact message we want to get out,” he said.

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A competitive eating themed episode from the 1950s sitcom “The Phil Silvers Show” (Sergeant Bilko) can be viewed in its entirety on youtube where a plot summary can be found:

In an eating contest between the platoons Bilko puts his money on a new member of the platoon nicknamed ‘The Stomach’ only to find that he can only eat when he is depressed

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From a Chip Simpson email

I just wanted to let everyone know that tommorow (July 31) on Sirius radio, on the Stretch show, Eater X and Crazy Legs Conti will be having a sanctioned eating contest against one of the hosts Bower. The show airs from 10 AM EST- 2 PM EST. I am not sure what the food will be but I heard it advertised tonight on the Devore and Diane show. Hope someone can get a recap.

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SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has a completely new look and has placed her faq and other information originally on the main page in new sub-pages.

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BeautifulBrian has a podcast of Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin on the Opie & Anthony show from early July about the Nathan’s finals.

Brian also has reports from the handless pie eating contest and the “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” Taste o Vision screening.

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A video of 2 potential bunnettes from the extras on the DVD of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9zoUmxG_Q (may not be safe for all workplaces)

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(From MosesNews.com) Cookie Jarvis has redone the appearance of his website, hugeeaters.com, and added a merchandise and recipe section.

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In honor of today’s opening of The Simpsons Movie and Saturday’s handless pie eating contest, here is an excerpt from The Simpsons from a 1994 episode about (attempted) pie eating without use of hands:

Bart: OK, but on my way, I’m going to be doing this: [windmills arms]
If you get hit, it’s your own fault.

Lisa: OK, then I’m going to start kicking air like this. [kicks]
And if any part of you should fill that air, [kicks] it’s _your_ own fault.
[they walk towards each other, then start fighting]

Marge: Oh, I better go check that out. Now Homer, don’t you eat this pie!

Homer: OK…[Marge leaves] All right, pie, I’m just going to do this.
[chomps air] And if you get eaten, it’s your own fault!
[walks towards pie, chomping air, and hits head on range head]
Ow! Oh, my — aw, to hell with this. [grabs pie, eats it]

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A video of Gal Sone competing in a noodle eating contest against magician Cyril Takayama can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyJzl680l4 Cyril makes Gal Sone’s lead in the contest almost completely disappear. Japan Probe and R Suzuki have recaps of the program.

The entire rookie women’s qualifier for this years “Gluttonous King” contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/euromach2

Gal Sone vs. Shirota

Gal Sone vs. relay team: Part 1, Part 2

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Video clips of Erik Denmark appearing on local news programs to promote the Chinook Winds Ribs contest and the “Stand by Me” pie eating contest are available on his blog. Carlene & Rich LeFevre also appear in the Chinook Winds video.

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After the DVD release of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” about Crazy Legs Conti, the new poll asks what top 20 IFOCE eater should be the next subject of a documentary.

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InsideBayArea.com describes the plot of “Deep Fried Cheese”, a new play to open in San Francisco next month:

Ingersoll-Thorp wrote the play, a comedy about relationships and competitive eating, and also directs it. Kalish stars as a guy whose penchant for entering eating contests doesn’t sit all that well with his girlfriend, who is going vegan.

“I think Tore wrote this play to torture me,” Kalish says. “I eat a bunch of hot dogs really fast, and spaghetti. I also catch Vienna sausages in my mouth and spray Cheez Whiz into my mouth. I wrap an Oreo in salami. It’s pretty intense. Eating hot dogs fast is disgusting.”

But Kalish is quick to point out that amid the spectacle of all this eating is a romantic comedy with a “strong emotional center.”

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