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The trailer for “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating”, which will be available on DVD later this month, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kNR_3rFFjE
(From the Godfather & Luther & Chip Simpson) The IFOCE rankings have been updated for the first time this year. Joey Chestnut has taken the top spot. Seaver Miller has dropped out completely, and Pat Bruss is ranked despite his competing in several AICE events. I am unaware of any results for about half of the eaters ranked 41-50.
(From Jeff Chapman) “The Science of Speed Eating” documentary will be rerun on Sunday on the National Geographic Channel at 2pm eastern.
Gal Sone vs. Saori Nakayama in a recent Wednesday morning contest: Part 1, Part 2
Gyaruru appearance on “Music Fighter”: Performance, Interview Part 1, Interview Part 2
Amimi’s (Gyaruru member with glasses) dance lesson videos for the “Boom Boom Meccha Maccho” dance (7 parts)
Hall Hunt has compiled his IFOCE top 25 for July.
From Real Time with Bill Maher, August 19, 2005:
New Rule: Competitive eating isn’t a sport. It’s one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the US Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What’s next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They’re already doing that. It’s called “The Howard Stern Show.”
From Jim’s Jottings column by Jim Sherman, Sr.
Competitive eating isn’t a sport. It’s one of the seven deadly sins. However, ESPN recently televised the U. S. Open of Competitive Eating, perhaps because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too exciting.
What’s next, competitive wind breaking? Oh, wait, they’re already doing that on way too many shows.
update Corrected author of quote from George Carlin (from Roscoe Manning)
Takeru Kobayashi’s commercial for Coors Light can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=9dKX04NGXTk
An email from Megamunch about ESPN radio’s Mike & Mike possibly hosting Nathan’s in 2008 follows after the jump. The email also includes a report of Kobayashi being ranked #22 in Stuff Magazine’s ranking of the most powerful men under 30.
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The debut episode of “Glutton for Punishment” will be televised on Food TV tonight at 9:30 pm eastern. All Your TV describes the program’s content:
The premise of the show is pretty straightforward. Blumer travels around the world testing his eating, cooking and overall food skills. He enters a chile-eating contest, takes on some of the world’s fastest oyster shuckers and tries his hand at being a breakfast line cook.
Tonight’s episode will feature a hot chile eating contest in New Mexico.
The entire broadcast of last year’s Gluttonous Queen program is available in 10 parts at http://www.youtube.com/user/iwasakinyama
(From Erik Denmark) A DVD titled “Major League Eaters Vol. 1”, apparently an official MLE product, is available on netflix. Netflix appears to be the only location with information about the DVD.
In another DVD starring a Major League Eater, DVD Talk has a review of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating”, which has the following description of the star, Crazy Legs Conti:
Conti is an interesting character. He sort of floats through life by taking these different jobs here and there to pay the bills but shows no real dedication to his employment at any given time. In fact, it’s almost as if whatever particular jobs he’s working at any particular time is little more than a joke to him. The only things in life that he seems to take seriously are the eating contests. This, obviously, sets him apart from your average American, most of who tend to be very job focused and career minded in this day and age.
(from The Hangman) FirstCoastNews.com has a video clip of an interview with Hall Hunt.
The new poll asks how you would rank the top 4 IFOCE members. All choices have Joey and Kobayashi 1-2 (or vice versa) and Pat #3. If you have an alternate ordering, please list it in the comments.
Brian Seiken has made the Joe Menchetti episode of his PPV program available for free. There is also a youtube clip of an outtake of a call-in to Joe by Brian Subich.
Brian says that Danielle Franco, the producer of Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, will be the next guest for his pay per view program.
A teleblog of the “Science of Speed Eating” documentary is available after the jump.
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After the “Science of Speed Eating” documentary appears on the National Geographic Channel at 9pm eastern and pacific (midnight eastern), the next appearance for competitive eating on cable television might be the Clearfield High football team attempting to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger on Country Music Television’s “Country Fried Home Videos” on August 17 according to dennysbeerbarrelpub.com
AOL FanHouse has an entry about competitive eating on television:
Richard Sandomir, the great sports TV reporter for the New York Times, explores the way Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest has become a big TV event, and he says that with about 1.5 million people tuning in (exact numbers have not been released), Major League Eating could become a major player on cable TV.
The entry also speculates that Nathan’s could move to Spike TV in 2008.
A gallery of the Nathan’s qualifier held at the Mall of America is available at nathansmoa.com
Gluttonous Queen 2006 clips
introduction
Tokyo Qualifier – Miyuki Iwata vs. Tomoko Miyake
Osaka Qualifier – Gal Sone vs. Nurse
Clips from a show where Gal Sone eats food items with national flags on a conveyor belt. There are women in the audience from the countries corresponding to the flags.
Part 1
Part 2
Reuploads of removed videos
Gal Sone’s 40000 calorie journey
Gal Sone’s karaoke with speedeating interlude
(From the Hangman) Video of a one minute hot dog exhibition contest beteween Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz and a newspaper staffer can be viewed this weekend at http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/BNC.php
Kevin Carr has started a weekly podcast about competitive eating at http://eatcast.blogspot.com/ Neil Miller will be Kevin’s cohost. The following topics are discussed in the premier podcast:
Kevin and Neil discuss the impact of the latest Nathan’s contest and Kobayashi’s reversal of fortune that went without a disqualification. In the second segment, Beautiful Brian Seiken calls in with a report on what was happening at ground zero on Coney Island and a history of reversal controversy.
(from Tim Brown) A video of a half minute contest held on July 3 between Hall Hunt and Tim Brown on MyFoxNY.com is available.
Hall Hunt also has a blog entry about his experience at the contest with pictures from an competitors party.
Ryoko Aoki would like to contact a female American competitive eater who is interested in the following opportunity (from an email):
I am working on a TV show for Japan and looking for american female eaters to appear in the show with Gal Sone. We prefer someone who is in 20’s and not belong to IFOCE.
Please send responses to Ryoko Aoki – ryoko@officekei.net
OfficeKei offers the following description on its website.
Office Kei is one of the premiere television production, coordination, and research companies in the world. Since 1991, we have been providing outstanding television production and support services to major U.S. and Japanese broadcast companies.
Brian Seiken has written an article about his thwarted quest for a higher level pass at the Nathan’s finals Wedneseday.
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| 2026 Nov 12 | Denver, CO | Slider Eating Contest | ||||
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| 2026 Nov 15 | Fayetteville, NC | Ramen Eating Contest |
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Apple Pie Eating Contest |
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Big Momma Challenge |
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Hot Wing Eating Contest |
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Stone Crab Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Corsicana, TX
Wing Eating Contest |
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| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
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