The new poll asks what you think is the average breakdown between the amount of food winding up in a competitor’s stomach vs. the amount of debris falling on the floor or table in a typical IFOCE contest.

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nerdsonsports.com compared competitive eating to another sport after eating the Godzilla Burger (two half-pound beef patties, four slices of cheese, bacon and onions) at the Eagle Deli in Boston in 4 minutes

Power Gluttony and NHL brawls have more similarities than one might initially think. Both are violent and messy affairs. Both generally end with one person throwing their hands up in surrender (or passing out). And both outwardly appear like nothing but barbaric, unplanned chaos. I want to set the record straight on that last point, though, as a lot of though goes into both pursuits.

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Namu wrote a blog entry in Spanish about Natsuko “Gal” Sone and uploaded the video of her eating 40,000 calories in three restaurants to http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m3er_gal-sone-40000-kc

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(From EmmaOnTheLoose comment) EmmaOnTheLoose.com has a video of her training for a hot dog contest with Crazy Legs Conti and then competing in a six minute contest where her results were announced as seven hot dogs.

To view the video, click on View, then click on the middle square on the left side.

According to the CBS Sportsline article by Roland Liwag, Crazy Legs Conti claims that Emma is Emma Wilson, daughter of The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson.

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Newsday has an article on low cost marketing. Eating contests are listed as one inexpensive method of promotion, but it was not cost effective enough for one former contest holder to continue its event:

Look at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest and Ben’s Matzo Ball Eating Contest. Nathan’s July 4th contest continues to be a big media draw, and Ben’s generated a lot of buzz until its last eat-athon in 2004.

Ben’s bowed out after a decade when the contest became “more expensive and less effective,” explains Scott Singer, president of Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurants & Caterers in Hicksville.

“We got a tremendous amount of media attention for a number of years,” says Singer, who estimates that the cost of the month-long promotion ranged from $30,000 to $80,000 each year. In the end, the contest became more of a venue for the professional food eater circuit than a contest for its local patrons, he says.

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TVRaiting.blog77.fc2.com reports that yesterday’s showing of “Gluttonous Queen II” received a 14.2% audience share. This compares favorably to the audience shares received by the current NCAA college basketball tournament (10% – 16% according to zap2it.com

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An extended version (about 2 and a half minutes) of a one minute news clip of Sonya Thomas at a contest in Hong Kong has been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StSPWwlJtc

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Brian Seiken has announced that he has produced his last free television show and will price all future episodes at $2.99. He say that the amount of adult content in the shows will increase along with the price:

What you will be getting is much more graphic language and more video . I will hold nothing back and virtually tell it like it is regardless of whose feelings i hurt . It will be rauchy , dirty, and downright funny and i promise you will love it! Toro will be more frequent on his west coast scene and dont be surprised if you see some real hot looking women join me in my disgusting looking studio .

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A commercial for Gluttonous Queen can be viewed at http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/ in the small screen. All the competitors wore cowboy hats in Hawaii.

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Chris “The American” Schlesinger has galleries of a lot of AICE contests from 2005 and 2006 on his bebo.com site at http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbums.jsp?MemberId=1302010420

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(Thanks Liz K) UrbanHonking.com has a blog entry about the writer’s attempts to accomplish 4 eating challenges in the Portland area. There are videos of all the attempts.

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The documentary about Sonya Thomas at Wing Bowl 13 produced by Jenny Drumgoole will be screened at the New York Underground Film Festival as part of the “Fierce Creatures” program on Thursday and Monday.

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tvspot reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s defense of her Gluttonous Queen title will be televised on TV Tokyo April 1 and provides a summary of the program(automatically translated by Google:)

Winning with the woman match which is held 1 years ago the is gal 曽 root.　Now we have become the star talent which is large active with variety program and the like.　In order that such a gal 曽 root firm position is built as a gluttonous queen, this time they are the appearance ~ new challengers 7 people and the schedule which unfolds the battle.

tvq has a list of participants in which Tomoko Miyake appears but Miyuki Iwata is absent.

The program’s home page is http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/oogui2007_4/ The page is solely a graphic so it cannot be translated by Google.

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AmazingStace reports that last night’s episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel featured the cuisine of the Gulf Coast. An oyster eating contest at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, AL appeared in one of the segments. The winner ate 430 oysters in an hour. I will try to catch the episode if it reruns.

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BusinessWire.com has a summary of the Coors Light commercial featuring Takeru Kobayashi:

Coors Light presents the World’s Fastest Eater – Takeru Kobayashi. On a hot summer evening, Kobayashi makes his way through his neighborhood to his local bar. On his way to the bar he inhales a number of hot dogs and a scoop of ice cream so fast that on-lookers are amazed. And at the end of a long day the world’s fastest eater orders the world’s most refreshing beer, frost-brewed Coors Light to quench his thirst.

The ad is not available on coorslight.com yet. It will probably debut sometime this weekend, possibly during the Final Four.

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I would like to second Allen “Shredder” Goldstein’s wishes to “Beautiful” Brian Seiken for a Happy Birthday.

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The current Controlled Labs eating contest entails eating as much fat free cottage cheese in 2 minutes. Participants have until April 1 to submit a video to youtube or Google video documenting their cottage cheese eating.

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ComicBookBin.com reports that the third issue of the comic book based on Sakura, a character in the street fighter video game, featured a hot dog eating contest. The fourth issue, currently on sale, deals with the aftereffects of that competition:

However, as seen last issue, Karin cheated by getting one of her aide to munch all the hotdogs from the hotdog eating contest. Sakura, filled with wieners and buns cannot sustain the fight. To make matters worst, Dan wants to exact his final vengeance against Sakura, proving that he is the best Street Fighter of all.

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Brian Seiken has posted his response to the feedback he has received from his “State of the Union” video at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/page10.html

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Brian Seiken’s “State of the Union” address has been uploaded and can be viewed at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/speech.html

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Some videos from January’s Pretzel Twister contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=pretzeltwist

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beautifulbrian.com announces that Brian Seiken will make a statement about his issues with IFOCE/MLE on Thursday, March 22.

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From a recent comment about the debut of the Canadian Competitive Eaters Association:

hey there i am trying to get in touch with you In-Ting. I am a casting director in Montreal and looking for local or canadian competitite eaters to appera in a tv commercial. could you reach me at mgiroux@canadfilm.com?
Thanks
Maxime Giroux

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nyc.metblogs.com has a report about the undercard of Vending Machine Challenge II, won by amNY and gizmodo has a blog entry with a video about the second contest, won by Pocket Change. The blogger from metblogs only covered the first contest because s/he left between contests:

To be fair, I left before the main event, so bored and annoyed was I. It could have taken a turn for the awesome, but I doubt it. Also, I should mention how incredibly sweet the organizers were. There was a mix-up with my tickets (which happened to be totally my fault), but the long and short of it was that they let me in with very little proof that I’d actually paid. It’s a rare occurrence for people to be so kind. Finally, the booze was free (or came with the cost a $22 ticket, but I drank my money’s worth). Okay so, all in all, it wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t awesome, and it should have been.

update lvhrd.org and nymag.com have recaps of the evening. Lance Bass (NSYNC) and Jaime Lynn-DiScala (Meadow Soprano) were in attendance.

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Several new videos have been uploaded to majorleagueeating.com, two about Cookie Jarvis, one about Badlands Booker.

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