I uploaded an early version of the CSI hot dog contest clip with a messed up soundtrack yesterday. I have replaced that with the correct version and it can be downloaded at CSIHotDogContest.wmv

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The best Halloween themed competitive eating blog is maintained by “Deresque” Matsumuto. Deresque finished second to Natsuko “Gal” Sone in a noodle eating contest this past weekend.

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I have uploaded the hot dog eating contest from last week’s episode of CSI: Las Vegas at CSIHotDogContest.wmv (13MB 5 min). The contest is sponsored The Extreme Eating Federation and has eaters based on Tim Janus, Carlene LeFevre, Cookie Jarvis and Sonya Thomas (who does not get an introduction). The Carlene LeFevre character wins the contest (or at least holds a trophy aloft at the end). The contest announcer repeats the defintion of a competitive eating situation involving cavemen and a rabbit given by the Sheas. (Despite all these similarities, some people would probably say that the EXEF paying a cash prize to the third place finisher of a hot dog qualifier would definitely place it in the realm of fiction)

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(Thanks Skinnyboy) In his blog entry about the AZ Fry bread contest, Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a link to a direct video capture of the Krystal Square Off final (.ASF format, 11 MB).

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Brian Seiken has the Krystal finals video on his website. The video was recorded by pointing a camera at the screen and not via a direct capture.

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Fiset35 has the only competive eating / hockey themed blog that I am aware of. He lives in North Carolina, but does not root for the Hurricanes (which will make Eater X happy); instead, he supports the now defunct Quebec Nordiques.

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A video of the Fry Bread Eating Contest is availabe on the AZCentral videos page (under AZ Republic videos) and a picture of the contest is currently on the home page of azcentral.com

UPI has an article about the contest which says Rich LeFevre competed and Kobayashi ate 95 Krystal burgers yesterday.

Updated Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed (he thinks he finished 5th) and has a blog entry about the contest

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I will not be able to blog this afternoon due to other commitments. Krystal-lover will have a live blog of all the events in Chattanooga, not just the telecast, so I doubt my absence will be missed.

krystaladventure is a blog I just discovered which has some posts about the Square Off finals and qualifiers I you need some KSO material to read while you are waiting for the telecast to begin.

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The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Heart Attack Grill’s dispute with nursing organizations in which the owner of the restaurant, Jon Busso is quoted as saying “To say there is any massagany (sic) here is absolutely ridiculous”

It is somewhat difficult to accept the denial of misogyny in light of the restaurant’s blog entry for October 25:

The entire Grill was taken aback at the sight of this woman as she literally decimated a Quadruple Bypass Burger in front of our very eyes. Every macho man at the bar suddenly gave up his chauvinistic preconceptions of meat being a “man’s game” when she put us all to shame.

SADLY THOUGH, we found out that she was cheating! It turns out that she’s four months pregnant, so it’s obvious the little guy inside of her was helping her eat all that beef in record time. Our Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge is a sport of honor among gentlemen. Her cheating brought such disgrace to the Grill that we had to take her out back and work her over a bit. Hey, I know what you’re all thinking, but we confined our punches to the upper rib cage section to avoid the fetus. I mean we’re not Barbarians for Christ sakes!

Absolutely hilarious, if you find violence against pregnant women a laughing matter. The claims of male superiority in meat eating are difficult to accept given that Sonya Thomas is the only person to win the 9 pound Barrick Burger contest and Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger. Closer to the Grill, 115 pound Becky White of Tucson has completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Grill.

The nurses have put out a press release detailing their grievances against the restaurant.

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The USA Today TV Sports column has a section on the Krystal Square Off which says that Paul Page, who has appeared on several recent IFOCE broadcasts, will handle announcing duties for the Krystal Square Off III finals. Let’s hope that Page is correct in his assessment in the dangers of competitive eating versus auto racing.

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Blogcritics.org has a review of the Hungarian film Taxidermia which is playing at the London Film Festival. The review summarizes the movie’s competitive eating scenes. It appears unlikely that IFOCE will give its seal of approval to this motion picture.

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Speedeat.com brings up a blank page. Hopefully this is a temporary glitch and does not mean that one of the longest running competitive eating websites has been shut down.

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Thank “Wild Bill” Myers: The CSI episode set in the world of competitive eating that originally aired Thanksgiving weekend last year will be rerun on Thursday at 9pm on CBS. Here is the synopsis of that program:

706. Dog Eat Dog (Oct 26 2006)

An obese man is found dead in a Dumpster outside of a restaurant on Thanksgiving and his hands are filled
with mashed potatoes. The investigation leads Grissom and Catherine into the world of competitive eating.
Across town, Nick and Sara probe the deaths of a husband and wife on the verge of divorce who were
apparently attacked by a vicious dog. A golden retriever is found at the scene, but he hardly seems
like a killer.

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Youtube has a clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone eating 300 pieces of fried fish. Japanese videos generally do not last very long on youtube, so if you have any desire to watch that, you should see it soon.

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The video from the Jackson, MS Krystal qualifier is now available. The video shows what appears to be the start of Justin Mih’s reversal at the end of the contest, but Erik Denmark’s reaction to it has been edited out. Crazy Leg Conti had an impressive last second surge, eating four burgers in about the last ten seconds, which has been overlooked due to the contest controversy.

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Not only will the Krystal Square Off finals be televised on ESPN2 on October 28 at 4pm eastern, 1pm Pacific, it will be followed by reruns of the two other televised contests: The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest finals and the Johnsonville Bratwurst contest. The Krystal Square Off finals will be rerun on Oct 29 on ESPN at 3pm eastern, noon Pacific.

I was afraid that the Krystal Square Off program would be preceded by a game that would run long and eat into the broadcast time, but a college football scoreboard show is scheduled before, so if the noon football game runs long, the scoreboard show will be truncated and the Krystal Square Off should start as scheduled.

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In a recent comment about the Mobile Wing Bowl, Hall Hunt said he had never heard of a wing eating contest as short as three minutes. Youtube has a clip of a wing eating contest a quarter of that length for sorority members. The winner, Keighrah (last name unknown), ate an impressive 24 wings to win the contest.

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(from meathaus) Jenny Drumgoole has opened a website showcasing her artwork at JennyDrumgoole.com The full version of “Husky” can be viewed there, which has Jenny appearing as plaintiff and defendant in Judge Mathis’ court. The Wing Bowl 13 documentary is also hosted there, but there is no additional footage not present in the youtube clip. Ms. Drumgoole’s photographs are also available for viewing.

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(from Philly Guy) MajorLeagueEating.com has opened, but there appears to be currently nothing more to the website other than an entry page. It is surprising that Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus and Rich LeFevre would not be among the eaters pictured on that page.

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“Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz has been translated into a Japanese version by Basilico. The English translation of the Japanese title is “Banquet of Gluttony”

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Three highlight clips from “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s TV show have been posted to youtube by quality333

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The eating contest videos on goldenpalaceevents.com have been uploaded to youtube and can be viewed at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=tgp1969+eating&search=Search

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Congratulations to Liz Kellermeyer who found a (paying) job in Denver after just two weeks of residency there.

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“Humble” Bob Shoudt recently obtained a new look for his website and a new coach. His coach has got Bob running 5 miles at an almost 8 min /mile pace.

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The blog for the conservative magazine “National Review” has an entry about the port security / internet gambling ban bill which takes an unexpected position on it.

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