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If you miss tonight’s (at 10pm eastern) showing of MTV’s True Life episode about competitive eating, it will be rerun several times over the next week:
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 23 09:00pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 24 02:30pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 25 07:30pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 26 01:30am
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 26 01:30pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 26 06:30pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 28 01:00pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Feb 28 11:00pm
# True Life – I’m a Competitive Eater, MTV Mar 01 09:00pm
This blog entry provides an update on the efforts of the creators of the documentary Swallow Your Pride to obtain distribution for their film. The movie filmed at Wing Bowl 13 was screened last summer and received positive reviews but apparently no additional showings have taken place since that time. The film was not accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, but the documentarians sent Bill “El Winagdor” Simmons a copy that was forwarded to Mike Tollin, who is producing a fictional Wing Bowl movie starring (according to the blog) Adam Sandler . Tollin loved the movie and connected the film’s creators with the distributor of Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size Me and other independent films.
Swallow Your Pride has a domain name reserved at swallowyourpridemovie.com, but that URL is completely content-free.
MTV now has a full description of its True Life episode about Tim Janus, Ian Hickman and Kobayashi on its website. There will be some footage of Rich LeFevre as well if the show commercial represents the actual episode accurately.
The Tour de Gorge Thanksgiving Invitational (from 2004), Title Rally and French Fry Contest will be rerun on the INHD high definition network several times over the next two weeks:
• Tour De Gorge: Thanksgiving Invitation
INHD, Mon Feb 20 03:30pm EST
• Tour De Gorge: Title Rally
INHD, Wed Feb 22 06:30am EST
• Tour De Gorge: Title Rally
INHD, Wed Feb 22 11:00am EST
• Tour De Gorge: Title Rally
INHD, Wed Feb 22 07:30pm EST
• Tour De Gorge: Thanksgiving Invitation
INHD, Sat Feb 25 07:30am EST
• Tour De Gorge 5: Nathan’s French Fries Eating
INHD, Sun Feb 26 02:30pm EST
• Tour De Gorge 5: Nathan’s French Fries Eating
INHD, Sun Feb 26 07:00pm EST
• Tour De Gorge 5: Nathan’s French Fries Eating
INHD, Tue Feb 28 04:00pm EST
• Tour De Gorge 5: Nathan’s French Fries Eating
INHD, Wed Mar 01 12:30am EST
Badlands Booker has emailed to inform me that he will appear on February 21 at 7pm eastern / 4 pm pacific on the G4 cable network‘s “Attack of the Show!”. The episode will be rerun at 3am eastern/ midnight pacific the following morning.
Competitive eaters will appear on national cable television on two consecutive days; Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on MTV’s True Life the following day with other competitive eaters.
Badlands Booker now has a myspace site at http://www.myspace.com/badlandsbooker
Syracuse.com has an introduction to IFOCE along with its eaters and records. IFOCE expects to sanction 93 or 94 events in 2006 (almost 2 per week) and an increase of about 20 from 2005.
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has the fourth episode of his TV series available. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein is the main phone interview. The Shredder describes his frustrations with qualifying for Nathan’s in 2005. There is also a shorter phone interview with Cookie Jarvis. Footage from the grilled cheese contest at Planet Hollywood is aired in which Charles Hardy, Crazy Legs Conti, Sonya Thomas and others appear.
Pat Bertoletti has found photo galleries for two contests:
Jan 14 Hot Springs Corned Beef: http://www.freshsquid.com/BeefWeb/
November Krystal Square Off contest: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0511/gallery.competitve.eaters/content.1.1.html
Ken Wong notes that a five minute IFOCE video is available from Google video
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=competitive+eating&so=0
(The Cookie Jarvis basketball & 2005 grilled cheese finals video can also be accessed with this link)
Stephen Thompson, former editor of the Onion’s AV Club section, has considered writing a book about competitive eating. If he undertakes that project, it would be the third upcoming book about competitive eating with two books slated for release in April and June.
Supersizedmeals.com is a blog solely devoted to eating challenges. It debuted in November, but I just recently discovered it.
In other supersized meals news, information and pictures about the creation and consumption of In N Out Burger’s 100×100 can be found in this blog entry. 8 eaters were needed to consume it.
The third episode of “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s television show is now available for viewing. Patrick Bertoletti is the guest and there is also footage from Adelman’s Deli Kings Highway in Brooklyn. (Seiken said his third episode would be available Super Bowl Saturday, he must not have taken into account the two week gap between the Super Bowl and the conference championship games.)
Amazon.com now displays the cover pictures for the two books on competitive eating which will be released in the second quarter of 2006. The covers look quite similar. Amazon also has an excerpt from the first chapter of Ryan Nerz’s book, “Eat This Book”, in which the author describes how he became an MC for IFOCE.
There is a discrepancy between the cover picture and listed title of Jason Fagone’s book. The cover picture has the title “Insatiable Appetites”, but Amazon lists the title as “Horsemen of the Esophagus” (Sonya and Carlene would probably argue that the book ought to be retitled “Horsepersons of the Esophagus”)
Yesterday’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy (which I missed) had a champion Japanese female competitive eater character . The show also had a hot dog eating contest between the interns won by an Asian woman.
Updated 11:00 pm A longer synopsis of the episode is available from Seattlest
Updated 1/25 9:48 am An even longer summary is available from seattle.metblogs.com
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has uploaded the second episode of his television show. At approximately 50 minutes, it is about twice as long as the previous episode. He begins the episode with an overview of competitive eating websites (thanks for the compliments BB.) The bulk of the episode consists of an interview with Ray “The Bison” Meduna who will judge the Barrick burger contest in Las Vegas this weekend. Ray discusses his competitive eating history and describes why he has retired (temporarily he hopes) from eating contests. The show ends with a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, a recollection about Brian’s dream involving Sonya Thomas and Dale Boone and an attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds. Pat Bertoletti is the expected guest for the third episode.
Philly.com has more information about the Wing Bowl movie under development and also announces that a line of Wing Bowl clothing will hit the marketplace before the February 3 contest.
Brian Seiken has the initial episode of his online TV show available. An phone interview with Cookie Jarvis comprises the bulk of the show. Cookie talks about his experience in competitive eating and says he will have a limited presence on the IFOCE circuit in the first half of 2006 due to work. The next episode will hopefully have Ray “The Bison” Meduna talk about judging the upcoming Barrick burger contest.
In this discussion panel about high definition television, competitive eating is mentioned as programming for HDTV.
Beautiful Brian Seiken has announced that he will host a competitive television show in 2006 available for viewing on his website which will have interviews with competitive eaters, eating stunts and commentary. He also has a New Year’s video message for his fans.
After a hiatus of more than a week, Sonya Thomas’ web site has been restored with a new picture of her and Washington Redskin Renaldo Wynn (along with a very nice compliment for this site – Thanks Sonya.) Sonya apparently had an eating contest with the defensive lineman televised on local cable televesion. Sonya vs. the entire Redskins offensive or defensive line would probably be a more evenly matched competition.
I have added polls to the site and the first question deals with how many competitors should be listed in the contest results. From “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s comment from the meatball contest post:
I have requested official stats from the powers that be in regard to the contestants that finished out of the money 6 and up . However in the past my requests have gone unanswered with my assumption that if i post these stats it might cause friction amongst eaters that finished out of the money.
It is hard for me to see how accurately reported results could cause friction unless someone is ultra-thinskinned, in which case he/she should probably not be involved in competitive events. I am curious to see how widespread the desire for more complete contest results is for both competitors and fans.
I hope to have a new poll question about every two weeks.
Competitive eating websites appear to be an endangered species, first Kobayashi’s site disappears, then Sonya’s is redirected to a generic page and now Brian Seiken’s blog produces a 404 error.
In other Brian Seiken website news, he now has several video clips available on his main website.
Update 6:32 pm, the blog is back up, but only the first post is online.
As of 11:55 pm sonyatheblackwidow.com produces a generic page for register.com which promises that the website is coming soon. The domain name does not expire until September, so there is no apparent reason why the domain should not work.
Two books detailing life on the competitive eating circuit are now available for sale on amazon.com despite the fact that they will not be released until the second quarter of 2006. Ryan Nerz’s Eat This Book : A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit will be released April 4. Jason Fagone’s Insatiable Appetites : Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream will hit the stores on June 6. The length of both books is given, so the manuscripts must be finished.
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| 2026 Nov 12 | Denver, CO | Slider Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 13 | Sapulpa, OK | Pancake Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Dumpling Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | DeLand, FL | Hot Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | St. Augustine, FL | Key Lime Pie Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Pad Thai Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Philadelphia, PA | World Pickle Eating Championship | ||||
| 2026 Nov 15 | West Chester, PA | Hot Ones Hot Sauce Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Lahaska, PA
Apple Pie Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Helendale, CA
Big Momma Challenge |
| 2026 Nov 8 Brevard, NC
Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Tarpon Springs, FL
Stone Crab Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Corsicana, TX
Wing Eating Contest |
| $100.00 | "The Ginger Giraffe" |
| $500.00 | Paola |
| $200.00 | Rich "The Walkup" |
| $500.00 | Vito "The Spoon" |
| $50.00 | Colby Aiton |
| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
| $300.00 | "The Village Inn" |
| $100.00 | Jayden "FitnessCheatMeals" |
| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
| $3,000.00 | Wayne "wayneywonder" Algenio |