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TMZ has a video interview with Los Angeles Lakers center Robert Sacre, who says he only ate about 75% of the five pound burrito challenge at El Tepeyac. (He donned the T-shirt awarded to finishers anyway.)

December 4, 2013 at 9:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Los Angeles, Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Wing Bowl home page at wingbowl.cbslocal.com currently has an unexpected banner advertisement sponsor

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December 3, 2013 at 12:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites, Wing Bowl 22 | Permalink * Comments

There was a Thanksgiving leftover eating contest on last night's episode of WWE Smackdown won by Titus O'Neil resulting in two on-stage reversals after he was forced to enter the ring after his victory. (Post match reaction | episode recap)

November 30, 2013 at 7:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments

Jamie McDonald will compete in a Hobbit menu eating contest at the New Haven, CT Denny's on December 9. He will face teams of two or three in a "Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies" eating competition.

November 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jamie McDonald, Movies, New Haven | Permalink * Comments (3)

CBC reports that the family of Samaljit (Sunny) Aulakh, who has been hospitalized after suffering brain damage in a gulab jamun eating contest in November 2012 is suing the organizer of the competition, Red FM. The maker of the gulab jamuns and the contest site, Surrey's Central City Shopping Centre are also named in the lawsuit. (Court document)

November 29, 2013 at 9:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Vancouver | Permalink * Comments (3)

2013 will have the latest release of the autumn IFOCE / MLE top 50 since at least 2005. Previous fall ranking release dates: Nov 8, 2006 | Nov 7, 2007 | Oct 22, 2008 | Oct 1, 2009 | Oct, 22 2010 | Oct 26, 2011 | Nov 21, 2012

November 29, 2013 at 7:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings | Permalink * Comments (3)

Gizmodo has a list of how long it would take to burn off 4,000 calories (assumed to be the size of an average Thanksgiving dinner) while participating in ten exercise activities.

November 29, 2013 at 7:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health | Permalink * Comments

The turkey eating contest between Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti held on yesterday's episode of Crowd Goes Wild on Fox Sports One can be viewed online.

November 28, 2013 at 7:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

There will be a Thanksgiving food eating contest on the November 29 episode of WWE Smackdown according to PW Mania.

November 27, 2013 at 12:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments

New ranking system

November 27, 2013 at 7:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings, Statistics

To improve the rankings based on head to head competition, I have added the benchmarks of money won in non Nathan’s MLE contests over the past year and personal bests in Nathan’s contests over the past 12 months. The current top 10 in the new system:

win % Prize $ HDB $HDB %$HDB
1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 96.4 1 $41000 1 69 1 1 1 1
2 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie 91.1 2 $13400 3 51 2 2.5 2.25 2
3 Miki Sudo 86.2 3 $16750 2 40 4 3 3 3
4 Tim “Eater X” Janus 81.7 4.5T $8050 5.5T 50 3 4.25 4.375 4
5 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 81.7 4.5T $12150 4 36.75 7 5.5 5 5
6 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt 74.1 7 $8050 5.5T 39.75 5 5.25 6.125 6
7 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan 76.6 6 $6350 7 38 6 6.5 6.25 7
8 Jeff “The Beast Man” Butler 69.1 8 $850 15 31.5 9 12 10 8
9 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 68.4 9 $4700 8 27.5 16.5T 12.25 10.625 9
10 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee 61.1 12 $950 14 36 8 11 11.5 10

An explanation of the columns:

  • win % Winning percentage over the past 12 months. This was listed in a previous post The column on the right has the ranking of that value.
  • Prize $ Money won in non-Nathan’s MLE contests held during the previous 365 days. If a competitor did not win any cash, he or she tied for last place with $0. The column on the right has the ranking of that value.
  • HDB Personal best in a Nathan’s qualifier or finals from the past year. If there is no Nathan’s result from the past year, the field is empty. The column on the right has the ranking of that value.
  • $HDB If a hot dog personal best is present, this column contains the average of prize money ranking and the hot dog ranking, otherwise it is set to the prize money ranking
  • %$HDB This column contains the average of the winning percentage ranking and the $HDB column. This value is sorted and ranked to produce the final rankings in the leftmost and rightmost columns.

Ties in the rankings result in averaging the placements. If there was a two way tie for third, both places would receive a rank of 3.5.

A listing of all competitors with two or more MLE contests in the past year is available after the jump.
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Yasir Salem appeared on the Australian program The Daily Edition.

November 27, 2013 at 1:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Television | Permalink * Comments

Variety reports that The Writers Guild of America is wants to unionize programs produced by Sharp Entertainment including Man vs. Food. The final episode of that show was recorded in late 2011; its termination was announced in February 2012.

November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

ABC News has six tips from Crazy Legs Conti on how to make Thanksgiving dining healthier.

November 26, 2013 at 3:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, Health | Permalink * Comments (1)

Hungry Haydo has compiled a list of five secrets of competitive eating. update Haydo is doing an ask me anything (AMA) on reddit.com

November 24, 2013 at 7:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Training | Permalink * Comments

Pole Position has a video of Rosanna Tennant attempting a burger challenge at Casino El Camino in Austin, Texas.

November 22, 2013 at 7:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Burger Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The City of Lewisville has a 29 minute video of this year's truncated tamale eating championship.

November 20, 2013 at 4:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas, Videos | Permalink * Comments (11)

Guyism.com has a slideshow of 15 competitive eating records. Listed: Pat Bertoletti (4) Takeru Kobayashi (3) Don Lerman (2) Joey Chestnut (2) Sonya Thomas(2) Matt Stonie (1) Oleg Zhornitskiy (1)

November 19, 2013 at 11:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records | Permalink * Comments (8)

Haydo of Australia has started a website at http://hungryhaydo.com/. Kyle "The Hammer" Hanner of St. Louis has set up a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/hammerhanner

November 17, 2013 at 9:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, St. Louis, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Possible outtakes from “Hungry” documentary

November 15, 2013 at 6:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Grace Lee, Hungry

At least two people were interviewed for the Hungry documentary that are not listed in the credits for the film. Perhaps the outtakes could appear on a DVD if one is produced.

Brightest Young Things has a positive review of the film.

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Matt Stonie has produced a video where he eats the "Legendary Cheat Meal" of pro wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

November 15, 2013 at 3:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Matt Stonie, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Takeru Kobayashi will appear on VH1's Big Morning Buzz at 10 AM today, presumably to promote the release of the documentary Hungry.

November 15, 2013 at 9:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hungry, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments (4)

Red House TV has placed a casting call for the biggest eaters in the United Kingdom.

November 14, 2013 at 6:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments

Vimeo has four clips from the documentary "Hungry" including segments featuring Takeru Kobayashi, Brad Sciullo and Dave "US Male" Goldstein. Tickets remain available for the films debut tomorrow at DOC NYC.

November 14, 2013 at 3:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brad Sciullo, Dave Goldstein, Kobayashi (小林尊), Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

Articles by the Irish Independent and Mid Ulster Mail both list Randy Santel as the star of the now cancelled program Man v Food. Randy is currently doing an eating challenge tour of Europe and was the second person to finish the breakfast challenge at Murphy's Law in Athlone, Ireland.

November 14, 2013 at 2:16 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Breakfast Eating Challenges, Ireland, Man vs. Food, Randy Santel | Permalink * Comments (4)

According to TheWrap.com, Tim "Eater X" Janus appears in the background of the latest "This Is SportCenter" commercial on ESPN (around the 15 second mark).

November 14, 2013 at 1:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Tim "Eater X" Janus, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

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