From a Paul Barlow, Jr. email:

I am finalizing my second semi-annual “Best Dressed Active Eaters of 2007” list…I need input from all sources, eaters-fans-Paris Hilton, etc….

The list will come out on my next Myspace blog the week after July 4th – Don Lerman, the best-dressed legend of all time, has already given me some feedback. The Nathan’s finals will be a great opportunity for all entered to make that last “push” for Best Dressed greatness!!

Judging based on hats, strange clothing, face paint, entrances, props, hair…..and anything else that may allow me to be highly ranked in my own list!! The eaters need not be ranked – last year some one-hit, but well-dressed wonders made the list (remember “The Pope”?)

Thanks in advance for your help – Super Paul Bonebreaker Bigmouth Barlow

Super Paul has also posted his Nathan’s predictions in his myspace blog

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The May edition of Hall Hunt’s top 25 IFOCE members poll is out now. The top 10 in that list:

1. Takeru Kobayashi (8) (270) [1]
2. Joey Chestnut (2) (258) [2]
3. Patrick Bertoletti (255) [3]
4. Chip Simpson (1) (235) [4]
5. Bob Shoudt (215) [8]
6. Sonya Thomas (205) [6]
7. Rich LeFevre (196) [7]
8. Tim Janus (181) [5]
9. Crazy Legs Conti (164) [11]
10. (tie) Erik Denmark (153) [10]
10. (tie) Juliet Lee (153) [12]

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(From Hall Hunt comment) The results from the April edition of Hall “Hoover” Hunt’s poll have been compiled and the top 10 (out of 25) are:

Rank. Eater’s Name (First-place votes) (Points) [Previous Rank]

1. Takeru Kobayashi (10) (295) [2]
2. Joey Chestnut (2) (287) [1]
3. Patrick Bertoletti (281) [3]
4. Chip Simpson (251) [7]
5. Tim Janus (247) [5]
6. Sonya Thomas (232) [5]
7. Rich LeFevre (218) [8]
8. Bob Shoudt (217) [4]
9. Seaver Miller (162) [9]
10. Erik Denmark (157) [14]

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Hall Hunt has updated his eaters poll with new results. The top 10 (of 25) in that list:

1. Joey Chestnut (3 1st place votes, 315 points)
2. Takeru Kobayashi (10 1st place votes, 302 points)
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Bob Shoudt
5. Tim Janus
6. Sonya Thomas
7. Chip Simpson
8. Rich LeFevre
9. Seaver Miller
10. Juliet Lee

Somebody must have left Kobayashi unranked, or ranked him low for him to not be #1 despite receiving 10 of 13 first place votes.

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Hall Hunt has processed the votes he has received and generated the following ranking:

1. Takeru Kobayashi (10) (238)
2. Joey Chestnut (2) (229)
3. Patrick Bertoletti (217)
4. Sonya Thomas (197)
5. Bob Shoudt (193)
6. (tie) Chip Simpson (161)
6. (tie) Tim Janus (161)
6. (tie) Rich LeFevre (161)
9. Seaver Miller (114)
10. Crazy Legs Conti (106)
11. Arturo Rios (102)
12. Hall Hunt (93)
13. Erik Denmark (90)
14. Jed Donahue (80)
15. Joe LaRue (55)
16.(tie) Dale Boone (44)
16.(tie) Juliet Lee (44)
18. Patrick Philbin (42)
19. Justin Mih (40)
20. Ron Koch (23)

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Hall “Hoover” Hunt reports that the results of the first poll will be released today on hallhooverhunt.blogspot.com

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AICE news reports that a top 10 list has been compiled based on members’ votes for AICE eaters. The top 5 in that list:

1. Gentleman Joe Menchetti
2. Tom “Goose” Gilbert
3. Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum”
4. Ian “The Invader” Hickman
5. “King-George” Van Laar

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The new poll asks who you think was the top AICE eater in the previous year. AICE has a list of its most memorable moments in 2006 to help you remember who won what contest.

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The new poll asks who you think will be the top ranked IFOCE member from the United States at the end of next year. The top 15 and Juliet Lee are listed. I will add any eaters to the poll you believe should be included.

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Pat Philbin has regained his #24 IFOCE ranking that he had before the “Baby Bird” video.

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The new poll asks where Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota should appear on a unified ranking containing IFOCE, AICE and Japanese eaters. Shirota defeated Kobayashi in 3 out of 4 Food Battle Clubs and ate 38 hot dogs in 2004 Nathan’s.

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Newly ranked eaters:
20. Chris Abatsas
31. Paul Sakelarides
34. Juris Shibayama
37. Juliet Lee
40. Pete Davekos
46. Molly Zakarian
48. Donovan Busta (previously ranked)
50. Mike Nafziger (previously ranked)

Dropping out of previous ranking:
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (officially retired)
22. Ron Koch (competed at Reno ribs)
23. Bryan Miller (competed in Jacksonville qualifier)
28. Don Lerman (officially retired)
32. Levi Oliver
46. Eddie Hardy
47. Eric Broe
48. Nathan Kunce

Ranked eaters with no contests in database from July 5 – present:
40. Pete Davekos
41. Kevin Lipsitz

Unranked moneywinners
“Mongo” Marquez – 3rd place green chile grilled cheese

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(From Castro Intestinal) New IFOCE rankings were released today. The top 10 are:
1. Takeru Kobayashi
2. Joey Chestnut
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Sonya Thomas
5. Bob Shoudt
6. ChipBurger Simpson
7. Timothy Janus
8. Richard LeFevre
9. Arturo Rios, Jr.
10. Seaver Miller

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The new poll asks who you think should be ranked #3 and #4 in the next IFOCE ranking. If you think someone else should be ranked that’s not in the choices, please list him or her in the comments. (A maximum of 20 choices are allowed per poll).

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The official IFOCE rankings have not been updated since sometime in July. It is obvious that Joey should retain #2 and reasonably clearcut that Pat should move to #3 if only results from the second half of 2006 are taken into account. Positions #4-#7 are more debatable. To assist in deterning these slots, I have listed the head to head results of eaters currently ranked #3-#8 for post-Nathan’s contests. Click on the results to see the breakdown.

Sonya 2 Pat 2
Sonya 0 Bob 2 Tie 1
Sonya 1 Tim 2
Sonya 1 Chip 2
Sonya 4 Rich 1
Pat 3 Bob 0
Pat 2 Tim 0
Pat 2 Chip 0
Pat 5 Rich 1
Bob 4 Tim 0
Bob 1 Chip 4
Bob 2 Rich 0
Tim 0 Chip 3 Tie 1
Tim 5 Rich 0
Chip 2 Rich 0

Combining all these results gives the following records:
Pat 14-3 .824
Chip 11-4-1 .733
Bob 9-7-1 .563
Sonya 8-9-1 .471
Tim 7-10-1 .412
Rich 2-18 .100

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“Wing Tut” has started a blog at http://wingtut.blogspot.com/ His longest post is a ranking of IFOCE and AICE Pennsylvania eaters (Brian Subich should appear in the IFOCE ranking & Lori Weiss could headline a list of non IFOCE & AICE eaters)

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Brian Seiken has grades for seven young eaters’ personalities on his website. The grades were determined by an email poll and Seiken’s own observations.

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