Link Buffet: October 2, 2008
- BeautifulBrian.com will lose its web provider at the end of the month with the demise of hometown.aol.com
- Beautiful Brian compares Brad Sciullo with other sports eccentrics
- A higher quality version of “The Cheater”, which Brian says is not meant to embarrass or belittle Juliet Lee.
- MosesNews.com is rebranded as the “The World “Leada”….
In Political Commentaryâ„¢” - Three pound burger debuts in Morgantown, NC. Naming rights will go to the first finisher
- Oyster eating contest for models seeks sponsorship
A history of STBW outages
SonyaTheBlackWidow.com is currently down and brings up a generic search page. It also experienced an outage of several days after Sonya announced she would miss last year’s Krystal finals and for more than a week after the controversial 2006 meatball contest.
The Bone Collector busted for resume inflation
AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.
The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com
IFOCE.com bats .200 on weekend contest results
At this moment, results from only one of the five IFOCE contests this weekend (Nashville Krystals) appear to have been posted on IFOCE.com
No Skin’s results on WLOCE.com
No results from Saturday’s Skin’s hot dog eating contest at the Great Southeast Balloon Festival appear to have been posted on WLOCE.com
The location for the second Skin’s hot dog contest on September 12 is not explicitly listed. It is probably the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair based on the logo.
Pat Bertoletti announces DeepDishEats.com
In his yardbarker blog, Pat Bertoletti announces the opening of his personal website at DeepDishEats.com Bertoletti intends to have recipes and other cooking information on his website in addition to news about his competitive eating career. The contest calendar says that he will compete in the Nugget rib eating contest on Wednesday.
Krystal Square Off blog started
A blog has been started on the Krystal Square Off website at http://krystalsquareoff.com/blog/. The two most recent posts are about Sonya Thomas’ absence from the Chattanooga qualifier and Humble Bob’s hope to break the triple digit mark. The blog mentions a rumor that Sonya might compete in the Jacksonville qualifier Labor Day weekend.
A Krystal Square Off twitter page has also been set up at http://twitter.com/ksquareoff
update A podcast interview with Bob Shoudt is now available on the blog.
Link Buffet: August 5, 2008
- WLOCE myspace page started
- Megamunch resumes The Circuit online comic
- Highlands, NJ clam eating contest report
- Policeman wins Minnesota doughnut eating contest
- NYTImes: average American eats 18.2 pounds of food per week (up 1.8 lb. since 1970)
- Green Bay, WI area hamburger eating contest and festival August 9
Pat Bertoletti wordpress blog started
A blog about Pat Bertoletti has been started at http://deepdisheats.wordpress.com/. Most of the entries were previously posted on Bertoletti’s myspace or yardbarker blog.
On the Joey Chestnut / Pat Bertoletti yardbarker blog, a video of the Jimmy John’s sandwich makers vs. Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick VanDam event has been uploaded.
Kobayashi facebook page
A facebook page for Takeru Kobayashi has been set up at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Takeru-Kobayashi/17974913485. The page lists an incorrect birthday for Kobayashi of May 24 (Kobayashi’s actual birthday is March 15), so it might have been created by an impostor.
Link Buffet: July 19, 2008
- MosesNews.com reports that Kevin Lipsitz received the IFOCE Lifetime Achievement Award
- WLOCE fan blog is now accepting comments (from Crawfish comment)
- Boston.com preview of Italian sausage contest
- Joey Chestnut is Chris’ first competitive eater of the week
- Report on Asbury Park, NJ pizza eating contest with a lot of comments
- Preview of Bayonne, NJ hot dog eating contest
- Report on a Singapore qualifier
Denny’s sets up online Wall of Fame
The database of challenge finishers on Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s website has been set up after being empty for over a year. There are still two listed finishers for the 6 pound burger.
Website for 999 challenge
The comments for the Baltimore Sun’s blog entry about the Bowie burrito contest has a link to another baseball themed eating contest. 999AllStar.com has been set up as the home of the 9 hot dogs & 9 beers in 9 innings challenge. Competitors can register on the website and an all star list has been set up.
“Eating” tag on Yardbarker.com
The URL http://www.yardbarker.com/eating will bring up all competitive eating related posts on the Yardbarker blog. This will list not only Joey Chestnut’s and Pat Bertoletti’s blog, but also MissBusyLady’s fan blog and other eating related entries, such as this report from the Nathan’s finals.
Nathan’s weigh-in tomorrow?
Does anyone know if the traditional July 3 weigh in for Nathan’s finalists will take place tomorrow? I have not been able to find any coverage online about that event. The IFOCE.com websites have yet to be updated with any information about the upcoming Nathan’s finals (or Kevin Ross’ qualifier victory).
MLE.asia: Joey Chestnut vs. Kobayashi in Singapore July 27
ifiy has a link to MajorLeagueEating.asia, which announces that Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will face off in an eating contest in Singapore July 27. Three qualifiers to select local entrants will be held and the purse is $3,000 (it is not stated if that is in US or Singapore dollars) Five different types of foods will be used in the contest, including fishballs, premium otah and sotong head.
Earthtimes has an article about the contest.
The contest might result in a schedule conflict for Joey Chestnut, who has been announced as the co-star for Nacho Mountain. Principal photography for that movie has been scheduled for July 20 through July 27.
Dale Boone starts WLOCE website
A comment by Crawfish contained a link about Dale Boone’s victory in the corndog eating contest at Corndogorama. In the pictures, Dale Boone is wearing a World League of Competitive Eating baseball cap and has a shirt with a .com address. Trying WLOCE.com reveals that a website has been set up at that address. The site has a standings list which Dale Boone leads. P.Thayagarajan, mentioned as an Indian giant and a possible entrant in last year’s Nathan’s finals on IFOCE.com, is #6. Most of the links on the page are inoperable, but a contact page and safety guidelines are available.
update The Salisbury Post has a report about Dale Boone’s victory in the Apple Ugly qualifier last night
Link Buffet: April 23, 2008
- Jed Donahue competes in a grilled cheese cooking contest and comes in second place. (From Liz K)
- Video of man choking during impromptu hot dog eating contest at Wrigley Field (via FrogSoda & Awful Announcing
- Krystalist challenges chef Gordon Ramsay to a Krystal eating contest
- Megamunch announces return from competitive eating blogging hiatus
- New motto for MosesNews: “When Eating News Breaks…. We Feed It To You”
- Stockton asparagus contest press release
- CBC News article about “Furious” Pete
- USA Today blog commenter wants to meet Joey Chestnut
- Gyudon eating contest in the Philippines
Joey & Pat start Yardbarker blog
(via Hugging Harold Reynolds) Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti have started a group blog at http://yardbarker.com/users/PBandJC. Pat’s first post describes his techniques for the upcoming asparagus contest. Yardbarker is a blog host for famous athletes. Recent posters include Darren McFadden, Greg Oden and Rasheed Wallace. (Rasheed Wallace gave thumbs up to Joey Chestnut’s first post)
No Broadway at the Beach coverage on IFOCE.com
It has now been over 48 hours (and one full working day) since the eating contest at Broadway at the Beach concluded and there does not appear to be any contest results or other coverage on IFOCE.com or any of its affiliated websites.
Yahoo! eating challenges group
(From skinnyboy & supersizedmeals) A Yahoo! group devoted to eating challenges has been set up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foodchallenges/ Membership is required to view the group in its entirety, but non members can read the groups message board.
MLEGame.com launched
(From IGN.com) The website for the upcoming Major League Eating video game, MLEGame.com has been set up. The website has screen shots, videos (Badlands Booker provides a soundtrack for the trailer) and a list of the game’s characters: (from left to right in the cartoon above) bunette, Crazy Legs Conti, Rich LeFevre, paramedic, Kobayashi, El Toro, Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee, Tim Janus, Erik Denmark.
The official release date is May 12. A weekly drawing awarding gift certificates will be held for each of the 12 types of food in the game. Registration for the first drawing opens today.
Other links: Kotaku, direct link to game trailer
Gluttonous Queen 2008 web page
TV Tokyo has set up a page about this year’s edition of the “Gluttonous Queen” contest that will be televised on Sunday. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara is listed as one of the rivals for “Gal” Sone’s crown.
TV Tokyo also has a page with links to all the Gluttonous King / Queen contests since 2005.
Beautiful Brian is 48 today
Happy Birthday to the world’s greatest competitive eater/blogger/singer/songwriter/talk show host.
Myspace page created for Beautiful Brian’s CD
A myspace page for Beautiful Brian’s CD project has been set up at http://www.myspace.com/theonlybandintown The band name is “The Pickles”. “Black and White”, a song apparently about the explusion of Dale Boone (who is not mentioned by name) from the IFOCE and AICE can be heard in its entirety. The entire album will be available on the myspace page for 24 hours after all tracks are completed.
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