A web page has been set up for the Japanese version of the Major League Eating video game at http://www.mlegame.com/japan/ The list of characters confirms that Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee have been replaced by Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara. The foods will remain the same, with Nathan’s hot dogs and Krystal burgers as two of the available items. The game will be released tomorrow.

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The PhillyDeal$ blog reports that philly.com received 4.1 million online readers on the day of Wing Bowl 17, more than twice the normal amount. The only other event to produce more traffic to the website was the Phillies recent World Series victory.

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A page at http://twitter.com/eatfeats has been set up. The main purpose of the page is to provide status reports in case of eatfeats.com outages (Eatfeats was down from about 5am to 10am eastern on Friday due to server issues, three days after its web hosting account was extended ) I do not expect to make a twitter update for every eatfeats blog entry.

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The website for the Big Texan Steak Ranch has been updated. A page about Joey Chestnut breaking the 72 ounce steak record has been added. The foreword of the Story of the Free 72 oz. steak, which is now available at Barnes & Noble, can be read online. The webcam for 72 ounce steak attempts remains, but the finishers database, which was removed in 2005, has not been restored.

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“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has started a web page at FuriousPete.com. On his news page, Pete says that the Sport Science: Competitive Eating program he appeared in will be televised in March and that he will also be recorded for a special on the National Geographic channel. There is also a page about his upcoming charity stunt.

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Brian Seiken has set up a website at the http://beautifulbrian.com/ URL. There is not as much content as the site had when it was hosted on hometown.aol.com, but additional material will be forthcoming.

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• Consumption has a rap video directed to Badlands Booker
• Wikipedia page about Man v. Food, has a short Adam Richman biography and episode details
• The Princeton Oyster Bowl has a new website at http://oysterbowlnj.com/
• Mike Fitzgerald attempts the 12 pound pizza challenge at Polito’s
• IFOCE review of Santa’s Slay by Tim “Gravy” Brown
• Georgia Tech beats LSU in a beef eating contest held at a Brazilian steakhouse before the Chick Fil A Bowl.
• Dale Boone is in India according to his myspace status

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“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has set up a website which accepts about his upcoming attempt to eat 12 Extra Value Meals on the McDonald’s website at http://furiouspete.synthasite.com/

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• As of 10:30 am eastern, Wing Bowl 17 tickets appear available on ComcastTix.com Here is the direct link to the ticket buying page
• Pat Bertoletti ranks his favorite Chicago pizzas
• “Kid” Cary DeGrosa has a new column about OJ which embeds a video from September 2007 (from “Beautiful” Brian email)
• (from Wasted Food) Rich Shea podcast (starts at about the 50 minute mark) Shea continues to assert that competitive eating is the world’s fastest growing sport, but admits he has no factual basis for that statement.
• Encounter (in English) with Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara at a restaurant
• Cameron McKirdy (now known as “Consumption”) has updated his website http://www.deathbyconsumption.com/
• Adam Richman of Man vs. Food to do a live online video chat on Wednesday at 11 pm eastern
• Mario’s Flying Pizza in Galveston, TX to celebrate reopening after Hurricane Ike with eating contests Wednesday

update As of 1:30pm eastern, upper level Wing Bowl tickets appear to be available

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• Megamunch announces that he is retiring from blogging. Thanks for your efforts, MM.
• Article and gallery from 12 pound team pizza challenge attempt in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The article reports that a single competitive eater from Menahsa (probably Mike Fitzgerald) ate 3/4 of the pizza.
• Video from the Battle at the Big Apple pizza eating contest
• Wing Eating contest in Harrisburg, PA November 28. First prize is a Nintendo Wii
• Picture of Blondie’s (Winnipeg, Canada) burger menu which lists a 9 pound burger for $62.95
• Muscatine, Iowa taco eating contest Saturday. Entrants must receive at least $75 in pledges.

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After being down for approximately 6 weeks, SonyaTheBlackWidow.com is now back online. Neither the website hiatus nor Sonya’s future plans are mentioned on the news & notes page.

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Tomoko Miyake reports in her blog that Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara has started a blog at ameblo.jp/withwitch. The blog began on Sunday and there are already 16 entries which are more about books than competitive eating. Sugawara has also posted a questionnaire (her favorite movie is “A League of Their Own”)

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The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has been revamped and now has a blog listing challenge burger attempts and other news. No links to the old finishers database appear to be present on the new site, but the database still works. Brad Sciullo finishing the Belly Bruiser is not mentioned on the new site, but a picture of Brad is present.

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• Videos from the San Antonio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier
• Gallery of IHOP All You Can Eat
• Kate Westfall’s food blog from Brian Seiken
• 76 ounce Pompano Beach, FL steak challenge
• Kobayashi has some Halloween costumes on his blog, including the Kobayashi & bun couple

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BeautifulBrian.com, and all URLS on it, now brings up a generic AOL page about the demise of hometown.aol.com. In September, three of the most frequently updated websites by current or former IFOCE eaters were BeautifulBrian.com, SonyaTheBlackWidow.com and MosesNews.com. All three websites are currently down or have dropped competitive eating as a topic.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a farewell address
• Cherry Pie & Cherry Pie Eating Contest winner costumes for sale on craigslist
• Skinnyboy has posted his health report
• Billy “the Fridge”, winner of a Seattle donut contest has joined WLOCE according to its myspace page
• Will Millender has posted a report about the Goya bean eating contest he wrote for his English class to his myspace blog

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BeautifulBrian.com has reposted the “Bits & Pieces” from five years ago. Brian had the following information about Dale Boone:

At the Pelmeni contest last month i couldnt understand why Badlands walked away from Dale Boone after Boone gave him a friendly pat on the back. Badlands had explained to me that Boone was calling all the eaters in Buffalo and waking them up at 4 AM. I dont know Boone that well but that doesnt seem like a very nice thing to do.

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BeautifulBrian.com is hosting a poll which asks if the website should be moved to a new provider when hometown.aol.com closes at the end of the month. The choices in the poll are:

• CONTINUE BLOGGING IN IT’S CURRENT FORMAT
• CHANGE IT’S FORMAT TO ALL SPORTS
• CONTINUE BLOGGING WITHOUT BEAUTIFULBRIAN’S CORNER
• BECOME A HATER’S EATING WEBSITE
• REST IN PEACE

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