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A picture of Joey Chestnut competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival made Clifford Otto's top 12 list of his favorite photographs of 2011.
Angie Romenesko has a picture of the page in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records listing Pat Bertoletti and Joey Chesnut's record of 3 Mars bars in a minute set last year in San Diego.
The NY Times small business blog has an entry about grand openings reporting that the total budget for the "Hottest Dog" contest judged by Joey Chestnut at the Banfield Pet Hospital in Brooklyn was $10,000 (Joey Chestnut's appearance fee was not split out.)
CP Biggest Eater Hong Kong qualifier
update 11:33 pm AFPBBNews has a video of the professional contest
update 6:37 Professional and local results have been posted.
Local Men
1) “Chris” Yat Ming Lam, 131, 2011 July 4th competitor
2) “Johnny” Wu Hung Shing, 120
3) Chiu Sou Sang, 115
Local Women
1) Chin Hung Yuk, 74
2) Soong Mei Chun, 72
3) Cao Shu Ying, 62
Professionals
1) Joey Chestnut 225, 72 less than last week’s Melbourne result, 155 off his 2010 record
2) Juliet Lee 178, 3 more than last week’s Melbourne result, new women’s record
3) Erik Denmark 150 The final round of the Hong Kong qualifier for CP Biggest Eater is starting.
A picture of Juliet Lee has been posted.
Johnny Wu, who has previously competed against Takeru Kobayashi and Sonya Thomas, led the first round of the CP Biggest Eater Hong Kong qualifier with 98 wontons. 54 year old Wang Wenyu led the women with 72 wontons in her first eating competition. Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Juliet Lee will compete in an exhibition held during the second round of the qualifier on November 27.
Tim Janus defeats Joey Chestnut in CP Biggest Eater Melbourne
The Herald Sun reports that Tim Janus ate the most wontons, 310 in 8 minutes, at the pro exhibition at the Melbourne qualifier for the CP Biggest Eater. Joey Chestnut ate 297, 83 less than his record last year, and Juliet Lee ate 175 to break her female record of 160. Final results for the Australians competing have not been posted.
update The MLE facebook reports that Felix Ariga and Brad Stokes tied for 1st place in the contest for Australian males with a total of 105 wontons, less than the 109 Helen Tan ate to win the Singaporean women’s contest. Milly Chow was the best Australian female with a total of 75 wontons.
According to the eatfeats database, this is Tim’s first victory over Joey since the 2009 grits contest in Bossier City, LA. (All of Tim’s previous three victories over Joey Chestnut were in grits contests.) This is also Joey’s first loss in a contest for a food other than chicken wings in over a year. A list of head to head results for Joey vs. Tim follows after the jump
The Brooklyn Daily reports on Joey Chestnut judging the "Hottest Dog" contest at the new PetSmart. The winning dog, Chloe, dressed as a hot dog.
Joey Chestnut will serve as chief judge in Brooklyn's Hottest Dog at the Petsmart in Brooklyn tomorrow. Free hot dogs from Nathan's will be served during the contest. update A picture of Joey Chestnut at the event (via 2centralphoto).
Joey Chestnut, Tim "Eater X" Janus and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the Melbourne, Australia CP Biggest Eater qualifier on November 19.
Taste of DC Ben’s Chili Bowl contest
update Oct 13 Travel Seminar has a gallery from the chili eating contest held at A Taste of DC last Sunday.
update Oct 11 Ben’s Chili Bowl has 8 videos, including interviews with Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas.
update Oct 10 #2 NBC Washington and MyFoxDC have videos and DC.Eater.com has a gallery. The Washington Post calls fourth place finisher Sonya Thomas the runner-up.
update Oct 10 The rest of the results have been posted. Brian Seiken has a contest video and interviews with Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee. Mix 107.3 also has a contest video.
update 11:24 WTOP has an article and gallery.
update 2:05 WJLA has a gallery
update 1:35 Melissa Savoy has the top 4
1) Joey Chestnut 2 gallons
2T) Tim Janus 1.5 gallons
2T) Bob Shoudt 1.5 gallons
4) Sonya Thomas 1.25 gallons
update 1:30 Joshua R Hicks reports that Joey Chestnut won the contest with a total of 2 gallons of chili (16 pounds).
The contest is expected to start at 12:35 eastern. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Juliet Lee, Micah Collins, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Maria “Edible”, Brian Dudzinski, Bill Myers, Brian Seiken, Andrew Kossuth, Tim Connelley (amateur) and Andrew Petrick (amateur) are expected to compete.
I think this will be the first IFOCE non-qualifier contest on the east coast between Palm Beach and Atlantic City since the funnel cake eating contest at Kings Dominion in Virginia in May 2009.
The Washingtonian interviewed Joey Chestnut about competing in Sunday's chili eating contest at the Taste of DC Festival. (An interview with Sonya Thomas will be posted tomorrow.)
The Denver post has a gallery of the bratwurst eating contest held at Denver Oktoberfest. Joey Chestnut 's team ate 38 sausages in 8 minutes and Bryan Beard's team ate 30. Crazy Legs Conti served as emcee. update Sept 25 The Denver Post has an article. Mark Sutherburg was the top amateur. update Sept 25 #2 greenami has a video of the event.
Octoberfest Denver announces that people representing local charities are needed to compete against Joey Chestnut in a bratwurst eating contest to be held on Saturday.
2011 Zinzinatti bratwurst contest
update 11:15 Full results have been posted. Oktoberfest Zinzinnati has a facebook gallery. Cincinatti.com has an article.
5:03 The top 3: 1) Joey Chestnut 35 2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31.5 3) Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff.
4:46 Joey Chestnut reportedly won the contest with a total of 35 sausages.
4:20 The contest has started. Pat Bertoletti does not seem to be competing.
Pat Bertoletti is reportedly present at the contest site, but says he will not compete.
Metromix reports that Joey Chestnut will compete against teams of amateurs at a bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest Denver on September 24.
Joey Chestnut’s results since September 1, 2010
A list of Joey Chestnut’s contest results since September 1, 2010 follows after the jump. The only loss Joey Chestnut has experienced since the 2010 Buffalo Wing Festival updated (not counting the exhibitions against teams of amateurs) was at the Wing Stop contest in Dallas, where the top four finishers were credited with an amount that broke the IFOCE boneless wing record. Read the rest of this entry »
Joey Chestnut repeats as Nugget Rib contest winner
update Sept 1 #2 RGJ has a gallery and the Sparks Tribune has an article
update Sept 1 KTVN has an article and RGJ has an article with two videos
update The top 5 have been posted update #6-#10 added
1 Joey Chestnut 7.6 pounds in 12 min
2 Pat Bertoletti 6.6
3 Matt Stonie 6.35
4 Erik Denmark 5.25
5 Ron Koch 3.85
6 Damon Wells 3.6
7 Koepke 2.2
8 Triplett 2.05
9T Jason Erb 1.85
9T Ken Douglas 1.85
11 Carrol 1.4
RGJ.com confirms that Joey Chestnut will compete in tonight’s contest, which is expected to start a 6 pm Pacific (9 pm eastern).
Athena0985 reports that Joey Chestnut bought four racks of ribs yesterday, possibly to practice for tomorrow's rib eating at the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off in Sparks, NV.
Cincinnati.com reports that Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his bratwurst title at Oktoberfest on September 17.
KUAM News has an interview of Joey Chestnut conducted in Guam.
Ben Maller has a blog entry for Yahoo! Sports PostGame about the Asia/Pacific tour by Joey Chestnut, Adrian Morgan and Crazy Legs Conti.
Macarollo has a video of Joey Chestnut competing in a chicken wing eating contest at the naval base in Guam on August 12.
The facebook page for The Navy Club in Yongsan, South Korea announces that Joey Chestnut, Crazy Legs Conti and will compete in a pro-am eating contest on August 17.
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