CPBiggestEater.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Juliet Lee will compete in a shrimp wonton contest in Singapore on May 9. Qualifiers for the contest will take place on April 25 and May 2.

This will be the second Singaporean event for Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut; they also competed in a contest in July 2008.

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update Mar 18 #2 CNN video | Downtown at the Gardens Facebook gallery

update Mar 18 PBPulse article & video | WPTV article | WBPF news video

update 3:33 WBPF has a slideshow and video

update 2:55 The MLE facebook has full results (except for Wing Kong)

update 2:18 the top 8 from the eating contest twitter and Bryan Beard
1 Joey Chestnut 15.5 (8 oz sandwiches)
2 Pat Bertoletti 12.5
3 Bob Shoudt 11.5
4 Sonya Thomas 10.5
5 Ben Monson 10 1/4
6T Eric “Badlands” Booker 9
6T Tim “Gravy” Brown 9
8 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 8.5

update 2:15 The TooJay’s facebook announces Joey Chestnut is the winner

update 2:03 The contest is over The TooJays facebook is posting pictures

update 1:47 The contest has started

WBPF has a preview of today’s TooJay’s World Class Corned Beef-Eating Championship in Palm Beach Gardens.

TooJay’s twitter is posting updates

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(from Paul Davis email) Joey Chestnut spent a portion of his 26th birthday today doing an interview with KNBR. A 30 minute podcast of his appearance is available. Some notes from the podcast:

• Joey attributes his defeat at the 2009 Asparagus Festival to the first wave of the swine flu
• Joey says he receives $30,000 – $40,000 for competing in Nathan’s
• Joey calls Pat Bertoletti his “little brother” (Joey’s comments about Pat, Eater X, Sonya Thomas and “El Wingador” occur at the 15 minute mark of the podcast.)
• A caller asks Joey how he compares to Eddie “Bozo” Miller

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Rich Shea reports Joey Chestnut won the Martorato’s Masters Meatballs contest in Las Vegas today and Pat Bertoletti was the runner up.

A caption on Robin Leach’s twitpic page mentions that Joey ate over 6 lbs and Sonya (place not listed) ate 5.5 lbs.

update Poker News Daily reports that Chestnut beat Bertoletti by one meatball and Phil Hellmuth was a no show.

update 2 The IFOCE facebook has full results
1) Joey Chestnut 50
2) Pat Bertoletti 49
3) Sonya Thomas 42
4) Ben Monson 38 (rookie, top 10 eater according to Sonya Thomas)
5) Eric “Badlands” 33.5
6) Rich LeFevre 33
7) Ron Koch 30
8) Damon Wells (rookie) 28
9) Ryan McKillop 23
10) Jason Erb 20
11) “El Toro” Jimenez 16
12) Angelica Bridges (model) 10

update #3 harrahs.com has a blog entry about the contest (from sroeben)

update #4 Daily Fiasco and PR Newswire have contest reports.

update #5 CBS has a video and Las Vegas Weekly has a gallery

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The IFOCE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut will appear with “Extreme Amy” of Fox 5 Vegas today to promote the Martorano’s Meatballs contest. Ron Koch attempted a burger challenge on an “Extreme Amy” segment earlier this week.

update Joey Chestnut’s appearance with “Extreme Amy” is now available online. Darren Rovell, in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, bumped into Joey Chestnut earlier today.

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update #2 Full results are now available

update Rich Shea has the top 4:

1. Joey Chestnut 45
2. Pat Bertoletti 42
3. Bob Shoudt 31
4. Hall Hunt 26

The contest is now over. Joey Chestnut reportedly won with 45 kolaches.

The Houston Astros game has ended and the kolache eating contest has started.

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