philly.com reports that Wing Bowl 14 champion Joey Chestnut has yet to receive one of the five slots in Wing Bowl 15 for IFOCE out of towners. If invited, Joey Chestnut hopes he has the same Wingette he had last year.

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Joey Chestnut’s close loss to Kobayashi in the Nathan’s finals made the Vallejo Times Herald’s list of notable events of 2006.

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Pictures of Joey Chestnut at the Heart Attack Grill when he broke the Quadruple Bypass Burger record, taken by Edward Delgado, are now available on that restaurant’s website.

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heartattackgrill.com reports that Joey Chestnut finished the Quadruple Bypass Burger in 1:42 on December 19, less than half of the previous record of 3:55 held by Jed Donahue.

The Heart Attack Grill has set up an online Wall of Fame which will eventually list the top 100 times for the Quadruple Bypass Burger. Nurse Caterina has the fastest women’s time of 8:20

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In a comment to a supersizedmeals.com post about Bear Silber finishing a 20 inch 5+ lb. pound pizza in 37 minutes at Pizza and Pipes in Santa Clara, Bear Silber mentions that Joey Chestnut completed the challenge on Wednesday in 15 minutes.

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The Vallejo Times herald has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he discusses his first loss to an American since the chili cheese fries contest at the Queen Mary in February. Joey says he had difficulty finding meatballs similiar to the contest meatballs and that he arrived at the Tropicana at 10am Saturday after a sleepless night. The article says that all top 3 eaters ate in the 9-9.99 lb range. The controversial judgement awarding Bob Shoudt the victory over Sonya Thomas is not mentioned.

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Joey Chestnut is celebrating his 23rd birthday today according to his Wikipedia entry. The world’s top young female eater under 25, Natsuko “Gal” Sone is also a Sagitarius.

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The new poll asks what eater you think will break Joey’s US (or non-Kobayashi) winning streak.

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Here are today’s results from the Krystal Square Off III finals and the difference between the eater’s previous personal best:

Congratulation to everyone for some amazing performances. The top three eaters beat their previous records by an amazing 28, 29 and 28 burgers. All eaters living someplace besides Northern Virginia at least tied his or her previous best. Kobayashi led most of the contest, but Joey was on his heels the entire way. For KSO IV, they should have signboards with three digits, at least for Kobayashi and Joey.

I am curious what happened with Sonya. She was in the 3rd position after a minute and a half with 22 and a significant gap between 4th, but she seemed to hit a wall at that point and fell out of the top five after three minutes so I am not sure what happened to her after that point.

I hope we do not have to wait seven months to see Kobayashi challenge the top American eaters. Kobayashi at the Wing Bowl would be an interesting possibility, but I assume he would want a more objectively judged contest with better crowd control.

The Times Free Press has an article about the contest

updated A list of the top 5 every 30 seconds follows after the jump:
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(Thanks megamunch) Supersized Meals has some pictures from Pat Bertoletti from his trip to Pointer’s Pizza in Missouri in which he and Tim Janus finished the 10+ lb 28 inch Pointersaurus pizza in under an hour, winning $250 each. Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt also succesfully completed the challenge. The best team needed only 14 minutes to complete the challenge.

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The Wave Magazine of Silicon Valley has an interview with Joey Chestnut. Joey declares himself the greatest American eater and is quoted as describing pre-Kobayashi competitive eating “pretty much a joke.” Eaters who debuted before 2001 would probably disagree with that statement.

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from IFOCE.com & skinnyboy

goldenpalace.net green chile grilled cheese New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, NM

1. Joey Chestnut 34.5
2. Rich LeFevre 28
3. “Mongo” Marquez 14
4T. Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane 13.5
4T. Allan Jones 13.5

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The Salt Lake City weekly has a report from the goldenpalace.net Italian Sausage contest held at the Utah State Fair. The author competed in the event and finished last.

Much to my surprise, an IFOCE-sponsored eating competition is exciting. I’ll probably never again be introduced to the heavy beat of Eminem’s 8 Mile theme. The music swelled louder and louder until finally LeFevre, Bertoletti and Chestnut took their places center stage. On the way past, Bertoletti touched fists and wished me “good luck.” I’d need it.

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From IFOCE.com & Chip Simpson

Harrah’s Pulled Pork Eating Championship Council Bluffs, IA

1. Joey Chestnut, 9.6 lb. (new record – previous 7.1)
2. Chip Simpson, 7.4 lb.
3. Rich LeFevre 6 lb.
4. Jim Hamrick, 4 lb.

Updated 4:06 pm – The IFOCE page says that Rich LeFevre was not present to defend his title and Jim Hamrick finished 3rd, but Chip Simpson disputes that and says LeFevre was present.

6:28 from Domenico Alesi – Brent “Zero” Curtis – who competed in the contest, has a picture of the competitors on his blog which obviously shows Rich was present

Updated 9/18 10:19 am Brent “Zero” Curtis has a blog entry about the contest

4:04 pm nonpareilonline.com has an article with mentions of “Chris Simpson” and “Marie” LeFevre.

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(From anonymous comment) – A video of Joey Chestnut drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds in the WIP studios to qualifiy for Wing Bowl 14 is available on youtube.

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from IFOCE.com

GoldenPalace.net World Sausage Eating Championship, Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City
1. Joey Chestnut 29 sausages
2. Pat Bertoletti 25.5 sausages
3. Rich LeFevre 21.5 sausages
4. Levi Nelson – corrected 9:32 am – thanks “Yo Mama”

Updated 9/11 8:11 am KSL has an article w/video and the Salt Lake Tribune has an article about the contest

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Joey Chestnut won the the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier with 52 burgers, 10 behind Sonya’s result last week. This does break Kobayashi’s Jacksonville qualifier record of 50 from 2004. The webcam has hung up on me before any other results were announced.

2nd Crazy Legs Conti 36
3rd Seaver Miller 35
4th-Adrian Estevez 28
4th-Joe LaRue 28
6th-Hall Hunt 27
7th-Bryan Miller 26

Updated 11:26 – full results are available at the krystalsquareoff.com

Updated 9/5 7:40 am – firstcoastnews.com has an article, pictures and a video clip

2:14 pm – jacksonville.com has an article about the contest – Thanks Brian Cooley

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The LA Times has a profile of Joey Chestnut with coverage of last month’s gyoza contest.

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from “Super” Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow & sonyatheblackwidow.com:

Waffle House Waffle Eating Championship, Stone Mountain, GA
1. Joey Chestnut 22.5 waffles $5000, +4 from 2005
2. Sonya Thomas 21 waffles $1500, +3 from 2005
3. Chip Simpson 18? $1000
4. Hall Hunt 14
5. Larry McNeil 12
6. Crazy Legs Conti 11
7T Paul Barlow 10
7T Bubba Yarbrough 10
7T Eric Broe 10
? Shane Baker
? “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz

Paul Barlow says an unknown eater matched Joey & Sonya in the first half of the contest up until about 11 waffles, then had a DQ.

It will be interesting to see what contests (if any) Sonya does before the Krystal finals. Sonya did not compete between Labor Day weekend and Halloween weekend last year.

Updated 9/4 9:45 am – A myspace blog entry has been posted about the contest. There are some videos if you are a myspace member.

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The Reno Gazette Journal has a report on last night’s rib eating competition listing the top four finishers:

1st: Joey Chestnut, $2,500, 4.5 lbs. of ribs
2nd: Pat Bertoletti, $1,500, 4 lbs.
3rd: Rich LeFevre, $750, 3.8 lbs.
4th: Jed Donahue, $250, 3.3 lbs.

Updated 3:57 pm IFOCE.com has full results. It is interesting they are noting Joey’s 6 month non-Kobayashi winning streak when no attention at all was paid to Sonya’s 7 month (Wing Bowl to Buffalo Wing Festival) streak last year.

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Joey Chestnut appeared on Adam Corolla’s radio show yesterday. This blog entry has a recap of his appearance. The blog says that there will be yet another rib contest in September.

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There is an article about Joey Chestnut in his college paper, the San Jose State Spartan Daily.

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from IFOCE.com

Indiana State Fair Toyota Trucks Chowdown Championship
Indiana food products: pork sandwiches, beef ribeye, turkey legs, and grilled cheese sandwiches

1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt
2. Jim “the Hammer” Hamrick
3. Kevin Carr

updated 8/20 8:13 am – indystar.com has an article about the contest

updated 8/20 10:59 pm – wishtv.com has an article

from dukerustfield’s myspace blog
GoldenPalace.net World Gyoza Eating Championship Los Angeles, CA
1. Joey Chestnut 212 gyozas
2. Sonya Thomas 210
3. Rich LeFevre 162
4. Hall Hunt 107
5. Erik “the Red” Denmark ?

results updated 8/20 4:25 pm from ifoce.com

from that blog:

They held the world gyoza eating championship. Steamed dumplings. The winner got $2500. I guess there’s this whole league of professional eaters. They all knew each other and fly around…eating. The people who came in 2nd and 3rd ate 10 percent of their body weight in 10 minutes!!! f***ing incredible. The winner was a bit larger though. You might think that chick wouldn’t do so well, but she came in 2nd. They had all these strategies like covering their mouth so air wouldn’t get in and dipping them in water to help them slide down, and they’d hop around a bit to settle it and get out any burps. Some amatuers competed along with the pros, I mean some fat ass dudes. They amatuers ate like 40 or so (I’ve eaten maybe 24 and I’m stuffed). The record they set was 162 if I remember correctly.

Updated 8:20 pm mikeyhateseverything went to the contest and has a blog entry about it

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from IFOCE.com

Ash Creek Baby Back Rib contest, Fairfield CT

1. Joey Chestnut 6.15 lb in 12 minutes
2. Chip Simpson 5.8 lb
3. Bob Shoudt 5.05

This is probably Joey’s smallest margin of victory over an American since he defeated Sonya in OT at the Asparagus Festival.

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The Los Angeles Times reports that Joey Chestnut will do a gyoza (Japanese dumpling) eating contest in Los Angeles Saturday. The contest is part of the 9 day Japanese festival. The tofu eating contest was also part of that festival.

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