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Some 2012 end of year reviews: Aaron Wakamatsu | Furious Pete (video) | Jamie McDonald | Takeru Kobayashi
Takeru Kobayashi has been announced as a participant in the Weinerfest fundraiser to be held by Art F** City in New York City on December 16. Details about Kobayashi's appearance have not been released, but it might be intended for an 18+ audience based on the event's web page (not safe for work). Hofmann Sausage Company will supply hot dogs. update Dec 16 Kobayashi reportedly ate 12 hot dogs in a minute at the fundraiser. update Dec 20 Animal New York has a slow motion video of the appearance.
Dining with Kobayashi (at a cost of $1,500) is on the list of CNBC's ultimate sports gifts.
Shigeo Okamoto has posted videos from Food Battle Club and other Japanese competitive eating programs. In the Food Battle Club posted, Nobuyuki Shirota defeated Takeru Kobayashi.
Large Animal Games released the Nomsters video game for mobile devices today. Takeru Kobayashi will do a fruit eating challenge when one billion in-game fruits have been collected worldwide.
The WIP Morning Show announces that Takeru Kobayashi will not defend his Wing Bowl title in 2013.
Hunger short feature starring Takeru Kobayashi will debut tomorrow on Nowness.com.
Thuzio.com is offering lunch or dinner with Takeru Kobayashi for $1,500. The fee does not apparently include a competitive eating exhibition and possible sites for the meal are three New York City restaurants: Plein Sud in TriBeCa, Home Restaurant or Palma.
Takeru Kobayashi will reportedly be competing in a pumpkin pie eating contest at the offices of Sports Illustrated today. update Oct 28 A picture of Kobayashi's costume
Craiglist has a hot dog costume signed by Takeru Kobayashi for sale at $80.
Hofmann Hot Dogs Texas State Fair contest
update Oct 16 #2 DMagazine has a gallery
update Oct 16 A video of Kobyashi’s exhibition where he ate 60 bunless hot dogs in less than three minutes is available.
update Oct 15 Dallas Observer contest report
update Oct 13 Bartlas Yuce won the amateur contest by eating 20 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Jeremey Gagnon was the runner up with 19.
Joe Biggs reports that Kobayashi ate 60 hot dogs in 2:30
Dallas Observer has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi and an article about Alex Perez‘ preparation
WFAA has a video of Kobayashi’s appearance this morning.
Yahoo! Postgame has an article which says that Kobayashi’s line of hot dogs might be delayed until 2013.
The event listing for Friday's Hoffman Hot Dog eating contest at the Texas State Fair in Dallas announces that amateurs and college students will compete against each other (winner will receive $1,000) and then Takeru Kobayashi will do an exhibition. update A press release announces the prizes will be $1000/$500/$250 update Oct 11 Syracuse.com and Dallas Observer have articles about the contest.
DPark76 has a video of Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at The Rock Tysons church in Vienna, Virginia where he ate 20 hot dogs in 2 minutes and drank a gallon of milk in 20 seconds.
Hofmann Hot Dogs has produced a one minute commercial starring Takeru Kobayashi. Awful Advertisments has a blog entry about the ad.
Syracuse.com has an article about Hofmann's Hot Dogs strategy to become a national frankfurter brand which includes signing Takeru Kobayashi on as an endorser and minority investor. The company plans to hold hot dog eating contests on college campuses. (via Teri Weaver)
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at The Rock Tysons church in Vienna, Virginia on Saturday night. During the event, a trip to New York City for the 2013 Nathan's finals (?) will be awarded in a raffle. (It would be interesting to know if Hofmann Hot Dogs management are aware of that prize.)
Takeru Kobayashi eats 110 bunless hot dogs at New York State Fair
update Aug 27 CBSNews.com has a video
DMagazine reports that Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog eating contest at the Texas State Fair in Dallas on October 16.
Joey Chestnut called Kobayashi’s sponsor “nasty Hoffman crap dogs” and then engaged in a twitter feud with the sausage maker: thread 1 | thread 2 The Sports Hernia has a blog entry wondering if Shea Communications authorized Joey’s tweets.
update 6:58 Syracuse.com article and gallery about the exhibition
update 6:04 Kobayashi unofficial total is 110 hot dogs.
update 5:55 A picture of the stage
Basketball player Dwayne “Pearl” Washington will serve as celebrity counter
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to eat 100 hot dogs without buns at the New York State Fair in Syracuse this evening to set a new record. (The only bunless hot dog record I am aware of it Lynda Kuerth’s mark of eating 23 frankfurters in 3:10 in 1977 recognized by Guinness, which stopped maintaining speed eating records in the early 1990s.) Video of Kobayashi at the NY State Fair.
Pie in Barrie, ON will hold its pizza eating contest on September 16 awarding $5000 to the winner. Takeru Kobayashi is expected to defend his title and Manny Yarbrough, billed as the world's largest athlete, is another entrant. Competitors will need to qualify by eating a whole pizza.
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for most bunless Hofmann hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on August 26.
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge at Chronic Taco in Huntington Beach, CA on August 11.
Kobayashi / Hofmann partnership details
Syracuse.com and DMagazine have articles about Takeru Kobayashi’s press conference this morning where his partnership with Hofmann Hot Dogs was officially announced. Some notes:
- Takeru Kobayashi will own 50% of a new division Hofmann has created to produce a Kobayashi-branded hot dog.
- Hofmann is planning to open a restaurant in Dallas, possibly as soon as September. (Cowboys legend Roger Staubach is another Hofmann part-owner, so that might be the reason for the location.)
- Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog contest against a “ferocious competitor” at the Great New York State Fair on August 25.
Syracuse.com reports that Hofmann Hot Dogs has added Takeru Kobayashi as a business partner / brand ambassador. The partnership will officially announced at a press conference at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino. Kobayashi might compete in a Hoffman hot dog eating contest at the New York State Fair.
Crif Dog Classic coverage part 2
update July 12 24hpp gallery | Johnnie Excel vlog
- Carrot Blog contest report
- Cyrience blog entry and gallery
- Podcast of interview with Kobayashi after contest
- Brian Seiken post-contest thoughts | interview with Furious Pete
- Bleacher Report videos : slow motion | in reverse
Crif Dog Classic coverage
- Brian Seiken has several videos recorded at the contest including interviews with “Furious” Pete Czerwinski and Brad Sciullo updated
- CNN article about plate recount illustrated with picture from Kobayashi’s 2011 exhibition
- Record Setter video of contest
- SBNation blog entry and video by Spencer Hall of the Every Day Should Be Saturday college football blog. He says that one of the participants was not supposed to compete and was allowed at the table after obtaining an “Eater” badge. This might have been responsible for the space shortage at the table.
- Galleries on Crif Dog Classic facebook: Eaters | Food & Crowd | Judges
- NBC Sports Off the Bench blog entry, has yet to be updated with the plate recount.
- Brooklynauts blog entry and gallery
- CoedMagazine gallery
- Slow-motion video of Kobayashi eating
- Video by Johnnie Excel
- Arthur Kade article and video interview with Takeru Kobayashi
- Short Las Cruces Sun-News article about Stephanie Torres’ runner-up finish
SBNation.com: contract offered Kobayashi did not pay out prizes
Amy K. Nelson has an article for SBNation.com to accompany yesterday’s interview of Kobayashi which has more information about the contract Takeru Kobayashi rejected in 2010:
[George] Shay [sic] contends that they offered Kobayashi a contract of over $100,000 that would cover four events in 2010, and that, win or lose at Nathan’s, Kobayashi would walk away with a guaranteed $25,000, in essence a flat appearance fee. Any prize monies awarded by the holder of the event would be recouped by MLE.
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