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Takeru Kobayashi was reportedly at the office of Sports Illustrated today and ate 32 hardboiled eggs and drank a gallon of milk.
MikeSteadyBurn has a video of Takeru Kobayshi drinking a gallon of milk in 18 seconds at today's Blogs With Balls Sports New Media Conference (via BuzzFeed). Darren Rovell of CNBC had a picture taken with Kobayashi, who he said hit "rockbottom" for appearing at a baseball game in Gary, IN.
Kobayashi wins West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship
update Sept 8 TheSun.Co.UK has an article with a video and OrangeCounty.com has a video
update Sept 7 Personal bests have been updated.
update Sept 6 #2 CBS and KTLA have new videos. A video of almost all of the entire contest is available. Patch has a gallery.
update Sept 6 The OC Register has an article and gallery and Fox News has an article. (via comment)
update 11:13 Naader Reda has the results
1) Takeru Kobayashi, 49 hot dogs, lowest total in a big hot dog contest since 2005
2) Tom Gilbert 29
3) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25
4) Rich LeFevre 23.75
5) Johnnie Excel 22.75
6) Naader Reda 17
7) Dale Bone 16.5
8) Kevin Ross 16
9) Aaron Ybarra 14
10) Mary Bowers 6.5
update 9:52 Kobayashi’s official total is 49 hot dogs
update 9:30 The contest is over. Rebecca Hall reports that Kobayashi ate 47 hot dogs. (Dale Boone reportedly quit)
Naader Reda has a preview of this evening’s West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship at The Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, which will start at 6pm Pacific (9 pm eastern).
At least six competitors in the ten person field have eaten at least 30 hot dogs in a contest. Here are the personal bests according to the eatfeats databse (contests only, no exhibitions)
Takeru Kobayshi 64.5 HDB in 10 minutes
Tom Gilbert 34.5 12 minutes + OT
Rich LeFevre 34 HDB in 12 minutes / 31 in 10 minutes
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski 33 12 minutes + OT
Dale Boone 31 in 10 minutes
Johnnie Excel – 30 HDB in 15 minutes
Kevin Ross 20 HDB in 10 minutes
Naader Reda – 17.5 HDB in 12 minutes
Aaron Ybarra – 17 HDB in 12 minutes
Mary Bowers – 8 HDB in 12 minutes
If Tom Gilbert finishes ahead of Pete Czerwinski, it would be the third time in a row he has bested “Furious” Pete and Tom Gilbert would have a strong claim as the top non-IFOCE competitive eater besides Kobayashi. Here are their head to head results:
WLOCE3 has posted a video of Takeru Kobayashi and Dale Boone at yesterday's press conference at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA to promote the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championhip.
PIE in has produced a video of its pizza eating contest held earlier this month in Barrie, Ontario.
Takeru Kobayashi is listed as a speaker at Blogs With Balls 4 (billed as the "leading sports new media event series in the country") in New York City on September 24.
Kobayashi repeats as Pie Pizza champion
update Aug 24 “Furious” Pete has uploaded a contest video.
update Aug 22 Simcoe.com and The Barrie Examiner have galleries
1) Takeru Kobayashi 43 slices in 10 minutes
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25 slices
3) Meredith Boxberger 21 slices (ate pizza in 2 minutes to qualify)
?) Lara Martin 12 slices
update 7:45 The Toronto Star has a gallery. Meredith Boxberger was third with 21 slices
Frank Ferraigne reports that Takeru Kobayashi repeated as the winner of the contest held at Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario with a total of 43 slices in 12 minutes. Aylan Couchie has some twitpics of the contest, which was held while it was raining. update “Furious” Pete Czerwinski ate 25 slices, 4 less than he ate in 2010.
The youtube page for the Gary, Indiana RailCats has a video of Takeru Kobayashi throwing the first pitch and doing a hamburger eating exhibition in yesterday's game. update Kobayashi ate 6 burgers in 47 seconds in the 7th inning
MetroNews.ca has a short article about Takeru Kobayashi defending his title in the pizza eating contest at PIE in Barrie, Ontario on August 21.
Takeru Kobayashi competed in a one minute pizza eating contest on MTV After Hours. (via comment)
2011 Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge
update August 5 Furious Pete has a travelog which includes his opinion about Brad Sciullo.
update August 4 OC Weekly has a blog entry and gallery about the challenge. Brad Sciullo now has a beard. A podcast of Takeru Kobayashi’s appearance (35 min) on the Loveline radio show with Dexter Holland of the Offspring is available (via ultimate guitar)
Naader Reda has the official top 4)
1) Takeru Kobayashi 81 tacos
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 49
3) Brad Sciullo 45
4) Johnnie Excel 41
Videos from the webcast can be viewed online.
6:16 The second head is over. Kobayashi appears to have won easily with an unofficial count of 81 tacos.
6:06 The second heat has started.
5:14 The first heat of the main contest has started
4:32 A women-only undercard contest has started.
The Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge will be the first United States contest against other competitive eaters for Takeru Kobayashi since the Krystal Square Off 6 finals in September 2009. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm eastern and can be viewed online at http://www.livestream.com/gringobandito.
Takeru Kobayashi will compete against fans at the Gary (Indiana) SouthShore Railcats game on August 17. I think this will be Kobayahi's first Chicago-area appearance.
The new poll asks if you think Takeru Kobayashi will eat more tacos than the second and third place combined in tomorrow's Gringo Bandito taco eating contest in Huntington Beach, CA.
The Derby Deli announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship in Mission Viejo, CA on September 5. update OCFoodies.com reports that Pete Czerwinski and Tom Gilbert are also expected to compete.
Global Turnstile has a long post about the history of Japanese competitive eaters competing in Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship.
am New York has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about his morning routine.
The Wall Street Journal mentioned the taco eating contest that Takeru Kobayashi will be competing in on August 3 and says it might be affected by a mahi mahi shortage. (Link to full article) update The food for the contest has been changed to chicken tacos.
Plum TV has a video of a recent interview of Takeru Kobayashi recorded in The Hamptons containing a 45 second lobster roll eating contest. (via curbed.com)
Takeru Kobayashi has changed the appearance of his website and moved it from http://www.takeru-kobayashi.com/ to http://kobayashitakeru.com/index.html
Prizes for the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge have been announced: 1st 5,000 2nd 1,000 3rd $500 4th $250. The contest will take place in Huntington Beach, CA on August 3 and Takeru Kobayashi and Pete Czerwinski are expected to compete. Competitors will need to email a link to a youtube video to receive a spot in a qualifier.
The new poll asks when you think Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut will next compete.
Takeru Kobayashi has a blog entry (in English) about his hot dog eating exhibition on a Manhattan rooftop bar on July 4.
IFOCE non-compete clause
The non-compete clause in the IFOCE contract appears in the video played at Kobayashi’s event on July 4 at the 3:30 mark and can be viewed after the jump.
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The Brooklyn Paper claims that Takeru Kobayashi actually ate 65 hot dogs at his rooftop event in Manhattan instead of the claimed 69. A Yardbarker report (via Kobayashi twitter) about the event claims that "credentialled 'spies'" from Nathan's were responsible for the claims of a miscount, but does not name the spies or state what their credentials were. A video with an alternate superimposed has been uploaded to youtube. (via Darren Rovell twitter) update A Gothamist commenter claims that Kobayashi received a $15,000 appearance fee from 230 Fifth, more than Nathan's first place prize money.
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