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A press release announces that Pat Bertoletti and Bob Shoudt will compete in the curly fry contest at Morey's Piers in Wildwood New Jersey on Memorial Day.
Pat Bertoletti wins Toronto poutine
update May 25 Toronto Globe and Mail video
Torontoist blog entry & gallery
Facebook group about Ben Do’s participation in the contest
Oddity Central gallery
Macleans article
update May 24 BlogTO and Reuters have blog entries with several pictures
update #2 The Globe and Mail has an article
update CTV and the Toronto Sun has an article
The eatingcontest twitter has full results
1) Pat Bertoletti 13 lbs
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 10.5
3) “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 9.5
4) Pete Davekos 8.5
5) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 7.75
6T) Ben Taylor 7
6T) Ben Do (amateur) 7
8) Crazy Legs Conti 6.5
9T) Mike Landrich 6.25
9T) “Wild” Bill Myers 4.5
11) Mila Claire 2.5
11T) Deb Primeau 2.5
DQ) Gus Tzounanakis 2 before DQ
The contest should start at noon.
Here is a list of the three amateur competitors.
A burgers & poutine contest was held in Kingston, Ontario in 2005.
The Nathan's qualifiers sites for the top 4 ranked IFOCE members who need to qualify appear online. "Notorious" Bob Shoudt's upcoming contest list says will be competing in the Nathan's qualifier in Atlantic City on May 29 and Pat Bertoletti says he will attempt to qualify in a facebook comment in Tempe, Arizona on June 5.
The video of Pat Bertoletti competing against Philadelphia Eagle Brent Celek and other ESPN personalities in a one minute jalapeno eating contest on First Take is available on ESPN.go.com
Pat Bertoletti vs. Eagle Brent Celek on ESPN2’s First Take Friday
Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek will do a jalapeno eating contest on First Take on ESPN2 Friday. He is holding a contest on his facebook that will award an autograph to the fan who submits a video eating the most jalapenos in a minute.
update May 13 Celek’s competition will be Pat Bertoletti and four other ESPN employees. The MLE facebook says that the contest should start around 11:45 eastern.
Wide receiver D Yergey of the Philadelphia Liberty Belles says she can outeat any of the linewomen on her team in an eating contest.
Pat Bertoletti did a podcast on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight show today about his victory in yesterday's jalapeno eating contest in San Antonio.
Pat Bertoletti regains jalapeno crown in double OT
update May 4 AOLNews has an article about the contest and Don Lerman says he could beat Bertoletti in jalapenos after six months training.
Article about Randy Harrison’s 5th place finish
update May 3 MySanAntonio has an article and gallery
update #4 KXTN has a gallery and video of the contest update Video #2 | Video #3
update #3 Bertoletti has the following comment: “B.o.b. was a no show at peppers. sonya paid tribute w the notorious 2 pepper stuff after the buzzer”
update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has the top 3:
1 Pat Bertoletti 225 peppers in regulation time, 275 total
2 Sonya Thomas 225 peppers in regulation time
3 Erik Denmark
update Pat Bertoletti’s twitter reports he won the contest in double overtime after eating a total of 275 peppers.
Today’s La Costena jalapeno contest in San Antonio should start at 2pm eastern.
The Brisbane Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti's appearance in Brisbane, where he set a Slurpee drinking record of 9 seconds. update 3aw.com has a video of Bertoletti's appearance at a radio station.
Pat Bertoletti has posted some pictures from Australia to his facebook.
C C Kung wrote a blog entry about a trip to Pho Garden in Mountain View, CA where he encountered Joey Chestnut setting the record for the pho noodle challenge (4 lbs. in 21 minutes). Pat Bertoletti posted to his facebook that he set the pho challenge record at Saigon in St. Paul, MN.
Pat Bertoletti posted a link to a video he made to promote the Slurpee Challenge in Australia.
MLE to sanction Australian Slurpee contest
IFOCE.com reports that MLE will sanction a 7-11 Slurpee contest in Australia. Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt will make appearances Down Under to promote the contest. (Bertoletti & Hunt also competed in a contest in the Czech Republic in 2008) via Darren Rovell twitter
Bryan Sentiere reports he will film Pat Bertoletti attempting the Lucky's sandwich challenge, seen on the Chicago episode of Man vs. Food
Pat B wins Atlantic City King Cakes
Atlantic City Showboat King cake results from the eatingcontest twitter:
1) Pat Bertoletti 14 12 oz cakes, 8 minutes $2500, first win since Sept 2
2) Sonya Thomas 10.5 $1000 has finished in the top 3 off all “non-major” contests since May 23
3) Bob Shoudt 9 $500, first loss (outside the Krystal Square Off finals) since Sept 4
4T) Sean “Flash” Gordon 6.5
4T) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
6T) Juliet Lee 6
6T) Dave “US Male” Goldstein
8 ) Pete Davekos 5.5
The start time for the king cake contest at the Showboat in Atlantic City is 4:15.
Bob Shoudt says his participation is in doubt due to a down server at his workplace.
update IFOCE.com has a contest report. Atlantic City Weekly has a video.
update #2 PressofAtlanticCity has a contest report (via Sean Gordon).
update #3 The MLE facebook has a gallery.
(via FoodService forum) The blog for Wiener and Still Champion reports that Pat set the 3 pound burger record with a time of 1 minute and 40 seconds. (The previous record was 13:50)
Pat Bertoletti has started a facebook fan page.
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has an article about Pat Bertoletti.
Steve Dahl proposes old school CE organization
A podcast of Pat Bertoletti’s appearance on the Steve Dahl show Friday is available (minutes 37-44) Pat Bertoletti says that a part of his body hurt after the jalapeno eating contest that had never previously experiences post-competition discomfort. Steve Dahl says that dunking in Nathan’s repulses him and proposes an “old school” competitive eating organization that would ban dunking.
Sonya Thomas 3 contest streak vs. Bertoletti
Sonya Thomas now has three contest streak where she finished ahead of Pat Bertoletti after not finishing ahead of him in all of 2007 and 2008. A list of head to head performances follows after the jump:
Pat Bertoletti wins w/ 47 burgers (67 points)
Pat Bertoletti’s twitter reports that he won today’s Krystal qualifier in Chattanooga by eating 42 regular Krystal burgers and 5 Angus burgers worth 5 points. “Wild” Bill Myers was second.
George Shea’s twitter has the top 5:
1. Pat Bertoletti 67 points
2. “Wild Bill” Myers 34 points
3. Rick Petralia 31 points
4. “Chef” Mike Nafziger
5. Paul Barlow
update The Krystal Square Off blog already has full results
update Aug 25 The Chattanoogan has a gallery
update Aug 26 Flickr has galleries of the qualifier, running of the grill and media event.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a blog entry about his experience at this year's Nathan's finals to his home page.
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with Pat Bertoletti, who says that he does not expect Juliet Lee and Sonya Thomas to benefit from the dunking ban.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of him eating a 3 pound burger and 2 pounds of fries at Gronk's Grill (Duluth area) to his yardbarker blog.
The Krystal Square Off blog reports that Pat Bertoletti will compete in the first Krystal Square Off qualifier at the Southern Brewers Festival in Chattanooga, TN on August 22.
NWTimes has a profile of Pat Bertoletti containing a report on Saturday's Pepe's Taco Eating Contest at Balmoral Park.
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