The Norwich Bulletin reports that Tim Janus will return to his home state to compete in the Ash Creek Saloon Baby Back Rib-Eating Championship in Fairfield, CT Aug. 13.

This article about an egg roll qualifier for the North Dakota Rhubarb Pie contest says that the 6th (Janus) and 12th (Crazy Legs Conti) ranked eaters might travel west to compete in that event on July 29.

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Thanks Wyatt Earp. A video clip of Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Tim “Eater X” Janus in a one minute Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on Good Morning America this morning can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2142642 Joey Chestnut was declared the winner with 7.5 hot dogs in one minute, but Kobayashi’s and Tim’s totals were not announced (and apparently not counted). George Shea stated that Kobayashi would attend the Johnsonville bratwurst contest in Wisconsin.

If that video clip does not satisfy your competitive eating on Good Morning America fix, video clips of Kate Stelnick from January are available: Segment 1, Segment 2

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The Doodle Burger has updated its online Wall of Fame to list Tim Janus’ breaking his record last month. The Rockford Corner bar has yet to update its web site to list Tim’s performance in chili dogs in February.

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The Whaler announces that he has decided to start supporting Joey Chestnut. Read why.

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LancasterOnline has a preview of tomorrow’s Shoo fly pie eating contest. Brian Subich will see if his momentum from qualifying for Nathan’s continues.

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From IFOCE.com, Andrew Lane’s blog & Liz K.

Bloomington MN – Mall of America Nathan’s qualifier

Chip Simpson 38 HDB
Pat Bertoletti 32 HDB
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 12 HDB
Kevin Carr 11 HDB
16 other locals

Chip is one of four people to eat 38 or more hot dogs (Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi & Nobuyuki Shirota are the others)

from Domenico Alesi’s comment:

Milwaukee Harley Davidson Johnsonville bratwurst qualifier
top 5 qualify for Johnsonville bratwurst finals in August

Tim “Eater X” Janus (NY)- 29 Brats
Frank Wach (Chicago)- 20 Brats
Tim Brown (Chicago)- 19 Brats
Crazy Legs Conti (NY)- 17/18 Brats
Jim “Hammer” Hammerick (Springfield, IL) -14 Brats
Domenico “The Sicilian” Alesi (Chicago)- 13 Brats

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The Journal News of Westchester County, NY has an article about competitive eating with quotes from Richard Shea and Tim Janus.

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The Carolina Hurricanes / Whalers defeat of the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals might presage victory for Whalers fan Tim “Eater X” Janus in the Buffalo Wing Festival Labor Day weekend. It is difficult to determine what might be foreshadowed by a Carolina victory over the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup finals unless a vegetable oil drinking contest is scheduled.

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The East Hartford Gazette has a good (with the exception of calling Lerman Don “The Eater” Moses) writeup of last Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier. There were PETA protesters at the contest. I did not realize that the Elvis impersonator was Bill Stobierski.

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beautifulbrian.com is hosting a video of the entire Nathan’s Hartford qualifier, courtesy of “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz. The contest is close between Tim Janus and Pat Philbin but Janus is able to hold off his rival from Moonachie at the end.

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The Whaler has an interview with Eater X, who will attempt to break his Doodle Burger record in New Haven tomorrow before competiting in the ice cream contest on Friday. (The Rockford Corner Bar has yet to update its website with Janus’ record set over two months ago)

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Official results for the Hartford qualifier have been posted on IFOCE.com. Russ Keeler surprised with 16 hot dogs and a third place finish.

This East Hartford Gazette article has profiles of some of the Connecticut entrants.

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From beautifulbrian.com & mosesnews.com

1. 27.5 Tim “Eater X” Janus
2. 25 Pat Philbin
3. unknown
4/DQ 15 Don Moses Lerman
5 Kevin Lipsitz 15 dogs / 13 buns

Liz has an interview with Tim Janus for urbanhonking.com/digest.

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The Hartford Courant has an interview with Connecticut native Tim “Eater X” Janus in advance of his appearance at the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier Saturday.

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Liz attended the Feats of Strength recording session on Saturday and has a report and gallery from that event. Tim “Eater X” Janus (sporting a new haircut), Crazy Legs Conti and “Hungry” Charles Hardy all broke the records they attempted. Pat Bertoletti, Don Lerman, Brian Seiken, Allen Goldstein and Tim’s friend Joe (who looks like Joey Chestnut) attended as spectators.

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People attending Tim “Eater X” Janus’ “Eats of Strength” recording session tomorrow might be surprised at what they see.

In other “Eats of Strength” news, Brian Seiken has some pictures and a writeup of last week’s session with Don “Moses” Lerman

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Rockvale Outlets has put out a press release about the 2006 Shoo Fly Pie contest that will take place on June 24. The contest has a website which has a gallery of the 2005 contest. Tim Janus is expected to defend his 2005 title. There will be an amateur contest before the IFOCE event which will award a $250 gift certificate to the winner. The website has shoo fly pie recipes if entrants want to make some practice pies.

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The Whaler captures Tim “Eater X” Janus’ thoughts as he attempts to regain his grilled cheese sandwich eating record at the Eats of Strength recording session in Long Island on Saturday.
The roster of eaters and foods for all five Eats of Strength attempts this weekend have been finalized. Cookie Jarvis and Joe LaRue will be filmed on Friday and Crazy Legs Conti will join Janus on Saturday. Hungry Charles Hardy will come out of retirement on Sunday. Free tickets are available.

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Pictures from Saturday’s Phillips crabcake contest at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival can be viewed in this arstechnica.com forum thread. There are several pictures of “Eater X” and one commenter suggests that Tim ought to wear a costume.

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I was expecting only one eating contest at the end of tonight’s episode of Emeril Live, but there were five. Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs had a hot sauce eating contest, a po boy sandwich eating contest, a piri piri carne spart competition and a habanero sorbet eating contest. There was also a piri piri carne spart contest for audience members. The episode will reair at 3 am if you want to record it (it will also air at 8pm in the pacific time zone)

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According to IFOCE’s writeup of the Baltimore crabcake contest, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on “Emeril Live” on the Food Network Sunday at 8 pm ET/PT. The episode, “Red Hot Kitchen”, will be repeated at 3 am ET/PT.

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I would like to commend The Whaler for writing the greatest post ever about the dangers of overcongratulation.

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Tim “Eater X” Janus and “Humble” Bob Shoudt both have road trip reports about their trip south to Myrtle Beach this weekend.

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The eigth episode of Brian Seiken’s TV show, featuring Tim Janus, is now available. “Eater X” appears in studio and phone calls from the audience are taken for the first time. Janus offers information about the conflict with Dale Boone at the US Open and says that MTV is producing a sequel to its documentary about competitive eaters. A commercial of Badlands Booker at IHOP (which had virtually no audio on my computer) and a phone interview with Brian’s nephew who is a star of an MTV2 show are also displayed.

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There is an Eater X page on myspace listing his home state as Alabama and his height as 6’1″, facts which are not found on myspace.com/eaterx There is also a myspace.com/joeychestnut, but this page does not appear to be impersonating the San Jose State student.

Philly.com reports that Wing Bowl creator Angelo Cataldi was also a victim of a myspace impersonator.

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