• Beautiful Brian wants to know who will stop the Shea Stadium rain
• Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest at Boston area colleges starts January 27
• Nacho eating contest in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Questions about performance enhancing substances in competitive eating
• Picture of 29 inch pizza at American Pie Pizza in Florida
• Oyster Bowl X to award 4 Night All Inclusive Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana for two Adults
• Hot dog eating contest in Hong Kong
• A youtube page by “Kobayashi”
• Don Lerman has resumed competitive eating posts on mosesnews.com
• Olivia Wilde of House MD once ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes to win an eating contest – interview video (from Sebastian Walters)

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• Samples from Beautiful Brian’s remixed holiday CD are available on reverbnation
• Wendy’s Baconator eating contest held in the Philippines. There were three divisions: heavyweight men, lightweight men and women
• BeefJerky.com finds eating contest sanctioning fees too expensive
• Picture of Dale Boone receiving the 2003 IFOCE Rookie of the Year. Rich LeFevre and Crazy Legs Conti were the runners up
• Travel Channel clip about the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest
• The “Acidic Jew” qualifies for the Wing Bowl by eating 10 lemons
• The youtube page hosting Wing Bowl 17 stunts

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• Bruno Ruest repeats as Forney (TX) pie eating contest champion and wins a 42 inch plasma TV
• Serious Eats on the mini-burger boom
• Report on the Singapore Vermonster eating contest
• Turkey Eating contest held in Macau. The winner ate 644 grams of a 2.5 kg turkey in 30 minutes
• Paul Barlow has set up a college bowl picking contest group for eaters and fans
• Gal Sone admits to an addiction

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• Gallery and video of the 42 inch pizza at Big Lou’s Pizza in San Antonio.
• The Heart Attack Grill segment was televised yesterday on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. I have not been able to track down an online clip.
• Video of an attempt at the Spike’s hot dog record in Boston. An unnamed woman is still was the record co-holder with 14 hot dogs in 90 minutes.
• Video of the pie eating contest for the case models on Deal or no Deal last Friday (Another video)
• Jo “Gavonne” Rose has a report on the Firehouse wings contest he competed in.
• Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara eats 6.3 kg of (13.8 lb) of curry in 15 minutes. One of her competitors was the masked “Mr. Oh” who has a blog entry with some pictures from the contest.

update The Spike’s record challenger broke the store record with 15 hot dogs. Congratulations.

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More sad news from Asia. The Times of India reports that Saurav Sabbarwal, a solutions engineer with Nokia Siemens Networking, died after choking in a pastry eating contest held at an office cafeteria in Guragon, India. It is not clear if the contest was pre-planned or an informal competition.

Nokia produced a commercial featuring a competitive eating fan who uses her phone to get contest updates.

update The contest was apparently a company activity and there was no medical supervision present. Mr. Sabbarwal’s family is considering suing Nokia Siemens.
Links: NewKerala, ThaIndian, PTINews

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A video of the noodle eating contest held on TV Tokyo’s TV Champion to determine who would win a berth in the 2001 Nathan’s finals is available on youtube. Takeru Kobayashi would win the contest and subsequently make history at Coney Island. Kaz Arai, winner of the 2000 Nathan’s finals, is present at the contest. Kobayashi’s latest blog entry is about Arai.

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• Interview with director Josh Camerote about “Swallow Your Pride”
• Female bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has signed with the WLOCE according to WLOCE.com
• Kobayashi does a pudding eating contest to promote the “Angry Kid” DVD release (this might be the first contest in Japan Kobayashi has done since the last Food Battle Club in 2002)
• Central Michigan University wing eating contest report
• Wing Bowl 17 tickets are already for sale on Craigslist even though they have yet to become available to the general public
• Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest in Singapore December 6
• Austin, TX pizza eating contest Saturday
• Monique Griffin wins a pizza eating contest at Luke Air Force Base

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The Taipei Times has sad news about a steamed bun eating contest:

An eating contest at a local university ended in tragedy on Wednesday when a graduate student died after participating in a steamed bun eating competition.

Huang Te-hsiang (黃德祥), dean of the student affairs office of Dayeh University in Changhua, said yesterday that a 23-year-old student, surnamed Chen, from the Graduate Institute of Bioindustry Technology could not stop vomiting and fell unconscious after he began to feel uncomfortable during the school’s eating competition on Wednesday.

update ETaiwanNews has more information. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary on the personalities of the top 50 IFOCE members
• Furious Pete is seeking input about a 3 minute eating stunt
• Tonight’s E:60 episode to have footage from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Gallery of the recent Washington, DC cupcake eating contest
• Picture of Joey Chestnut at the Edmonton minor league hockey game
• Joey Chestnut to receive a commendation from the San Jose City Council
• Ukrainian salo (pork fat) eating contest
• Brad Sciullo’s Belly Bruiser completion makes the Japanese news
• Gal Sone’s television appearance where she sampled and ranked all the items on Saizeriya’s menu has boosted that restaurant’s business despite the recession

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Bloomberg.com has an article about competitive pumpkin growing which says that the Wallace pumpkin farm in Rhode Island received $10,000 from a Japanese game show for hosting a pumpkin eating contest.

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• News video from the corny dog contest
• Jill Stoler has a contest report from a Brooklyn wing eating contest won by Will Millender
• MosesNews.com will stop covering competitive eating and offer political commentary and restaurant reviews
• News video from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has uploaded a song about the Nashville Krystal qualifier called “The Cheater” based The Who’s “The Seeker”
• Clips from Sunday’s Gluttonous King broadcast with Scandinavian subtitles

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R Suzuki has blog entries about the Gluttonous King contest that was televised today on TV Tokyo. Results from the final round:

1. “Doctor” Nishikawa, 33 bowls of noodles in an hour
2. Takuya Yamamoto, 32 bowls
3. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara, 27 bowls

Nishikawa’s mark breaks the previous record held by the now retired Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota.

(I think Nishikawa is an actual medical doctor like Juris Shibayama but am not 100% sure.)

The Gluttonous King home page has pictures of all the finalists which included Mio “Sakura” Takahashi (5th place) and “Essen” (9th place). Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Tomoko Miyake apparently did not compete.

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• Ex-“Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
• More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
• $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
• Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.

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• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

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R Suzuki reports that a web page has been set up for this year’s edition of “Gluttonous King”, which will be televised on September 28. Four finalists are listed: Hatsuyo Sugawara, Takuya Yamamoto, Food Battle Club veteran Dr. Nishikawa and a rookie female. The final rounds will take place in Thailand.

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• Full official results from weekend Krystal qualifiers
• Gersh Kuntzman to give talk in Brooklyn today alleging Kobayashi cheated in the Nathan’s finals
• Home Page and myspace page of Joey Chestnut’s friend Kiera Jo
• Wedding cake eating contest for Singaporean couples
• Crazy Legs Conti to participate in Movie Watching World Championship
• Jacksonville.com write seeks big eaters for story
• Vy Beauregard trains for tamale contest
• Berea, KY spoonbread contest Saturday
• Bubba Dogs eating contest in Sea Isle City, NJ Saturday

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• Joey Chestnut no longer listed on IMDB page for Nacho Mountain in actors list
• Connecticut Post article about competitive eating and Ash Creek Saloon rib contest (link fixed, thanks Pat from Moonachie)
• English article and podcast about Czech dumpling contest
• Joey Chestnut to appear at final Battle of the Bone contest
• Short English article about Gal Sone biography

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Recently a television program starring Tomoko Miyake was accused of claiming she ate more than she actually did. The new poll asks how common you think fakery is in televised Japanese competitive eating.

An anonymous account of last year’s pumpkin eating contest in Rhode Island claims additional discrepancies in another program Tomoko Miyake appeared in.

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Some captures from the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest footage at the start of the History Channel’s Evolve: Guts have been attached.

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• Jill Stoler reports from the Coney cheeseburger contest, won by Goose Gilbert. The contest will appear in the Discovery Channel documentary, Human Race 3000
• “Evolve: Guts” containing footage from the megaburger eating contest held at Clinton Station Diner will be televised on the History Channel on August 5 at 10 pm eastern
• Olathe, CO sweet corn contest report
• Eating contests every day of the Italian Festival in Ocean Township, NJ (Aug 6-10)
• Blog entry from Kobayashi’s hair dresser about his new blue dye job
• Report on the Osaka Gluttonous King qualifier (no results)

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• Pie eating contest at “Stand by Me” festival in Oregon drops IFOCE affiliation
• Report on Cincinnati coney eating contest
• Video of Justin Mih at the Boston Italian sausage contest
• Report on the Seattle donut eating contest / hip-hop concert
• Ithaca, NY hot dog contest coverage attacked and defended
• Fan attends Singapore satay contest and Brazilian soccer exhibition game vs. Singapore national team and draws the following conclusion:
  

  Neither are the presence of Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut so overwhelming that you know what they are capable of doing until they begin eating. Different people have different talents and focus on different things I guess.

  If there’s one important lesson that I have learnt and reminded of, it is that you just have to be really good at one thing and show it to the world that you are great at it. If you don’t show your stuff, no one knows, no one cares, one is just a face in the crowd.

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• Myspace page for Billy “the Fridge”, winner of Saturday’s donut contest in Seattle
• Forest City, PA pierogi eating contest Saturday
• A more positive review of the MLE video game
• Long blog entry about the Singapore contest
• Bodybuilder / competitive eater Isabelle Turell wins a bodybuilding contest and gets engaged
  

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• Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery from the contest in which Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick Vandam competed against Jimmy John’s sandwich makers (Chicagoist report / preview)
• Dickey’s BBQ finals to be held in Dallas in January 2009. San Antonio and Lynchburg, VA qualifiers have been scheduled for September.
• Furious Pete profile (article scan) in the Toronto Sun (condolences to Pete on the recent loss of his grandparents)
• Columnist responds to Juris Shibayama’s letter
• Sonya Thomas lists her favorite bands (Thanks for the compliment Sonya)
• Don Lerman to judge upcoming cannoli eating contest (Also confirmation that Kevin Lipsitz received the Lifetime Achievement Award)
• Record set at Ballard, WA lutefisk eating contest
• Female division winner has best overall mark at Strasburg, OH Corn Festival
• West Virginia Hot Dog Festival report
• Article about Chris Kenney, 11th place finisher at Bartolini’s meatballs
• Statistics on the Dubuque Conuty Fair’s eating contests
• Preview of Sunday’s dumpling eating contests in Queens, NY
• Blog entry about Seattle doughnut eating contest / Saturday Knights concert
• Vineland, NJ pizza contest August 9, $50 gift certificate first prize
• Report about eating contest held at Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota’s restaurant
• Biryani eating contest for Indian familes
• Charlotte Dawson, a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model wins a celebrity meat pie eating contest

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Results of Sunday’s satay eating contest in Singapore from the Straits Times

1. Takeru Kobayashi 5.4 kg (first victory over Joey Chestnut in 4 contests)
2. Joey Chestnut 4.1 kg
3. Victor Lim 1.3 kg, top local contestant

Kobayashi dyed his hair blue for the contest.

Other coverage
China Daily article
Kobayashi has several blog entries about the contest

(Thanks Zack, Carey & Crawfish for comments)

update
Asia1.com article
contest video (from comment)
psp3rdgen’s gallery

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Desiree, the only female entrant in the Singapore qualifiers, has a blog entry with videos about her contest experience. She wound up receiving a wild card slot in the finals this weekend.

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