Vancouver.craigslist.ca has a request for Canadian competitive eaters to compete in the qualifier for Battle of the Big Eaters 4 in Vancouver in September. The selected competitors will face teams from Japan, the USA and another country later in the fall in Dallas. Entrants appearing in the qualifier will receive $200 and those that compete in Dallas will get an additional $500.
The New Paper has an article about Singaporean competitive eaters Kent Phoa and Zermatt Neo. It also produced a video about Zermatt titled "The Art of Competitive Eating"
The Straits Times has an article about Singporeans Thomasina Ow and Zermatt Neo.
Mothership.sg reports Singporean Thomasina Ow finished a 3.2kg (7 pound) burger in 45 minutes. Last week, she ate 3.85 kg of chicken rice (8.5 pounds) in 27 minutes. (video | Hardwarezone.com.sg thread)
Korean bodybuilder Yeon-Woo Jhi recorded a video of her cheat meal Sunday.
The Instagrams of Takeru Kobayashi and Maggie James are currently documenting their trip to Japan. Maggie James latest picture contains Nobuyuki "The Giant" Shirota, Kobayashi's rival in the Food Battle Club series.
Moeno Azuki won TV Tokyo's "Queen of Gluttony" program for the second year in a row.
Stomp.com.sg has a report on Zermatt Neo facing a team of 4 in a race to see who could eat 4kg of chicken rice first. (video)
SindoNews.com reports that Fredy Jayadi passed away after choking in an eating contest held at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Jakarta, Indonesia. The competition was a qualifier for a nationwide contest that would have crowned a champion on June 3. update March 12 The grand prize for the contest was to have been Rp 5 billion ($385,000), by far the largest contest payout I have seen. The contest website (2nd page in English) announces the competition has been terminated.
Channel News Asia has a report on Zermatt Neo finishing a 21 inch pizza at Peperoni Pizza in Singapore in under 11 minutes.
Hazem Khaled has uploaded a video of him competing in the Super Bowl 12.1 pound Burger Challenge at the 82 American Diner in Dubai, UAE. The restaurant will pay $1362 to someone finishing the challenge in under 15 minutes.
Zermatt Neo has started a facebook page about Singaporean competitive eating at https://www.facebook.com/ACESG2015 (via asiaone.com) update Feb 1 MensHealth.com.sg and Straits Times also have articles about Zermatt Neo
VibesAndSmiles uploaded a video of Dale Boone recorded in Bangalore titled "Two Indian Girls take on a World Champion".
The New Inquiry's essay about Japanese female competitive eaters titled "Little Big Eater Girl" is now available outside the paywall. The article has an account of Pat Bertoletti vs. Hitomi Sato in Battle of Big Eaters 3 along with short profiles of "Gal" Sone and Moe Azuki. The author also describes her experience with an eating disorder.
Quartz has an article on mukbang, the Korean trend of eating large meals that are broadcast on the internet.
Daily Mail reports Chinese competitve eater Pan Yizhong ate 36 boiled eggs and a box of mealworms at Shiniuzhai Geopark in Hunan, China to promote the opening of a 984 foot glass-bottomed pedestrian suspension bridge, billed as the longest in the world.
2016 Battle of the Big Eaters
The 2016 Battle of the Big Eaters is now being televised on TV Tokyo. You can try to follow on twitter with this query https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%E5%A4%A7%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%84%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C
update Rhys Hocking has uploaded a video of the program. If you are interested, watch it soon, because it may not be available in the near future.
2016 Battle of the Big Eaters Teams
TV Tokyo has a page about the Battle of the Big Eaters program that will be televised on January 1. The teams:
- USA: Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Tom Gilbert
- UK: Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran, Emma Dalton, Leah Shutkever, Marc
- Japan: Hatsuyo Sugawara, Hitomi “Russian” Sato, Moeno Azuki, male I don’t recognize
- Taiwan: Chien Shu, You Lin (?), Ming Che, Ya Lin
It is interesting that Taiwan got a team when competitive eating appears to be a lot bigger in other Asian countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, …)
update The other Briton is Marc “Bottomless” Pitt the Japanese is probably Takamasa “Max” Suzuki
TV.Yahoo.co.jp has a page about the 2016 edition of "Battle of the Big" Eaters that will be televised on TV Tokyo on New Year's Day. Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti and more will compete. (preview video) (Via Tom L)
Woman's Day NZ has an interview of Nela Zisser in which she discusses being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. In her latest video, she takes on the 2kg curry challenge at Gold Curry in Bangkok.
Nathan's Famous will sponsor a hot dog eating contest in Malaysia on New Year's Eve.
Nela Zisser appeared Australia's Daily Edition to talk about her latest video where she ate 10 scorpions in Thailand. She hopes to surpass Yuka Kinoshita's mark of 62 McDonalds burgers in an upcoming video. (Daily Mirror article)
Gold Curry in Bangkok, Thailand reports that Nela Zisser finished the 2kg curry challenge in 8:37.
Mediaite reports that John Oliver suggested pie eating contests as a test for screening Syrian refugees in yesterday's episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO. (That might not be 100% effective, since ISIS held an ice cream eating contest in Aleppo, Syria in 2013).
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