Hollywood Undead has a picture of a big challenge burger that was reportedly finished in 50 minutes. The burger is probably the Double OMG burger at The Catch in Anaheim, which awards $500 to a customer that finishes it in under an hour.

update Stephen Obar appears in the picture and he says he finished 95% of the burger in 50 minutes.

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The contest should start at 2 pm Pacific, 5 pm eastern.

update The results have been posted:
1) Pat Bertoletti 38 Mars bars
2) Joey Chestnut 20
3) Tim Janus 10

This is probably Joey Chestnut’s biggest percentage margin of defeat. (Joey ate 32 HDB in the 2005 Nathan’s finals to Kobayashi’s 49)

update Pat wore the Evel Knievel costume that he wanted to wear at the Nathan’s finals.

update #2 Pat and Joey tied in the world record attempt with 3 Mars bars in a minute. This is considerably less than Bertoletti’s 7.6 bars / minute pace in the contest.

GettyImages has some event pictures.

update #3 Red Faction has a video of the record attempts

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update July 1 The sports / athlete gossip blog Deadspin did a post about the controversy after receiving a tip from Dave Wagner “Sam” containing this quote from Rich Shea:

The officials at this particular qualifier reviewed Crazy Legs Conti’s eating area and determined a deduction should be made for detritus. After the deduction, Conti’s total was still enough to win the event. The ruling stands and Conti will compete in Coney Island on July 4th.

update June 30 Sammy Bee served as a contest judge and emailed a post contest picture of Conti’s plate & cups:

update June 29 Space Pirate Queen has a flickr gallery with videos of the contest

update June 28 pt 2 Runner-up Adrian Morgan has posted a comment.

update June 28 Dave Wagner has posted the uncut video to youtube Part 1 | Part 2

update #4 NC Times has an article

update #3 DL Wagner has a blog entry and video from the qualifier focusing on Crazy Legs Conti.

update #2 The OC Register has an article

update The MLE facebook has the top 5 (Part 1 | Part 2 )
1) Crazy Legs Conti 25
2T) Adrian Morgan 22
2T) Brian Subich 22
4) Damon Wells 21
5) Ron Koch 19
? Shawn Kirby 9

OCRegister has a preview of the Nathan’s qualifier in Escondido, California listing Shawn Kirby, Damon Wells, Crazy Legs Conti and Adrian Morgan as expected entrants.

Kevin Ross and Matt Cohen will also compete and did an interview on the Scott and BR show. (podcast)

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An associate producer for Jimmy Kimmel Live has emailed the following request:

Hello there! I am looking for competitive eaters in the Los Angeles area to participate in a live bit for our show (possibly tomorrow night). We are doing special shows for the NBA Finals and want to set up a competition… the catch is: they will be attempting to eat a basketball.

If you could help me in any way, I would greatly appreciate it. Let me know. Thanks!

email jkl176@yahoo.com if you are interested

update June 16 The casting director has more info:

We are looking for 2 people to eat an actual basketball. The basketball will be shredded into little pieces. I don’t know of anyone who would be willing to do that since it’s not food.

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