Upcoming Tampa eating contests
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CreativeLoafing.com: The winner's of the mens and womens divisions at the hot dog eating contest held at the Dairy Inn in St. Petersburg, FL will both receive $100.
(via MiamiNewTimes) Kent Brockman has a video of the Tampa (Pinellas Park) Nathan's qualifier
2009 Tampa Nathan’s qualifier thread
update #2 TBO.com has an article
update results from IFOCE.com:
1. Hall “Hoover” Hunt 33 HDB
2. Pete “Mierns” Miernick 14.5
3. Frank “the Frank” Chebetti ?
MLE has started http://twitter.com/eatingcontest, which is supposed to have all contest results.
(from comment) The qualifier will be webcast on ifoce.com
The Centerfield Brewhouse at the Tampa Bay Rays stadium offers a "Fan vs. Food" challenge that awards 2 Rays tickets to a diner that can finish a 2 pound burger.
TampaBay.com has an interview with Hall "Hoover" Hunt.
WTSP has a video of RJ Frasca eating hot dogs on 10 Connects News This Morning to promote Saturday's Nathan's qualifier.
George Shea twitter: 3 open slots in Saturday's Tampa Nathan's qualifier
TBO.com reports that Michelle Stringer, a graduate student from Philadelphia, became the first female winner of the strawberry shortcake eating contest at the Florida Strawberry Festival by eating 4 pounds of shortcake in about 10 minutes.
Hall Hunt at Rays Fan Fest & Corndog Party
Hall Hunt attended Saturday’s Tampa Bay Rays Fan Festival where Joey Chestnut signed autographs and has a blog entry with several pictures of that event.
Hall also has a blog entry about “The World’s Biggest Indoor Corndog Party”, an eating contest held at a radio station between competitors from the Universities of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. The U of Florida competitor did not show up and Hall was apparently not allowed to substitute.
Joseph Garcia wins the jalapeno eating contest held at Jalapenos de Ybor in Tampa on Valentine's Day: blog entry | gallery
A captioned picture of Joey Chestnut signing autographs at the Tampa Bay Rays fan festival says he drank a gallon of milk in 44 seconds at that event.
Tampa jalapeno contest Saturday at Jalapenos de Ybor, $300 first prize
Joey Chestnut at Tampa Bay Rays fan fest Feb 14
(From TBOBlogs) The Tampa Bay Rays website announces that Joey Chestnut will appear at the their fan forum on February 14 and will sign autographs and greet fans. This is the third consecutive year a top 10 ranked IFOCE member has appeared. Kobayashi appeared at the 2007 forum and Hall Hunt was present in 2008.
Kobayashi congratulates Tampa Rays
Kobayshi has a blog entry congratulating the Tampa Rays on winning the American League pennant last night. In 2007, Kobayashi attended the Rays fan festival (then called the Devil Rays) and also recorded a commercial with infielder Akinori Iwamura.
Hall Hunt appeared at the 2008 Rays fan festival and did a hot dog eating exhibition.
Link Buffet: May 12, 2008
- Beautiful Brian starts a “Bigger Bits” page
- Medical researcher Carl DeSelm wins Bar Louie’s national tater tot eating contest with 4.5 pounds in 6 minutes (video of another Bar Louie contest in which the winner ate almost 3 pounds)
- Youtube video from CBS about the Collegiate Nationals
- Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle defends competitive eating in a reader mailbag
- Tampa Bay Rays Fan Fest video, include Hall Hunt’s eating contest
- $10,000 to enter pie eating contest?
- Mango eating contest in India
Link Buffet: February 25, 2008
Beautiful Brian has a commentary on Chestnut vs. MLE and a CD update
Hall Hunt does eating contest at Rays Fan Festival and eats 13 hot dogs in undisclosed time (Kobayashi attended last year’s Rays Fan Festival)
Picture of Kobayashi before 2007 Nathan’s finals, used on wikipedia page
Frank Pastore mentions the breaking of the 72 oz steak record on his blog (from supersizedmeals comment)
Picture of 37 inch pizza from Big Lou’s Pizza in San Antonio
Dude a Palooza has male oriented events including eating contests
Liz K buys a house (gallery)
Hogzilla blogs his training
Hogzilla has posted entries about his competitive eating training in his myspace blog. He is preparing for the July 4 hot dog eating contest at the Dairy Inn in St. Petersburg, FL.
There is an article about that contest in creativeloafing.com containing some quotes from Kate Westfall of the IFOCE.
Kobayashi at Devil Rays events
Kobayashi has blog entries with pictures about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan festival and spring training practice.
Japanese article about Kobayashi in Tampa
The Sponichi Annex has an article about Kobayashi’s appearance at the Devil Rays practice.
More on Kobayashi in Tampa
sptimes.com reports that Takeru Kobayashi attended yesterday’s Devil Rays practice and recorded some commercials with third baseman Akinori Iwamura, a longtime star of Japanese baseball.
Kobayashi also has a blog entry about his trip to Tampa.
Kobayashi interview in sptimes.com
sptimes.com has a brief interview with Takeru Kobayashi to promote his appearance today at the Tampa Ray Devil Rays fan festival.
More on Kobayashi in Tampa Bay
The official website of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays has a page on the fan fest in which Kobayashi will appear. He will apparently only sign autographs and pose for pictures and not participate in an eating contest or exhibition.
sptimes.com: Kobayashi in Tampa Bay Area Feb 24
sptimes.com reports that Kobayashi will appear at the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Fan Fest at the Tropicana Dome on February 24.
Elephant pumpkin pie contest
If you thought you ate too much pumpkin pie this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that you probably did not eat as much pie as the competitors in a pumpkin pie eating contest. The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus had an eating contest for its elephants as they settled into winter quarters in Tampa.
Checkers Burger Bowl (Florida) at USF 11/11, FSU 11/18
From an email:
Good afternoon! My name is Tim Ahn and I am writing on behalf of Checkers and the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF. We are in the middle of a marketing campaign for Checkers which we have based on a Checkers Burger eating contest between individual contestants on campuses at UF, UCF, USF, and FSU. The name of our contest is the Checkers Burger Bowl with the slogan, “The Ultimate Cross Town Challenge.” I heard through word of mouth that you had actually mentioned our first event at UF on EatFeats.com. I am guessing that Hall Hunt is the one who provided the heads up as I had dialogue with him prior to the event. I just wanted to also mention that our UCF event was this past Friday, 10/13, and we will conclude the contest with stops at USF on 11/11 and FSU on 11/18. Prizes are awarded to the top two entrants for each school ($250 for first, one year supply of Checkers for second place). The 10 contestants from each school will also combine their scores to determine the winning school for the Checkers Burger Bowl. The winning school will receive a trophy.
We truly appreciate the mention of our first event and would welcome and be grateful if you would add our two remaining events to your calendar of events. If there is any more information I could provide, please feel free to contact myself or the Checkers Burger Bowl Team at checkersburgerbowl@gmail.com. Thank you!
Regards,
Tim Ahn
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