George Shea’s twitter reports that “Buffalo” Jim Reeves won today’s Atlanta-area Nathan’s qualifier, placing him in the finals for the first time since 2004. The five year gap between finals appearances might be the largest.

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Challenge restaurant – Big Pie in the Sky web page and page about Carnivore Challenge

Atlanta Cuisine forum thread about Carnivore Challenge

update 2 minute clip – slideshow – location list

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• Consumption has a rap video directed to Badlands Booker
• Wikipedia page about Man v. Food, has a short Adam Richman biography and episode details
• The Princeton Oyster Bowl has a new website at http://oysterbowlnj.com/
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• IFOCE review of Santa’s Slay by Tim “Gravy” Brown
• Georgia Tech beats LSU in a beef eating contest held at a Brazilian steakhouse before the Chick Fil A Bowl.
• Dale Boone is in India according to his myspace status

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• Behind the scenes video at the gyoza contest
• Megamunch’s report from the whoopie pie contest. Ian Hickman threepeated.
• Article and video about the beanie burger eating contest at the Texas-Oklahoma fair
• Doc Chey’s noodle eating contest in Atlanta October 5. Dale Boone won last year’s contest
• Possible entrees for a restaurant specializing in competitive eating challenges.

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Preliminary results from the KSO twitter

1. Pat Bertoletti, 66 burgers
2. Tim Brown, 45 burgers
3. Jim Reeves, 44 burgers

update #2 Full results are available on the KSO blog

update #3 11alive.com has an article
Creative Loafing has a gallery

update #4 AJC.com has a gallery
Beautiful Brian has videos

This sets the minimum wildcard threshold at 44 burgers

update The contest has started and Pat Bertoletti has 45 at the midpoint

The Krystal Square Off twitter announces that the Atlanta qualifier is about to begin after late arrivals from some of the competitors.

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• Philly.com article about Bob Shoudt’s spaghetti chili victory. Bob does not think the Krystal record will be broken this year due to hotter weather at the finals
• Juliet Lee’s writenow page has been updated with a report on her weekend in Buffalo
• Beautiful Brian has some interviews with Buffalo Wing Festival competitors. The Brad Sciullo segment can be viewed on youtube. Video from the wing eating contest and Buffalo Buffet Bowl is also available
• Atlanta Krystal expected entrants include Pat Bertoletti, Tim “Gravy” Brown, Allen Goldstein and Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston. (Full Jacksonville results have yet to be posted)
• Ayden, NC collard eating contest Saturday. Last year’s men’s and women’s divisions were won by a mother & son pair.

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• Colley Handspike wins Atlanta La Costena jalapeno eating contest
• Seattle clam contest report
• $100 awarded to finishers of 7 pound Frankenstein burger in Sikeston, Missouri
• Sonya Thomas adds 2 FAQs
• Article about Gal Sone’s nail salon, “Jill & Lovers”. One of Jill’s products is called “Jewnail”, presumably short for jeweled nail
• Takuya Yamamoto eats a 10 kg cake

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• Paul Barlow wins Six Flags Eating Triathlon (video file)
• Its eating challenges week at Two Bites in Suburbia
• Orlando columnist attempts Michael Phelps’ diet
• Wiki listing big eaters and extreme omnivores in popular culture
• Gal Sone samples and ranks all the items at an Italian restaurant and the pudding she chose for #1 becomes sold out

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Registration is now closed for the Atlanta Krystal qualifier on September 6. Registration is listed as open for the other 6 qualifiers.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article about Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, Larry McNeil and “Super” Paul Barlow’s practice session for Krystal Square Off V in which they try to eat 15 Krystal burgers as fast as possible. Qualifier dates for this years Square Off have yet to be announced.

The men try to avoid “reversals” because they don’t want their bodies to regularly respond that way when they compete. But sometimes it can’t be helped.

“If you don’t puke every now and then, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough,” Yarbrough said. “That’s just a fact of life.”

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EDave.com has a page about the bacon eating contest between “Super” Paul Barlow and Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough tomorrow morning on the Zakk Tyler show.

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A comment by Crawfish contained a link about Dale Boone’s victory in the corndog eating contest at Corndogorama. In the pictures, Dale Boone is wearing a World League of Competitive Eating baseball cap and has a shirt with a .com address. Trying WLOCE.com reveals that a website has been set up at that address. The site has a standings list which Dale Boone leads. P.Thayagarajan, mentioned as an Indian giant and a possible entrant in last year’s Nathan’s finals on IFOCE.com, is #6. Most of the links on the page are inoperable, but a contact page and safety guidelines are available.

update The Salisbury Post has a report about Dale Boone’s victory in the Apple Ugly qualifier last night

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From IFOCE.com:

1. Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos: 19.25
2. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough: 18.5
3. Larry “The Legend” McNeil: 17
4. “Super” Paul Barlow: 16

NewnanNow has an article about Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough which says that Larry McNeil will also compete.

Paul Barlow is another expected entrant, and he did an on radio contest yesterday

update AJC.com has a contest report.

update #2 Star94.com has a gallery of the qualifier and Paul Barlow’s in station promo contest (from Paul Barlow)

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A video and gallery of the wing eating contest held at the Wing-n-Rock Fest in Marietta, GA on Saturday reveal that Dale Boone competed in that event. It appears (but is not explicitly stated in the video or gallery) that an unnamed Asian won that contest.

update video link fixed – thanks anon

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• Sadie of Hungry Sisters got married last weekend and had a “wedding reception” at Krystal
• Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with a report from the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has a “bigger bit” about his second cousin Abe Vigoda
• Wing eating contest in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday
• Video of Gal Sone competing against Torii Miyuki in a Wednesday morning eating contest. Torii Miyuki is a comedienne who act consists of acting crazy while wearing pajamas.

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A Creative Loafing blog entry from February 2007 has a picture of Dale Boone at a pizza eating contest with the following caption:

On Saturday, Atlanta’s best competitive eater, Dale Boone, won a pizza-eating contest at Nancy’s Pizza in Buckhead. Boone tried to conceal his identity with a mask and pseudonym, an effort that might have succeeded had he: a) kept his mask on, and b) not answered to Dale.

Dale Boone’s picture shares the page with a picture of a group called FTP, which does not stand for File Transfer Protocol.

There are also pictures of Dale Boone in this gallery of the dumpling contest held at the 2007 Dragon Boat Festival in Queens.

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The website for Doc Chey’s Noodle House reports that Dale Boone won a noodle eating contest in October. The contest writeup describes Boone as a “world-ranked professional eater with 20 world records in the US and Asia”

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Pierre Abry has some pictures from Sunday’s Atlanta Krystal qualifier.

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11alive.com has an article about the Atlanta Krystal qualifier. Pat Bertoletti broke the qualifier record by 16.

Full results are now available at http://krystalsquareoff.com/headlines.php?s=84 Juliet Lee’s total has been restored to the original 41.

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From beautifulbrian.com

1. Pat Bertoletti, 85 burgers
2. Allen Goldstein, 42
3. Juliet Lee, 41

update The IFOCE.com report says Juliet ate 45? I have received an additional confirmation of Brian’s top 3.

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