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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The list of expected entrants for today’s Krystal qualifier in Atlanta is available. Dale Boone is listed despite his explusion from the IFOCE.

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There will be a donut eating contest tomorrow at the White County Sesquicentennial (150th) Celebration in North Georgia.

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GwinnettDailyPost reports that Pat Bertoletti will compete in the Krystal qualifier on Sunday at the Gwinnett County Fair.

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TheNortheastGeorgian reports that Dale Boone won an eating contest at the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair by eating 24 chili dogs in 12 minutes.

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From a Bubba Yarbrough email:

Here are the results of the La Costena pepper eating
contest held in Atlanta 8-26-07 3:00 pm.
The contest was supposed to be 1 minute but in reality
it was the first to 20 large jalepeno Peppers.

The Prize was $500.00 dollars.

1st Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough
2nd Super Paul Barlow
3rd Larry “The Legend” McNeil
Dale Boone DQ for disorderly conduct after loss

beautifulbrian.com has a report about the contest which says Boone attempted to recruit the IFOCE members into AICE after the contest.

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(From Hall Hunt) “Super” Paul Barlow Jr. appeared in a jalapeno eating contest on “Good Day Atlanta” which can be viewed online.

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The Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles have announced tickets which include all you can eat food. The Braves have two categories of tickets:

The first package, available for $25, is an Upper Reserved ticket along the first base side giving fans access to the All-Star Express concession stand. Menu items featured for this package are: hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn and soft drinks.

A Lexus Pavilion package, available for $60, features food from the popular Skip and Pete’s BBQ stand with a wide variety of menu choices: BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, BBQ hot wings, hot dogs, cole slaw, potato salad, corn bread, peanuts, popcorn, soft drinks, Budweiser and Bud Light.

All you can eat Orioles tickets will not be available for Yankees and Red Sox games.

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From a Bruce “the Hangman” Pobanz email:

“The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz has agreed to a Hot Dog Eating Exhibition in Brunswick, Georgia on Monday July 2. The event will be a one minute contest being filmed for the Brunswick News and will be aired at www.thebrunswicknews.com on Friday July 6. The webcast will be available all weekend.

Also the Brunswick News will be doing a story on “The Hangman” and the upcoming “Science of Speed Eating” Documentary. The news article will be published in the July 7 and 8 weekend edition of the Brunswick News.

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The Creative Loafing blog has an entry and picture of Dale Boone winning the Atlanta qualifier.

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Zoo Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier results from IFOCE.com and Paul Barlow

1. Dale Boone, 21 HDB, first trip to finals since 2004
2. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, 20 HDB, 2 HDB deduction for debris
3. Juris Shibayama, 18 HB
? Peter Davekos
? Larry McNeil, 13 HDB
? Paul Barlow, 10 HDB

update ajc.com has an article and photo gallery of the contest. Dale Boone has a manager and dedicated his victory to his grandmother.

update #2 Paul Barlow has a myspace blog entry about the contest

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(from AICE news)

Pro Division 5 minutes

Amateur Division 5 minutes

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Last year, the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and the corndog eating contest held at the Corndogorama music festival were held the same day. After participating in both events and winning the corndog contest in 2006, Dale Boone said he would choose the corndog contest over the hot dog qualifier next year. He will have to make no such decision this year since Pine Magazine reports the festival will start July 12.

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Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz’s instructions on how to obtain a free room for the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier are available after the jump:
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Jim Driscoll attended the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown and wrote a blog entry about it and filmed a video of the final contest between Patrick Bertoletti and Joey Chestnut.

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Shawn Allison has a flickr gallery of the Savannah Saint Patrick’s Day festivities which includes a lot of pictures of the Chowdown.

There has not been many articles about day 2 of the Chowdown. This entry from a San Jose Mercury blog about Joey Chestnut is the only news coverage I have been able to find.

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The Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown will rerun at 2pm eastern tomorrow on Spike. A 15 second commercial for that showing with Sonya Thomas and Tim “Eater X” Janus can be seen at sonyajanusstpatspromo.wmv (.7 MB)

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St. Pats Chowdown results

Finals – jalapeno peppers
1) Pat Bertoletti
2) Joey Chestnut

Semi Finals – green doughnuts
1) Pat Bertoletti
2) Joey Chestnut
?) Sonya Thomas
?) Chip Simpson

1st Round
1 tie) Joey Chetnut
1 tie) Pat Bertoletti
3) Sonya Thomas
4) Chip Simpson
5) Tim Janus (originally listed as 4th place finisher)
?) Rich LeFevre
?) Bob Shoudt
?) Eric “Badlands” Booker

Hopefully the ratings will be good enough to have other future non-Kobayashi contests televised.

updated elfarren has a livejournal entry with some pictures

teleblog is available after the jump

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Please place all comments about Day 1 of the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown in this thread. I will refrain from posting results from the Chowdown on the main page of the blog until 8 pm eastern Saturday, so you can avoid seeing any results there if you do not want to know who won when you watch it on televison. I have turned off listing the start of a recent comment in the sidebar so no results will be listed there.

Update There is now a comment about the first round results from an anonymous poster, so do not read the comments if you do not want to know how that turned out. Kobayashi did not appear due to his mother’s illness.

update #2 wtoctv.com has an article about the contest. Neither results nor Kobayashi’s absence are mentioned. The picture above shows that Kobayashi was not near the middle of the table. The article does say that 8 eaters were present, so an alternate might have competed.

update #3 (From The Hangman) A gallery with some pictures of the contest can be viewed at http://pixels.savannahnow.com/pages/gallery.php?gallery=310735 The pictures do not give away who advanced to the next round. Badlands Booker was apparently the fill in for Kobayashi. Conti served as a commentator. It would interesting to know what was on the bottom of the sign that read “Sonya Will U …”

Update #4 savannahnow.com has an article which does list second round advancers.

Update #5 (From The Hangman) A video Conti and Eater X on a local news show performing a donut eating exhibition can be seen at http://www.wtoc.com/Global/category.asp?C=95545 (Click on “Eat Like a Pro”, Internet Explorer only)

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In his most recent blog entry, Kobayashi talks about withdrawing from the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown. I do not understand the automatically translated Japanese well enough to discern if he has decided to not compete or just considered cancelling and will proceed:

You made speak some days ago, concerning conference participation, it came simply.
It is urgent, but because it made to cancel the participation, you report.

…

This time, this kind of, to encourage me even in urgent cancellation, wipe insecurity, the attorney corresponding quickly, Robert and the UFFO authorized personnel, everyone thank you truly.

update The involvement of an attorney brings to mind the following song by the late Warren Zevon (presumably the only guns are on Kobayashi’s arms)

I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this

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(From the Hangman) riverstreetsavannah.com has information about the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown, which will begin on St. Patrick’s Eve:

Spike TV will be on River Street filming eight of the world’s best eaters as Verizon Wireless presents St. Patrick’s Celebration on the River! The Competitions will take place Friday afternoon at 4 and Saturday afternoon between 2 and 2:30. The competition will air on Spike TV at 7pm on St. Pat’s night.

ConnectSavannah.com also has an article about the contest.

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I am not sure if the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown will consist of three contests in which the top half will advance or seven two person contests. If it is the latter, and brackets are based on current IFOCE rankings, the following matchups will take place:

Round 1: 1) Kobayashi vs 8 ) Rich LeFevre, 2) Joey Chestnut vs. 7) Tim Janus, 3) Pat Bertoletti vs. 6) Chip Simpson, 4) Sonya Thomas vs. 5) Bob Shoudt

Round 2: Kobayashi/LeFevre winner vs Thomas/ Shoudt winner, Chestnut/Janus winner vs. Bertoletti/Simpson winner

Final: Kobayashi/LeFevre/Thomas/ Shoudt winner vs. Chestnut/Janus/Bertoletti/Simpson winner

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Kobayashi has a post about his thoughts on the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown in Savannah.

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