PRNewswire has a press release about the Saint Patrick’s Day contest to be televised on Spike TV. The field will consist solely of the eaters in the top 8 of the IFOCE rankings: Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Patrick Bertoletti, Timothy “Eater X” Janus, Richard LeFevre and Chip Simpson.

The first round food will be corned beef & cabbage, the second round will have jalapenos and green doughnuts will be used in the final round. Beef tongue will not be in the tournament, contrary to early reports.

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Chili Eating & Chili Pepper Eating contest, Chili Bowl Cook Off, Sand Gnats stadium, Savannah, GA

Hot Dog Eating contest, Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor 50th anniversary celebration, Dania Beach (Ft. Lauderdale), FL 1st prize is Carribean cruise

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thecitizen.com has an article profiling Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Larry “The Legend” McNeil

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From krystalsquareoff.com

Krystal Square Off qualifier, Perry GA
1. Dale Boone 37, triumphant return from suspension
2. Justin Mih 36, moves into last wildcard position
3. Hall Hunt 33

The wildcards with 1 contest left are Rich LeFevre, Seaver Miller, Arturo Rios and Justin Mih. Arturo Rios, Justin Mih and Crazy Legs Conti are all tied with 36, but Crazy Legs loses out on the tiebreaker since he has only done one qualifier.

updated full results have been posted. Burritos for Life finalist Michael Parlaman only finished with 14.

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krystalsquareoff.com has a list of the expected entrants in tomorrow’s qualifier in Nashville. Most of the ranked competitors, including Hall Hunt, Justin Mih, Bubba Yarbrough and Larry McNeil, have competed in previous qualifiers. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz, will be celebrating his 50th birthday at the contest. Michael Parlaman, a finalist in Moe’s Burritos for Life, is expected.

updated Hall “Hoover” Hunt has a preview in his blog.

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krystalsquareoff.com announces that Dale Boone will end his suspension from IFOCE contests at the Perry Krystal qualifier on Sunday.

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4:39 The official count is Simpson 53, Janus 52.5 Chip lead throughout the contest, but Eater X had an impressive last minute rally. Tim Janus is almost certainly guaranteed a wildcard spot

9:53 Full results are available at krystalsquareoff.com Justin Mih continued a string of impressive performances with 33. I assume the “mystery eater” from the Waffle House contest did not show up.

(Thanks Brian Cooley) 11:01 Chip Simpson makes the front page of ajc.com, which has an article that requires registration or bugmenot.com

The liveblog is available after the jump

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The full Atlanta qualifier roster has been posted at krystalsquareoff.com. Justin Mih and Brian Subich will join the northern invaders.

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krystalsquareoff reports that Dale Boone appeared at the preliminary qualifier held at the Georgia Tech football stadium last night and said he would be reinstated soon.

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Krystalsquareoff.com announces that Tim “Eater X” Janus and Chip “Burger” Simpson are expected at the Atlanta qualifier. This will be the first matchup of top 10 ranked eaters in a qualifier. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow are among the expected entrants representing Georgia. The contest could see the return of the mystery eater who reportedly gave Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas everything they could handle at the waffle eating contest before DQing.

Updated 3:07 pm – The preliminaries will be held throughout the Atlanta area and will start tomorrow at the Georgia Tech football stadium:

September 21 Georgia Tech Football 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM
September 22 Southlake Mall 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
September 23 Cumberland Mall 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
September 24 Local Finals–Lenox Square 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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A clip of Moe’s Burritos for Life finals held at Georgia Tech Labor Day weekend has been posted to youtube. The clip supports speedeat’s report that Mike (Shelley) won the contest by eating 5.5 (or 6) burritos in 8 minutes (and disproves Dale Boone’s comment that Tony Rizzo was the victor)

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from “Super” Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow & sonyatheblackwidow.com:

Waffle House Waffle Eating Championship, Stone Mountain, GA
1. Joey Chestnut 22.5 waffles $5000, +4 from 2005
2. Sonya Thomas 21 waffles $1500, +3 from 2005
3. Chip Simpson 18? $1000
4. Hall Hunt 14
5. Larry McNeil 12
6. Crazy Legs Conti 11
7T Paul Barlow 10
7T Bubba Yarbrough 10
7T Eric Broe 10
? Shane Baker
? “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz

Paul Barlow says an unknown eater matched Joey & Sonya in the first half of the contest up until about 11 waffles, then had a DQ.

It will be interesting to see what contests (if any) Sonya does before the Krystal finals. Sonya did not compete between Labor Day weekend and Halloween weekend last year.

Updated 9/4 9:45 am – A myspace blog entry has been posted about the contest. There are some videos if you are a myspace member.

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(From Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough) A video podcast of Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Larry “the Legend” McNeil in a 3 minute Krystal burger contest on the Noonan Now show is available.

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theweekly.com has a preview of the Waffle House World Waffle Eating Championship that will be held at Stone Mountain State Park in Atlanta on Sunday of Labor Day weekend. The contest will be part of the Last Blast of Summer Concert.

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The second Waffle House World Waffle Eating Championship will be held in Atlanta the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. In last year’s contest, Joey Chestnut narrowly edged out Sonya Thomas for his first victory against the Black Widow. This will be the second major contest held in Atlanta Labor Day weekend; the finals of Moe’s Burritos for Life will be held on Saturday at Georgia Tech.

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Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough receives prominent mention in the Newnan (GA) Times Herald article about National Hot Dog Month.

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The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Dale Boone won Frank’s RedHot Battle to the Bone wing eating contest in Atlanta Saturday by eating 30 wings in 4 minutes. Boone’s victory came a day after he placed third in a rib eating contest at Harrah’s casino in Cherokee, NC.

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If Dale Boone is looking to follow up his corndogorama victory with another local contest, a buffalo wing eating contest sponsored by Frank’s Red Hot will be held at Atlantic Station in Atlanta on Saturday.

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Creative Loafing has an article about the corndogorama contest Dale Boone won by eating 10 corn dogs in 5 minutes just 4 hours after he took third place at the Atlanta Zoo Nathan’s qualifier. Boone said he would skip next year’s hot dog qualifier to focus on corndogorama.

Updated June 28, 1:30 pm – Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough has sent me some pictures of Boone at corndogorama. He believes that Boone’s Indian secret is wearing motion sickness wristbands.

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From IFOCE.com

Atlanta Zoo
1. Pat Bertoletti, 33 HDB
2. Sam Vise, 20 HDB
3. Dale Boone 18 HDB
4. Hall Hunt, 17.5 HDB

Daly City (suburban SF)
1. Jed Donahue, 19.5 HDB
2. Erik Denmark, 19 HDB
3. Ron Koch ?

The minor league baseball game in Long Island has been postponed, but the Nathan’s qualifier will still be held

Updated 9:15 Larry McNeil has posted some pictures in a buffet forum thread. Pat hung Boone in effigy. Here are some thumbnails of The Legend’s pictures:

Updated 6/25 7:09 am – BAE has a blog entry and some pictures on her myspace page

4:39 Mike Wooldridge has a flickr gallery of the San Francisco qualifier

5:27 Liz & Krista have a Jed Donahue interview up. Jed previously competed in the 1999 Nathan’s finals.

Updated June 26 12:25 am – Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough has uploaded two videos of the contest to youtube: Video #1, Video #2

6:32 pm – Urban Honking has an interview with Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough about the contest.

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Creative Loafing has a paragraph about Saturday’s Nathan’s Hot Dog qualifier at the Atlanta Zoo. Spectators for that event must pay for admission to the zoo ($13.99 – $17.99). The article inaccurately claims that the three ranked Georgia eaters expected to compete are 19 or under.

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Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough has emailed me that he appeared with Larry McNeil and Dale Boone on Fox 5 to promote the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier. Yarbrough has uploaded a video clip of that appearance to youtube. Dale Boone does look notably lighter than he did last year.

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From IFOCE.com:

1. Ron Koch, 36 burgers
2T. Hall Hunt, 26 burgers
2T. unnamed Floridian, 26 burgers

Ron Koch’s total is the 5th best performance so far, behind only Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus and Badlands Booker.

With two qualifying contests remaining, top ranked IFOCE members who have yet to qualify include Cookie Jarvis and Patrick Bertoletti.

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From macon.com article:

1st: ‘Humble’ Bob Shoudt, Royersford, Pa., 29 burgers
2nd: Bubba Yarbrough, Newnan, 25 burgers
3rd: Hall Hunt, Gainesville, Fla., 24 burgers

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September 17 GoldenPalace.com grilled cheese qualifier, Oklahoma State Fair, Oklahoma City

From newsok.com: (video available and registration required)

1. Crazy Legs Conti, NYC, 17.5 sandwiches
2. Ryan Delano, Oklahoma City,17 sandwiches
3. Levi Oliver, Austin, TX 14 sandwiches

September 18 Krystal Square Off, Gwinnett County Fair, North Atlanta, GA

From ajc.com:

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, NYC, 39 Krystals
2. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, 27 Krystals
3. Shaun Kessler, 26 Krystals

September 18 GoldenPalace.com grilled cheese qualifier, Salt Lake City, UT
(updated 9/19 10:51 pm) (from ifoce.com and bigbrian.org) Ron Koch wins with 18.5 sandwiches. (No other finishers are listed) “Big” Brian Subich misses the contest due to a missed connecting flight in Phoenix.

I have been unable to find an article about the contest in the Salt Lake City papers, but I have found a polygamy news section

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