Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Georgia eating challenges and contests in database)
Link Buffet: December 31, 2008
- 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/
- Mike Fitzgerald attempts the 12 pound pizza challenge at Polito’s
- 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
Link Buffet: November 2, 2008
- Video of Pat Bertoletti drinking beer with the help of a steak knife
- Jill Stoler and Jo Gavonne attend the Village Halloween Parade as the Chapmans (bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and his wife Beth, that is) More pictures are on Jill’s myspace
- Competitive eating themed “Beetle Bailey” comic strip (from Paul Barlow)
- Americus, GA hot dog eating contest report
Oct 25 independent contests with $100 prizes
Two unaffiliated contests this Saturday will award $100 to the winner:
- Spaghetti Eating Contest, Arch Fest, Jesup Georgia, $200 total purse
- Hot Dog Eating Contest, New Martinsville, WV
Link Buffet: October 13, 2008
- Beautiful Brian has uploaded the last episode of his television show to be hosted by hometown.aol.com
- Joey Chestnut ate 23 hot dogs in 5 minutes at his exhibition in Edmonton
- Barack Obama offers to judge a sweet potato pie eating contest
- Neurotic Pickle Eating contest held in conjunction with a New York City walking tour called A History of Jews, Sex and Politics on the Lower East Side
- Alan Sell completes three pound burger challenge in Athens, GA
- Pat Philbin notes that the shirts supplied at the Famous Famiglia pizza contest were too small for some competitors
Link Buffet: September 22, 2008
- 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.
Link Buffet: September 14, 2008
- Kristy Spurlock profile in the Salisbury Post
- Dale Boone wins Chattahoochee Mountain Fair chili dog contest
- “Feel the Heat” Chicago jalapeno eating contest information
- Interview with Jo “Gavonne” Rose at the cannoli contest
- Entrants list for todays Knoxville Krystal qualifier
Pat Bertoletti wins Atlanta Krystal qualifier
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.
Link Buffet: September 3, 2008
- 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.
Link Buffet: August 25, 2008
- 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
Link Buffet: August 18, 2008
- 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
Atlanta Krystal qualifier registration closed
Registration is now closed for the Atlanta Krystal qualifier on September 6. Registration is listed as open for the other 6 qualifiers.
Ben Griffith prepares for Krystals
The Newton (Georgia) Citizen has a profile of Ben Griffith, who finished in fourth place in June’s Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and in the 2006 Waffle House contest at Stone Mountain.
Atlanta eaters practice for KSO V
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.”
Dale Boone wins $1000 in pizza challenge
Augusta.com reports that Dale Boone won $1000 recently by being the first person to eat a 28 inch cheese pizza from Roma’s Pizza in under 90 minutes.
WLOCE.com reports that Dale Boone also won the Apple Ugly eating contest in North Carolina yesterday and competed in the Elizabethton, TN hot dog contest.
Super Paul vs. Bubba Yarbrough bacon contest
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.
Dale Boone starts WLOCE website
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
Pete Davekos wins ATL qualifier
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)
Dale Boone returns to the US
Link Buffet: May 28, 2008
- 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.
Link Buffet: May 21, 2008
- Gallery of Saturday’s contests in Brunswick, GA from Bruce Pobanz
- Sonya Thomas thinks the new 10 minute duration will make it difficult for her to become the first woman to break 40 HDB
- Don Lerman believes “food pervision” companies have stolen his “interlectial propery”
- Article about local competitors at Chicago Nathan’s qualifier
- Preview of the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier. Brian Subich is the only listed expected entrant
- Milia Mahfoud, the only female entrant, won a pancake eating contest at the Kingsburg Swedish Heritage Festival.
- Humble Bob has some pictures of the gyro contest on his home page
- Skinnyboy had a drunk fan while he attempted a hot dog challenge
- Article about Crazy Legs Conti in the Monterey Herald
- Calendar lists New Orleans Nathan’s qualifier on June 4 (a Wednesday) at Metairie
- Jamie of Hungry Sisters will be an assistant for Hog Happenin in Lincolnton, NC, which will have some eating contests
- $175 burger containing gold flakes
- Video of pizza eating contest from G.L.O.W. wrestling between Matilda the Hun and Mount Fiji
Masked Dale Boone in 2007 contest
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.
May 17 Brunswick, GA hot dog & pasta contests w/$1000 prizes
107.7 FM will sponsor a hot dog eating contest and a pasta eating contest in Brunswick, GA on May 17. Both contests will have $1,000 prizes. Call the radio station starting May 12 to obtain one of the 10 slots for each contest.
(From the Hangman, who will serve as a guest judge)
Dale Boone wins Atlanta noodle contest
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”
Rich LeFevre wins Perry qualifier
From KrystalSquareOff.com
Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA
1. Rich LeFevre 51 burgers
2T. Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston 31 burgers
2T. Russ Keeler, 31
4 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
Steakbellie avoids embarrassment by 1 burger
update 13wmaz.com has a video which says “Rich LaFarve” won
LeFevre, Steakbellie, Wing Kong in Perry qualifier
KrystalSquareOff.com has the roster for today’s qualifier at the Georgia National Fair.
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