The MLE facebook announces that a crawfish eating contest will take place at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans on April 10.

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update NewOrleans.com has a gallery

3:49 Official top 3 from http://twitter.com/gcshea/status/1552869281

1. Sonya Thomas, 29 dozen in 8 minutes
2. Pat Bertoletti 26 dozen
3. Tim “Eater X” Janus 22 dozen

3:22 Ginger Gibson reports that Sonya has won with 29 dozen in 8 minutes.

3:14 The contest has started

3:00 The contest has yet to start, see http://twitter.com/annawhitlow
for pictures
update http://twitter.com/gingergibson is posting updates on the contest. The contest is just about to start as of 2:45 pm eastern

The Acme Oyster website has been revamped. The online Wall of Fame for the 15 dozen club (which had not been updated since 2005) has been dropped and Adam Richman is the only member currently mentioned on the new 15 dozen club page.

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Last night’s episode of How’s Your News did not include footage of the main Acme Oyster eating contest won by Pat Bertoletti, but Scott “ScozzyBone” Zukowski, billed as the New Orleans oyster champ, did compete against one of the program’s reporters in a short oyster contest. A video clip of the segment can be viewed online.

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Knoxville.com has an article about How’s Your News?, an MTV program starring seven disabled reporters produced by South Park co-creator Matt Stone. Each episode documents a stop made during a cross-country trip. In New Orleans, the reporters visited a pirate convention, a prison rodeo and an oyster eating contest, which was probably the Acme Oyster competition since the other two events took place in April.

TV Guide reports the New Orleans episode will be televised at 10:30 pm on Sunday, March 1.

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• Acme Oyster House Challenge (15 Dozen Club) restaurant: Home page (the website has an online wall of fame – click on Contest, then Leader Board – which has not been updated since 2005. Pat Bertoletti set the record in early 2007. A screen capture of the Wall of Fame is available after the jump
  • 15+ Dozen Club in the eatfeats database
  • #5 entry on the Travel Channel’s list of best places to pig out – video clip from that program
  • Reviews: yelp | citysearch
• Mother’s Restaurant home page | yelp | citysearch
• Deanie’s Seafood home page | yelp | citysearch

update: commercial | gallery
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• Article about James Howell and his performance in the New Orleans qualifier
• Jill Stoler has posted the pictures she took at the Three Brothers Pizza contest
• Video from Hartford qualifier
• Article about local Bartolini’s Meatballs qualifiers
• NY Post on Nathan’s shortening
• Kansas City hot dog contest Friday night at Tengo sed, $200 prize
• No MLE video game release this week
• Kobayashi finds Japanese hot dogs wanting
• Articles promoting Tomoko Mikaye’s book of PG rated photographs: Sanspo.com, NikkanSports

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New Orleans qualifier results from Dr. Bigtime comment & IFOCE.com report:

1. Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama – 28
2. Peter Parker – 17
3. Damon Serignet – 16

Dunno after that.

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• Short preview of New Orleans qualifier: Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama, Chris MacVicar and Steve Ulness are expected
• Final batch of bios for MLE game characters – also includes profile of bunnette and paramedic. Juliet Lee’s nickname is listed as “The Lovely”
• End of school year White Castle eating contest for Kentucky teachers. Joey Chestnut is listed as the White Castle record holder
• Pancake contest for Cincinnati area high school students – contest video
• Eating contest from Hey Arnold cartoon (Kobayashi has called Hey Arnold his favorite American TV show
• Tomoko Miyake videos on yahoo: at the department store buffet promo, wearing bikinis with friends, eating big burgers with friends

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HoumaToday.com has an article about James Howell preparing for the June 7 Nathan’s qualifier in New Orleans by eating hot dogs at Big Eddie’s Café. The article has the following information about the field for that contest:

The Metairie competition pits Howell against eight other Louisiana residents as well as sport eaters from Alabama, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee and New York, Reed said. The contest includes first-time sport eaters like Howell as well as experienced competitive eaters like Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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Three different dates have been announced for the Nathan’s qualifier in New Orleans:

• May 17 – Original announcement on majorleagueeating.com
• June 4 – Sam’s Club press release
• June 7 – IFOCE.com contests page

June 7 appears to be the most likely date because June 4 is a Wednesday and there would probably be more information if the qualifier was this weekend.

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• Beautiful Brian’s thoughts on Badlands Booker’s possible comeback. (He thinks that Tim Janus will compete in the Shea Stadium qualifier)
• Musician Dan Bern trains for and wins a hard boiled egg eating contest (he thinks that the female who ate 65 eggs is 8 years old) (via Ugly Dude Food)
• Megamunch has a blog entry about his participation in City Chase, which had a dog food eating segment
• Wing Tut to do Cleveland brownie eating contest and 5K Race for the Cure in Pittsburgh on Sunday. He is seeking donations for the Race for the Cure.
• Article about eating contests at Fitchburg State College
• 8.5 month pregnant woman competes in taco eating contest
• Videos of Scozzy Bone at the Acme Oyster Eating contest: video 1, video 2
• Dallas Nathan’s qualifier to be held at Plano Sam’s Club
• Skinnyboy competes in Denver CE meetup group burger contest
• CE: sport / not a sport debate in New Mexico State student paper

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From Jon B & Beautiful Brian emails and AP article

1 Pat Bertoletti 35 dozen 8 minutes
2 Juliet Lee 31 1/2 dozen 8 minutes
3T Crazy Legs Conti 24 dozen (called the defending champion in the AP article)
3T Chris Abatsas 24 dozen
5? Scott “Scozzy Bone” Zukowski, 20 dozen
Tim Brown DQ reversal after 14 dozen

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(From Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz) Some information about Saturday’s oyster eating contest is available on acmeoyster.com (no direct link, click on contest, then “oyster eating”) The contest will begin at noon at the French Market.

There is also a link to a contest entry form, but it appears to be for the 2005 contest.

update from SykoBozo (who will also be competing) comment – NewOrleansMagazine.com has a possible field:

Nipping at Bertoletti’s heels will be Eater X, a face-painting burrito champ out of New York City’s who is ranked #4 in the world. Also competing is Crazy Legs Conti who is perhaps best known for launching his eating career by winning the first Acme World Oyster Eating Championships in 2002. Baltimore’s Julie Lee (ranked 10th), Seattle’s Erik “The Red” Denmark (ranked 12th), Chicago’s Gravy Brown (15th) and Birmingham’s Chip Simpson (ranked 6th) will also compete.

Louisiana’s top eater, Damon Serignet of Baton Rouge, has promised to defend the honor of the Pelican State in this competition.

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• Domenico Alesi on possible eating contest foods
• The Sonya Thomas song on “Stick to Blogging” is in jeopardy
• Skinnyboy has posted a Travel Channel segment about the Acme Oyster House to youtube
• The winner of Sunday’s mussel eating contest in Philadelphia – he ate 10 pounds of mussels in 4 hours
• Kobayashi used in a Hungry Sisters’ economic textbook example
• IFOCE.com page about Kevin Ross

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(From Domenico Alesi comment) An oyster eating contest at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans has been added to the IFOCE schedule on April 12. Registration opens Thursday and prizes have yet to be determined.

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IFOCE.com reports that Pat Bertoletti broke Sonya Thomas’ Acme Oyster House record by eating 53.5 dozen oysters in 48 minutes. Sonya Thomas set the previous record when she ate 46 dozen in a 10 minute record, then ate an additional 6 dozen following the awards ceremony.

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An excerpt from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” about Sonya Thomas’ record setting victory in the 2005 Acme oyster contest has been uploaded to jasonfagone.com.

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I hope that everyone in the southern half of the central time zone came through Katrina as well as possible. It is hard to believe that damage was less than originally expected when seeing the all images of devastation.

Updated Aug 31 12:39 am If the first day was slightly better than expected, the second and subsequent days appear to be much much worse. My prayers go out to everyone affected by this catastrophe.

Here is a much happier instance of another force of nature visiting Louisiana from earlier this year.

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