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2011 New Orleans Oysters

11:53 Ryan Shams has emailed additional results

1) Pat Bertoletti 39 dozen
2) Aaron Osthoff 38 dozen
3) Adrian Morgan 32 dozen
4) Crazy Legs Conti 29 dozen
5) Gary Klucken 38 dozen
8) Ryan Shams 11 dozen
10 Mia “Meatballz” Davekos 7 dozen

3:30 Crawfish has the top 3, via Adrian Morgan’s facebook: 1st Pat Bertoletti 39 dozen 2nd Aaron Osthoff 38 3rd Adrian Morgan 32 dozen

3:16 “Patrick Bernaletti” was the winner.

3:06 The unnamed winner ate 39 dozen in 8 minutes, a new record.

update 3 pm eastern The contest has started.

The contest should start at 1 pm central, 2 pm eastern

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Louisiana Seafood News reports that Pat Bertoletti and Adrian Morgan will compete in the World Oyster Eating Championship in New Orleans Sunday.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the June 5 Acme Oyster Eating Championship will open today (May 5) at 1 pm eastern.

Sonya Thomas wins French Quarter Festival crawfish in OT

Results from the eating contest twitter (Part 1 | Part 2)

1) Sonya Thomas 3.75 (3.25 after regulation)
2) Adrian Morgan 3.5 lb. (3.25 after regulation)
3) Aaron Burglua, 2.625 New Orleans chef
4T) J Robin 2.5
4T) Travis 2.5
6T) Frank 2.25
6T) Crazy Legs Conti 2.25
6T) Damien Boykin 2.25
6T) Will
10T) Elliot
10T) Nasty Nate Biller
12) James
3:58 Scott Flodin reports Sonya Thomas won the overtime. Adrian Morgan was runner-up.

3:53 Jason Dominy reports Sonya Thomas dominated the contest.

3:49 Scott Flodin reports the contest has gone into overtime.

3:04 pm The contest has started according to this picture

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Dig Baton Rouge has an interview with Adrian Morgan.
The MLE facebook announces that Crazy Legs Conti, Adrian Morgan and Nate Biller are expected to compete in the crawfish eating contest at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans a week from tomorrow. According to the eatfeats database, this will be the first meeting for Conti & Morgan since the controversial Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, CA.
IFOCE.com: Registration for the World Crawfish Eating Championship in New Orleans on April 9 will open today at 2:30 pm eastern.
Izzo's Illegal Burrito in Lafayette, Louisiana will hold a burrito eating contest on Saturday awarding two New Orleans Saints ticket to the winner.
Crawfish has uploaded a gallery from last year's grits eating contest held in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Izzo's Illegal Burrito in Covington, Louisiana will hold a burrito eating contest awarding two tickets to a New Orleans Saints game as part of its grand opening celebration on October 23.
drjdawg has uploaded a video of the entire oyster eating contest held at the New Orleans Oyster Festival earlier this month.

2010 Acme Oyster contest

update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow has the top 3:

1) Sonya Thomas 37 dozen in 8 minutes
2) Amateur 21 dozen
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19 dozen

update nic511 reports that Sonya Thomas won the contest with a total of 37 dozen oysters.

The MLE oyster contest is expected to start at 3pm eastern. Members of The Deadliest Catch cast will compete in an undercard.

The New York Times has an article about the Oyster Festival, which was originally planned to start in 2006 and cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina.

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Daily Comet lists defending champion Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti and Micah Collins as expected entrants in Sunday's Acme World Oyster Eating Championship in New Orleans.
Crawfish has uploaded some videos from the crawfish eating contest at Mudbug Madness in Shreveport. Jake Tyler repeated as champion.
Grand Isle in New Orleans will hold a crawfish eating contest tomorrow to benefit fishermen affected by the BP oil spill.
Rich Shea announces that registration for the June 6 Acme Oyster eating contest in New Orleans will open tomorrow at 2pm.
NewOrleans.com has a preview of Saturday's eating contest at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival with profiles of three of the contenders.
Me-Too and the New Orleans Jesters have galleries of Saturday's crawfish contest at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.

Sonya Thomas wins French Quarter Festival crawfish

update Apr 11 HumidBeings has a short video

update 11:02 Rich Shea did an interview this morning

Some pictures:
Share photos on twitter with Twitpic IMG00181-20100410-1459.jpg on Twitpic 1st-Sonya, 2nd-Nick Bauer & T3rd-Elliot Guidry (T3rd Will Pet... on Twitpic

update 3:55 facebook.com/eatfast: top 4

1) Sonya Thomas 6.5 lbs.
2) Nick Bauer 4.5 lbs.
3T) Elliot Guidry 2.5 lbs.
3T) Will Peters 2.5 lbs.
5T) Tim Brown, Kevin Ross, Adrian Morgan 1.5 lbs.

update 3:51 Liz Money confirms that Sonya Thomas won

update 3:41 twitter.com/jlaurie: “Tiny asian chic eats 6.5 lbs of crawfish…wins”

update 3:40 Results have yet to be announced 30 minutes after the end of the contest

update 3:05 GSheppard has a picture of the contest.

The crawfish contest at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans should be starting in about 30 minutes.

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Rich Shea announces that Sonya Thomas, Tim "Gravy" Brown and Kevin Ross are expected to compete in tomorrow's crawfish eating contest at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.

MLE crawfish contest April 10

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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"Adrian Against" has uploaded a gallery of his attempt to eat three "Illegal" Buritos weighing more than three pounds to his facebook page.
Crawfish has uploaded his pictures from the grits eating contest at Louisana downs to his flickr account.

Daniel Strickland: Humble Bob wins LA Downs grits

update #2 Daniel Stricklands videos are on CNN’s ireport and appeared on CNN.

update The Shreveport Times has a contest report

Crawfish has the top 5

1) Humble Bob Shoudt 18.98 lbs.
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 17.52
3) Joey Chestnut 15.88
4T) Pat Bertoletti
4T) Hall Hunt

Daniel Strickland reports that Bob Shoudt won the grits contest with a total of 18+ pounds.

Crawfish is at the contest site and will have results & pictures on his twitter.

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NWLANews: Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus will compete in Saturday's grits eating contest at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, which will leave Sunday's contest in Knoxville as the only Krystal qualifier possibility for "Eater X". update The eatingcontest twitter says that Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt & Kevin Ross will also compete.
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