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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Grits eating contest results from the Shreveport Times:

1. Tim Janus 13.9 lbs.
2. Pat Bertoletti
3. Joey Chestnut
4. Hall Hunt
5. Damon Serignet

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The Shreveport Times has an article about the grits eating contest to be held at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, LA. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus are listed as expected entrants. The article does not mention the possibility of the contest being cancelled due to hurricane Ike.

The Nashville Krystal qualifier entrants have been posted on the Krystal Square Off blog:

Juliet Lee
Eric Booker
Erik Denmark
Juris Shibayama
Nathan Biller
Pete Davekos
Bill Myers
Dave Goldstein
Andrew Wong
Steve Larson

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An anonymous comment claims that the kolache eating contest at the Houston Astros game Friday night and the grits eating contest in Louisiana on Saturday will be cancelled due to hurricane Ike. No official decision appears to have been announced, but the Houston Astros website does report that the Astros game on Friday will be played at 1:05 pm if it appears that Ike will threaten Houston.

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• Kobayashi interview in Thrillist (from Val Bromann)
• Sonya Thomas hopes to break 20 lbs. in the Louisiana grits eating contest
• Report on Ghirardelli Square ice cream eating contest
• NYC IFOCE Pizza prizes: 1st- $10,000 , 2nd – $2,500 3rd- $1,000 (from email)
• NYC Falafel eating contest video
• Astroland amusement park in Coney Island closes
• Paul Barlow’s website hits 50K visits (from email)

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(From comment) IFOCE.com has been updated with information about the return of the Harrah’s Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship to Bossier City, Louisiana on September 13. Like last year, the purse will be $10,000. Registration will open on Wednesday, August 13 at 1pm eastern.

After having no contest with a purse larger than $5,000 in the first half of 2008, five IFOCE contests in the the third quarter will award total prizes of at least $10,000 (Nathan’s, Krystal, OK BBQ, kolaches and grits)

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• Krystal qualifier registration opens at noon eastern (limit 3 qualifiers per person)
• Floria Lee an expected entrant at the Goya National Black Bean Eating Championship
• Video of interview with organizer of Saturday’s Baton Rouge, LA rib eating contest (purse $400). The ribeatingcontest.com URL mentioned in the interview does not work
• Arizona State women’s basketball team members compete in Battle of the Bone qualifier
• Blog entry about 3.5 lb Homewrecker hot dog challenge in West Virginia
• Signup info for the Taste of Hamburg-er eating contest on megamunch. Prize money will be based on the number of “professionals” competing.
• Malaysian article (in English) about the Singapore showdown

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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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• Article and gallery of crawfish eating contest at the Mudbug Festival in Shreveport, LA
• Report about Niko Niko’s gyro eating contest in Houston
• Pat Bertoletti’s May 16 appearance on the Steve Dahl show is praised
• Man with Mohawk wins shoo fly pie eating contest held on Amish Night at Wilmington, DE minor league game
• http://swallowyourpridemovie.com/ appears defunct
• Geeling Ng, who co-starred in David Bowie’s “China Girl” video, competes in oyster eating contest in New Zealand

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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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