The Las Vegas Sun reports that Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in the Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the New York, New York Casino in Las Vegas on May 8. Previous defending champions did not need to qualify. Other expected entrants are Rich LeFevre and Ron Koch.

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Video from the Travel Channel’s “Battle of the Buffets”, in which Badlands Booker, Cookie Jarvis and the LeFevres competed can be viewed on the Travel Channel’s website

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An attendee of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas noticed changes in the casino restaurants offering all you can eat deals:

This year at CES I noticed one little thing that seemed to be a universal change among most of the casinos. The buffet lines around the city have posted signs informing customers that there is now a time limit on dining. (The most extreme case we saw was a 1 hour limit on a Sushi Buffet in the Rio.) They’ve also taken to charging extra for patrons who wish to indulge in the more expensive parts of the repast.

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After attending an Offspring concert in Japan, Kobayashi met up with the group in Las Vegas. He has also posted some pictures from his trip. There is no information about the “Wedges & Wings” contest, spoilers or otherwise.

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Steakbellie has posted writeups of his Chicago jalapeno contest experience and his participation in the “Wedges & Wings” contest (no spoilers)

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In a blog entry from this afternoon, Kobayashi reports that he is still experiencing jaw issues (automatically translated)

As the conference gets near, condition of the jaw had become bad (depending upon training because), to today it had made or the air which it has.

Unless you avoid just the reappearance before the hot dog worldwide conference, that you thought.

Once, somehow the day was received.

When this is proof of growth, it is to be delightful, but you think that luck was good.

It is the jaw which with special care it can have utilizing.

Temporarily, it tries applying to the present tournament.

We should not participate, that the one worrying it is with you think, but it came to here.

Support we ask.

Kobayashi also says that he met with American government officials for an undisclosed purpose.

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Steakbellie will compete in the “Wedges & Wings” contest in Las Vegas tonight. He verifies that Kobayashi is present. Steakbellie reports that three separate TV specials will be recorded at the same session, which will fulfill the Spike TV contract.

I think this leaves 6 unknown slots in the contest.

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Las Vegas Advisor has information about tomorrow’s “Wedges and Wings” contest.

Kobayashi’s blog reports that he got a new hairstyle and is not sure when he will be able to update his blog, so he will probably attend.

STBW says that October will be a “very very light month” CE-wise for Sonya, so she will probably not attend.

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The New York Daily News reports that Arturo Rios will compete in the “MLE Chowndown” to be held in Las Vegas Tuesday.

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A video of Wednesday’s rib eating contest at the Nugget casino can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=5yvUXCOMFIc
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From a Laura Flynn comment

1. Joey Chestnut (about 7 lb.)
2. Pat Bertoletti (about 6 lb.)
3. Rich LeFevre (lost tooth during contest)
4. Jason Erb
5. Erik Denmark

update rgj.com has an article about the contest.

update #2 full results are now posted on IFOCE.com

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(From Rhonda Evans) The press release for the 2nd Annual World Rib Eating Competition says that Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Chip Simpson, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark. Results will be posted on the Nugget Rib Cookoff’s web page.

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The Reno Gazette Journal has a preview of the Best in the West Nugget World Eating Championship containing some quotes from Rich LeFevre.

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The rib eating contest to be held August 29 at the Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off in Sparks, NV is now on the official IFOCE schedule. Registration for that event opens on August 6.

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JaNugget has a press release about the 2007 Rib Cookoff:

Returning to this year’s Cook-off, the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), the governing body of all stomach-centric sports, will host the second Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championships on Wednesday, August 29. The country’s best competitive eaters will vie for $5,000 and the title of World Champion. The IFOCE conducts more than 90 events annually, including the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY. It’s estimated the top competitors will consume eight to nine pounds of meat during the 12-minute competition. Last year’s winner, prolific gurgitator Joey Chestnut, is expected to attend, along with more than one dozen other top-flight athletes. The rib eating contest will take place in front of the main stage starting around 5 p.m.

IFOCE.com reports that the Lewisville, TX tamale contest will be held on September 1. Registration opens tomorrow at noon eastern.

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Skinnyboy recorded video of Pat Bertoletti’s and Rich LeFevre’s appearance on local television before the Las Vegas qualifier.

There is also a video of Rick “The Grizzly” Baird’s introduction.

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WorldPictureNetwork has a good gallery of last Thursday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas. The captions are quite good in regards to names, but unfortunately the only result listed is Pat Bertoletti’s winning amount. Robin Leach, formerly of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, was a commentator.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a travelog of Thursday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas with numerous pictures. He has a picture of the undercard for hotel employees, won by Ron Koch with 18 hot dogs in 6 minutes.

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Official results for the top two finishers in yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas have been posted to MLE and ifoce.com/news

1. 46 HDB Pat Bertoletti
2. 33 HDB Rich LeFevre

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Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifier results from a Laura Flynn comment:

1. 46 HDB Pat Bertoletti
2. 33 HDB Rich LeFevre
3. 23 HDB Mongo Marquez
4-5 14? Kevin Ross
4-5 14? Jason Erb

Pat Bertoletti becomes the third person to break 40 hot dogs and buns. Rich LeFevre’s 33 is also a personal best.

update Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane also has results on his blog which report Bertoletti ate 46 HDB.

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A press release about next month’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas can be found in a myspace blog. The entrants listed in that document:

The Las Vegas qualifier, which last year witnessed the historic breaking of the 50-dog barrier by #2-ranked Joey Chestnut, appears poised to make history again. Third-ranked Pat Bertoletti has claimed that he will break the world record of 53 ¾ hot dogs and buns in Las Vegas. Bertoletti, a Chicago native, recently upset Chestnut at the St. Patrick’s Day Showdown on Spike TV, and seems to have momentum going into hot dog season. Bertoletti’s main obstacle, besides history, will be Rich “The Locust” LeFevre, the #8-ranked gurgitator in the world. A local mother and daughter team, Debi and Robyn Affentranger, will also be on hand to compete.

The contest, to be held Thursday, May 3 at 3 p.m., is an official qualifying round of the Nathan’s Famous worldwide hot dog eating circuit.

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Ron Koch has sent me the following email:

Just saw an eater at Ollies a\hamburger joint at UNLV.they called him bonsy.He is so thin thus the name .Well anyway he polished off 14.5 quarter pound hamburgers with buns in 10 minutes without even sweating.

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Brian Seiken reports that Ron Koch will face a field of pro football players at the New York, New York hotel in Las Vegas on May 21. This will be Koch’s first contest since the Reno ribs contest in August.

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A clip from a recent “Las Vegas” episode has been uploaded to http://eatfeats.com/videos/LasVegasHotDogContest.wmv (2 minutes 5MB) The video shows Sam (Vanessa Marcil) winning a hot dog eating contest for casino employees by eating the contents of a tray filled with of 50-80 bunless hot dogs (We only see her eat about two or three)

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The “Las Vegas” episode with the hot dog eating contest will be rerun on TNT at midnight eastern tonight (9 pm Pacific)

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