update Sept 8 Jezebel has a blog entry with a long comment thread and China Times has a news video.

update Sept 6 CNN has an article and video and ABC News has a video.

MyFoxDC interviewed Sonya Thomas after the contest (via comment)

Brian Seiken has posted several videos recorded at the contest.

“Buffalo” Jim Reeves appeared on WIVB before the contest

update 8:16 Full Results have been posted.

update 5:03 The top 4 update 5:22 The offical top 5 (in a comment):
1) Sonya Thomas 183 chicken wings 6.43 pounds, Buffalo Wing Festival record, fifth straight Wing Fest wing victory
2) Joey Chestnut 174 chicken wings 6.13 pounds, undefeated in non-wing contests in past 12 months
3) Pat Bertoletti 132 chicken wings 4.61 pounds, less than half of his Dallas Wing Stop result
4) Badlands Booker 126 chicken wings 4.45 pounds
5) Juliet Lee 110 chicken wings 3.89 pounds

update 4:29 The contest has started.

The contest is being livestreamed.

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update Sept 4 The Buffalo News has an article.

8:20Full results have been posted.

7:13 The top 3:
1) Pat Bertoletti 5 minutes to finish 5 pounds of food
2) Sonya Thomas 7 minutes
3) Juliet Lee
4) Aaron Osthoff 3.573 lb
5) Bill Myers 2.841 lb
6) Eric “Badlands” Booker 2.502 lb
7) Larell Marie Mele 2.48 lb
8) Mike Landrich 2.419 lb
9) Brian Seiken 2.366 lb

6:39 The contest has started. Joey Chestnut is on stage, but not competing.

The Buffet Bowl contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival is being livestreamed.

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IFOCE contest registrations opening this week:

• Monday July 25: Toronto’s Festival of Beer Wing Eating Championship (August 7) | John Ascuaga’s Nugget World Rib Eating Championship (August 31, Sparks, NV) | Buffalo Buffet Bowl (September 4) & Wing Eating Championship (September 5)
• Wednesday July 27: Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship (Toronto, September 24) | Old Town Lewisville, TX World Tamale Eating Championship (September 24)

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The IFOCE contests page has been updated with several August & September events:

• Aug 20 Day-Lee/Nisei Week Gyoza Eating Championship, Los Angeles, CA
• Aug 31 John Ascuaga’s Nugget World Rib Eating Championship, Sparks, NV
• Sep 3 Buffalo Buffet Bowl, Buffalo, NY
• Sep 4 U.S. National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship, Buffalo, NY

An IFOCE rib eating contest has been held in July at the Chinook Winds Casino on the Oregon coast. There does not appear to be any information about a 2011 contest on the casino website.

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Nestor’s Texas Hots in North Tonawanda will hold a hot dog eating contest on Saturday awarding $250 to the winner.

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Travel Channel Episode Guide | Gallery

Restaurants

• Mick & Angelo’s Eatery & Bar challenge – 10 course pasta feast
  Home Page | Facebook | Urbanspoon
  Episode clip about constructing the challenge
  Bodybuilding.com forum thread about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski completing the challenge in 2008.
• Riverstone Grill meal – “Bone in the Stone” 3.5 pound steak
  Home Page | Facebook | Urbanspoon
  WKBW news video segment about the “Bone in the Stone”
  Buffalo News article about recording at the Riverstone Grill
• The Silo meal – “Haystack” sandwich
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  Buffalo News blog entry about recording at The Silo

List of Buffalo / Western New York eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database

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update Sept 14 Salon.com article about Teresa Guido winning the bobbing for wings contest (via Stephanie Wu).

update Sept 6 WNYMedia has a video clip about the contest.
Yahoo News has over 400 comments to the AP article about the contest.
Buffalo News reports that Susan Borthwick won Saturday’s amateur wing eating contest.

update #2 WKBW has an article and video
Buffalo News has a video
Joe Cascio has a gallery and a picture of the result announcement. (You would never know that Sonya had just eaten almost 5 pounds looking at the picture.)
WNYMedia has an interview with Joey Chestnut before the contest

update WIVB has a short article
SonyaTheBlackWidow has been updated with a contest report

4:16 Results announced
1) Sonya Thomas 4.86 pounds, record for 12 minute contest
2) Joey Chestnut 4.55
3) Bryan Beard 2.89
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 2.84

4:04 The contest is over

3:52 The contest starts

3:46 Sonya walks through the crowd to enter the stage

The contest should start at 3:30 and can be viewed online.

SkunkPost has a video interview with Joey Chestnut.

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update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow.com lists Brian Subich as the #4 finisher

update Bill Myers has posted full results on his twitter
1st Patrick Bertoletti 5.26 lbs (finished in 5 Minutes 56 seconds)
2nd Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 5.26 lbs in (7 minutes 31 seconds)
3rd “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 3.96 lbs (all subsequent times 10:14)
4th Eric “Badlands” Booker 3.5 lbs
5th Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard 3.46 lbs
6th Dave Solomon 3.28 lbs
7th Dave “US Male” Goldstein 3.1 lbs
8th “Big” Brian Subich 3.04 lbs
9th “Wild” Bill Myers 2.73 lbs
10th Mike Landrich 2.12 lbs
11th Andrew Kossuth 1.66 lbs

Pat Bertoletti’s victory ends Sonya Thomas Buffalo Wing Festival streak at 6 contests.

The Buffet Bowl at the Buffalo Wing Festival should start at 6pm and can be viewed online. The festival website has the contest roster.

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