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BeautifulBrian.com: Sonya wins buffet bowl
Sonya takes Buffalo doubleheader with back to back victories in Wings and Buffet Bowl update top 4 results have been posted now
1. Sonya Thomas
2. Humble Bob Shoudth
3. Joe LaRue
4. “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
update BuffaloNews.com has an article mentioning Sonya’s victory. Jeremy Cuevas, of Thibodaux, LA, won the amateur wing contest by eating 2.72 pounds of wings in six minutes. Buffalowing.com has a video of the last two minutes of the buffet bowl.
Sept 1 IFOCE contest results
From BeautifulBrian.com via “Farooq”
Buffalo Wing Festival results
1) Sonya Thomas 5.16 lbs, first Buffalo victory since 2004
2) Chip Simpson 4.77 lbs. angry at weighing
3) Brad Sciullo
4) Humble Bob Shoudt
Sonya will be competing in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl tomorrow for the first time
Yahoo news has an article and some pictures of the contest
update BuffaloNews.com has an article and gallery of the contest Chip Simpson’s total increased from 4.77 lb to 4.33 lb after he received a recount.
From IFOCE.com & City of Lewisville
BBQ sandwich eating contest, Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival, Myrtle Beach, SC, 10 minutes
1) Joey Chestnut: 45 Sandwiches, almost doubles Sonya’s 2003 record
2) Pat Bertoletti: 43.5 Sandwiches, led for most of contest
3) Juliet Lee: 22.5 Sandwiches
4) Patrick Vandam: 20 Sandwiches
5) Todd Hennessey: 12.25 Sandwiches
6) Bill Roth: 10.5 Sandwiches
City of Lewisville World Tamale Eating Championship, Lewisville, TX, 12 minutes
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus, 71 tamales, new record
2) Rich LeFevre, 51 tamales, competing w/ injured tooth
3) Mongo Marquez, 27 tamales
4) Timm Dilling, 24, Garland, Texas, first contest
5) Jeff Bennett, 21
DallasNews.com has an article about the contest
Buffalo Wing Festival registration open
The contests to be held at the Buffalo Wing Festival are now on the IFOCE contests page and registration for those events is open at buffalowing.com
2007 Buffalo Wing Festival contest information
Saturday September 1 IFOCE Buffalo Wing Contest
Sunday September 2 Buffet Bowl contest
Toronto Star on Eat Your Face Off
The Toronto Star has an excellent writeup of the Eat Your Face Off contests:
With the salesmanship of Ron Popeil and the bombast of Ed McMahon, the heavily-sideburned Chapman is emceeing this competition, frantically barking the play-by-play throughout — “You’ve got to finish your milk! Your momma always told you, you’ve gotta finish your milk!” — including the two amateur meets, the first of which kicked off the entire show, right in the middle of the casino.
Casino Niagara Eat Your Face Off results
from AICE news
Milk & Cookies, 5 minutes, top 3 spots separated by 2 cookies
1. “King” George Van Laar, 59 cookies & milk
2. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 58
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger 57
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 49.25
DQ Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 80 but did not finish all the milk
Canadian Back Bacon & Bun
1. Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 7.5 6oz sandwiches
2. Lew “The Chew” Porchiazzo, 6.5
3. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 5.67
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 5
U of Buffalo student competes in Buffet Bowl
The University of Buffalo student newspaper has an article by Alex Nye, who was called out of the Buffalo Wing Festival crowd to fill a vacant spot in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl. The items eaten in that event were three full beef on wecks (roast beef sandwiches on kummelweck rolls) smothered in gravy, about eight hot chicken fingers, a half dozen pierogies and around 25 chicken wings. No information is given about the other competitors other than Bob Shoudt won in a little over five minutes.
Humble Bob wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl, Jammin Joe most creative sauce
The results page of buffalowing.com says that Humble Bob Shoudt won the Buffalo Buffet Bowl eating contest (no other information is given)
Updated 9/4 5:33pm Results from Brian Seiken
1. Humble Bob Shoudt 5:25 needed to eat 5 lb food
2. Arturo Rios
3. Joe LaRue
? Erik Denmark
? Jim Reeves
Food items were 3 roast beef sandwiches 4 large buffalo chicken strips 5 empanadas and loads of chicken wings
Jammin’ Joe LaRue won most creative wing sauce for his apple chipotle chutney
A video of the last 45 seconds of Saturday’s contest is available
September 2 contest results
From IFOCE.com, Brian Seiken, Luther, City of Lewisville:
Buffalo Wing Festival
1. Chip Simpson, 158 wings
2T. Sonya Thomas 146
2T. Bob Shoudt 146
? Jim Reeves 108
Updated 9/3 9:18am The Buffalo News has an article about the contest which says the contest ran out of wings
The results were given as wings but I think the judging was based on pounds eaten
Lewisville TX Tamale Contest
1st place – Tim Janus, 51 tamales (world record)
2nd place – Rich LeFevre, 50 tamales
3rd place – Seaver Miller, 30 tamales
GoldenPalace.net World Kolache Eating Championship at the Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, NE
1 Pat Bertoletti 44 Kolaches
2 Jason Erb 24
3 Frank Wach 22
4T David Amiel, Michael Netzinger and J. Varuch 19
7 Andrew Lane 18
8 Jason Smith 17
(Updated 9/3 5:32 pm – thanks Laura)
Buffalo Wing Festival in projected path of Ernesto
The current projected path of tropical storm Ernesto has it passing over western New York state Saturday afternoon and evening.
Updated 9/1 8:28 am – The Buffalo Wing Festival has an inclement weather plan that says they will have several huge tents.
Eric “Badlands” Booker wins Buffalo Wing contest
In a shocking upset, Eric “Badlands” Booker won the Buffalo Wing contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival Saturday. His total of 137 wings beat Sonya Thomas’ total by ten wings. This is Sonya Thomas first loss to an eater besides Kobayashi since the Philadelphia Wing Bowl in early February, a period of about seven months. There is apparently no controversy about the Buffalo result which could not be claimed for the Wing Bowl. The upset is especially suprising given that Sonya almost ate twice as many lobsters as Booker in the Maine lobster contest in August. Sonya will have the chance to resume her non-Kobayashi winning streak when she competes in the Atlanta Waffle House contest on Sunday and the Chattanooga Krystal qualifier on Labor Day. Cookie Jarvis was 3rd and Bob Shoudt placed 4th.
Buffalo Wing Festival Preview
The Buffalo News promotes this weekend’s Wing Festival. No new information is provided about the eating contests.
Buffalo Wing Entrants
The Buffalo Wing Festival has the expected entrants list for Saturday’s Buffalo wing contest. Most of the top IFOCE members from the northeast will attend, but Joe LaRue is the only competitor listed from outside that region. I am not sure if that is the final list or if other eaters might show up. No information is available about Sunday’s buffet contest, but I assume that some gurgitators will hang around for that event. Brian Subich is back from a two week hiatus with additional information about the wing contest.
Sonya Thomas appears to have a quite stern challenge preserving her almost seven-month non-Kobayashi winning streak this holiday weekend when she competes in three contests in three different cities. First she will match up with Tim Janus coming off a record smashing performance in grilled cheese along with a resurgent Cookie Jarvis in Buffalo and then face a rested Joey Chestnut in waffles in Atlanta Sunday. On labor day in Chattanooga she will face off with Joey Chestnut again in the Krystal burger qualifier.
(Thanks Sonya for the website compliment on sonyatheblackwidow.com)
Buffalo Wing Festival Preview
The Buffalo News has a preview of the Chicken Wing Festival to be held at Buffalo’s minor league stadium Labor Day weekend. There will be a wing eating contest Saturday of that weekend in which Sonya Thomas will attempt to break her record of 161 wings in twelve minutes. There will also be a buffet contest on Sunday, but since it just pays out $500 to the winner, Sonya and the other top eaters might opt for the waffle contest in Atlanta, which will pay out $5,000 to the victor.
If Sonya enters two contests Labor Day weekend, she will appear in twelve contests between the 4th of July and Labor Day if each round of the US Open is counted as a separate contest. This is a considerable increase from her planned goal of 12 to 18 contests a year which is found in her website’s FAQ.
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