Upcoming New York City eating contests
(All New York City eating challenges and contests in database)
newyork.craigslist.org has a request for a competitive eater who is not a member of IFOCE for a documentary. The politics of competitive eating will be a topic of the documentary.
Wicked Spoon in Brooklyn will hold a frozen yogurt eating contest on Saturday as part of its grand opening that will award something worth $150 to the winner.
The Wall Street Journal's Metropolis has an entry about Brick Lane Curry, which has experienced a big increase in the number of orders for its "Phaal Challenge" after it was featured on an episode of Man vs. Food.
McFadden's in the New York Mets ballpark in Queens will hold a Wing Bowl on Friday awarding $500 to the winner.
YourNabe has an article about last week's Brooklyn Burger eating contest, won by Joe Menchetti, and Atomic Wing eating contest, where Sean Lennon successfully defended his title.
WFFTV has a news video about the Atomic Wing eating contest at the Coney Island Siren Festival. Sean Lennon repeated as champion by eating 46 wings in 8 minutes.
Caroline Shin of the Columbia School of Journalism has produced a video about the "Punisher" spicy tequila challenge at Mojave in Astoria, NY.
MCBrooklyn announces that a burger eating contest will take place at the Coney Island Cyclones ballpark tonight. The winner will compete in a contest at the NY Mets stadium on July 30.
Val Bromann has posted blog entries and galleries about the 2010 Nathan's Finals and its afterparty.
NYCZombieCrawl has a gallery of the Zombie Crawl held at the Nathan's finals in support of Tim "Gravy" Brown.
New York competitive eater wanted for story
Caroline Shin of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has emailed the following request for a New York City area competitive eater. Respond to cs2804@columbia.edu if you are interested.
More 2010 Nathan’s Finals links
Galleries: Deadspin | Gothamist | TimeOutNY | FireTheCannon
Deadspin blog entry titled “The 4th Of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Was Just A Big Old Mess Of Sweat And Vomit”
NY Time City Room blog entry
Yahoo MMA blog entry comparing Kobayashi to Fedor Emelianenko
Hungry Sisters blog entry and gallery
Val Bromann blog entries: Day 1
ESPN behind the scenes video, has interviews with Badlands Booker & Gravy Brown
Driven By Boredom blog entry & gallery about the afterparty for the eaters
Slate.com has a column by William Saletan
DanisHouseofPizza.com has a page about its 2010 pizza eating contest. Qualifiers will start on July 17 and award a bonus of %50 to non-competitive eaters (not defined). The finals on August 14 will award $850 ($500 to the winner).
Joey Chestnut Fourpeats Nathan’s, Kobayashi arrested after contest
update July 5 #2 CNN has a video of Kobayashi after his release. Kobayashi’s next appearance in court will be on August 5.
CalorieLab has a human translation of Kobayashi’s July 3 blog entry.
update July 5 The Associated Press reports that Kobayashi has been freed from jail and will have a court appearance today.
update 10:55 pm Some more links
An updated New York Daily News article
Yahoo News has an AP article with over 1000 comments
Deadspin has a blog entry with a video
Youtube has another video
New York Metromix has a gallery
“Kobayashi arrested” is #6 in Google Trends, over 8 hours after the incident
Gastroboy noted that someone claiming to be Kobayashi has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/FreeKobayashi
update 2:39 The New York Post has a more detailed article about Kobayashi’s arrest. (via gastroboy)
Two beefy men, wearing polo shirts with NYPD logos, stopped Kobayashi as he attempted to hop a barricade and reach Joey Chestnut after the San Jose, Calif., eating machine won his fourth consecutive Nathan’s title.
The muscle men put Kobayashi in a headlock and dragged him backstage. Witnesses said that it appeared Kobayashi had no ill intent and wanted to congratulate Chestnut.
update 1:42 The Associated Press reports that Takeru Kobayashi was taken into custody by police after he went on stage after the contest.
The results: Results #4 – #16 from the eating contest twitter
1) Joey Chestnut 54, fourth victory in a row
2) Tim Janus 45
3) Pat Bertoletti 37
4) Sonya Thomas 36
5) Bob Shoudt 34
6) Erik Denmark 32
7) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31
8) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 28
9) Juliet Lee 27
9) Ben Monson 27
11) Sean Gordon 26.5
12) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24
12) Pete Davekos 24
14) Crazy Legs Conti 20
15) Bryan Beard 15.5
16) Krystopher Adams 11
12:53 Joey Chestnut wins comfortably
12:48 At the halfway point. Joey Chestnut has a comfortable lead. Rich Shea alludes to the controversial escondido qualifier.
12:43 The contest starts. “Joey Chestnut” and “dog eating contest” are twitter trending topics. Kobayashi is shown in the crowd.
12:28 The eaters’ entrances start
The Nathan’s commercial showed Kobayashi, Dale Boone & Cookie Jarvis.
Paul Page called Joey Chestnut “Joey Chitwood”.
It is official that Takeru Kobayashi will not compete. This will be the first finals without a Japanese competitor since 1996.
SillyAmerica, HungrySisters, Will Millender and Gothamist are live blogging
BadlandsBooker and the eating contest twitter have posted a lot of pictures.
Gothamist has a blog entry and gallery from today's weigh in for Nathan's and JoeyJawsChestnut.com has a video from that event.
The 2010 Dani's Pizza contest in Queens will add a 50% bonus to the number of slices eaten by non-competitive eaters. (Competitive eaters are not defined) Qualifiers start July 10.
A Zombie Crawl will be held before the Nathan's finals in support of Tim "Gravy" Brown.
twitter.com/smithandvine reports that Will Millender won the stinky cheese eating contest for the third year in a row by eating 13.75 ounces of cheese in 2 minutes.
Tim Janus wins 2010 NY Mets Nathan’s qualifier
update #2 The top 3
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 46 HDB
2) Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 22
3) Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski 21
? Andrew Kossuth 10.5
BeautifulBrian.com has an article and video
update The MLE facebook reports Tim Janus won with 46 HDB.
The MLE facebook lists Tim Janus & Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin as expected entrants.
NYBD has a picture
The broadcast of the 2010 Nathan's finals is now listed in the ESPN schedule. As in previous years, the program will start at noon eastern and last an hour.
The blog for Go! Go! Curry! has a gallery of its 2010 curry eating contest.
(via comment) FujiSankei has a Japanese news video about the contest held at Go! Go! Curry!
(via Patrick Michels twitter) Rebecca Davis has a video from the Go! Go! Curry! finals with interviews of several finalists.
Rocco’s Pizza contest videos
Jill Stoler has uploaded videos of Rocco’s pizza eating contest held in Brooklyn on Sunday.
Furious Pete wins Rocco’s pizza
Will Millender has the top 6 at today’s Rocco’s pizza eating contest in Brooklyn:
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, 27 slices
2) Sal Carbone 17 slices (defending champ)
3) Mike Hoffman 15 slices
4) Mike Longo 14 slices
5) Will Millender 13 slices
6) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
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