From IFOCE.com & Rhonda

1. Tim Janus: 26 (ties Jarvis’ record last year)
2. Crazy Legs Conti: 22
3. Justin Mih: 18

Updated 9/16 9:00 AM MosesNews.com has galleries of:

The contest and
Cookie Jarvis’ lifetime achievement award. There is a new Major League Eating T shirt out.

(fixed 1:14 pm – Thanks Don “Moses” Lerman)

1:45 pm – NY1 has an article and video of the contest. Tim Janus says he has a sports psychologist.

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IFOCE.com has a retirement announcement for Don “Moses” Lerman and says that he will help judge tomorrows’s cannoli contest. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will receive a lifetime achievement award before the contest.

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baynewsbrooklyn.com has a report on last Saturdays Frank’s Red Hot Battle to the Bone wing eating competition held at the beach volleyball tournament in Brooklyn. The top three finishers (who are all unknown) are listed without their places.

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(from speedeat.com) Joe Menchetti will appear on CBS’ Early Show to promote Frank’s Red Hot wing eating contest to be held at the AVP beach volleyball contest on Coney Island Saturday. The expected time of the appearance is 8:36 am eastern. franksredhot.com has more information about the contest. go-brooklyn.com says the contest will take place at 3pm and registration will occur from 10 am to 11:30 am.

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(From AICE news)

“King” George Van Laar upset Joe Menchetti & Ian Hickman in Windmill hot dogs on Saturday after originally intending to skip the contest due to health reasons:

1. “King” George van Laar, 12.75 hot dogs
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 12.66 hot dogs
3. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, 11.75 hot dogs

Menchetti rebounded to win the Chinese dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens Sunday:

1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 49 dumplings in 2 minutes a new record
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 42 dumplings
3. Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman 39 dumplings, retired from eating after contest

Tang Ta Way, a Queens postal worker, upset Floria Lee in the women’s division of the contest, becoming the second surprise female winner of the weekend.

1. Tang Ta Way, 31 dumplings
2. Floria Lee, 29 dumplings, 4 off last year’s female record

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(From AICE news) The purse of the Chinese dumpling contest to be held at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens August 13 has almost doubled from last year. Prizes will increase to $1000, $500 and $300 from $500, $300 and $200. Prizes will be awarded for both men’s and women’s divisions. The women’s contest purse of $1800 is probably larger than the purse for all other American women’s only eating contests combined. Registration ends August 7.

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(from beautifulbrian.com) Youtube has 8 videos of Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin on the Opie & Anthony show, including 3 of his attempt at eating 100 hard boiled eggs while walking the streets of New York City this week. He apparently gets to 97, but regurgitates so his mark will not supplant Sonya Thomas’ record.

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(from AICE news) There will be a Chinese dumpling eating contest at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens on August 13. Women’s and men’s purses of $1,000 ($500 1st, $300 2nd, $200 3rd) will be offered. Last year’s female second place ate only about 11 dumplings in two minutes (the female winner, Floria Lee, almost tied the male runners up), so Gothamite trencherwomen interested in winning $300 might want to check this event out.

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Cyberfyber, who uploaded videos of Nathan’s contest to youtube, has also posted an informal press conference Kobayashi held at the Nathan’s weigh in on July 3.

Cyberfyber has also sent George Shea’s pre-contest “sermon” to youtube.

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Kobayashi’s judge at Nathan’s, journalist Gersh Kuntzman, has a column in the Brooklyn Papers explaining the decisions he made at that contest.

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Some URLs from the last week have been added to the post containing articles & other links about last week’s Nathan’s finals.

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Kobayashi’s blog has an entry about last Tuesday’s Nathan’s finals.

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At 10pm (eastern) The History Channel will broadcast an episode of American Eats about the history of the hot dog. There will be some information about Nathan’s hot dogs and competitive eating.

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IFOCE.com has posted a full list of Nathan’s results. Some observations:

• Jed Donahue only is listed with 1 HDB
• Kenji Oguni did 16 HDB, second to last, barely half of what he did in 2005.
• The European entrants did respectably with 20 and 18 HDB. I would not have expected the Europeans to both beat the Tokyo qualifier

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I wondered what Joey Chestnut pointing to Kobayashi around the 10 minute mark signified, and this article in the San Francisco Chronicle says that Joey Chestnut was indicating that he believed that Kobayashi might have regurgitated at that time. Joey’s brother Patrick says that a quarter hot dog was found in Kobayashi’s cup. The article says that three additional eating contests will be televised on ESPN, which compensates for the loss of the US Open of Competitive Eating.

updated 7/5 3:11 pm – headline changed

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ESPN360 has made the full video of the entire Nathan’s finals available at http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash?ceid=2509202
(At least it is available in theory, it hangs up on me before any footage is displayed. Maybe it will work better tonight when traffic is lighter.)

While waiting for the video to display, you can vote in ESPN’s poll asking what item could you most easily eat 54 of.

From Food Fighter Fan: cyberfyber has uploaded video to youtube he filmed of the contest and yesterday’s weigh in. His contest footage gives an idea of what was going on with all the eaters.

Contest Part I
Contest Part II
Weigh-In Part I
Weigh-In part II
Joey-Kobayashi stare down

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I will collect articles about the results of today’s Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in this post as they come online.

AP – from Newsday Kobayashi’s weight is listed at 160
NY1 article a video clip is also available
7/5 12:34 am Yahoo article, slideshow & video clip
Top 6 finishers Pat 34.5, Tim 34, Chip 33
(updated 7/5 5:49 pm Tim has emailed me and says that the article is incorrect and he ate 34)
1:56 am IronyMaiden has some nice pictures on her myspace site

Updated July 5 2:34
Liz’s gallery from July 3/4, also includes pictures from AICE hamburger contest
SJ Mercury article about Joey Chestnut, does not mention controversy
Megamunch eyewitness account blog entry
Gothamist blog entry
Another flickr gallery from before the contest
Sunset Parker meets Kobayashi & Kobayashi’s #1 fan

8:10
Vallejo Times Herald article about local boy Joey Chestnut
Picture of Sonya Thomas fans from SC
Liz reports back from Coney Island She does not expect to have her article up before the end of the week

July 11, 2:24 pm
North Korea Times on Kobayashi & Nathan’s
Montreal Gazette on Nathan’s finals
Houston Chronicle columnist attends Nathan’s finals
Claudine Ko (Jane Magazine) blog entry
Yomiuri (English) preview of Nathan’s

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Following the jump is a list of the top 5 every 30 seconds in today’s Nathan’s finals

Read the rest of this entry »

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2:05 Kobayashi has broken his record every even-numbered year and failed to break it in odd-numbered years since he first set the record in 2001. (I guess this is somewhat analagous to Star Trek movies where the even numbered movies are more worth watching than the odd numbered ones)

1:42 The Whaler’s website received a mention in the broadcast in addition to appearing on Tim’s Whalers sign. It is surprising that eaterx.blogspot.com was publicized in this manner when it does not appear on the IFOCE website. The past three weeks have been good to competitors associated with the Hartford Whalers.

1:20 Gothamist also had a live blog

1:09 The production values for 2006 were higher than the 2005 contest when the running totals were only sporadically displayed. If the ChewCam must be retained, the running totals should be displayed while the ChewCam is shown.

12:58 Koby’s mark is revised to 53.75, still a record. A graphic for “Major League Eating” ? is displayed. Joey and Koby are briefly interviewed. Sonya ties her record with 37 if that is her result. I wonder what happened to Chip. He fell off a lot at the end.

12:53 Kobayashi sets the record with 54! Joey has 52 Sonya 37 Tim breaks 30 with 33, Pat is 5th (or tied for 4th)

12:52 WIll Koby break the record?

12:51 2 minutes – Kobys lead is now 2

12:50 Kobyashi moves ahead with about 3 minutes left Sonya has moved into 3rd

12:49 ESPN: Don’t switch away from the action for the chewcams!!

12:48 4 minutes left tied at 40

12:46 halfway Joey 35, Koby 33,

12:44 4 minutes Joey 28, Koby 26

12:43 At the quarter mark, Chestnut has a 2 dog lead. Thomas is #5

12:42 Chestnut has moved ahead around the 11 minute mark Sonya is not in the top 5

12:41 and we’re off

12:40 The hot dogs are displayed and it is said the hot dogs are allowed to cool off because it makes it easier to eat

12:31 All competitors starting with Erik Denmark will be introduced on television. Tim carries a Hartford Whalers sign with his website onto the stage. “Kamil” from the Czech republic is unfortunately not a Slavic tennis-babe type 😉 Chip is introduced after Sonya. I know Chip ate one more HDB in qualifying, but I feel this is a bit disrespectful taking all of Sonya’s accomplishments into account. Kobayashi weighs 170 lb and has orange hair.

12:30 A graphic of streaks incorrectly says Lance Armstrong’s streak is 6.

12:25 Some clips of Kobayashi from previous contests are aired. Kobayashi does not look as muscular as he did in 2005, but his shirt has sleeves so it is difficult to tell.

12:22 A list of hot dog eating techinques is displayed.

12:21 Pat Bertoletti is interviewed. He says it will take a miracle for him to reach 50 HDB.

12:20 Brief interviews with the “rookies” / members of “Axis of Eaters” Chip Simpson and Pat Bertoletti are aired.

12:19 A video press release on the redevelopment / yuppification of Coney Island is aired.

12:17 Kobayashi’s factoids incorrectly says he has only lost to a bear. He has lost to Nobuyuki Shirota in a long distance contest on Japanese television.

12:13 Sonya is interviewed and says she will focus on fast swallowing. She trains by drinking a lot of liquids. She says the heat does not bother her, but will affect the heavier competitors.

12:10 A profile of Joey Chestnut is aired. Joey is filmed at his construction company and at work sites

12:09 The bus arrives and Joey Chestnut is interviewed. He says he will push through the wall of pain.

12:06 Some observations:

Is the IFOCE webmaster on summer vacation? No updates at all since June 28

Will Sonya break the single session female hot dog eating record? Which I believe is 43 chili dogs (in 4 hours) by Balinda Gould at the Rockford Corner Bar in December.

Prediction for table lineup:
center Kobyashi
1 from center Sonya & Joey
2 from center Pat & Chip
3 from center Rich & Badlands

12:01 Welcome to the Nathan’s teleblog. It looks like there is a threat of rain and some spectators have umbrellas. The nutritional information of 50+ hot dogs is listed and the crowd size is announced at 15,000.

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Liz and Krista are reporting from Coney Island for an Urban Honking liveblog (its times are west coast) Competitive eating coverage has moved from urbanhonking.com/digest to urbanhonking.com/truefan as announced.

I will be liveblogging (teleblogging?) the ESPN coverage in about 15 minutes.

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Here are some previews of this afternoon’s Nathan’s hot dog finals:

FoxSports
BBC
Guardian (UK) travel blog
pittsburghlive.comarticle about Chip Simpson, Brian Subich & AICE member Bob Kuhns

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From urbanhonking.com Erik “the Red” Denmark won the makeup qualifier for the cancelled contest in Thailand with 22.5 hot dogs. Joe LaRue came in second. Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz competed. A flickr gallery of the contest and weigh-in has been uploaded.

NY1 has an article and video about the weigh-in, with no mention of the contest.

Updated 7/4 10:15 am – Erik has a podcast of an interview from June 30

Updated 7/4 10:57 am Results & pictures from beautifulbrian.com
1. Erik “the Red Denmark” 22.5 HDB
2. Joe LaRue 14.5 HDB
3. Don “Moses” Lerman 14 HDB
4. “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz 13.5

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The Asbury Park Press has an article about the renaissance of Coney Island. Nathan’s hot dog contest and Dick Zigun, a participant in the Great Mini Hot Dog Eat a Thon, are mentioned

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Thanks Wyatt Earp. A video clip of Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Tim “Eater X” Janus in a one minute Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on Good Morning America this morning can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2142642 Joey Chestnut was declared the winner with 7.5 hot dogs in one minute, but Kobayashi’s and Tim’s totals were not announced (and apparently not counted). George Shea stated that Kobayashi would attend the Johnsonville bratwurst contest in Wisconsin.

If that video clip does not satisfy your competitive eating on Good Morning America fix, video clips of Kate Stelnick from January are available: Segment 1, Segment 2

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The website for local cable news channel NY1 has an article previewing the Nathan’s finals. George Shea and Eric “Badlands” Booker are quoted. A video clip of the segment is available.

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