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2012 Nathan’s finals converage
- Appearance of Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas on NBC’s Today yesterday
- CNN’s Eatocracy explains competitive eating terminology
- Guardian (UK) contest report
- Yahoo! Chompions blog entry
- Daily Mail carries the AP article with a lot of pictures
- Buzzfeed has a gallery titled “The 15 Disgusting Faces Of The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest”
- Awful Announcing has commentary on the ESPN telecast
- The Kooky Canuck owner attended the finals and has a facebook gallery
- The Baltimore Sun has a gallery
- Driven by Boredom has galleries of the contest and afterparty
- Deadspin has a blog entry about post contest elimation. (A comment states that most elimination is done via vomiting and that a top 3 MLE eater required hospitalization after a training session went wrong (the commenter claims to be a friend of the hospitalized competitor’s girlfriend))
- The NY Times NBA blog has an entry about Brooklyn Net Marshon Brooks serving as a contest judge
- Ken Hoffman has an article about serving as Matt Stonie’s judge. The Houston Chronicle columnist claims that a piece of Joey Chestnut’s hot dog flew into his mouth. )
- Mercy for Animals has a blog entry about their contest protest
- Flickr gallery by EKavet
- Matt Stonie facebook gallery
- SeaCoast Online article about Matt Stonie
- Barrie Examiner article about Meredith Boxberger.
Crif Dog Classic coverage
- Brian Seiken has several videos recorded at the contest including interviews with “Furious” Pete Czerwinski and Brad Sciullo updated
- CNN article about plate recount illustrated with picture from Kobayashi’s 2011 exhibition
- Record Setter video of contest
- SBNation blog entry and video by Spencer Hall of the Every Day Should Be Saturday college football blog. He says that one of the participants was not supposed to compete and was allowed at the table after obtaining an “Eater” badge. This might have been responsible for the space shortage at the table.
- Galleries on Crif Dog Classic facebook: Eaters | Food & Crowd | Judges
- NBC Sports Off the Bench blog entry, has yet to be updated with the plate recount.
- Brooklynauts blog entry and gallery
- CoedMagazine gallery
- Slow-motion video of Kobayashi eating
- Video by Johnnie Excel
- Arthur Kade article and video interview with Takeru Kobayashi
- Short Las Cruces Sun-News article about Stephanie Torres’ runner-up finish
BK Magazine has an interview with Will Millender, who says he prefers local contests where he is the definite favorite to larger events with stiffer competition.
Kobayashi wins 2012 Crif Dog Classic with 58.5 after plate recount
update July 5 The RecordSetter twitter announces Kobayashi’s official total is 58.5 and not 68.5 due to a plate miscount
Results from Crif Dog Classic
1) Takeru Kobayashi 68.5
2T) Tom Gilbert 31
2T) Stephanie Torres 31
4) Dave Brunelli 29
5) Pat Philbin 26 26.5
6) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25
7) Dave “US Male” Goldstein 23.5
8) Johnnie Excel 25 23
9) Brad Sciullo 20.5 19
Nathan's weigh-in coverage: AP article with a lot of pictures | NY1 News video | Huffington Post video & gallery | NY Times City Room blog entry | Gothamist blog entry
"Cousin" Sal Iacono has a column for grantland.com about attempting an eating challenge at Popei's in BethPage, NY in 1993, which required some unconventional techniques to get credit for finishing.
Wired.com has a report on the Nathan's qualifier held in Queens, NY.
Kate C of NotTheItGirls.com originally planned to attend the Nathan's finals, but decided to purchase a ticket for the Crif Dog Classic instead.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to oversee the "weigh-in" ceremony for Nathan's competitors today at City Hall Park at 1 pm today.
The Brooklyn Daily has a report on Saturday's cupcake eating contest held at Deno's Wonder Wheel in Coney Island listing the top 3: 1) Stephanie "Xanada" Torres 71 2) Eric "Silo" Dahl 60 3) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti 42
Craigslist has a job offering $100 for "little people" to appear in a comedy video recorded at the Nathan's finals.
The Crif Dog Classic announces that it has sold all of its tickets.
Mercy for Animals new mascot, a 10 foot inflatable puppy in a hot dog bun, will appear at a protest at the Nathan's finals Wednesday.
WCBS has column about the planned Nathan's time change to 3pm oblivious to the restoration of the original noon start. (Coverage of the women's contest will begin on ESPN3.com at 11:25 am eastern). The Crif Dog Classic contest is expected to start at 2:15 pm eastern according to a "US Male" practice video.
The current July 4 weather forecast for JFK airport is high 88, low 73 with a 50% chance of precipitation.
Jen Balisi reports that a woman (probably Stephanie Torres) won a cupcake eating contest held today at the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island with a total of 71 cupcakes in 8 minutes. update July 1 The Wonder Wheel facebook has a gallery confirming that Stephanie Torres was the winner. Other competitors were Eric Dahl, Ian Hickman, Joe Menchetti and Will Millender.
Broadway World announces that Major League Eating will hold an "Apple Pie Dive" at Coney Island where competitors will try to extract prizes from what as billed as the largest apple pie. The event is sponsored by the Destination America cable channel, formerly known as Planet Green.
Dexter Holland, singer for The Offspring, will be a judge for the Crif Dog Classic.
Stinky Brooklyn announces Will Millender won the Stinkfest Cheese-eating Contest today for the fifth time in a row.
Don Lerman announces he tied for first at the pickle eating contest held at the Long Island Kosher Barbecue Championship.
Coney Island temperature increase from 1 pm to 4 pm
Both The Brooklyn Paper and the New York Post wrote articles about the time shift of the Nathan’s finals three hours later and the possibility for hotter weather during the competition. To determine the average increase in temperature, the following table lists the 12:51 pm and 3:51 pm temperatures for JFK Airport for the past ten July 4s using data from Wunderground.com.
| Year | 12:51 | 3:51 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 96.1 | 97.0 | 0.9 |
| 2003 | 81.0 | 86.0 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 77.0 | 77.0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 78.1 | 75.9 | -2.2 |
| 2006 | 84.9 | 78.1 | -6.8 |
| 2007 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 77.0 | 80.1 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 78.1 | 82.0 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 95.0 | 99.0 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 81.0 | 84.9 | 3.9 |
| Avg | 81.8 | 83 | 1.2 |
Director Mike Nichols ("The Graduate") used his acceptance speech at the Tony awards to reminisce about winning a pie eating contest that took place at the same site as the awards ceremony. (Nichols is the father-in-law of ESPN's Rachel Nichols.)
The New York Post reports that R. J. Williams, holder of the fastest time for light bulb eating (33.86 seconds) on RecordSetter.com, was arrested after allegedly robbing seven New York City banks. update June 12 Lady Zombie has an examiner.com article about the impact of the arrest on the New York City Goth scene.
DNAInfo has an article and video about the Burping World Championships held in New York City won by Tim Janus.
The prize breakdown for the Crif Dog Classic has been announced: $15,000 / $5,000 / $2,500 / $1,500 / $1000. (I have not seen the 2012 Nathan's finals payouts listed; I assume they will remain the same as 2011 ($10,000 / $5,000 / $2,500 / $1,500 / $1,000) for both divisions.)
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