Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
The Hungry Sisters have posted their report on the 2009 Nathan's finals.
Craigslist has a posting requesting competitive eaters to appear in a 5 minute comedic short filming this weekend in Manhattan.
NYCGo.com has interviews with Pat Bertoletti and Badlands Booker's judge Ken Podziba.
(from email) Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky won last night's knish eating contest at the Brooklyn Cyclone game by eating 5.75 knishes in 5 minutes.
Val Bromann and the Hungry Sisters have blog entries about the MLE eaters vs. elephants contest held on July 3.
Juliet Lee has updated her website by adding a report on her experience at this year's Nathan's finals and competing against elephants the day before.
Bunnette Zoe has posted a blog entry about riding the bus of champions which contains short interviews with Juliet Lee and Joey Chestnut.
DanisHouseOfPizza.com reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski set a record for their contest in the July 4 qualifier by eating 10 slices of pizza in 8 minutes, breaking "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti's record.
A knish eating contest will be held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game tomorrow in honor of Jewish Heritage Night.
BeautifulBrian.com has a report on serving as judge for Franco "FrenkyBello" Camerini and the post contest activities along with some pictures and videos from the contest.
Deadspin has a gallery of the Nathan's finals which includes a picture of the floor around the eaters' table after the contest.
Chestnut’s 68 HDBs 86s Kobayashi
update IFOCE.com now has the full results. (from Craig Reed)
Badlands Booker has some results outside the top 3. Sonya Thomas reached her longtime goal of 40+ and Booker did 30.
positions #5-#8 are from twitter.com/erikdenmark
1. Joey Chestnut 68 HDB, new 12 & 10 minute record
2. Takeru Kobayashi 64.5 a personal best
3. Pat Bertoletti, 55, personal best
4. Tim “Eater X” Janus 53
5. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 41.75
6 Sonya Thomas 41, a 12 & 10 minute womens record
7T Hall Hunt 38
7T Erik Denmark 38
? Badlands Booker 30
The teleblog of the program is available after the jump
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The Buffalo News has an article about "Buffalo" Jim Reeves and his return to the Nathan's finals today.
GoGoCurryUSA.com has a slideshow of its curry eating contest.1010WINS has an article and gallery (solely of Chestnut & Kobayashi) of the Nathan's weigh-in today. update CNN also has an article about the weigh-in, which claims that Eater X has eaten 55 HDBs. update #2 NY1 video
http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker/: The Nathan's weigh in will be today at Herald Square at 1 PM. Previous weigh-ins were held on July 3.
BrooklynPaper.com has a podcast of a song about the 2009 Nathan's finals performed by Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island.
BeautifulBrian.com has reports on the Bunnette Bootcamp and the Cops vs. Firefighters qualifer. Bob Cocadrillo won the qualifier and will compete in the Nathan's finals Saturday.
twitter.com/bigwillthechamp/: Will Millender's twitter reports he repeated as the winner of the stinky cheese contest held in Brooklyn today. update Metromix has a gallery
IFOCE.com announces that the elephants' opponents in the July 3 bun eating contest will be Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee and Tim Brown.
Badlands does the double deuce in Queens
update #2 NY1 has an article and video about the contest
Jo “Gavonne” Rose has uploaded a video
update Results from Rich Shea’s twitter: badlands with 40 pat from moonachie w/32, nasty nate w/25 yasir reversal Pat Philbin’s twitter confirms
Eric “Badlands” Booker and Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin will compete in today’s Nathan’s qualifier at the new New York Mets ballpark. According to Pat’s twitter, hot dogs might not require dunking.
Tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at the New York Mets stadium will take place at 3PM to accommodate the 4:10 PM game start time mandated by the Fox national broadcast.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski announces that he will do a contest in New York City on July 4, but it will be a Dani's pizza qualifier and not the Nathan's finals or Peggy O'Neill's burger contest.
July 3 Coney Island Humans vs. elephants eating contest
(Via eater) The Brooklyn Papers reports that Coney Island will host a hot dog bun eating contest between three unnamed humans and three elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus on July 3. George Shea has the following quote:
“When most people see elephants, they see the majesty of nature. To me, I see an arrogant animal that needs to be taken down a notch,†said an unabashedly pro-human Shea.
Comedienne Lily Tomlin protested the elephants’ Coney Island appearance before the eating contest was announced.
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