Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
IFOCE.com announces a "Bunnette Bootcamp" will be held in New York City on June 27. Three Bunnettes will be selected to appear in the Nathan's finals July 4.
Dougie's in Brooklyn will host a kosher buffalo wings eating contest on Sunday, June 14. First prize is a $250 gift certificate.
A video of the overtime session in Saturday's contest at Choo Choo's burgers between "Sunshine" and Will Millender is available on youtube.
Gazette.net has an article about Juliet Lee's victory in the eating contest held at Pete's Clam Bar on Memorial Day.
SFunFun has a gallery from the contest sponsored by Rocco's Pizza in Brooklyn.
(from Matt Rodbard) Metromix has a gallery of Saturday's rib eating contest at Hill Country in Manhattan. Crossfit gym owner Rob Egan was the winner with 2.3 pounds in 12 minutes.
The dates for the 2009 pizza contests at Dani's House of Pizza in Queens are now available. The first qualifier will take place on June 13.
1984 Nathan’s finals picture
MLE has a twitpic of the 1984 Nathan’s finals. Winner Birgit Felden is probably second from right.
update business-on.de has an interview with Birgit Felden which mentions her participation on the national judo team but not her Nathan’s victory.
Judosite reports Birgit Felden came in second place in the Under 20 nationals in the 61 kg (134 lb.) weight class.
CitySearchNYC reports that the Hill Country rib-eating contest on Saturday has one remaining slot left.
The schedule for the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows, NY for 2009 is out. The Chef One dumpling contests will take place on August 9 and award $1,800 to both the men's and women's divisions.
Sal Carbone threepeats Brooklyn Pizza
update #2 Jerritt Clark has a picasa gallery of the contest
update BeautifulBrian.com has a contest report and video
Will Millender’s twitter has the top 4 of today’s pizza contest in Brooklyn:
1. Sal Carbone 22 slices, third victory in a row
2. Joe Menchetti 20
3. Dale Boone 17
4. Will Millender 16
GJoe wins Go! Go! Curry!
update #3 Midtown Lunch has a contest report
update #2 BeautifulBrian.com has a contest report
update Metromix has an article with 44 pictures containing official results:
1. Joe Menchetti 26 bowls
2. Dale Boone 25
3. Don “Moses” Lerman 23
4. Masato Tomita 16
5. Paul Arcaria 13
The article has pictures of Don Lerman’s and Paul Arcaria’s apparent reversals (Don Lerman claims he did not reverse)
update Time Out NY has a gallery
(Don Lerman is in white, Dale Boone in red)
5:47 Don Lerman 3rd despite his reversal, Masato Tomita 4th, Paul Arcaria 5th
5:45 Joe Menchetti is the winner, Dale Boone 2nd
5:42 It looks like Don Lerman is reversing
5:41 The contest has ended
5:26 The contest has started
5:17 The introductions have started. Don Lerman is the first to be introduced, Dale Boone the second.
The webcast of the Go! Go! Curry! finals has started at http://www.justin.tv/gogocurryusa
Choo Choo's in Queens, NY will have its annual burger eating contest on June 6. The first prize is $150.
Metromix and Midtown Lunch have previews of tomorrow's contest at Go! Go! Curry!
NY Daily News on Rocco’s Pizza contest
The New York Daily News has an article about Sunday’s pizza eating contest in Brooklyn with the following quote from George Shea: “It doesn’t have real eaters. It isn’t officially sanctioned. It sounds like a cheap publicity stunt to me”.
updateGothamist has a blog entry about the dispute between Rocco’s and Nathan’s
GoGoCurryUSA.com has a page about Saturday's curry eating contest with mini-profiles of the five finalists.
A rib eating contest will be held in New York City on June 6. Submit a short essay or video to apply.
Dani's House Of Pizza in Queens, NY announces that its pizza eating contest will take place over the next two months.
URDB: Juliet Lee wins Pete’s Clam Bar, Eater X 2nd
update #4 Ramblin and Amblin has some pictures
update #3 NewsDay has an article reporting Badlands Booker ate 8 dozen clams
update #2The top 3 from IFOCE.com
1. Juliet Lee 23 dozen
2. Tim Janus 20 dozen
3. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 16 dozen
update The Universal Records Database reports that Juliet Lee won, Tim Janus was second.
If Sonya Thomas competed, that ends her victory streak against other women at about 6 years.
The Universal Records Database is at Pete’s Clam Bar and has started posting twitter updates.
Go! Go! Curry! finals poster
The Japanese language blog for Go! Go! Curry! has a poster of the five curry eating contest finalists mentioning that three of the competitors have previously competed in the Nathan’s finals.
The contest will be webcast on http://www.justin.tv/gogocurryusa on Saturday.
update Go! Go! Curry! is looking for volunteers for the contest.
Vito's Deli in the Bronx will have a hot dog eating contest on Thursday, May 28 awarding Yankees or Mets tickets to the winner.
Dale Boone to do NYC contests May 30 & 31
With the qualifying session now over, the Go! Go! Curry! twitter reports that Dale Boone qualified for the final contest on May 30. His time placed him 5th overall. Don Lerman apparently retained the #4 position. The original #5 qualifier, Andris Zvargulis, attempted to beat Dale’s time but could not.
PMQ reports that Dale Boone will compete in the Brooklyn Pizza contest on May 31. The first prize for that contest will be $300.
It is rather hypocritical that the WLOCE contract prevents signees from doing non-WLOCE events while Dale Boone is free to do whatever non-WLOCE he wants.
Go! Go! Curry! has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/GOGOCURRYUSA announcing that Dale Boone has confirmed for tonight's final qualifier.
Jill Stoler has uploaded a video of Will Millender eating a large thin crust pizza from Rocco's in 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Jill Stoler did the challenge in 5 and a half minutes.
Go! Go! Curry's qualifier leader board now lists Masato Tomita in the #3 position with a time of 58 seconds, putting Don "Moses" Lerman in the #4 slot.
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