Video clips of Erik Denmark appearing on local news programs to promote the Chinook Winds Ribs contest and the “Stand by Me” pie eating contest are available on his blog. Carlene & Rich LeFevre also appear in the Chinook Winds video.

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Register-Guard has a preview of Saturday’s handless pie contest which says that the top seed will be Pat Bertoletti, so Joey Chestnut is not expected to compete. One competitor inquired about using a wide straw.

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Barton Grover Howe, an entrant in the rib eating contest for amateurs at the Chinook Winds casino last Saturday, wrote an article for the Newport (OR) News Times about his experience.

It’s been several days since my non-epic moments as a “gustatory gladiator,” as the announcer put it. I’m still vaguely nauseous, and as to that same announcer’s statement that competitive eating is part of the, “evolution of sport,” all I can say is Darwin would probably not put this on his resume.

But given America’s – ahem – appetite for competition, I see why this appeals to people. Indeed, if you were to combine speed eating and NASCAR you could end up with someone throwing up on Jeff Gordon.

That would makes millions of fans in both sports ecstatic.

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KVAL.com reports that Joey Chestnut repeated in today’s rib eating contest at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR. No other results are listed. A video clip is available.

update the top 6 according to Erbivore
Joey – 7.65lbs
Rich – 5.75lbs
Erik – 4.7lbs
Erb – 3.6lbs
Braunstein – 2.95
Ronto – 2.9

update #2 OregonLive.com has an article about the contest in which Joey says he is considering competing in Japan.

update #3 The Chinook Winds website has a contest video

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(from Laura Flynn) The website for the Chinook Winds Casino, the site of this weekend’s rib eating contest, has a video clip of a “Big Bertha” burger contest in which the LeFevres and Joey Chestnut competed. I am not sure what year the contest took place.

update from Rich Lefevre The contest took place in 2007 and the top 3 were:
Joey Chestnut 9:30
Rich LeFevre 9:45
Carlene LeFevre 15:15, first competition in almost 2 years.

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From IFOCE.com:

On July 28, the nation’s top Major League Eaters will converge on the small hamlet of Brownsville, Oregon to recreate one of the most iconic moments in both film and competitive eating history.

STAND BY ME was filmed in Brownsville and was released in 1986. For the first time, the IFOCE will sanction a hands-free pie eating contest as a tribute to the movie that helped bring competitive eating into the spotlight.

Registration for this contest will open at 12:00pm on Friday, June 15.

I think this is the first handsless contest IFOCE has sanctioned. The only contests listed in July on the IFOCE calendar are in Oregon.

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From OregonLive’s article about the “Stand By Me (movie) Celebration and Rolling Roadshow,” to take place on July 28 in Brownsville, Oregon:

Other activities include a sock hop, a “body” scavenger hunt with clues from the movie, photo opportunities at various film locales, and a blueberry pie-eating contest presented by the International Federation of Competitive Eaters.

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(Thanks Liz K) UrbanHonking.com has a blog entry about the writer’s attempts to accomplish 4 eating challenges in the Portland area. There are videos of all the attempts.

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(Thanks Dave Shoffner) Willamette Week has a long writeup of last month’s Chinook Winds rib eating contest focusing on Portland native Erik “the Red” Denmark. Other Portland area contests are also profiled.

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Domenico Alesi has galleries of the bratwurst qualifier and last winter’s chocolate contest.

(From Liz) Cabel has a report from the Chinook Winds rib contest

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(Thanks Liz K) kmikeym has finished his report from the July 15/16 Chinook Winds rib eating contest. Hopefully we will see more western contest writeups from urbanhonking in the future.

Update 7/26 2:15 am
Erik Denmark and Jason Erb have uploaded their videos (Jason Erb’s video is about 30 MB)

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has posted some pictures and a longer writeup of the Chinook Winds ribs contest held July 16. He hopes to post a video of the contest soon.

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The Newport News Times has an article about last weekend’s rib contest at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City, OR.

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From IFOCE.com:

Chinook Winds Rib Championship, Chinook Winds Casino, Lincoln City OR

1. Joey Chestnut 8.4 lb in 12 minutes, beats last year’s mark almost 3lb., $1500
2. Rich “the Locust” LeFevre 5.03 lb, repeats as runner up., $750
3. Erik “the Red” Denmark 4.1 lb, $500
4. Jason “Erbavore” Erb 3.05 lb
5. Scott “the Pork Slayer” Sayer ?

Updated 7/17 1:34 pm with results from erikdenmark.blogspot.com

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The Salem Statesman Journal has a preview of this weekends rib eating contest that will be held at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City Oregon. Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Scott Sayer are expected to attend.

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