Upcoming Philadelphia eating contests
Philadelphia eating challenges
(All Philadelphia eating challenges and contests in database)
Link Buffet: November 13, 2008
- Interview with director Josh Camerote about “Swallow Your Pride”
- Female bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has signed with the WLOCE according to WLOCE.com
- Kobayashi does a pudding eating contest to promote the “Angry Kid” DVD release (this might be the first contest in Japan Kobayashi has done since the last Food Battle Club in 2002)
- Central Michigan University wing eating contest report
- Wing Bowl 17 tickets are already for sale on Craigslist even though they have yet to become available to the general public
- Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest in Singapore December 6
- Austin, TX pizza eating contest Saturday
- Monique Griffin wins a pizza eating contest at Luke Air Force Base
El Wingador at “Swallow Your Pride” screening Nov 14
The Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” will be screened in Philadelphia during the First Person Arts Festival on November 14. El Wingador will attend and serve wings with his wing sauce.
New Poll: Wing Bowl 17 eligiblity
The new poll asks who you think will be eligible for the upcoming Wing Bowl. When Angelo Cataldi last mentioned the Wing Bowl on his blog in March, he said he hoped to prohibit entry to competitors associated with professional eating organization.
The Kyle Kendrick prank trade revisited
In February, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick believed he was traded to Japan for “Kobayashi Iwamura” before he learned the transaction was fake. Kendrick’s Wikipedia page says that the names of the fabricated player came from Takeru Kobayashi and infielder Akinori Iwamura of the Tampa Bay Rays, who are currently opposing the Phillies in the World Series. Kendrick did not pitch effectively enough in the regular season to make the post season roster.
Link Buffet: September 27, 2008
- Pat Bertoletti has a report on the Czech plum dumpling contest
- Rerun listing of the KSO V broadcast
- KSO V Press conference gallery and video
- Erik Denmark feels more positive about missing the Krystal finals
- Ginormous Burger Challenge finisher receives free T-shirt a year after completing the burger, along with some cookies to apologize for the delay
- Second Philadelphia Eagle ice cream qualifier report (from megamunch)
Philadelphia Eagles ice cream contest
(From megamunch email). The blog for Turkey Hill Ice Cream announces an ice cream contest
The contest will feature four preliminary showdowns held at the WIP game day tent at the Wachovia Center before the first four Eagles home games of the season. In each contest, eight contestants will battle to see who can eat the most ice cream. But there’s a catch: They can’t use their hands (you didn’t think it would be easy, did you?). The winner will advance to the final eat-off on November 8 and will also receive a poster and helmet autographed by Eagles star Brian Dawkins.
On November 8, the four winners of the preliminary rounds will face off and the champion will receive two tickets to see the Eagles take on the Giants in New York as well as limo transportation and hotel accommodations!
A registration form and rules are available at 610 WIP’s website
The qualifier dates are:
9/7/2008 Vs Rams
9/21/2008 Vs Steelers
10/5/2008 Vs Redskins
10/26/2008 Vs Falcons
Link Buffet: August 10, 2008
- Swallow Your Pride Wing Bowl documentary to be screened at the First Person Festival in Philadelphia in November
- English article (from Austraila) about Gal Sone’s loss in this year’s Gluttonous Queen contest
- Preferred seating for spectators at Chattanooga Krystal qualifier available
- Vancouver, Canada hot dog eating contest August 18
- Short article about Arkansas City, Kansas hot dog eating contest.
Pat Philbin wins QVC qualifier
Unofficial QVC results from Hall Hunt comment:
1. Pat Philbin 22.5
2. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 22
3. Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston 17
DQ Sean Gordon (21 before reversal)
An Opie & Anthony forum thread started by a QVC worker confirms Philbin’s victory
update The results have been posted on IFOCE.com Sean Gordon was officially disqualified
update #2 NJ.com has an article illustrated with a picture from 2006 of Philbin and Don Lerman.
update #3 Some pictures are now available
update #4 (from Wing Kong) Philly.com has a report about the qualifier. Badlands Booker, Steakbellie and Wing Kong are expected at the Camden qualifier tomorrow. Humble Bob says he hopes to be the oldest eater to eat his age at the Nathan’s finals.
update #5 video of Sean Gordon’s reversal during the post-contest announcements is available
Wing Bowl article in Penthouse
(From Deadspin) The July 2008 edition of Penthouse will have an article about the Wing Bowl which can be read online (pictures are basically safe for work). The article focuses more on peripheral activities than on the eating competition.
The best composite of Wing Bowl attendees is this: They’re the men who get kicked out of sporting events—the boorish, drunken slobs who curse too loudly, start fights too easily, harass women too aggressively, and make watching a game uncomfortable for 90 percent of the other spectators. Even in Philadelphia, whose fans have a nationally known reputation for classlessness, this crowd is vile. Philly fans earned their rep for, among other offenses, throwing snowballs at Santa Claus in 1968, cheering when Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin lay motionless on the turf with a neck injury in 1999, and behaving so poorly at the old Veterans Stadium that the city was forced to assign a judge to the Vet on Eagles game days.
Philadelphia qualifier results from “Philly Guy”
From a Pete Miernicki comment:
1.”Humble” Bob Shoudt 38 HDB
2. Sean Gordon 20
3. Russ Keeler 16
The IFOCE.com report is now out
update KYW newsradio has uploaded a video from the contest to youtube which shows that Sean Gordon finished 2nd and Russ Keeler was 3rd, contrary to the IFOCE report. Humble Bob’s children are interviewed and say their father trains a lot.
update #2 Humble Bob has updated his thoughts page with a contest report.
Philadelphia qualifier expected entrants
The blog for Philly Burbs has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier that will be held at the Independence Hall Visitors Center. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Russ Keeler, Pete Miernicki are listed as expected competitors along with the husband and wife team of Olivia and Reginald Pascual. If Sonya Thomas does not compete, it would break a two year winning streak at the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier.
Link Buffet: April 11, 2008
- Beautiful Brian has commentary on the new IFOCE rankings and “Stick to Blogging” sales
- Elliott “Wing Tut / The Savage” Maruffi-Cowley section in philly.com Inqlings column
- Christian “Musk Ox” McCarthy article
- Battle of the Bone week 4 results and videos
- Blog entry about Long Island eating challenges
- Frederick Kaufman (“American Stomach”) interview. Interviewer claims Dale Boone weighs 400 pounds
- Man completes all 28 monster burgers on menu over 2 years
- WNBA’s Detroit Shock to offer all you can eat tickets
- Gizmodo meetup at Coney Island with possible hot dog eating contest
- “Dirty” eating in Gluttonous Queen 2008 criticized
- update Richard Shea interview in NOLA.com
- update – Registration for 3 Brothers Pizza opens at 1 pm eastern today
Sports Illustrated Competitive Eating articles 2004-2008
Sports Illustrated recently made its entire archive free. Some competitive eating articles from the last 5 years follow:
- 2008 – article about Wing Bowl 16
- 2007 – Rick Reilly dines with Joey Chestnut in the LA Dodgers all you can eat section
- 2007 – Nathan’s preview about Joey Chestnut
- 2007 – list of IFOCE records
- 2006 – paragraph about planned Wing Bowl movie
- 2006 – Steve Rushin column containing the “degree of a lazy susan” metaphor
- 2004 – post-Nathan’s article
Angelo Cataldi wants amateur only Wing Bowl 17
In a blog entry from February 18, Angelo Cataldi responds to a request to have a Delaware Valley residency requirement for the 2009 Wing Bowl with another proposed restriction:
Our thought right now – 11 months away from the next Wing Bowl – is to have an event that is strictly for amateurs in 2009. Anyone who is or has been associated with a professional-eating organization would be ineligible. I hope – if we can get this plan approved – that it will address many of the concerns about the competition in Wing Bowl 17.
Wing Bowl loses in online tournament
Voting for the first round of the Philadelphia City Paper’s “Philly Madness” has concluded, and the Wing Bowl has lost to The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship by a margin of 43% to 57%.
Wing Bowl losing to cycling race in “Philly Madness”
The Philadelphia City Paper is running a tournament of Philadelphia related items called “Philly Madness”. The Wing Bowl is currently losing (game 30) to The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship 53% – 47%
Phillies GM more interested in big burger than Lidge surgery
Philly.com reports that the Phillies training camp and the world of competitive eating continue to intersect a week after making a fake trade for a “Kobayashi”:
Moments after learning that his big off-season acquisition would require knee surgery and probably won’t be ready for opening day, Pat Gillick huddled in his office with Charley Kerfeld, one of his top lieutenants, yesterday afternoon.
The laptop computer was open, and Gillick was reading aloud when a reporter entered the room.
Scouting report?
Uh, not really.
Gillick was captivated by the story of a Michigan restaurant that had a 134-pound burger on its menu. Apparently, it took three men to flip the sucker.
Wing Bowl 16 videos
Megamunch has a backstage video of Wing Bowl 16 he recorded in the corridors of the Wachovia Center.
There are over 60 youtube videos labeled with “Wing Bowl 16” This link will bring them up.
“Swallow Your Pride” website
A website about the Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” has been set up at http://www.swallowyourpridefilm.com/ The site has a trailer and a page with “eater cards” about the six competitors featured in the film.
Megamunch & Humble Bob WB 16 reports
Megamunch has written a blog entry about Wing Bowl 16 and his attempts at pre-contest tailgating. He was forced to migrate between 4 different parking lots before entering the Wachovia Center to be a part of “Big” Brian Subich’s entourage. Megamunch has a captioned gallery of his trip.
“Humble” Bob Shoudt has also posted his report about his participation in Wing Bowl 16. Like other eaters, he has questions about the counting and ranking of his first round results:
At the end of the 14 minutes, I had eaten 108 wings. I was nervous that would not be enough as these wings were much faster then the cold rocks I had last year.
We waited for a while and then a guy came around and told us if we were in the 2nd round or not. I was told no, so I picked up my stuff. My judge came by and asked where I was sitting for the 2nd round. I said I wasn’t, I didn’t make it. He said “Those guys must have eaten a _ _ _ _ load of wings (refering to the other eaters). I asked him how he scored me. He said 17 and 18s on each plate (5 full plates). I was satisfied that I did not make it as that put me at 17+17+17+17+18 – worst case = 86 plus 6 on the last plate = 92 total. I assumed 92 would not be enough. When they announced that 70 was the 10th place total, I thought they they had just made a mistake. Nope. Next year…
Pat Bertoletti’s Wing Bowl 16 report
Pat Bertoletti has a myspace blog entry about his trip to Philadelphia to compete in Wing Bowl 16. He arrived in Philadelphia the morning of the contest at 3:15 am.
Angelo Cataldi wraps up Wing Bowl 16
Angelo Cataldi’s blog has a wrap up of Wing Bowl 16 which closes with the possibility of excluding “pros” from Wing Bowl 17:
We all acknowledge that it would be awesome for a local contestant to win Wing Bowl, but we are carefully governed by the FCC when it comes to all on-air contests. Wing Bowl is open to all contestants, everywhere. With the quality of prizes offered, there’s not much chance that the guys who are best at competitive eating are going to stay away from it.
How can we stop the trend? Well, the best way is to develop another local eater like El Wingador or Heavy Kevvy. So far we haven’t been able to do that, though US Male and Gentleman Gerry have placed in the top five the past two years. Our other possibility is to rewrite the rules to exclude the pros. Do we want to do this for Wing Bowl 17? I’m not sure yet. My first impression is, it’s a step down for Wing Bowl as soon as we eliminate the best eaters available.
AICE would probably dispute the claim that “Wing Bowl is open to all contestants, everywhere”.
Joey Chestnut threepeats the Wing Bowl
Wing Bowl 16 results
1 241 wings Joey Chestnut
2 227 Pat Bertoletti
3 205 El Wingador
4 143 US Male
5 139 Gentleman Jerry
Brad Sciullo was #2 after the first round, but disqualified in the second for “snotting a wing”
Feb 4 update
Jill Stoler has a blog entry about attending the pre contest tailgate, but she was unable to miss work to attend the Wing Bowl
about.com has an article & gallery
Feb 2 update
AP article says the next contest for Chestnut is the asparagus contest
Dan Gross column
nj.com article about “El Wingador”
courierpostonline article and gallery
PhillySportsLine gallery
Julio “El Zorro” Davila
Article about 6th place finisher Michael Sarian
article about “Dr. Digestion”
Wing Bowl videos on insidetheiggles.com
update Wing Bowl coverage
Philly.com has videos and galleries
cbs3.com article and slideshow
6abc.com article and video
nbc10.com article and slideshow
MyFoxPhilly.com article with 6 videosand slideshow
CourierPostOnline.com article
Philly.com liveblog
Philebrity liveblog
PhillyMag blog entry
Sports Illustrated article
Angelo Cataldi galleries
The Wing Bowl radio blog is available after the jump
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Wing Bowl weigh-in tonight & other news
The Wing Bowl weigh in is tonight, here are the details from 610WIP.com:
The kick off to Wing Bowl 16 starts at Chickie`s and Pete`s South Philly!!
Don’t Miss the Official Wing Bowl Weigh-In LIVE on Thursday January 31st, From 5p-7p at Chickie’s and Pete’s 1526 Packer Ave, South Philadelphia. Come witness all of the pre Wing Bowl festivities with the introduction of this year`s eaters and get your first look at some of the sexy Wingettes!
For more info about the 2008 Wing Bowl Weigh-In, Call 215-218-0500 or go to www.chickiesandpetes.com
Some more Wing Bowl coverage:
PhillyMag interviews Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
Erik Denmark blog entry about his Wing Bowl qualification
“Damaging” Doug Canavin profile
Julio “El Zorro” Davila profile
2001 Wing Bowl recollection
Police order to not open parking lots until 4am
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