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Tomas Cortina won Pop's hot dog eating contest at the Palos Heights Independence Day celebration on July 3 with a total of 17.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes and received a prize of $500. Frank Wach was the runner up with 16 hot dogs.

July 9, 2010 at 5:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Contest Results, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

WGRZ reports that Man vs. Food will record in two Niagara Falls restaurants in Canada this weekend. The challenge for the Niagara Falls episode will be the 48 ounce rib eye at the Riverstone Grill in Grand Island, NY. Buffalo News reports septuagenarian Marilyn Gratto has completed the challenge steak 8 times.

July 9, 2010 at 11:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Man vs. Food, Niagara Falls, Steak Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

The Las Vegas Sun has more information about Joey Chestnut competing against Shaquille O'Neal Saturday for an upcoming episode of Shaq vs. The site will be Serendipity 3 in Caesar's Palance and the competition food will be hot dogs.

July 8, 2010 at 10:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Las Vegas, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments (12)

A wing eating contest for three person teams at the New Jersey State Barbecue on Saturday will award $2,500 to the winning team. (Registration Link) Nick "Papagorgio" is seeking a third member for his team.

July 8, 2010 at 10:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlantic City, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (43)

More 2010 Nathan’s Finals links

July 8, 2010 at 10:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City

Galleries: Deadspin | Gothamist | TimeOutNY | FireTheCannon
Deadspin blog entry titled “The 4th Of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Was Just A Big Old Mess Of Sweat And Vomit”
NY Time City Room blog entry
Yahoo MMA blog entry comparing Kobayashi to Fedor Emelianenko
Hungry Sisters blog entry and gallery
Val Bromann blog entries: Day 1
ESPN behind the scenes video, has interviews with Badlands Booker & Gravy Brown
Driven By Boredom blog entry & gallery about the afterparty for the eaters
Slate.com has a column by William Saletan

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Frogger561 has more videos of the Escondido, CA Nathan's qualifier.

July 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, San Diego, Videos | Permalink * Comments (15)

Shelby Kerin reports that Man vs. Food is recording in Buffalo, NY today. DazzleMeFormal confirms

July 7, 2010 at 11:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Man vs. Food July 7, 2010 (Salt Lake City) episode links

July 7, 2010 at 11:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Salt Lake City, Spicy Eating Challenges, Sushi Eating Challenges

This week’s episode of Man vs. Food has an appropriate location for the eating challenge: Kobe Sushi in Salt Lake City. The sushi is not free if completed; the award is a T-shirt or large ice cream. 😉

Travel Channel episode guide | gallery

Restaurants

Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah eating challenges
List of Salt Lake City eating challenges & contests in the eatfeats database

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The facebook for Melt Bar and Grill in Lakewood, OH reports that Christina Palangio was the 8th person (and first woman) to complete the five pound grilled cheese challenge. Her time was 21 minutes (Adam Richman needed 45 minutes on the Cleveland Man vs. Food. )

July 6, 2010 at 11:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland, Sandwich Eating Challenges, Women | Permalink * Comments

Press Herald has an article about Man vs. Food recording in Portland, Maine this week. The challenge will be the "Manimal Challenge" at Tradewinds Cafe in Arundel, ME. (A gallery of the recording)

July 6, 2010 at 11:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Portland, ME | Permalink * Comments

The MLE facebook lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Ben Monson and Erik Denmark as expected entrants in Sunday's rib eating contest at Chinook Winds in Oregon.

July 6, 2010 at 11:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Oregon Coast | Permalink * Comments

DanisHouseofPizza.com has a page about its 2010 pizza eating contest. Qualifiers will start on July 17 and award a bonus of %50 to non-competitive eaters (not defined). The finals on August 14 will award $850 ($500 to the winner).

July 6, 2010 at 4:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

KXAN has a news video from the July 4 veggie hot dog eating contest in Austin Texas. Bill "The Weiner Cleaner" Chedsey was the winner with 17.875 veggie dogs.

July 6, 2010 at 9:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Contest Results, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

A facebook caption announces Dale Boone won yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD with a total of 31 hot dogs. Defending champion Joe Menchetti was the runner-up with 29 and David "Tiger Wings" Brunelli came in 3rd with 24.5.

July 5, 2010 at 3:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Competitive Eating, Contest Results, Ocean City, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Joey Chestnut Fourpeats Nathan’s, Kobayashi arrested after contest

July 4, 2010 at 12:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊), New York City

update July 5 #2 CNN has a video of Kobayashi after his release. Kobayashi’s next appearance in court will be on August 5.
CalorieLab has a human translation of Kobayashi’s July 3 blog entry.

update July 5 The Associated Press reports that Kobayashi has been freed from jail and will have a court appearance today.

update 10:55 pm Some more links
An updated New York Daily News article
Yahoo News has an AP article with over 1000 comments
Deadspin has a blog entry with a video
Youtube has another video
New York Metromix has a gallery
“Kobayashi arrested” is #6 in Google Trends, over 8 hours after the incident
Gastroboy noted that someone claiming to be Kobayashi has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/FreeKobayashi

update 2:39 The New York Post has a more detailed article about Kobayashi’s arrest. (via gastroboy)

Two beefy men, wearing polo shirts with NYPD logos, stopped Kobayashi as he attempted to hop a barricade and reach Joey Chestnut after the San Jose, Calif., eating machine won his fourth consecutive Nathan’s title.

The muscle men put Kobayashi in a headlock and dragged him backstage. Witnesses said that it appeared Kobayashi had no ill intent and wanted to congratulate Chestnut.

update 1:42 The Associated Press reports that Takeru Kobayashi was taken into custody by police after he went on stage after the contest.

The results: Results #4 – #16 from the eating contest twitter
1) Joey Chestnut 54, fourth victory in a row
2) Tim Janus 45
3) Pat Bertoletti 37
4) Sonya Thomas 36
5) Bob Shoudt 34
6) Erik Denmark 32
7) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31
8) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 28
9) Juliet Lee 27
9) Ben Monson 27
11) Sean Gordon 26.5
12) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24
12) Pete Davekos 24
14) Crazy Legs Conti 20
15) Bryan Beard 15.5
16) Krystopher Adams 11

12:53 Joey Chestnut wins comfortably

12:48 At the halfway point. Joey Chestnut has a comfortable lead. Rich Shea alludes to the controversial escondido qualifier.

12:43 The contest starts. “Joey Chestnut” and “dog eating contest” are twitter trending topics. Kobayashi is shown in the crowd.

12:28 The eaters’ entrances start

The Nathan’s commercial showed Kobayashi, Dale Boone & Cookie Jarvis.

Paul Page called Joey Chestnut “Joey Chitwood”.

It is official that Takeru Kobayashi will not compete. This will be the first finals without a Japanese competitor since 1996.

SillyAmerica, HungrySisters, Will Millender and Gothamist are live blogging

BadlandsBooker and the eating contest twitter have posted a lot of pictures.

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Cleveland.com has an article about "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder and Kevin "The Lion" Kordalski competing in a contest at the National Hamburger Festival in Akron on July 17.

July 3, 2010 at 2:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland | Permalink * Comments

Gothamist has a blog entry and gallery from today's weigh in for Nathan's and JoeyJawsChestnut.com has a video from that event.

July 2, 2010 at 7:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City | Permalink * Comments (3)

The Orange County Register has an article about Damon Wells.

July 2, 2010 at 1:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Damon Wells, Orange County, Other IFOCE members | Permalink * Comments (2)

WTOPNews reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski repeated in the Z-Burger eating contest by eating 23 burgers in 10 minutes. Dale Boone came in second with 21 burgers. update News 8 has an article and video

July 1, 2010 at 3:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Contest Results, District of Columbia, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (8)

A hot dog eating contest at Dania Jai-Alai (Fort Lauderdale area) will award $400 ($250 to the winner).

July 1, 2010 at 12:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fort Lauderdale, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

The 2010 Dani's Pizza contest in Queens will add a 50% bonus to the number of slices eaten by non-competitive eaters. (Competitive eaters are not defined) Qualifiers start July 10.

June 30, 2010 at 7:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City | Permalink * Comments

A Zombie Crawl will be held before the Nathan's finals in support of Tim "Gravy" Brown.

June 29, 2010 at 11:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Tim Brown | Permalink * Comments (5)

Man vs. Food June 30, 2010 (Richmond, VA) episode links

June 29, 2010 at 10:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Richmond, Spicy Eating Challenges

Travel Channel episode guide | gallery

Restaurants

List of Richmond eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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The Opa! Hot Dog Eating Contest at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City Michigan will award $1,000 to the winner on July 9. Qualifiers will take place on July 6 & 7 and prizes will be awarded to all the top 10 finishers.

June 29, 2010 at 10:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:North Michigan, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

twitter.com/rivalshotdogs: "competive eater dale boone just attempted the hellhound challenge and was headed to the hospital hope gonna be ok" update A video of Boone's challenge has been uploaded.

June 28, 2010 at 8:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta, Dale Boone, Health, Hot Dog Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (4)

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