update twitter.com/Notorious_BOB:”Pat slipped one of his plates in front of me. Add 5 to my total and subtract 5 from Pat. Revised results coming out soon.”

Some tweetphotos

The top 5 in gyros from Bryan Beard Part1 | Part 2
1) Joey Chestnut 21 gyros
2) Pat Bertoletti 20
3) Bob Shoudt 16.5
4) Ben Monson 16
5) Adrian Morgan 11.5

update 6:50 The contest has started

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update May 17 The Tony Boloney’s facebook has a gallery and nnicc has some videos.

update The Press of Atlantic City has a contest report. Jon Squibb won the contest by eating 27 slices in an hour. Tom Davis and Dale Boone comprised the rest of the top 3. Brad Sciullo did not compete.

NBC40 has an article and video about the “Pizza Slaughter Fest” contest taking place this afternoon at Tony Boloney’s in Atlantic City.

A youtube video about the contest is also available.

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update May 16 Dan Sheldon has a video of the contest with interviews of Paul Barlow and Steve “Pi Guy” Martin

update Damien Boykin has a gallery

The MLE facebook reports that Tim “Gravy” Brown edged Joe LaRue by one hot dog in the Atlanta area qualifier, 28 HDB to 27.

The eating contest twitpics have a photo of Gravy Brown with the trophy, who ate 28 hot dogs.

The qualifier in Newnan Georgia should start at 1pm. The eatingcontest twitpic has started posting pictures.

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update The MLE facebook has the top 3 of today’s qualifier in Hartford
1) Pete Davekos 23
2) Russ Keeler 17.5
3) Larell Marie Mele 14

The East Hartford Gazette reports that Tim Janus and Russ Keeler will compete in the Hartford qualifier.

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“Cardboard Shell” (a petite woman) has posted a blog entry about her completion of the three pound burger at Lobby’s in Tempe, Arizona at a contest held by the College Times. Her time of 6 minutes set an overall record for the restaurant. The College Times facebook has a gallery of the event.

“Cardboard Shell” also had Lindy’s on 4th in Tuscon create a special version of their “OMFG” 3 pound burger having grilled cheese sandwiches for buns and onion rings as a topping for each patty, which she was able to finish in the time limit of 20 minutes.

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Punching Kitty has an update on the malt record recently set at the Crown Candy Kitchen by someone claiming to be Kevin Ross. The owner of the Crown Candy Kitchen, Andy Karandzieff, posted a picture of the record setter, and it is definitely not the Kevin Ross who qualified for the 2008 Nathan’s finals.

The “Kevin Ross” claimed to have completed the Pointersaurus, but no information is available on Pointer’s Pizza facebook.

update Barry Stagg reports that the #7 ranked eater (Ben Monson) ate the King Kong Burger challenge in 8 minutes at Ray’s Franks in Houston.

update #2 KSDK and the Riverfront Times have articles.

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The Herald Standard has an article about “Rock the Tot” national champion Brad Sciullo, who will compete in a pizza eating contest reportedly awarding $5,000 at Tony Baloney’s in Atlantic City tomorrow. Brad credits his tater tot victory to his training for a previous pierogi contest and says he has been eating five pounds of pizza a day to prepare for tomorrow’s contest.

update The Pitttsburgh Channel has a video and article about Brad Sciullo.

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