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The official Man vs. Food twitter reports the next two sites will be San Francisco and Oahu.

Jimmy Johns sandwich makers vs. eaters in Detroit Saturday

The Detroit River Days music schedule lists the following non-musical event:

Also, sure to draw a crowd on Saturday, June 20 at the Michigan Lottery Stage is the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich and Making Contest at 2 p.m. The contest will feature three of the fastest sandwich makers going head-to-head again three World Class Major League Eaters to see who is faster. Major League Eaters are infamous for gobbling down hot dogs and chicken wings on TV. Jimmy John’s believes they have they fastest sandwich makers around, what better way to prove it?

An email from Craig Reed reports that the three eaters will be Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt and Tim Brown.

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OCRegister has the prizes for tomorrow's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's in Irvine, CA: 1) $400, overnight stay at Radisson Newport Beach Hotel, two Angels tickets and dinner for two at Gulliver’s 2) $200 and gift card for Burke Williams 3) $100 and two Angels tickets.
A video of Ian Hickman's victory in Saturday's contest at the grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune donuts is available.
The Ada Herald has a report on Saturday's pork rind eating contest with full results.

Heart Attack Grill twitter started

The Heart Attack Grill has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/DoubleBypass Recent posts report a 350+ pound diner received seven free Single Bypass Burgers in one visit, that no 350+ pound woman (as of June 12) had accepted the free food offer and that one diner ate 2 Quadruple Bypass burgers in 45 minutes.

The CBS Sunday Morning segment about the Heart Attack Grill was rerun yesterday.

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Liz Kellermeyer's contest report and gallery from the Denver Nathan's qualifier are available.
A hot dog eating contest to be held at the Water Carnival in Hutchinson, Minnesota on June 20 will award two round trip plane tickets to New York City.
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.
The twitters of Fenriz and RTadlock report that a woman completed Jack n Grill's 7 pound burrito Thursday night, becoming the sixth female to receive free food for life.
(Via skinnyboy's twitter) Registration for the second contest sponsored by Steve's Hot Dogs in Denver is now open. There will only be one qualifier on July 11.
Philly.com reports that Bill "El Wingador" Simmons will face off against Jose Conseco in a boxing match on July 24.
The first qualifier for Jake's Burgers contest will take place tomorrow in Wilmington, Delaware. All qualifiers will award $100 to the winner and the overall victor will receive $2000.

Rudolph pork rinks results thread

update #2 LimaOhio.com has a contest report

update results from twitter.com/eatingcontest

1 Buffalo Jim Reeves 11.32 oz in 10 mins.
2 John Palmgren in 2nd w/10 oz.
3 Steve Stone in 3rd w/8.07 oz

A full list of entrants is now available on the Rudolph Foods website.

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2009 Denver Nathan’s qualifier results thread

update #5 LizK’s contest report is available on Westword

update #4 LizK has a flickr gallery

update #3 RockiesGirl1967 has some videos and a gallery

update #2 (from comment) Andrew “A Bomb” Lane has a blog entry (as a spectator)

update Results from Brian “Big Sexy” Beard

1) Mongo Marquez 30
2) Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos 29
3T) Brian “Big Sexy” Beard
3t) Jimmy “Jimin Eater” Mares 18 Boulder cupcakes runner-up

This is the first IFOCE Colorado contest since the Golden Palace grilled cheese qualifier at a Taste of Colorado in 2005.

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HungrySisters: Wing Kong conquers Concord Mills

update #6 Giffenbone and TheAVGeeks have videos

update #5 BeautifulBrian.com has a report and Miss Charo has a gallery

update #4 The Hungry Sisters have a gallery

update #3 News 14 has an article and gallery from the contest.

update #2 Brian Subich’s official result is 20 HDB. Nicholas Giffen was 4th (and the top local)

1:32 The top 3 from hungrysisters
1 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, 23 HDB
2. “Nasty” Nate Biller 22.5 HDB
3. “Big” Brian Subich 22 HDB
4 Nicholas Giffen

3rd: 22 hdb brian subich, 2nd 22.5 nast nate, 1st: 23hdb wing kong

1:21 pm update The contest has started and http://twitter.com/hungrysisters are providing live updates

Hungry Sisters reports “SuperPaul Barlow, Brian Subich, Nasty Nate, Nicholas Giffen, 95.1 guy” will compete in the Concord Mills Nathan’s qualifier. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins will also compete.

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The grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune Donuts in Leesburg, Virginia tomorrow will have a donut eating contest.
Sweet Avenue in Rutherford, NJ will have a cupcake eating contest at CupcakeFest tomorrow.
The World Spicy Topokki Eating Contest will be held before the LA Galaxy's home game tomorrow against Real Salt Lake. $450 in cash will be awarded, $300 to the winner.
Pat Bertoletti has uploaded videos from the calamari contest at Mallie's to his youtube page.
The Big Texan's website has restored the list of 72 ounce steak finishers. The restaurant would like customers who finished the steak before 1991 to send a copy of their finisher certificate to restore records lost in a fire.
Craiglist has a request for someone to record video of an eating contest in Charlotte on Saturday (probably the Concord Mills qualifier). Payment will be provided (amount not listed)
Liz Kellermeyer has written a preview of Saturday's Denver-area Nathan's qualifier listing Mongo Marquez, Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos and Russ Witzke as expected entrants.
(via crawfish twitter) PatBertoletti has uploaded a video of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Minnesota.
Val Bromann has posted a blog entry about the Kansas City area Nathan's qualifier.
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