Knoxville.com has an article about How’s Your News?, an MTV program starring seven disabled reporters produced by South Park co-creator Matt Stone. Each episode documents a stop made during a cross-country trip. In New Orleans, the reporters visited a pirate convention, a prison rodeo and an oyster eating contest, which was probably the Acme Oyster competition since the other two events took place in April.

TV Guide reports the New Orleans episode will be televised at 10:30 pm on Sunday, March 1.

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6ABC.com has an article and video from today’s crawfish eating contest at the Showboat Mardi Gras Casino in Atlantic City which reports that Dave “US Male” Goldstein was the unexpected winner of the contest with a total of 4.99 lbs. in 12 minutes. Sonya “The Black Widow” was second.

JustATasteByKellyAnn has a slide show of a training session Eric “Badlands” Booker did for the contest and will have an upcoming article.

update PressOfAtlanticCity has the top five:
1. Dave “US Male Goldstein”, 4.99 lbs.
2. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, 4.14 lbs.
3. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.88 lbs.
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 2.83 lbs.
5. Crazy Legs Conti 2.44 lbs.

update #2 a picture of the official scoresheet has been provided (see above) and Wild Bill Myers has entered the original results into the database.

Juliet Lee has updated her writenow page with a crawfish contest report which mentions that the post contest weight of her crawfish pans were higher than the original pre contest weight

update #3 NBC40 has a video clip (from US Male)

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• Crown Candy Kitchen – challenge: 5 malt milkshakes in 30 minutes
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  The restaurant’s website says the milkshake challenge has been offered since its opening in 1913, which might make it the oldest eating contest or challenge
  A book about the Crown Candy Kitchen, which includes the malt milkshake Wall of Fame is available on amazon
  When the book was published, Rich LeFevre held the record of six milkshakes, Pat Bertoletti has since broken that mark by one.

• Pappy’s Smokehouse
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  STLMags blog entry about the recording says that Adam Richman’s meal was the Big Ben which consists of a full slab of ribs, 2 sandwiches, a 1/4 a chicken, and 4 side dishes

• Iron Barley
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  Iron Barley was in an episode of Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives last March

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Dan Gross’ column on philly.com mentions George Shea’s appearance on 610 WIP last week and says that the proposed contest in which 4 IFOCE members would face off against 4 Philly-area eaters would take place in Wing Bowl 18 next year if it occurs.

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Youtube has an interview Joey Chestnut did on 107.7 FM “The Bone” Thursday to promote the macaroni & cheese contest at the San Jose Stealth game today: Part 1 | Part 2. Joey said he ate 47 slices of pizza in the Famous Famiglia contest (it was actually 45), that Pat Bertoletti beats him 2 times a year and that matzo balls were his least favourite contest food.

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(From Man vs Food facebook) Digital City has a list of ten steak eating challenges located throughout the United States which concludes with the new challenge at Steak & Main in Maryland, which requires diners to eat five different types of steaks which total 74 ounces.

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The blog for Atlantic City Weekly has information about the competitors in next Tuesday’s Showboat Mardi Gras Casino World Crawfish Eating Championship:

Contest will feature eater Tim “Eater X” Janus, the tamale and burrito eating champion of the world and the sweet corn champion Crazy Legs Conti. Also competing are the top two female competitive eaters Juliet Lee and Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas. Philly-area fan favorites Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins will also compete.

The prize breakdown is available on the IFOCE.com contest page:
1st – $1,500 2nd – $500 3rd – $250 4th – $150 5th – $100

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A picture of a list of burger challenges offered by the Clinton Station Diner can be viewed on flickr. $5,000 will be awarded to a team of 10 diners that can finish the “8th Wonder” burger (listed at 105 pounds) in an hour or less.

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LA Times blog entry about the recording of the episode

• Orochon Ramen – Challenge: Special #2 spicy ramen
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  Blog entry with videos of the challenge attempt
  Picture of the Wall of Bravery, which is reportedly taken down and restarted every month

• El Tepeyac Cafe
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  Blog entry about the restaurant’s signature dish, the five pound Manuel Special burrito

• Philippe the Original
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  LA Times article about the restaurant’s centennial last year and its claim to the creation of the French dip sandwich

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Hall Hunt attended Saturday’s Tampa Bay Rays Fan Festival where Joey Chestnut signed autographs and has a blog entry with several pictures of that event.

Hall also has a blog entry about “The World’s Biggest Indoor Corndog Party”, an eating contest held at a radio station between competitors from the Universities of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. The U of Florida competitor did not show up and Hall was apparently not allowed to substitute.

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