The Mouthpiece Sports blog has an interview with Brad Sciullo about his successful completion of the Belly Bruiser challenge. Brad finishes the interview in the following manner:

It’s opening some eyes. This is great for all competitive eaters. Everyone of us is going to benefit from this because this raises the bar. I’m guaranteeing you that from this day forward bigger numbers will be put up — numbers like no one’s ever seen. Things that make this look ridiculously easy because everyone’s going to realize that this is possible. That someone like myself — who isn’t as good as the top-ranked eaters — can do this this is going to send everyone into a frenzy. And it’s going to be great for the sport in general.

And what’s next:

I’m either going to go back to Denny’s and eat every one of their burgers on their menu in the same day, which will equal about what that burger weighed. I’ll eat the two-pounder, the three-pounder, and the Ye’ Olde 96er in the same day. Or I’m going to do a pizza competition.

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Two unaffiliated contests this Saturday will award $100 to the winner:

• Spaghetti Eating Contest, Arch Fest, Jesup Georgia, $200 total purse
• Hot Dog Eating Contest, New Martinsville, WV

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary on the personalities of the top 50 IFOCE members
• Furious Pete is seeking input about a 3 minute eating stunt
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• Ukrainian salo (pork fat) eating contest
• Brad Sciullo’s Belly Bruiser completion makes the Japanese news
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Kobayshi has a blog entry congratulating the Tampa Rays on winning the American League pennant last night. In 2007, Kobayashi attended the Rays fan festival (then called the Devil Rays) and also recorded a commercial with infielder Akinori Iwamura.

Hall Hunt appeared at the 2008 Rays fan festival and did a hot dog eating exhibition.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary about Brad Sciullo
• Video of Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
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• Report on Antioch, IL hot dog contest

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Rich LeFevre reports in a comment that he successfully completed the 120 ounce steak challenge at the Brand Steakhouse in 40 minutes. The list price of the steak is $267. Video of his attempt will appear on rawvegas.tv.

update Some pictures have been emailed:

Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria has sent the following email: (pictures of his challenge can be seen below)

On sunday [October 11] I went to Thurmans in Columbus, They had a 3 pounder but that wasn’t enough. I had them make me a 4.5 pounder. She said if I finish it I could name it.
Its called “Pauls East Coast Pile”

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• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

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The prize breakdown for the Famous Famiglia pizza contest listed the 7th place prize as $500. Pat Philbin came in seventh and said he received $250 on a forum thread. Does anyone have the final list of prizes?

The only mention of the Famous Famiglia contest results on IFOCE.com appears to be the listing of winner on the contest calendar page.

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The Carolina Packers Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held at the Brickdirt National Super Street Championship tomorrow at Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, North Carolina. The first prize will be $350 and the entry fee is $10. Rules – Event Information

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Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizza has a 54 inch square pizza available at its Hollywood Boulevard location. The pizza is listed as the largest delivered pizza in the world and the price is $199.99. The restaurant also has a 36 inch pizza available.

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update Oct 2, 2009 A post about Brad Sciullo’s appearance on The Colbert Report has been made

(from Kelly Jordan email) Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s homepage reports that Brad Sciullo was the first person to complete the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser burger by himself. The burger is listed as having 15 pounds of meat and its total weight was 20.2 pounds. Sciullo’s time was 4 hours and 39 minutes, 21 minutes under the 5 hour limit.

update The burger Brad Sciullo finished was not the 9-11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger completed by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. It is the next larger size.

update #2 The Evening Sun has an article about Brad Sciullo completing the burger which says he won $400 and three T-shirts. He made three trips to the bathroom where he was accompanied by a cook to make sure he did not throw up.

update #3 Yahoo’s story about Brad Sciullo is currently the most-emailed article (from Steakbellie)

update #4 PittsburghLive has an article There is also a blog entry in an Indian language

update #5 The Herald Standard has an article about Brad Sciullo. He says his next contest will be Wing Bowl 17 and he will use his technique which involves eating part of the wing bones at that event.

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• A black & white gallery from this year’s Nathan’s finals
• Barlo’s Pizza in Indianapolis will award at least $300 to someone who finishes a 29 inch pizza in under 2 hours
• Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane wins Colorado Springs musubi contest
• A comparison of Krystal with White Castle. TN and KY have both restaurants.
• IHOP to offer all-you-can-eat pancakes for remainder of October (from Skinnyboy)
• Video from b.good’s Garlicky Greens contest
• Picture of Badlands Booker at Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Volunteers wanted to handle publicity, sponsorships, food safety
  and legal aspects of a Chicago hot dog eating contest
• Brenda Lashley, winner of a sauerkraut eating contest, makes “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” book for naming her son after her favorite brand of sauerkraut.

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Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with news of her trip to New York City to compete in the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest and record her appearance on Guy Fieri’s “Big Show” on the Food Network.

Juliet also recorded a segment for ESPN’s E:60 news magazine program, which is expected to be televised on October 21.

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Craigslist has a posting requesting competitors for a pizza eating contest to be held tomorrow morning at the Playboy Radio studio in Los Angeles. The winner will judge a sexy costume contest with Playboy models.

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• Beautiful Brian has uploaded the last episode of his television show to be hosted by hometown.aol.com
• Joey Chestnut ate 23 hot dogs in 5 minutes at his exhibition in Edmonton
• Barack Obama offers to judge a sweet potato pie eating contest
  
• Neurotic Pickle Eating contest held in conjunction with a New York City walking tour called A History of Jews, Sex and Politics on the Lower East Side
• Alan Sell completes three pound burger challenge in Athens, GA
• Pat Philbin notes that the shirts supplied at the Famous Famiglia pizza contest were too small for some competitors

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The Drake University student newspaper has an article about Katie Quattrini’s attempt to make the Wall of Fame by finishing a 4 pound burger at Grandma Max’s truck stop in Urbandale, Iowa in under an hour.

The article is currently on the main page of the student newspaper’s website.

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update #4 Gothamist blog entry NY1 news video
update #3 The Times of London has an article and a youtube video is available
update #2 The New York Daily News has an article with a picture of all the competitors

updateThe Urbanite blog has an entry about today’s Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest in Times Square which lists the top 3:

1. Joey Chestnut 45
2. Pat Bertoletti 43
3. Humble Bob Shoudt 41

These results are supported by comments from Wing Kong, Pat Philbin and anonymous.

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update A video is available

The Newark Advocate has an article and gallery about Pete Maurizio’s victory at the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s pork BBQ sandwich qualifier.

The top 7 have been posted. The top 3:

1. Pete Maurizio, 11.25 sandwiches, $500 8 minutes
2. Mark Lyle, 10.50, $250
3. Kevin Kordalski, 10.25, $100

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Bloomberg.com has an article about competitive pumpkin growing which says that the Wallace pumpkin farm in Rhode Island received $10,000 from a Japanese game show for hosting a pumpkin eating contest.

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The Van Duzer Foundation’s website has the following announcement:

That’s right, the Van Duzer Foundation is teaming up with the one and only International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) to host THE BATTLE AT THE BIG APPLE! Featuring world-class competitive eaters, the likes of Joey Chestnut, who stunned the world twice at the famed Fourth of July Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Mark your calndar right now for Saturday, November 8th, 2008, and please keep watching this site for more information on preliminary contests (you might even eat your way into a chance to compete in this once-in-a-lifetime event).

The location is not listed on the foundation website. TCPalm says that it will take place in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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• Picture of Juliet Lee at the Nashville qualifier
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• Joey Chestnut to appear at Edmonton Oil Kings minor league hockey game on Friday
• Badlands Booker to perform “Mamma Mia” rap before Famous Famiglia pizza contest
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• Wichita State professor has won a local jalapeno eating contest five times

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• Video of Crazy Legs Conti’s withdrawal from the Netfllix movie watching record attempt
• Pat Philbin will adopt the nickname “Jumbo Slice” for the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
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update Results have been posted:

1. Furious Pete Czerwinski- 22 sandwiches
2. Tom “Goose” Gilbert- 14.5
3. Bob “Killer” Kuhns- 12.75
4. Mark Lyle-The Human Vacuum-10

Please place results from the Wakefield World Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship held today at the National Association of Convenience Stores Show in the comments of this thread.

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A new press release about Sunday’s Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest in Times Square is available. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are the listed expected entrants, who were also mentioned in the September 11 press release.

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