• Ian Hickman in CiCi’s pizza contest: part 1, part 2
• J & R Steakhouse’s online Wall of Fame/Shame has been updated but does not include recent notable 76 ounce steak finishers such as Furious Pete or Elizabeth Canady. Maureen Kearney is one of the recently added finishers (picture on right)
• Brad Sciullo has been dropped from the AICE rankings. (Cached previous rankings)
• Women only wing eating contest in Columbus Ohio October 9
• Preview of the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier

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The following information about a wing eating contest at the Buckhead Saloon in Raleigh, NC has been sent by email:

The contest is on Sunday Oct. 12th, and will be starting at 4pm. Each contestant will have 10 minutes to eat as much wing meat as they can. We will weigh the amout of wings they started with, and weigh the scraps after they are done. The first prize is an all-inclusive trip for two to Las Vegas. Second place will get a month free memebership at Peak Fitness, and third will get a Miller Lite prize package (shirts, hats, etc). The entrance fee is $10, and signup starts this coming Sunday (Oct 5).

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Gothamist reports that Crazy Legs Conti has started his attempt to break the current Guinness continuous movie watching world record of 120 hours 23 minutes. He is watching the movies with 5 other competitors, including the current record holder, in a temporary glass structure in Times Square. 10 minute bathroom breaks between movies are allowed, but sleeping is not. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize.

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A jalapeno eating contest will be held at the St. Francis Fall for Greenville (South Carolina) on October 10. The prize breakdown:

1st Place = $300
2nd Place = $200
3rd Place = $100

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• BeautifulBrian.com will lose its web provider at the end of the month with the demise of hometown.aol.com
• Beautiful Brian compares Brad Sciullo with other sports eccentrics
• A higher quality version of “The Cheater”, which Brian says is not meant to embarrass or belittle Juliet Lee.
• MosesNews.com is rebranded as the “The World “Leada”….
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• Three pound burger debuts in Morgantown, NC. Naming rights will go to the first finisher
• Oyster eating contest for models seeks sponsorship

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Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery about her trip to the Krystal finals. Her father drove her from Chicago to Chattanooga from midnight to Sunday morning.

Hall Hunt also has some pictures on his blog.

update Jamie of Hungry Sisters has a pre-KSO report which includes her selection as Kobayashi’s bunnette and several videos. (She will post a contest report later)

update #2 The trip report on hungrysisters has been extended to cover the contest and a gallery has also been uploaded.

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• News video from the corny dog contest
• Jill Stoler has a contest report from a Brooklyn wing eating contest won by Will Millender
• MosesNews.com will stop covering competitive eating and offer political commentary and restaurant reviews
• News video from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has uploaded a song about the Nashville Krystal qualifier called “The Cheater” based The Who’s “The Seeker”
• Clips from Sunday’s Gluttonous King broadcast with Scandinavian subtitles

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The Morning Call has an article about Wild Bill Myers. There are some outtakes from the column in the reporter’s blog.

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Sonya Thomas’ most recent update to her website reports that she did not receive a slot to the Famous Famiglia pizza contest despite signing up on-line soon after registration opened.

The contest press release, available on the Famous Famiglia news page, is dated September 11 and lists several expected entrants even though registration officially opened on September 15.

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• Texas State Fair corny dog results, competitor factoids, Patrick Michels gallery
• Press relase for Famous Famiglia pizza has the following competitors: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti, Bob Shoudt, and Tim Eater X Janus
• Beautiful Brian has his personal IFOCE chronology
• British man dies after consuming homemade ultra hot sauce
• Video of Kevin Ross speed eating hot dogs
• Tomoko Miyake has a blog entry that Google translation titles “Wang Eating”
• Paul Newman dies at 83. This tribute says his hard boiled egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke was responsible for starting a wave of eating contests involving college students and troops in Vietnam.

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From the Krystal Square Off twitter:

1. Joey Chestnut 93 burgers
2. Pat Bertoletti 85 burgers
3. Takeru Kobayashi 84 burgers

update #4 Fox 61 video
blog entry by Kevin the Cool Guy
blog entry by unexpected spectator
youtube video recorded from the audience

update #3 A gallery of the finals is available

update #2 Times Free Press has an article
DNJ.com has a report on Dr. Big Time’s 10 place finish

Kobayashi has a blog entry which concludes (automatically translated)

First of all, I would from next year through the IFOCE, or do believe in freedom.

Of course, is also free to Nathan and Crystal would want to be a challenge.

update The Krystal Square Off blog has full results

IFOCE.com reports Kobayashi received a 2 burger deduction, which cost him second place and $5,000 in prize money

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update #4Wicked Local has a contest report

update #3 The Harvard student paper has a contest report

update #2 Some videos have been uploaded to youtube

update Results from a comment which is supported by an IFOCE.com report:
1st PrettyBoy Davekos 7.1lbs
2nd Mike Springer 5 lbs
3rd Betsey’s Boy (last year’s winner) 3.5 lbs

Please place results from todays Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge, MA in the comments of this thread.

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update The Dallas News has an article about the contest (from City of Lewisville)

A press release posted to the comments has the results from today’s tamale contest in Lewisville, TX. Patrick Vandam won his first non-qualifier contest by eating 44 tamales.

44 Patrick Vandam, Eagan, Minn., $1500
41 Tim Brown, Chicago, Ill. $1000
34.5 Eric “the Red” Denmark, Seattle, Wash., $500
34 Nate Biller, Briarwood, NY, $250
25.5 Kevin Ross, Temecula, Calif., $150
24 Bill Myers, Breinigsville, Penn., $100
23.5 Brent Ricord, Keller, Texas
20 Charles Johnson, Abilene, Texas
19 Frank Wach, Chicago, Ill.
18.5 Nic Fry, Grant Bend, Kan.
15.5 Jim Clawson, Addison, Texas
10.5 David Cagle, Houston, Texas
10.5 Patrick Owen, Corinth, Texas
5 Trey Beauregard, Moore, Okla.
5 David Marston, Frisco, Texas

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• Pat Bertoletti has a report on the Czech plum dumpling contest
• Rerun listing of the KSO V broadcast
• KSO V Press conference gallery and video
• Erik Denmark feels more positive about missing the Krystal finals
• Ginormous Burger Challenge finisher receives free T-shirt a year after completing the burger, along with some cookies to apologize for the delay
• Second Philadelphia Eagle ice cream qualifier report (from megamunch)

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AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.

The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com

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• Ex-“Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
• More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
• $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
• Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.

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WDEF has a blog entry about Kobayashi’s appearance today at a Chattanooga Krystal. Kobayashi has a message for Joey Chestnut in an embedded video.

Bodog is taking bets on Krystal Square OFF V. In addition to betting on the winner (the amateur is available at 99 to 1 odds) there are several proposition bets.

In other local television news, Pete Davekos will appear on the Fox 25 morning news to promote the Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good.

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• Kobayashi checks into a hospital, but recovers and practices with 100 burgers and plays the MLE video game
• Articles in the UAB and UTC student papers about the Krystal Square Off
• Home page for Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader, who has won several Chicago contests (from AICE news)
• Entry form for local competitors in the Garlicky Greens contest
• Competitive Eater Ben Griffith wins the trip to the Krystal finals
• Don Lerman is questioning his future in competitive eating

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The Chicago Sun Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti and his first place finish in the recent jalapeno contest in Chicago.

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A bratwurst eating contest for four person teams will be held in the Washington, DC area over the next two weekends. The contest will be a relay in which each team member has to finish 4 brats before the next can start. Qualifiers will be held in 9 locations on Sunday and the finals will take place on October 5. The grand prize is $300 cash, four tickets to a Redskins home game, and a limo to the game. Qualifier winners will receive a $50 bar tab and a Beck’s shwag bag. The registration deadline is tomorrow.

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• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

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• Jill Stoler has reports on the bun & cheese and loukoumades eating contests she competed in this weekend.
• If you missed the update below, Sonya Thomas declined her wild card slot which will go to Crazy Legs Conti
• Krystal amateurs Info: Sackful challenge pregame contest for pairs ($500 $100 prize), finals slot registration
• Saint Louis Sushi gallery. The top 3 – last years winner did not repeat, the winner is not named
• Mount Union College hot dog contest
• Phoenix area hot dog contest with qualifiers for high school students
• “Furious” Pete to do eating contests at the Mr. Olympia expo this weekend

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• Behind the scenes video at the gyoza contest
• Megamunch’s report from the whoopie pie contest. Ian Hickman threepeated.
• Article and video about the beanie burger eating contest at the Texas-Oklahoma fair
• Doc Chey’s noodle eating contest in Atlanta October 5. Dale Boone won last year’s contest
• Possible entrees for a restaurant specializing in competitive eating challenges.

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The Krystal Square Off twitter has the top 3 of this afternoon’s qualifier in Memphis:

1. Rich LeFevre 52 burgers
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Erik Denmark 50

If these are the official results the 3 wild cards will be:
1. Sonya Thomas 55
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Badlands Booker 51

If a fourth wild card is added Crazy Legs Conti or Erik Denmark would claim the slot with 50 burgers depending on whether Conti broke Denmark’s previous result of 43.

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The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of today’s qualifier in Memphis. Listed ranked entrants include Rich LeFevre, Crazy Legs Conti, Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark and Chris Abatsas, Damon Serignet. Juris Shibayama’s competing in a second qualifier will give him the tiebreaker over Badlands Booker regardless of how much he eats.

Sonya Thomas will get in unless the top four breaks 55. Booker will have to hope that the runner-up does not exceed his total of 51.

Erik Denmark has blog entries about last weekend’s jalapeno contest and Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He has the following account of the Krystal overtime in Memphis:

In the 10 burger overtime eat-off, Rich Shea announced clearly to keep the eating clean – Juliet did not, she continued to stuff multiple burgers in and around her mouth getting about half of them in and half of them on the table and ground. She raised her hands in the air when her 10 burgers were out of the boxes, the crowd booed and the judges told her to eat the mess she had made. She continued to sweep up the sloppy burgers from the table and with every sweep of burger mess in to her mouth she raised her hands again looking for victory and the crowd booed louder. This continued for about the next 60 seconds, the crowd was now hoping that either Badlands or Juris would get through their 10 burgers before Juliet was done cleaning her mess.

But it didn’t happen, Juliet finally ate enough of what she had spilled to get the decision. Not a popular decision at all.

Erik Denmark also says that Kobayashi’s bye slot in the Krystal finals will be filled by an amateur pulled from the crowd and not a fourth wild card entrant.

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