Megamunch has a blog entry and gallery about the hamburger eating contest held at A Taste of Hambuger-ger on Saturday. The top 4:
1 Ian Hickman 15 burgers
2 Carey Poehlmann 9.5 burgers
3. Joel Podelsky 9 burgers
4. Dave Shoffner 7 burgers

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Buffalo Buffet Bowl results from a Mike Landrich comment:

1. Sonya Thomas
2. Juliet Lee
3. Badlands Booker
4. Jim Reeves

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The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady set the record for consuming the Super Pub Challenger burger, which contains three pounds of meat, on July 31. Her time of 20 minutes was 10 minutes faster than the previous record of a half an hour and almost halved the previous female record held by Lori Weiss of 36 minutes.

Elizabeth Canady is not the most recent female finisher of the Super Pub Challenger, April Frisco (picture on right) completed the challenge on August 8.

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According to information entered into the eatfeats database, Dale Boone won the Skin’s hot dog eating contest held at the balloon festival in Anderson, SC:

1st 18 $500 Dale Boone Atlanta, GA
2nd 14 $250 Michael Diebold
3rd 12 $125 Jason “The Polish Love” Skrzypek Atlanta, GA

WLOCE is sanctioning another Skin’s hot dog contest at the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair September 12

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Full results from the wing eating contest held at the Buffalo Wing Festival courtesy of “Wild” Bill Myers:

1st 4.23 $1500 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas
2nd 4.15 $750 Eric “Badlands” Booker
3rd 3.98 $300 Juliet Lee
4th 3.52 Russ “The Black Hole” Keeler
5th 3.24 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
6th 2.85 “Big” Brian Subich
7th 2.83 Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo
8th 2.77 Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein
9th 2.02 Mike Landrich
10th 1.88 William “Wild Bill” Myers
11th 1.65 Matthew Ventre
12th 1.27 “Beautiful” Brian Seiken

update WKBW.com has a video

update #2Beautiful Brian has a contest video

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Today’s results from the pork barbecue sandwich eating contest held at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC according to IFOCE.com via a Crawfish comment

Joey Chestnut 49.5
Pat Bertoletti 49
Humble Bob 46
Hall Hunt 36

update WPDE has an article about the contest

update #2 MyrtleBeachOnline has a video

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SportsBubbler.com has a list of the expected entrants at the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest: Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee, Badlands Booker, Buffalo Jim Reeves, Russ Keeler, Dave “US Male” Goldstein, Brian Subich, Wild Bill Myers, Beautiful Brian Seiken

Sonya is the only listed entrant in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl contest on Sunday (presumably most, if not all of the wing contest competitors will also enter that event.)

Juliet Lee is still listed on the Myrtle Beach pork barbecue sandwich eating contest roster despite also being in the buffalo wing list

Joey Chestnut, Bob Shoudt and Tim Brown are expected at the spaghetti chili eating contest in Cincinnati.

KrystalSquareOff.com has yet to list all the non-amateurs competing in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day. The most recent blog entry has a video interview Hall Hunt did this morning. The Krystal twitter page is taking predictions for the contest.

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• Article about A Taste of Hamburg-er eating contest which reports that “Ian Hick” was last year’s winner
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Miami.com reports that a mini burger will be held at Quarterdeck Seafood Bar and Neighborhood Grill in Miami Beach on Monday. The first prize is $500 and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders will attend.

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• Preview of Sonya Thomas vs. Hall Hunt matchup
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Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off rib eating contest results from Jason Erb and anonymous comment

1st: Joey Chestnut 9.8 pounds, new record
2nd: Pat Bertoletti 7.4
3rd: Erik Denmark 4.7
4th: Rich LeFevre 4.6
5th: Ron Koch 3.4
6th: Jason Erb 2.8
7th: Sean Kirby 2.5
8th: El Toro 2.2

update RGJ.com has a contest report

EmilyPie has some pictures

update #2 Full results are now available on IFOCE.com

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Kobayashi has two blog entries with pictures from his appearance at the New York City Nike Sportswear Store opening Thursday Part 1, Part 2. Joey Chestnut does not appear in any of the pictures.

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A press release lists four expected entrants at tomorrow’s Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, Nevada: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark.

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• Val Bromann has a contest report and gallery from the Busey Executive Sweetcorn Eating Contest
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The Krystal Square Off blog confirms that Sonya Thomas will compete in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day and the twitter page is seeking input on questions to be asked in Sonya Thomas’ and Hall Hunt’s podcast interviews.

A gallery of the Chattanooga qualifier is also available.

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In his yardbarker blog, Pat Bertoletti announces the opening of his personal website at DeepDishEats.com Bertoletti intends to have recipes and other cooking information on his website in addition to news about his competitive eating career. The contest calendar says that he will compete in the Nugget rib eating contest on Wednesday.

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• Colley Handspike wins Atlanta La Costena jalapeno eating contest
• Seattle clam contest report
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Please place results from the gyoza eating contest held during the Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles in the comments of this thread. The contest was supposed to start at 12:30 Pacific (3:30 eastern)

update results from “LA Assassin”
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 231 New world record
Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 201
Rich “Locust” LeFevre 175
Tim “Gravy” Brown 135 I think
Kevin “007” Ross 107
LA Assassin 75
Shawn Kirby 56
Franklin Teng 47

update sklathill has a gallery of the contest with 6 video clips

update #2 mrmurayama competed in the contest and has a blog entry about it.

update #3 A contest video and official results are now available

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The KSO twitter page has announced that “Humble” Bob Shoudt has won the Chattanooga qualifier with 58 burgers. Sonya Thomas retains the Chattanooga qualifier record of 62.

update
TimesFreePress has the top 3:
1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 58
2. Larry “The Legend” McNeil, 28
3. Rick Petralia, 20
? “Super” Paul Barlow, 18

update #2 Mike Nafziger emails that Bob Shoudt passed out before the contest due to lack of calories.

update #3 Full results are now available on krystalsquareoff.com/blog

update #4 WDEF weatherman ties for fifth with 18 burgers

update #5Video of the contest and a Humble Bob interview are available on KrystalSquareOff.com

WDEF.com has videos of yesterday’s celebrity eating contest

The KSO twitter page is currently taking predictions.

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• Sonya Thomas listed as an expected entrant in the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier
• English article about faked Tomoko Miyake program.
  

  “We were vague about how we counted the plates and dishes, for instance, counting one plate with four pieces of the same dish as four dishes.”

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Takeru Kobayashi’s latest blog entry is about attending the invitation only grand opening of the New York City Nike Sportswear Store Thursday night. Nebol.com and Nicekicks.com have pictures. Joey Chestnut, Roger Federer, Spike Lee and Serena Williams were other celebrities in attendance. Nathan’s provided food for the event.

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You can follow the events of the opening festivities for Krystal Square Off V on the KSO twitter page at http://twitter.com/ksquareoff The “Running of the Grill” is almost concluded and the press conference is about to begin.

The Times Free Press has an article and WDEF has a blog entry about today and tomorrow’s events. Registration for amateurs tomorrow starts at 2pm.

Viewing tomorrow’s qualifier requires admission to the Southern Brewers Festival which costs $15.

update TimesFreePress.com has a preview of the qualifier focusing on the favorite, Bob “Stoudt” [sic]

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The Krystal Square Off blog announces that the opening ceremony for the Krystal Square Off will take place on Friday starting at 1pm eastern. Events will include a “Running of the Grill”, a press conference and a 2 minute burger eating contest between Chattanooga news personalities.

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