TheCollegiateNationals.com has a report about last night’s eating contest in San Diego. The top 3 were:

1. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, $1000
2. Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, $500
3. Ryan “Big Mac” McMillan, $250

update

• UMD student paper on Brian Keaton’s 5th place finish
  
• SignOnSanDiego.com contest report
• Furious Pete profile in Hamilton Spectator
• BodyBuilding.com forum thread about Pete’s victory

update #2 Pete has posted contest videos to his youtube page

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Sun Sentinel has an article about Hall Hunt and Joe LaRue viewing a recent Miami Heat game in the all you can eat section. Hall wrote a blog entry about his trip south. Both Hunt and LaRue are expected to compete in the corn eating contest next week.

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Todays results from the contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC from a “Wild” Bill Myers comment:

1.) Juliet Lee – finished all food items in approximately six minutes. (first title in an open contest)
2.) Badlands Bookers – finished all food items in eight minute, contest was stopped at this point. (first contest since March 2007)
3.) Nathan Biller – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
3.) Dave Goldstein – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
3.) Arturo Rios – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
6.) Joe Tursi – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and five of the twelve slices of pizza.
7.) William Myers – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and two of the twelve slices of pizza.
7.) Brian Seiken – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and two of the twelve slices of pizza.
9.) Shane Baker – finished nachos, wings, and 2.5 hot dogs.
10.) Pierre Abry – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
10.) Paul Barlow – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
10.) Rich Foley – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
13.) Bruce Pobanz – finished nachos, wings, and one hot dog.

update wpde.com has an article about the contest

update #2 MyrtleBeachOnline.com has a gallery and hotelsbycity has two pictures.

update #3 BeautifulBrian.com has contest video which includes the performance of “Bonebreaker Barlow” by Brian and Badlands Booker

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SignOnSanDiego.com has a report and video about last night’s qualifier for the Collegiate Nationals eating contest. Ryan McMillan won by eating 2 pounds of french fries in 3 minutes and 18 seconds. The other three qualifiers are Darrin Wolff, Chris Hanson and Josh Ballard.

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DennysBeerBarrelPub.com announces that the restaurant presented a trophy to Lori Weiss on her recent birthday to honor her eating achievements at that establishment. Ms. Weiss is one of two people to have completed the monster 96er burger and also holds the female speed records for the two and three pound burgers. (The website lists Lori’s last name as “Weis”, but her 96er finisher plaque and other articles list it as “Weiss”. )

Denny’s website also mentions that it will be featured on a Travel Channel program, “All You Can Eat Food Paradise”, later this month. The program will debut on April 26 at 6pm eastern and be rerun on April 30 at 8pm.

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• April 21 Trenton, NJ New Britain, CT Hot dog eating contest for college students at minor league baseball game. First prize is a flat screen TV.
• Japanese curry eating challenge at Kenka restaurant in NYC. Curry & T shirt are free if eaten in under 20 minutes.
• Food Battle Stadium contest for women only. Gal Sone makes a guest appearance
• St. Louis tater tot eating contest video
• Cartoon of oyster eating contest
• Goliath pizza eating contest for teams of 5 in Midgeville, GA
• Melon eating contest between two elephants Saturday in Columbus, OH

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Bruce “the Hangman” Pobanz has emailed a potential roster for Saturday’s contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Juliet Lee
Eric “Badlands” Booker
“Super” Paul Barlow
Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
“Nasty” Nate Biller
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken
Dave “US Male” Goldstein
Rick Petralia

possible
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
Arturo “The Natural” Rios

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The Baltimore Sun has an article about University of Maryland student Brian “Eatin'” Keaton. Like Sonya Thomas, Keaton was inspired to enter competitive eating after watching Kobayashi at the Nathan’s finals. Like Kevin Lipsitz, he has competed against a canine in an eating contest. Keaton might have debuted at the 2005 pizza eating contest in Camden, NJ:

Keaton, an agricultural economics major, got his start not long after his Kobayashi epiphany. He learned that the New Jersey state pizza-eating championship, an all-comers event, was to take place a few towns away. He entered, downed a large cheese pie in 10 minutes, and finished fourth, but ahead of several established pros.

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Flancer’s Cafe in Gilbert, Arizona is hosting a pizza eating contest April 20 that will award $500 to the winner. The contest entry fee is $30.

Delicious Tamales in San Antonio is holding a tamale eating contest on April 26. The competition will have separate divisions for men and women and each contest will award $250 to the winner. The registration deadline is April 18.

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• Deadspin on the Collegiate Nationals
  
• Mike Golic receives a bib from a fan for his upcoming contest
• “Eating Levi” gets into the Newport Beach Film Festival
• NPR podcast on all you can eat sections at ballparks
• Milk Bone eating contest for humans
• Parody of a hot dog eating contest documentary

Registration for Nathan’s qualifiers opens at noon eastern today

Added 11:15 pm

• Article about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski in which he attempts to break his personal record for a 72 ounce steak
• “Black Day” eating contest for South Korean lovelorn
• Leader board for journalists in the Oakland A’s all you can eat section (PG rated pictures) via Deadspin

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From Jon B & Beautiful Brian emails and AP article

1 Pat Bertoletti 35 dozen 8 minutes
2 Juliet Lee 31 1/2 dozen 8 minutes
3T Crazy Legs Conti 24 dozen (called the defending champion in the AP article)
3T Chris Abatsas 24 dozen
5? Scott “Scozzy Bone” Zukowski, 20 dozen
Tim Brown DQ reversal after 14 dozen

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(From Baseball Think Factory) InsideBayArea.com has an article about viewing an Oakland A’s game from the all you can eat section of McAfee Coliseum. The reporter dined with Eric Louie, who competed in the 2007 asparagus eating contest. Louie consumed 12 hot dogs during the game and wrote an article about his trip to the ballpark. FreelanceNews.com also has an article about the section.

In other competitive eating Oakland A’s news, Joey Chestnut throwing out the first pitch in a July 2007 A’s game is still the top story on CompetitiveEatingEvents.com

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• Beautiful Brian has commentary on the new IFOCE rankings and “Stick to Blogging” sales
• Elliott “Wing Tut / The Savage” Maruffi-Cowley section in philly.com Inqlings column
• Christian “Musk Ox” McCarthy article
• Battle of the Bone week 4 results and videos
• Blog entry about Long Island eating challenges
• Frederick Kaufman (“American Stomach”) interview. Interviewer claims Dale Boone weighs 400 pounds
• Man completes all 28 monster burgers on menu over 2 years
• WNBA’s Detroit Shock to offer all you can eat tickets
• Gizmodo meetup at Coney Island with possible hot dog eating contest
• “Dirty” eating in Gluttonous Queen 2008 criticized
• update Richard Shea interview in NOLA.com
• update – Registration for 3 Brothers Pizza opens at 1 pm eastern today

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OCMexFood has a report on Monday’s taco eating contest held at Tacos & Co. in Irvine, California. Karina Muniz won the contest by eating 8 California tacos in 4 minutes. Muniz was the only female in the field of 23 and entered the contest at the last minute. Jeff Fong came in second. Most of the competitors were students from UC Irvine, which Justin Mih attended.

See also Fast Food Maven

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(From comment) The third 3 Brothers Pizza eating contest will take place in Greenbelt, Maryland on May 31. Registration will open on April 11. The previous two contests took place in August.

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(From Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz) Some information about Saturday’s oyster eating contest is available on acmeoyster.com (no direct link, click on contest, then “oyster eating”) The contest will begin at noon at the French Market.

There is also a link to a contest entry form, but it appears to be for the 2005 contest.

update from SykoBozo (who will also be competing) comment – NewOrleansMagazine.com has a possible field:

Nipping at Bertoletti’s heels will be Eater X, a face-painting burrito champ out of New York City’s who is ranked #4 in the world. Also competing is Crazy Legs Conti who is perhaps best known for launching his eating career by winning the first Acme World Oyster Eating Championships in 2002. Baltimore’s Julie Lee (ranked 10th), Seattle’s Erik “The Red” Denmark (ranked 12th), Chicago’s Gravy Brown (15th) and Birmingham’s Chip Simpson (ranked 6th) will also compete.

Louisiana’s top eater, Damon Serignet of Baton Rouge, has promised to defend the honor of the Pelican State in this competition.

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Metromix has a gallery of the final contest in the “Munch Madness” team relay bar bite eating tournament, which was nicknamed the “Elite Ate”

The winner is not mentioned in the gallery captions. Team Manchetti was one of the eight finalists.

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• Eater X & Seaver Miller on the Tyra Banks show
• Kristy Yamaguchi claims to be regional hot dog winner on April 1 “Dancing with the Stars”
• Pat Bertoletti and Damon Serignet and expected Acme Oyster entrants
• Video from Sutter’s Mill burger contest in Albany, NY
• Cincinnati Reds forum thread about Frank Pastore’s Big Texan steak record
• Battle of the Bone Week 3
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi dines in Hong Kong

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Cookie Jarvis will be competing in an eating contest against an undetermined competitor at the Norwich (CT) Defenders minor league baseball game Thursday.

In other Cookie Jarvis news, he is quoted in Newsday about the cost of moving mobile homes.

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The 2008 Nathan’s qualifier schedule will not start in conjunction with a Florida Panthers NHL game as the previous two years have; the final Panthers home game of the season was last night.

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(From anonymous comment) A youtube video of Joey Chestnut setting the Big Texan 72 ounce steak record is available. The video appears to be taken from the Big Texan webcam and lacks audio.

update The 72 ounce steak videos from Joey Chestnut and “Furious” Pete are embedded after the jump
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The Totally Serious Sports News Network has an article about Cleveland Indians pitcher Masahide Kobayashi being mistaken for someone else with that surname:

Needless to say, Kobayashi is already questioning whether signing with Cleveland was the best thing for him.

“Seriously, the fact that no one knew Kobayashi is a common Japanese name is kind of offensive,” he said. “It’s amazing to me that a team called the ‘Indians’ can be so racially insensitive.”

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Liz Gilbert, two time winner of the women’s division in Pete’s Grill pancake eating contest, has graduated from Johns Hopkins and is acting in a play called “Game On” this weekend:

Last fall the playwrights met with the apprentices and talked with them about the play’s sports theme. In those discussions, the writers discovered certain ideas and talents that they incorporated into the piece. For example, actor Elizabeth Gilbert, a two-time pancake-eating champion of Baltimore, inspired a segment about competitive eating. Apprentice Bing Putney’s ability to jump tall objects was included in scenes involving lacrosse players.

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(From Save The Deli) The New York Times has an article and slideshow about restaurants near the exits of the New Jersey Turnpike. Harold’s New York Deli in Edison, NJ was visited near exit 10:

Harold Jaffee cut his teeth as general manager at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan, where the sandwiches are big enough. But there’s something about New Jersey that made him want to do things bigger.

At Harold’s New York Deli, in a Holiday Inn just a kreplach’s toss from Exit 10, Mr. Jaffee serves a 26-ounce pastrami sandwich, two little triangles of bread teetering like a farce atop twin peaks of meat. The house-cured pastrami is soft, warm and mildly spiced. You can feed a carload on it, supplemented by slices of rye and half sours from the “world’s largest pickle bar.”

The 26 ounce sandwich is not the largest item on the menu; triple decker sandwiches are available.

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• Juliet Lee updates her WriteNow page – includes commentary on “Romeo”
• “Humble” Bob answers the IFOCE questionnaire
• “Furious” Pete is considering doing a team pizza challenge singlehandedly
• More on Gene Simmons’ New Zealand pizza eating contest
• Honolulu corned beef musubi results and picture
• Battle of the Bone qualifier #2 gallery and results
• Woman asks man out to watch a “Munch Madness” qualifier, man declines
• Lucy “Are you Gonna Eat That” Bauer wing contest video
• Profile of Gersh Kuntzman
• Gluttonous Queen rookie Atsumi Furukawa starts a web page
• R Suzuki and Tomoko Miyake comment on the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest, which is now available on the NNN website.

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