Yahoo Sports has a one minute video report about the TripRewards hot wing eating contest produced by the Associated Press.

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CityPaper.net has a paragraph about Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Philadelphia with some of the expected entrants:

The winner of this qualifier will earn a spot at the big table — the Nathan’s Famous championship, held at Coney Island every Fourth of July. Come cheer on last year’s winner, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, as well as Yellowcake, Wing Kong, Steakbellie and Philly’s own “Humble” Bob Shoudt, who put away 28 in 2006. “It’s the same thing as any contest — you need to find a rhythm,” says Shoudt. “You can’t listen to your body telling you to slow down.”

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The website for the Delaplane Strawberry Festival has a list of the expected and possible entrants in the strawberry eating contest:

Expected
# Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Hadley, MA
# Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, Lagrange KY (last year’s champion)
# “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Wallingford CT
# Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Sterling VA (our local competitor)
# Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo , PA

Possible
# Bob “Killer” Kuhns, Freeport PA
# James “The Food Prowler” Fowler, Pittsburgh PA
# Chris “The Amnerican Schlesinger, Bohemia NY (competed last year)
# Eliot “The Savage” Cowley, Audubon NJ (competed last year, placed 2nd with 5.10 lbs)

The Washington Post has a paragraph about the festival and its eating contest

The MC for the contest, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, has posted his contest predictions on his blog

update TimesCommunity.com has an article about the festival with some quotes from Ian Hickman.

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NorthKitsapHerald.com has an article about a lutefisk eating contest in Poulsbo, Washington.

Local lutefisk eating legend Eric Perkins almost regretted encouraging Jake Watrous to enter Sunday’s Viking Fest lutefisk eating contest at the Kvelstad Pavilion.

Before bowing out at the three-and-a-half-pound mark, Watrous put a scare into both Perkins and reigning champion, Puyallup’s Charles Jensen. Even so, Jensen retained his title by consuming more than four pounds. Perkins literally lost his ‘fisk as he finished second for the second straight year.

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(From AICE news) The predictions for the AICE ribs contest in Kansas City Sunday expect half the top 4 to be filled by AICE novices:

1. Veto “The Machine” Porter 4.22 lb.
2. Gentleman Joe Menchetti 4.11 lb.
3. Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum” 3.77 lb.
4. Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady 3.66 lb.

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(From Megamunch and Brian Subich) Joey Chestnut’s victory at the TripRewards wing contest yesterday was the #2 play of the day on ESPN Sportcenter.

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TripRewards hot wings results Update MLE has full results

1. Joey Chestnut 7.05 lb in 12 minutes
2. Sonya Thomas 6.01 lb
3. Tim Janus 5.381 lb.
4. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 3.913 lb
5. Crazy Legs Conti 3.263 lb
6. Steakbellie 2.475 lb
7. Pete Miernicki 2.2 lb

update NYMag.com has a short blog entry about the contest

update #2 A press release about the contest is available. Video from the contest can be seen at http://www.triprewardshotwingchampionship.com/.

update #3 wygwto.blogspot.com has a spectator’s report from the contest which says that Horatio Sanz was the first choice for the celebrity host.

The liveblog follows the jump

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This afternoon, TripRewards will sponsor a chicken wing eating contest. The previous TripRewards contest was a birthday cake eating contest in 2005. AnchoragePress.com has an article about Shishaldin, who participated in that event.

Readers might remember Shishaldin as the Brooklyn, New York-based performance artist so starved for attention that she ran the New York Marathon draped in cold cuts, auctioned her DNA on eBay and willed her remains to the Guggenheim Museum to be freeze-dried and displayed after her death. She also once attempted a diet solely of her own breast milk by using imported lactation-inducing drugs and a breast pump. (She described the results on her website: “Weeks of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea ensued… project abandoned. Some people are just not the nurturing kind.”)

Now Shishaldin is training to become a competitive eater. Last month she beat out ex-NFL celebrity William “The Refrigerator” Perry in a cake-eating contest that she entered dressed as Marie Antoinette, complete with a corset that she unzipped once she got onstage. Perry, a “guest eater” who was paid for his appearance, placed 10th out of 10. Winner Rich Lefevre ate a five-pound cake in 11 minutes, 20 seconds. Other results were not reported on the International Federation of Competitive Eating website. Shishaldin said there were problems weighing cake after the contest and some controversy over the rules, which didn’t allow eaters to dip cake in water. “Some of the eaters were really upset,” she said.

Shishaldin has apparently shifted from competitive eating to running. Her old blog announces a goal of running a marathon in every state before she reached the age of 30. Her current blog has an entry about participating in a six day race.

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Erik Denmark reports that a podcast of his interview on Seattle sports radio is available.

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(from AICE news)

Pro Division 5 minutes

Amateur Division 5 minutes

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IFOCE.com reports that Tim Janus has won the Nathan’s Hartford qualifier for the third year in a row with a total of 41.5 hot dogs. Tim Brown ate 24 HDB and Russ Keeler was third with 23 HDB.

update The Star Tribune has an interview with Tim from before the qualifier.

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Last year, the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and the corndog eating contest held at the Corndogorama music festival were held the same day. After participating in both events and winning the corndog contest in 2006, Dale Boone said he would choose the corndog contest over the hot dog qualifier next year. He will have to make no such decision this year since Pine Magazine reports the festival will start July 12.

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Megamunch reports that Shoo Fly pie registration opened last night.

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From IFOCE.com

“The East Hartford contest is typically held in an open-air parking lot. For years we’ve been blessed with good weather for this event. In consideration of this Saturday’s forecast, we’ve elected to hold the contest in a building that is the former home of an Ames department store. This vacant Ames is in the same strip mall as the Nathan’s Famous in East Hartford. It is the ideal replacement venue for this qualifier.”

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The archives for Time Magazine have an article with a paragraph about the 1933 corn eating contest held in Ortonville, Minnesota, where an AICE contest will take place this year:

At the Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women’s corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women’s record of 25 ears. Ed (“Korn King”) Kottwitz won the men’s championship with a world’s record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women’s record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears.

Mrs. Lindstrom’s performance is the best performance by an eater over the age of 70 I am aware of.

It is surprising that an eating contest would be held during the trough of the Great Depression.

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A press release for Monday’s Trip Rewards hot wing eating contest lists the expected entrants:

Competing for the TripRewards Ultimate Hot Wing Eating Championship title will be IFOCE eaters Joey “Jaws” Chestnut of San Jose, Calif.; Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas of Alexandria, Va.; Tim “Eater X” Janus of New York, “Crazy Legs” Conti of New York, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins of Drexel Hill, Pa.; Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston of Drexel Hill; and Pete Miernicki, a rookie eater from Philadelphia. Bob “Humble” Shoudt of Royersford, Pa., and “Wild” Bill Myers of Brenigsville, Pa., will be “waiting in the wings” as alternates.

Kenan Thompson of Saturday Night Live will host. The contest will be webcast on Monday at 1pm eastern at http://www.triprewardshotwingchampionship.com/

update The blog for the the Minneapolis paper has an entry about the contest with a lot of comments.

The first commenter has the following response to the question “Why does competitive eating need its own international federation?”:

I don’t know. I guess they need a union to fight the evil promoters.

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The Des Moines Register has an article about the Jewish Food Festival which will feature the following event:

The festival will also hold its second matzo ball eating competition.

Last year, local challengers set out to break a New York City record of 21 baseball-sized matzo balls in five minutes, 25 seconds.

The local attempt fell five short, Goldstien said.

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about the all you can eat section at Dodger Stadium claiming that the average hot dog consumption in that area is 2.5 hot dogs / person. The section has sold out 8 of 18 games this season. Two Philadelphia teams are considering adding all you can eat sections.

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Josh Camerote, director of the Wing Bowl 13 documentary, “Swallow Your Pride” has set up a website and blog at http://www.joshcamerote.com/home.html The blog announces that a viewing of “Swallow Your Pride” has been scheduled for May 31 in Cleveland, but details have not been finalized yet.

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The website for the Wilmington, DE Blue Rocks has a web page about the hot dog eating contest that will take place before their games. 5 qualifiers will be held throughout the season (one has already taken place). Qualifiers are 8 minutes long.

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Philly.com’s Inqlings page has a paragraph about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons’ establishment:

El Wingador’s To-Go – the eatery at Fourth and Girard backed by five-time Wing Bowl winner Bill “El Wingador” Simmons – is dark after only four months. Sign on the door mentions a temporary closing due to “unforeseen circumstances beyond our control” and expresses a hope to “reopen soon, possibly under new management.”

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The Plymouth State newspaper has an article about a hot dog contest held there. Jared Rennie won the men’s division by consuming whopping 12.5 dogs in 12 minutes, while Maria Crawford bested the other females with a mark of 11.5 hot dogs (Surprisingly, there were 7 entrants in the men’s adult divison, while 11 women over 18 competed. I wonder if there are any other women besides, Sonya, Carlene and Takako Akasaka to do the “half deuce”

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Skinnyboy recorded video of Pat Bertoletti’s and Rich LeFevre’s appearance on local television before the Las Vegas qualifier.

There is also a video of Rick “The Grizzly” Baird’s introduction.

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A website for the Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the Mall of America has been set up at nathansmoa.com. There is a gallery of last year’s qualifier.

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The East Hartford Gazette has a preview of the May 19 Nathan’s qualifier. Tim Janus and Tim Brown are expected entrants.

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