A full video of the meatball contest and prize announcements recorded by LadyLenore is available on Brian Seiken’s website. Joey Chestnut and Bob Shoudt are interviewed briefly. Sonya’s snub of Humble Bob’s handshake occurs at the 18:12 mark.

The 2006 meatball contest was definitely the contest of the parent. Not only did the IFOCE’s top father, Bob Shoudt, take victory against a field containing of 6 of the top 8 IFOCE members, Juliet Lee had the best ever IFOCE performance by a mother if the reports in the comments that she finished 7th with a total of 5.51 pounds is accurate.

updated spikebythesea has posted videos of the contest to youtube which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=spikebythesea

Pat from Moonachie probably merited a spot closer to the center of the table based on his ranking, but putting him at the end was probably the optimal place based on what happened after the egg nog contest 😉

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The Vallejo Times herald has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he discusses his first loss to an American since the chili cheese fries contest at the Queen Mary in February. Joey says he had difficulty finding meatballs similiar to the contest meatballs and that he arrived at the Tropicana at 10am Saturday after a sleepless night. The article says that all top 3 eaters ate in the 9-9.99 lb range. The controversial judgement awarding Bob Shoudt the victory over Sonya Thomas is not mentioned.

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The Asbury Park Press has a profile of Arturo “The Natural” Rios Jr. in today’s issue.

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A video of the Garlicky Greens contest held at b.good won by Gretchen Salyer last month is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNUxC3I8mUM. The clip has more content from the “Lord of the Rings” movies than the actual contest and provides only brief glimpses of the victor. One brief segment (capture available after jump) shows that Ms. Salyer might be the first person to experience the “spinach sweats.” b.good has an online newsletter about the contest.

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A Pat from Moonachie fan attended the meatball contest at the Tropicana and posted the following results to the Opie & Anthony message board:

3rd Place… Joey Chestnut
2nd Place… Sonya Thomas
1st Place… Bob Shout

Sonya wouldn’t shake hands and walked off the stage, and looked like she was crying.
Bandlands Booker was the Judge who made the final decision.

If this report is accurate, Joey’s 7-8 month non Kobayashi winning streak has finished

updatedSome pictures of Pat & a few of Brian Seiken have been appended to the forum thread It is surprising that it has been over 5 hours since the contest ended and no one has any contest reports.

updated #2 iirraa has posted a flickr gallery of today’s contest (pictures above from that gallery)

updated #3 beautifulbrian.com has a video of the awards presentation. Bob was awarded the victory over Sonya due to excessive detritus. I could not hear any totals announced.

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Liz report that her redeye flight to JFK has been cancelled, preventing her from writing a report about the meatball contest at the Tropicana in Atlantic City.

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Brooklyn Papers reports that the Astroland theme park in Coney Island has been sold to developers who intend to build a mini Las Vegas on the site. Tim Janus is quoted.

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The Wing Bowl page at philly.com has been updated with information about Wing Bowl 15. The page will have videos of qualifying stunts. The initial stunt performer will be Humble Joe?? on Monday.

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The b.good website has a picture and brief article about Gretchen Salyer, who won the Garlicky Greens championship two weeks ago. If Ms. Salyer is a female impersonator, s/he is doing a much better job than “Helen Haggerty” 😉

updated boston.com has a paragraph about Gretchen’s victory, which states she ate 2.9 lbs. in five minutes. The Harvard article says she ate 2.73 lbs.

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Dec 1, MegaMunch 20 taco challenge, Harrisburg, PA, $5 (and cost of 20 tacos) entrance fee
Dec 2 Pizza eating contest, Home Slice Pizza, Austin TX, 30 minutes, prize is pizza for a year
Dec 8 Hard Boiled Egg Eating contest, The Locker, Marietta, OH, 1st prize is $100

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Steakbellie’s qualifiying stunt attempt has been accepted by WIP. The parameters are:

2 Foot Wawa Hoagie
Half Gallon Lemonade
Small bag of chips

5 minutes 30 seconds

The stunt will be atttempted at 8:30 am on December 6

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All residents of southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey are not eligible to attempt a Wing Bowl qualifying stunt or enter a Wing Off qualifier. The Wing Bowl rules have the following restriction:

The contest is open to all WIP listeners who are 21 years of age or older who reside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area – Philadelphia Metropolitan area as defined by Arbitron is the following counties: Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, counties in Pennsylvania; Camden, Gloucester, Mercer counties in New Jersey (the five contestants who are entered through the IFOCE’s automatic bids are exempted from the residence requirement).

A map of the region is available. (The map includes Burlington County, NJ, the largest in the map in New Jersey, which is not part of the Wing Bowl area.) This restricts residents of Allentown, Lancaster, Atlantic City and north Delaware from entering and shuts out Garden Staters Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin and Arturo Rios. Residents of Princeton / Trenton, NJ can enter (Mercer County) but the most famous eater from that area would be prohibited by the 21 age minimum in the minimal chance she wanted to enter.

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The Chock full o’Nuts (Coffee) World Date Nut Bread Eating Championship, to be held December 20 in New York City, has been added to the IFOCE schedule. The purse is $5000.

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Asbury Park Press has a brief preview of Saturday’s meatball contest in Atlantic City. Bob Shoudt, Chip Simpson, Tim Janus along with defending champion Sonya Thomas are listed as expected entrants. The most interesting part concerns who will MC the event:

The contest will be hosted by the “Jersey Guys” Craig Carton and Ray Rossi of NJ101.5, and they will be qualifying one winner through their radio show which airs Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Carton & Rossi have some previous competitive eating experience. They interviewed Kate Stelnick during her post-Denny’s media blitz.

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The Inqlings and Dan Gross column on philly.com have sections about Wing Bowl 15. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Rich LeFevre are listed as three of the five out of towners. Former 76ers owner Pat Croce is rumored to be the next Wing Bowl commisioner. The current projected opening date for El Wingador’s restaurant is sometime in mid-December and it will have a grand opening the day of Wing Bowl 15.

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Steakbellie first person report

AP video

Chicagoist blog entry (has picture of Bertoletti w/ Boone doll)

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Qualifying contests for Wing Bowl 15 have been announced. Unlike qualifiers for last year’s contest, participants do not need to be college students.

Thursday December 7, 2006
Landmark Americana Tap + Grille
1 East West Street Glassboro, NJ 08028
REGISTRATION TIME: 8:30-9:30
CONTEST STARTS: 10:00 pm

Thursday January 18, 2007
Trappe Tavern
416 Main Street – Trappe, PA 19462
REGISTRATION: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
CONTEST STARTS: 9:30 pm

“The Glen Macnow Eating Competition.” Competitors must be present at the Slack’s Hoagie Shack between the hours of 10am and 3pm on Saturday January 20, 2006 to compete in a 20 minute Buffalo Chicken Hoagie eating competition. Entrants must call into the Glen Macnow show to register

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610wip.com has been updated with Wing Bowl 15 information. The only apparent difference between Wing Bowl 15 and 14 is that veterans are allowed back in and the Philadelphia area winner will also receive a car regardless of his/her overall finish. The contest rules say that the duration remains 30 minutes and AICE eaters are still explicitly banned. 5 IFOCE eaters gain entrance automatically to the contest.

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Brian Seiken has a full video of Wednesday’s turkey contest at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/page8.html and a 10 minute clip on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQJN72Wf5f4

Beautiful Brian has also posted a clip of Don “Moses” Lerman breaking the bologna eating record on Feats of Strength at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/mas44.html

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The logo for Wing Bowl 15 appears at the top of 610wip.com The only information offered is that there will be eating & wingettes; other details will be provided tomorrow morning.

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If you thought you ate too much pumpkin pie this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that you probably did not eat as much pie as the competitors in a pumpkin pie eating contest. The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus had an eating contest for its elephants as they settled into winter quarters in Tampa.

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The Sewickly Herald has an article about Uncle Charley’s Sausage Eating Contest finals and brief profiles of some of the competitors. Uncle Charley’s website has yet to be updated with the 2nd qualifier results.

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IFOCE.com results:

Patrick Bertoletti: 4.8 lbs
Tim Janus: 3.8 lbs
Arturo Rios: 2.8 lbs
Crazy Legs Conti: 2.38 lbs
Justin Mih: 2.375 lbs
Eric “Steak Bellie” Livingston: 1.80 lbs
Brian Subich: 1.42 lbs
Sonya Thomas DQ – first DQ of 3.5 year IFOCE career

Does anyone have prize money breakdown?

ABC news article / photo gallery
AP article
news.com.au article

Reuters video

The video shows it is rather clear cut that Sonya merited disqualifying. She is taking the DQ with equanimity on her website.

Brian Seiken will also have video he recorded later today. He spoke to Sonya after the contest and said she told him she got turkey caught in her adam’s apple.

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The Toronto Star has an excellent writeup of the Eat Your Face Off contests:

With the salesmanship of Ron Popeil and the bombast of Ed McMahon, the heavily-sideburned Chapman is emceeing this competition, frantically barking the play-by-play throughout — “You’ve got to finish your milk! Your momma always told you, you’ve gotta finish your milk!” — including the two amateur meets, the first of which kicked off the entire show, right in the middle of the casino.

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The Cibola Beacon has an article about the posole contest with a different list of results than can be found on IFOCE.com:

World Posole Eating Championships

1st Place – Pat Bertoletti $1000 – 9lbs, 2.25 oz

2nd Place – Tim Janus $500 – 8lbs, 10.75 oz

3rd Place – Rich Lafevre $350 – 8lbs, 8 oz

4th Place – Erik Denmark $250 – 7lbs, 5 oz

5th Place – Marco Marquez $150

I am rather disappointed at being lied to and made a fool of and this will probably affect the future direction of eatfeats. 🙁 Thanks to the people who alerted me that something was fishy this morning.

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