Micah “Wing Kong” Collins is travelling to Memphis for the Krystal qualifier with steakbellie. He has several entries about his preparation in his blog at http://conundrum54.blogspot.com/ Wing Kong is considering changing his nickname to Carnage and adopting a bad guy persona.

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(Thanks Brian Cooley) Metropulse has an article about Sunday’s Krystal Square Off qualifier in Knoxville

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IFOCE.com announces that an 8 minute jalapeno pepper eating contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 8. Will Don “Moses” Lerman come out of retirement to compete in his speciality?

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The Salt Lake City weekly has a report from the goldenpalace.net Italian Sausage contest held at the Utah State Fair. The author competed in the event and finished last.

Much to my surprise, an IFOCE-sponsored eating competition is exciting. I’ll probably never again be introduced to the heavy beat of Eminem’s 8 Mile theme. The music swelled louder and louder until finally LeFevre, Bertoletti and Chestnut took their places center stage. On the way past, Bertoletti touched fists and wished me “good luck.” I’d need it.

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Hall “Hoover” Hunt has some pictures from the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier in his flickr gallery.

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Krystalsquareoff.com announces that Tim “Eater X” Janus and Chip “Burger” Simpson are expected at the Atlanta qualifier. This will be the first matchup of top 10 ranked eaters in a qualifier. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow are among the expected entrants representing Georgia. The contest could see the return of the mystery eater who reportedly gave Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas everything they could handle at the waffle eating contest before DQing.

Updated 3:07 pm – The preliminaries will be held throughout the Atlanta area and will start tomorrow at the Georgia Tech football stadium:

September 21 Georgia Tech Football 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM
September 22 Southlake Mall 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
September 23 Cumberland Mall 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
September 24 Local Finals–Lenox Square 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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Memphis Eyewitness News has a preview of the Krystal qualifier to be held October 1. No expected entrants are listed in the article.

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Steakbellie has decided to compete in the Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He currently has three blog entries describing his preparation: Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3.

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(Thanks Liz & Anita) The Greeley (CO) Tribune has a report about Saturday’s jalapeno eating contest. The winner, Jerry Esparza, ate 58 peppers in 10 minutes and had to skip the awards ceremony because he was tending to more pressing affairs.

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The Fenway park area will not enjoy a baseball championship in the autumn of 2006, but it will host an eating champion. IFOCE.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston this Saturday. (The festival has already sold out) Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs whose total will be combined. The contest is apparently closed to all other competitors.

Kobayashi has an entry about the lobster roll contest in his blog which mentions Rona Conti.

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From IFOCE.com & Chip Simpson

Harrah’s Pulled Pork Eating Championship Council Bluffs, IA

1. Joey Chestnut, 9.6 lb. (new record – previous 7.1)
2. Chip Simpson, 7.4 lb.
3. Rich LeFevre 6 lb.
4. Jim Hamrick, 4 lb.

Updated 4:06 pm – The IFOCE page says that Rich LeFevre was not present to defend his title and Jim Hamrick finished 3rd, but Chip Simpson disputes that and says LeFevre was present.

6:28 from Domenico Alesi – Brent “Zero” Curtis – who competed in the contest, has a picture of the competitors on his blog which obviously shows Rich was present

Updated 9/18 10:19 am Brent “Zero” Curtis has a blog entry about the contest

4:04 pm nonpareilonline.com has an article with mentions of “Chris Simpson” and “Marie” LeFevre.

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(From newsok.com & IFOCE.com)

1. Sonya Thomas, 9.75 lb.
2. Pat Bertoletti, 9.5 lb.
3. Erik “the Red” Denmark, 5 lb.
4. Miles Karpe 4.5 lb.
5. Jason McCormack 2 lb.

Tim Janus & Larry McNeil missed the contest due to bad East Coast weather

Updated 9/17 5:03 pm newsok.com has an article & gallery of the contest. The article links to beautifulbrian.com for the video of Pat Bertoletti’s ice cream record. The okra was in bite sized chunks, which probably plays to Sonya’s strengths since a lot of chewing was not required.

Updated 9/18 9:05 am Lahunta has some pictures, a video and a contest report in her myspace blog

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from krystalsquareoff.com

1. Pat Bertoletti 48
2. Arturo Rios 35
3. Juris Shibayama 34
4. Larry McNeil 28

Updated 9/18 1:02 pm – full results are available

The liveblog of the webcast is available after the jump
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krystalsquareoff.com has the list of expected competitors in today’s qualifier in Knoxville. The webcast should start around 6pm eastern.

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The Hartford Courant has a long profile of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti. Menchetti dreams of becoming an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas and claims a bench press of 405 lb.

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From AICE news:

1. Tom ‘the Goose’ Gilbert 5.6 pounds
2. Ian Hickman 4.0 lb
2. Mark Lyle 4.0 lb
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 3.75 lb (.5 lb chipmunking penalty)
5. Christian Musk Ox McCarthy. 3.5 pounds

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(Thanks Rhonda Evans) Philly.com has a list of highlights from the first ten years of the Wachovia Center. Sonya’s victory in Wing Bowl 12 appears under “Nonsports highlights”

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(From anonymous comment) – A video of Joey Chestnut drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds in the WIP studios to qualifiy for Wing Bowl 14 is available on youtube.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has tracked down an article about the kolache eating contest at the Nebraska State Fair. Skinnyboy has some pictures from the newspaper article that are not in the online version on his blog.

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From IFOCE.com & Rhonda

1. Tim Janus: 26 (ties Jarvis’ record last year)
2. Crazy Legs Conti: 22
3. Justin Mih: 18

Updated 9/16 9:00 AM MosesNews.com has galleries of:

The contest and
Cookie Jarvis’ lifetime achievement award. There is a new Major League Eating T shirt out.

(fixed 1:14 pm – Thanks Don “Moses” Lerman)

1:45 pm – NY1 has an article and video of the contest. Tim Janus says he has a sports psychologist.

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A clip of Moe’s Burritos for Life finals held at Georgia Tech Labor Day weekend has been posted to youtube. The clip supports speedeat’s report that Mike (Shelley) won the contest by eating 5.5 (or 6) burritos in 8 minutes (and disproves Dale Boone’s comment that Tony Rizzo was the victor)

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The OK Gazette reports that Patrick Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Larry McNeil are expected at the goldenpalace.net Fried Okra Eating Championship at the Oklahoma State Fair.

The Reader reports that Joey Chestnut, Chip Simpson and defending champion Rich LeFevre are expected at the World Pulled Pork-Eating Contest at Harrah’s Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

zerobxu will also compete in the pulled pork contest. zerobxu competed in the kolache eating contest and has a blog entry and gallery about that contest.

KrystalSquareOff lists Pat Bertoletti, Juris Shibayama, Arturo Rios, Larry McNeil as expected competitors in the Knoxville qualifier.

Updated 9/15 4:28 pm (Thanks Brian Cooley) The U of Tenn student paper has an article about the Knoxville qualifier. Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to break 60.

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IFOCE.com has a retirement announcement for Don “Moses” Lerman and says that he will help judge tomorrows’s cannoli contest. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will receive a lifetime achievement award before the contest.

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(From unaccepted comment by “Mr. Wright”) AICE News reports that Christina Gumola, who won Pittsburgh Steeler tickets by winning a Roethlisburger eating contest in 2004, won tickets to the Steeler’s opener last week by winning a hot dog eating contest held at KISS FM 96.1. Christina tied with 97 pound Andrea by eating 8.5 hot dogs in 5 minutes, but was awared the victory by the DJs because they claimed she finished eating first. A men’s contest was also held, the winner, Joe, ate 6.5 hot dogs.

Youtube has videos of the contests: women’s, men’s

kissfm961.com has pictures from the contest: Gallery 1, Gallery 2

Kiss FM also hosted an unsuccessful attempt at eating 40 HDB in 40 minutes which is available on youtube

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded videos of the Kolache contest won by Pat Bertoletti, the precontest introductions and the $100K rookie grilled cheese challenge to youtube. Skinnyboy nas a trip report with pictures on his blog.

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