The 4th annual Corny Dog contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 1. The first place prize is $500 with 2 Southwest Airlines tickets. The registration deadline is September 18.

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Gwyneth Doland has written an article about last month’s jalapeno contest won by Pat Bertoletti for the Santa Fe Reporter.

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pensacolanewsjournal.com has a report on a pizza eating contest for first responders held yesterday to honor the victims of 9/11/2001. Adam McCoy of the Pensacola police won $2000 and additional prizes for eating 1.5 pizzas in 10 minutes. McCoy gave his winnings to Cory Jackson, who recently suffered three broken vertebrae.

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kansascity.com and hutchnews.com have reports from yesterday’s team hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The National Guard team won with a combined total of 46 hot dogs. Radio personality Lucky Kidd had the best individual mark with 13 or 14 HDB. (The contest is not a qualifier for the Nathan’s finals in Coney Island)

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from hallhooverhunt.blogspot.com: Jacksonville.com has three galleries of the Krystal qualifier held in Jacksonville on Labor Day weekend.

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The Reflector reports that Donald Whichard and Darlene Pollard each won $100 by eating six pounds of collard greens in the men’s and women’s division of the collard-eating contest at the Collard Festival in Ayden, North Carolina on Saturday. Ms. Pollard claims that her collard victory was “a mission for God.”

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from IFOCE.com

GoldenPalace.net World Sausage Eating Championship, Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City
1. Joey Chestnut 29 sausages
2. Pat Bertoletti 25.5 sausages
3. Rich LeFevre 21.5 sausages
4. Levi Nelson – corrected 9:32 am – thanks “Yo Mama”

Updated 9/11 8:11 am KSL has an article w/video and the Salt Lake Tribune has an article about the contest

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4:27 pm eastern – the contest has started and I am like getting one frame per second on the webcam

4:29 Humble Bob has eaten 30 burgers 3 minutes into the contest

4:35 contest results
1st “Humble” Bob Shoudt 52 – ties w/Joey
2nd Erik “the Red” Denmark 34
3rd Juris Shibayama 33

Updated 8:47 pm – Krystal has full results posted

Juris Shibayama is an orthopedic surgeon

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krystalsquareoff.com has the roster for tomorrow’s qualifier in Nashville. Ranked eaters expected are:

Humble Bob Shoudt (IFOCE #5)
Erik “The Red” Denmark (IFOCE #12)
Jim Hamrick (IFOCE #27)
Kevin Carr (IFOCE #31)

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KSL TV has a preview of Sunday’s sausage eating contest at the Utah State Fair. Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre are expected entrants.

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Domenico Alesi has uploaded a gallery of pictures from the Nugget Rib contest in Reno last month.

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In her latest blog entry, Liz of urbanhonking says she is moving to Denver at the end of the month. Hopefully her move will not mean the end of her competitive eating writing career. There are currently more upcoming southwestern contests than northeastern ones.

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While several competitive eaters hope to eventually run their own restaurants, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will apparently be the first to do so. Philly.com reports that Simmons signed a lease on the former KFC restaurant at Fourth Street and Girard Avenue where he intends to open El Wingador’s To Go, which will serve chicken wings, cheesesteaks, hoagies and Latin food. One of Simmon’s partners is his uncle Pete Rodriguez, who was the original cook at Jim’s Steaks in the 1970s and might have prepared the sandwiches Lynda Kuerth ate to set the record. The restaurant is expected to open in October.

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The University of Buffalo student newspaper has an article by Alex Nye, who was called out of the Buffalo Wing Festival crowd to fill a vacant spot in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl. The items eaten in that event were three full beef on wecks (roast beef sandwiches on kummelweck rolls) smothered in gravy, about eight hot chicken fingers, a half dozen pierogies and around 25 chicken wings. No information is given about the other competitors other than Bob Shoudt won in a little over five minutes.

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The Tennessean has a preview of Sunday’s Krystal qualifier at the Tennessee State Fair. “Humble” Bob Shoudt the only expected entrant listed. Shoudt believes he can set the world Krystal record. Shoudt will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s 2 minute record on Saturday at 11 am

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courier-gazette.com has a writeup of Saturday’s tamale contest with quotes from winner Tim “Eater X” Janus.

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(from megamunch) Two residents of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada have set up a blog devoted to their upcoming road trip to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA at http://thebigburgerblog.blogspot.com/. They hope to leave on September 14 and reach Clearfield on the 16th where they will attempt Ye Olde 96er. Two other voyagers have been added to the travel party, but they might be looking for additional passengers so you might want to send them an email if you want to join the expedition and live in New Brunswick or New England.

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Joey Chestnut won the the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier with 52 burgers, 10 behind Sonya’s result last week. This does break Kobayashi’s Jacksonville qualifier record of 50 from 2004. The webcam has hung up on me before any other results were announced.

2nd Crazy Legs Conti 36
3rd Seaver Miller 35
4th-Adrian Estevez 28
4th-Joe LaRue 28
6th-Hall Hunt 27
7th-Bryan Miller 26

Updated 11:26 – full results are available at the krystalsquareoff.com

Updated 9/5 7:40 am – firstcoastnews.com has an article, pictures and a video clip

2:14 pm – jacksonville.com has an article about the contest – Thanks Brian Cooley

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krystalsquareoff.com has a full roster for today’s qualifier in Jacksonville. 7 Top 30 ranked eaters are expected:

Joey Chestnut (IFOCE #2)
Crazy Legs Conti (IFOCE #11)
Hall Hunt (IFOCE #15)
Joe LaRue (IFOCE #16)
Seaver Miller (IFOCE #17)
Bryan Miller (IFOCE #23)
Brickhouse Braunstein (IFOCE #29)

The contest is expected to start at 3pm today (eastern)

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The LA Times has a profile of Joey Chestnut with coverage of last month’s gyoza contest.

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(from Todd Bertch) old-bay.com has the results from Friday’s Peel & Eat Shrimp contest in Baltimore. Todd Bertch won the $10,000 first place prize. wjz.com has an article with a video clip. The contest was closed to “professional” eaters and required an essay about Old Bay seasoning to gain entrance to the qualifiers.

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from “Super” Paul “BoneBreaker” Barlow & sonyatheblackwidow.com:

Waffle House Waffle Eating Championship, Stone Mountain, GA
1. Joey Chestnut 22.5 waffles $5000, +4 from 2005
2. Sonya Thomas 21 waffles $1500, +3 from 2005
3. Chip Simpson 18? $1000
4. Hall Hunt 14
5. Larry McNeil 12
6. Crazy Legs Conti 11
7T Paul Barlow 10
7T Bubba Yarbrough 10
7T Eric Broe 10
? Shane Baker
? “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz

Paul Barlow says an unknown eater matched Joey & Sonya in the first half of the contest up until about 11 waffles, then had a DQ.

It will be interesting to see what contests (if any) Sonya does before the Krystal finals. Sonya did not compete between Labor Day weekend and Halloween weekend last year.

Updated 9/4 9:45 am – A myspace blog entry has been posted about the contest. There are some videos if you are a myspace member.

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The results page of buffalowing.com says that Humble Bob Shoudt won the Buffalo Buffet Bowl eating contest (no other information is given)

Updated 9/4 5:33pm Results from Brian Seiken
1. Humble Bob Shoudt 5:25 needed to eat 5 lb food
2. Arturo Rios
3. Joe LaRue
? Erik Denmark
? Jim Reeves

Food items were 3 roast beef sandwiches 4 large buffalo chicken strips 5 empanadas and loads of chicken wings

Jammin’ Joe LaRue won most creative wing sauce for his apple chipotle chutney

A video of the last 45 seconds of Saturday’s contest is available

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The Cincinnatt Post has a brief report on yesterday’s Battle to the Bone contest held at the AVP Beach Volleyball tournament. Reno Bezzina of Waterford, MI won the contest.

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The Denver Post has a long profile of Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane which provides the origin of his nickname. Skinnyboy competed in yesterday’s kolache contest in Nebraska where he finished 4th.

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