The East Valley Tribune has a writeup of yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. Top local Russell Blackwell is quoted.

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A post on the the new forum at supersizedmeals.com hints that Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub will announce a new giant burger some time next week.

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Andrew Lane has a blog entry about the Tempe Nathan’s qualifier he competed in today. He claims that the top four finishers of that event are:

1. Rich LeFevre 28 hot dogs & buns
2. Erik “the Red” Denmark 19 HDB
3. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 14 HDB (officially credited with 9 HDB)
4. Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell (from Arizona) 13 HDB

updated 10:33 pm – removed “judging error” from Andrew Lane’s result
updated June 4 10:00 am – fixed Russell Blackwell’s name

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Congratulations to Levi Oliver for finishing the Capital of Texas Triathlon on Memorial Day (400m swim, 10K bike, 5K run) in steamy conditions. The Austin Statesman has an article on how he did it.

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Ryan Nerz will emcee a Nathan’s hot dog contest at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston on Sunday. The winner of that event will not receive entry into the Coney Island finals, but New Englanders can use the contest to practice for the 2007 finals. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the gate and include all the hot dogs, sausages and ice cream you can eat.

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The Arizona Republic has a preview of tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier at the Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe.

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The Philadelphia City Paper has a report on last Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier held at Independence Hall won by Sonya Thomas. (If any root beer float contests are held, do not expect Sonya to participate). The article’s author, Drew Lazor, has an entry on his personal blog in which he list some of the anti-meat statements in the pamphlet he received from the PETA members protesting the contest.

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Liz and Krista have uploaded their writeups of last week’s pickle contest held at the Carnegie Deli and goldenpalace.net ice cream contest held at the Water Club in Manhattan.

Fixed 1:50 pm – Changed Brooklyn to Manhattan – Thanks Krista

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wtkr.com has a preview of the Nathan’s qualifier to be held a week from Saturday at the MacArthur Mall in Norfolk, VA. Some spaces are available in that contest according to the article.

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The Austin Statesman has a brief article on Levi Oliver who planned to compete in the Capital of Texas triathlon on Memorial Day. Levi will not enter any future eating contests until his weight drops below 280 pounds.

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nbc30 has an article, gallery and video of Pat Bertoletti at Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest. The article confuses pounds with gallons.

ESPN displayed a very brief clip of Pat Bertoletti (1 second at most) at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest was shown on the Monday night / Tuesday morning Sportcenter. There might have been a longer video on an earlier edition of sportscenter.

Pat Bertoletti was also named athlete of the week by a Saint Louis Post Dispatch columnist.

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The Arizona Reporter has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Tempe. Rich LeFevre and Ron Koch are expected. Erik Denmark and Andrew Lane have also announced they plan to attend.

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I was going to write a post about the claim by the Fuddrucker at the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut that their 29.6 pound burger is the world’s largest commercially available burger when the Mount Olympus burger at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey weighs 20 pounds more, but Megamunch has beat me to it. Megamunch has a chart comparing the world’s largest burgers from foodmarket.com which I had not seen before. The chart claims that the Clinton Station Diner will award $500 to the first quintet of eaters to finish a Mount Olympus in under three hours, which is not mentioned on their website.

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A Nathan’s qualifier will be held on June 22 in West Chester, PA (suburban Philadelphia). The qualifier will be televised on the shopping channel QVC, making it the first qualifier broadcast nationwide. It will be interesting to see what merchandise is sold during this appearance.

IFOCE has announced two new websites, competitiveeatingevents.com and competitiveeating.net in conjunction with the new qualifier. The first website has travel information for IFOCE contests. competitiveeating.net has a list of the websites of some IFOCE members in which the home pages of Sonya Thomas, Erik Denmark, Andrew Lane and Brian Seiken along with the Whaler’s fan blog for Tim Janus are not found. The list claims to only include “family friendly” websites which might be the reason why the last two of those web sites were omitted, but I have never seen anything on the first three home pages that was not G-rated. Brian Subich’s home page appears despite not having been updated since 2005 when I last viewed it.

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Liz asked Sonya Thomas a few questions after her victory in the Nathan’s Philadelphia qualifier last Saturday.

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Philly.com reports that “Swallow Your Pride”, a documentary about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons winning his fifth Wing Bowl crown in Wing Bowl 13, will be screened at the First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia on Sunday night. Tickets are $10. Porn star/ former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey stars in a movie to be screened Saturday night.

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If anyone recorded a video of the last week’s pickle contest at the Carnegie Deli from start to finish I would like to host it on this website in order to resolve the controversy about the duration of that event. Kevin Lipsitz had the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier recorded in its entirety so hopefully he has a complete video of the pickle contest. If any participant or spectator timed the contest with a stopwatch, please report your results in the comments to this post.

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The Gothamist blog has an entry about today’s Schnack Stahl-Meyer 30 inch Hot Dog Eating Contest in Brooklyn. Joe Menchetti easily defended his title and won $500 by finishing his megafrankfurter in 1 minute 53 seconds.

Tien Mao has also has a blog entry and gallery of the contest.

Updated May 30, 3:21 PM – Jesse has another gallery of the contest.

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Brian Seiken has a gallery and video clip and Krista has a gallery of Friday’s ice cream eating contest. Krista will have a report on the contest for urbanhonking/digest.

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Philly.com has an article about yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Independence Hall and a short interview with Sonya Thomas. Sonya expresses disappointment that she failed to break her personal record of 37 hot dogs.

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Ohio.com has a report from yesterday’s House of Blues Wing Eating Championship at the BBQ and Music Fest at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Chip Simpson easily won the contest, beating out David “Brickhouse” Braunstein.

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from IFOCE.com, sonyatheblackwidow.com & Brian Seiken

Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier results, Independence Hall Visitor Center

1) Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 36.5 hot dogs
2) “Humble” Bob Shoudt 28
3) “Big” Brian Subich 25
4) Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 24

It used to be that 24 hot dogs would almost certainly guarantee a victory in a qualifier, but that amount did not place in the top three in this event.

Brian Subich turns in an impressive performance and justifies his decision to turn down an arena football contract from the winless Steubenville Stampede.

For the second straight year the amount Sonya Thomas ate in a qualifier was virtually equal to the amount she ate in the previous year’s finals. Sonya set a women’s record with 37 hot dogs in the 2005 finals. She did 32 in last year’s Norfolk qualifier and the 2004 finals.

Updated 6:54 PM – 5th place finisher steakbellie has a first person report of the contest on his blog

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The BBC website has an article and audio clip about Pat Bertoletti’s record setting performance at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest yesterday.

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Marketwire has a press release listing the top four finishers in today’s ice cream eating contest. A video clip of the contest with brief interviews of Pat Bertoletti and Crazy Legs Conti is also available.

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The East Hartford Gazette has a good (with the exception of calling Lerman Don “The Eater” Moses) writeup of last Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier. There were PETA protesters at the contest. I did not realize that the Elvis impersonator was Bill Stobierski.

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