1) Pat Bertoletti 1.75 gallons
2) Crazy Legs Conti 1.5 gallons
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 1.25 gallons
Pat almost doubles the previous IFOCE ice cream record of 1 gallon 9 oz. in 12 minutes set by Cookie Jarvis despite having only 8 minutes for his contest.
beautifulbrian.com is hosting a video of the entire Nathan’s Hartford qualifier, courtesy of “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz. The contest is close between Tim Janus and Pat Philbin but Janus is able to hold off his rival from Moonachie at the end.
The IFOCE web page has posted a preview of Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest listing Pat from Moonachie, Loren Yarbrough, Bob Shoudt, Brian Seiken, Pat Bertoletti, Eater X and Crazy Legs Conti as expected entrants.
(Thanks Joe Bertoletti) The Chicago Tribune has an in-depth interview with Pat Bertoletti. Pat says that his competitive eating career will end when he graduates. Pat’s mother is also interviewed.
The Whaler has an interview with Eater X, who will attempt to break his Doodle Burger record in New Haven tomorrow before competiting in the ice cream contest on Friday. (The Rockford Corner Bar has yet to update its website with Janus’ record set over two months ago)
Sonya Thomas’ plans to enter the Nathan’s qualifier in Philadelphia this Saturday have not been changed by the recent addition of two contests this weekend according to this paragraph in philly.com (The paragraph claims that Joey Chestnut is from San Diego, so it is possible that this is inaccurate)
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has posted a trip report of his expedition to Las Vegas to compete in the Nathan’s qualifier on Thursday (he finished with 12.5 hot dogs)
beautifulbrian.com has a gallery of the Las Vegas contest courtesy of El Toro
The clip from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not of the steak contest at the Big Texan steakhouse in which Rich LeFevre almost finished two 72 ounce steaks and Carlene sets a women’s record is available at:
Blogger steakbellie, who finished in the top 10 of the Wing Bowl, has been preparing for the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier which will be held a week from Saturday. Here are some of his training notes.
In this Buffet post, Bob Shoudt claims that Kenji Oguni, who finished 4th last year with 29 hot dogs, will compete in the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday. If this is true, it does not seem fair that foreign competitors can compete in US qualifiers but American eaters cannot enter overseas qualfiers.
Hall Hunt googled Josh Heald, who was listed as a screenwriter who ate 11 hot dogs in the Las Vegas qualfier in the IFOCE report, and found he had written a movie about competitive eating for Disney called “All You Can Eat.” The movie is supposed to come out later this year, but apparently it has not been cast yet.
from IFOCE.com Congratulations to Joey Chestnut who set an American record of 50 hot dogs at the Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas today. Chestnut’s performance is better than 2 of Kobayashi’s winning marks and equivalent to one. Rich LeFevre set a personal best of 30.5 and Ron Koch did 15.
Note: The IFOCE report says that the previous American record was 42 when it is actually 37 (set by Sonya Thomas last year.)
The Hartford Courant has an interview with Connecticut native Tim “Eater X” Janus in advance of his appearance at the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier Saturday.
The Memphis Commerical Appeal reports that a hot wing eating contest sponsored by Frank’s Red Hot will be held Friday at 5pm at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest along the Memphis riverfront. The prize was not listed, but last year’s contest awarded $150 and was reportedly had trouble getting enough entrants, so Mid-South eaters might want to look into this event.
The AICE news page lists the expected contestants for the United Pickle contest that will be held May 24 at the Carnegie Deli. According to that roster, “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz will attempt to reclaim the pickle crown that he won in 2000. Joe Menchetti has also apparently decided that the contest is sufficiently lucrative to enter.
The 11th Hour, a sketch comedy group, has uploaded a 6 minute “mockumentary” about a female competitive eater to youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2oZgtbpAg The video includes footage of last year’s goldenpalace.com grilled cheese finals at Venice Beach and Sonya Thomas and other IFOCE members make cameos.
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