Myrtle Beach eating challenges
(All Myrtle Beach eating challenges and contests in database)
Link Buffet: January 2, 2009
- Krispy Kreme eating contest at Arkansas Harley Davidson tommorow, 1st prize is a $500 Harley Davidson gift certificate
- Taco eating contest for charity in England with four qualifiers
- Jelly doughnut eating contest on January 8 at Dick’s Last Resort in Myrtle Beach, SC in honor of Elvis’ birthday
- Chip Simpson is excited for 2009 now that he no longer has a “huge weight keeping me down”
- Dale Boone’s Apple Ugly victory makes the list of strange news of 2008 in Rowan County, NC
Joey Chestnut repeats at Myrtle Beach BBQ
Today’s results from the pork barbecue sandwich eating contest held at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC according to IFOCE.com via a Crawfish comment
Joey Chestnut 49.5
Pat Bertoletti 49
Humble Bob 46
Hall Hunt 36
update WPDE has an article about the contest
update #2 MyrtleBeachOnline has a video
IFOCE Labor Day weekend contest entrants
SportsBubbler.com has a list of the expected entrants at the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest: Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee, Badlands Booker, Buffalo Jim Reeves, Russ Keeler, Dave “US Male” Goldstein, Brian Subich, Wild Bill Myers, Beautiful Brian Seiken
Sonya is the only listed entrant in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl contest on Sunday (presumably most, if not all of the wing contest competitors will also enter that event.)
Juliet Lee is still listed on the Myrtle Beach pork barbecue sandwich eating contest roster despite also being in the buffalo wing list
Joey Chestnut, Bob Shoudt and Tim Brown are expected at the spaghetti chili eating contest in Cincinnati.
KrystalSquareOff.com has yet to list all the non-amateurs competing in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day. The most recent blog entry has a video interview Hall Hunt did this morning. The Krystal twitter page is taking predictions for the contest.
Myrtle Beach BBQ & LA Gyoza entrants
(from hungrysisters) The website for the Sun Fun Festival has a list of entrants in the Pork Barbecue Sandwich Eating Contest. Half of the current IFOCE top 10 is expected: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Hall Hunt and Juliet Lee.
Cory Hayashi has emailed the list of competitors for the gyoza eating contest that will take place on August 23 at the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Los Angeles: Pat Bertoletti (#2), Rich LeFevre (#7), Erik Denmark (#12), Tim Brown (#13), Kevin Ross (#29), El Toro (#41), and Shawn Kirby (#48). Actresss Miki Mia (The 40 Year Old Virgin) and the 2007 Nisei Week Queen and Court will also compete.
Mike Nafziger has emailed that Bob Shoudt will probably attend the Chattanooga qualifier and he might do an exhibition.
Link Buffet: July 13, 2008
- Registration for the Ash Creek (CT, August 17) rib contest and the Myrtle Beach BBQ contest (August 30) opens tomorrow
- Transcript of Joey Chestnut on CNN July 4
- Furious Pete attempts to break Cookie Jarvis’ 76 ounce steak record at J & R Steakhouse (result)
- Jill Stoler’s report on the 120 ounce steak attempts
- Video of amateur contest at Delaplane Strawberry Festival
- 17 Year old eats age in hot dogs
- Video of radio interview of Joey Chestnut and the LeFevres
- Kobayashi has a blog entry about dining at Gray’s Papaya hot dog stand with Stephen Dubner
Mosesnews: Allen Goldstein wins at Myrtle Beach
From MosesNews.com
1. Allen “The Shredder” Goldstein 23 HDB
2. Damon Serignet 16 HDB
3. 8 HDB
update SCNow has an article about the contest
Myrtle Beach qualifier information
MyrtleBeachOnline has a preview of Saturday’s qualifier at Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, SC listing Allen “Shredder” Goldstein and Richard Foley as expected entrants.
Another page on MyrtleBeachOnline reports that park admission (costing $50 or $39 for SC/NC residents) is required for qualifier spectators and that the finals will have a $20,000 purse like last year.
Broadway at the Beach mini-documentary
(Thanks Super Paul Barlow) Dateline Carolina, the student newspaper for the University of South Carolina, has a mini-documentary about last Saturday’s eating contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach. The documentary includes footage of Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker performing.
No Broadway at the Beach coverage on IFOCE.com
It has now been over 48 hours (and one full working day) since the eating contest at Broadway at the Beach concluded and there does not appear to be any contest results or other coverage on IFOCE.com or any of its affiliated websites.
Report & Pictures from Broadway at the Beach
BeautifulBrian.com has a report on his experience at the Broadway at the Beach contest
Dave US Male has emailed some pictures from his trip which can be seen after the jump. Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker are performing the Bonebreaker Barlow song.
Wild Bill: Juliet Lee wins Bway at the Beach
Todays results from the contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC from a “Wild” Bill Myers comment:
1.) Juliet Lee – finished all food items in approximately six minutes. (first title in an open contest)
2.) Badlands Bookers – finished all food items in eight minute, contest was stopped at this point. (first contest since March 2007)
3.) Nathan Biller – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
3.) Dave Goldstein – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
3.) Arturo Rios – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and six of the twelve slices of pizza.
6.) Joe Tursi – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and five of the twelve slices of pizza.
7.) William Myers – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and two of the twelve slices of pizza.
7.) Brian Seiken – finished nachos, wings, hot dogs, and two of the twelve slices of pizza.
9.) Shane Baker – finished nachos, wings, and 2.5 hot dogs.
10.) Pierre Abry – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
10.) Paul Barlow – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
10.) Rich Foley – finished nachos, wings, and two hot dogs.
13.) Bruce Pobanz – finished nachos, wings, and one hot dog.
update wpde.com has an article about the contest
update #2 MyrtleBeachOnline.com has a gallery and hotelsbycity has two pictures.
update #3 BeautifulBrian.com has contest video which includes the performance of “Bonebreaker Barlow” by Brian and Badlands Booker
2008 Broadway at the Beach field
Bruce “the Hangman” Pobanz has emailed a potential roster for Saturday’s contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Juliet Lee
Eric “Badlands” Booker
“Super” Paul Barlow
Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
“Nasty” Nate Biller
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken
Dave “US Male” Goldstein
Rick Petraliapossible
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
Arturo “The Natural” Rios
2008 Broadway at the Beach April 19
The contest schedule at IFOCE.com announces that this year’s edition of the eating contest held at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC will take place on April 19. The purse is $500 and registration starts “Wednesday, March 10” (which probably means March 12, registration is not currently available). The announcement says there is a possibility that the five traditional rounds could be fused into a single round with five different types of food.
Myrtle Beach BBQ videos & pictures
Youtube has a video of Saturday’s Pork BBQ sandwich eating contest at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69vOEiq8LaI
This blog entry also has a video and some pictures.
The pictures below were provided by Todd Hennessey
Myrtle Beach BBQ listed entrants
The website for the Beach Boogie & BBQ Festival has a roster for the pork barbecue sandwich eating contest:
Organized by International Federation of Competitive Eating and Major League Eating Association. Featuring Joey Chestnutt, current #1 Eater in the World, and #3 Pat Bertoletti, #7 Bob Stoudt, #9 Hall Hunt, #10 Juliet Lee and #13 Arturo Rios.
IFOCE Myrtle Beach BBQ contest Sept. 1
A pulled pork barbecue sandwich eating contest will be held at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC on September 1. Registration for the contest is now open.
Steakbellie on Broadway (at the Beach)
Steakbellie has a writeup of last month’s Ultimate Eating Tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC. He also has a gallery of over 100 pictures from Myrtle Beach and South of the Border.
Brian Seiken on Juliet Lee (& Sonya Thomas)
Brian Seiken has a report about Juliet Lee at the Broadway at the Beach contest which says that Juliet will attempt to qualify for the Nathan’s finals in Charlotte, NC. He also has a page about his thoughts on the Juliet Lee-Sonya Thomas relationship.
Top 8 Broadway at the Beach results
(From Kevin Ross) The top 8 finishers of Saturday’s Broadway at the Beach have been listed at it IFOCE.com contests page:
1. Chip Simpson: 9 pts
2. Juliet Lee: 6 pts
3. Eric “Steakbellie†Livingston: 3 pts
4. Micah “Wing Kong†Collins: 2 pts
5. David Brickhouse Braunstein: 2 pts
6. William “Wild Bill†Myers: 1 pt
7. Chris Tarpy: 1 pt
8. Brad Sciullo: 1 pt
Steakbellie has provided his round by round results after the jump
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MyrtleBeachOnline on Broadway at the Beach
MyrtleBeachOnline.com has a writeup of yesterday’s Broadway at the Beach eating tournament focusing on runner up Juliet Lee. Juliet ate 4 hot dogs in 1 minute 18 seconds.
Beautiful Brian’s Broadway at the Beach results
From Brian Seiken email:
OJ, Chip Simpson won broadway on the beach just edging out Juliet in the final ice cream rd. Some of the foods were wings , hot dogs, ice cream and one other. 12 eaters it came down to both of them. I will have the totals later in a little while
Myrtle Beach road trip reports
Tim “Eater X” Janus and “Humble” Bob Shoudt both have road trip reports about their trip south to Myrtle Beach this weekend.
April 22 contest results
from ifoce.com Stockton, CA Asparagus Festival, deep fried asparagus
1. Joey Chestnut (beat Sonya by 2 oz in overtime)
2. Sonya Thomas
3. Rich LeFevre
4. Pat Bertoletti
5. Erik “the Red” Denmark
another down to the wire match between Sonya and Joey, next week Sonya will have the home region advantage which Joey enjoyed today.
There should be some video clips available tomorrow since Sacramento television is covering the festival.
Taste of Broadway Ultimate Eating Festival, Myrtle Beach, SC
1. Bob Shoudt
2. Loren Yarbrough
3?. Tim “Eater X” Janus
Shoudt and Janus make an unexpected trip south.
Broadway at the Beach foods revealed?
The foods in the four rounds of Saturday’s speed eating tournament in Myrtle Beach are listed as chicken wings, hot dogs, ice cream and shrimp by event coordinater Michael Castelalano at the end of this article about the Tucson jalapeno popper contest.