(from independentmail.com) Clemson defensive tackle Elsmore Gabriel required the Heimlich maneuver after getting a bone lodged in his throat during a rib eating contest held at the Music City Bowl (Nashville, TN) team welcome party. Gabriel continued eating after the bone was removed and Clemson lost the contest to Kentucky by two ribs. William “Refrigerator” Perry, who appeared in the 2003 Nathan’s finals and a Kobayashi cartoon on Saturday Night Live, also played defensive tackle at Clemson.

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“Humble” Bob Shoudt has a report from his trip to Chattanooga to compete in Krystal Square Off III in his blog.

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The Chattanooga Pulse has an excellent writeup of Krystal Square Off III with a lot of interesting information.

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Super Paul Bonebreaker Barlow Jr. has a gallery from Krystal Square Off III and the post party.

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Ernie attended the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a blog entry and recorded the last 39 seconds of it from the audience.

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(Thanks Skinnyboy) In his blog entry about the AZ Fry bread contest, Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a link to a direct video capture of the Krystal Square Off final (.ASF format, 11 MB).

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I will not be able to blog this afternoon due to other commitments. Krystal-lover will have a live blog of all the events in Chattanooga, not just the telecast, so I doubt my absence will be missed.

krystaladventure is a blog I just discovered which has some posts about the Square Off finals and qualifiers I you need some KSO material to read while you are waiting for the telecast to begin.

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has a preview of todays Krystal Square Off finals. Kobyashi says his main bottleneck in eating Krystal burgers is removing them from their boxes.

Krystal-lover has some pictures from Friday’s press conference

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The USA Today TV Sports column has a section on the Krystal Square Off which says that Paul Page, who has appeared on several recent IFOCE broadcasts, will handle announcing duties for the Krystal Square Off III finals. Let’s hope that Page is correct in his assessment in the dangers of competitive eating versus auto racing.

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The Krystal Square Off odds on bodog.com have changed considerably since betting began. The current odds for the top 5 favorites:

Takeru Kobayashi 1/7
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 5/1
Chip “The Phenom” Simpson 11/2
Tim “Eater X” Janus 11/2
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 4/1

The opening odds were:

Takeru Kobayashi 1/1
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 3/2
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 7/3
Chip “The Phenom” Simpson 9/2
Tim “Eater X” Janus 4/1

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krystal-lover announces that a 2 minute Krystal eating contest for 4 2 person teams will be held before the main event. Teams will be chosen at random from people signing up during the pre contest festivities. The contest will be televised on ESPN2 and will offer the following prizes:

First Prize is $100/person
Second Prize is $50/person
3rd Prize is $25/person

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The Chattanoogan has the schedule for all the events to be held in conjunction with the Krystal Square Off Finals. The festivities will start at 2pm with a tailgating party. The contest will be broadcast live at 4:35 pm.

updated The Chattanooga Pulse also has a finals preview.

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Steakbellie ,Wing Kong and The Whaler have blog entries about their trip to Memphis for the Krystal qualifier.

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Mid South Fair, Memphis TN

1st Tim Janus, 53
2nd Rich LeFevre, 51
3rd Seaver Miller, 41
4th Arturo Rios, 36

The current wildcards with two contests left are Rich, Seaver, Arturo and Crazy Legs.

The webcam quality was by far the best I have seen. Good job to the Krystal people improving its quality.

updated 10/2 Full results are available

The liveblog follows the jump
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krystalsquareoff.com has a report on today’s 2 minute prequalifiers. Arturo Rios, another northeastern eater heading west, had today’s best mark of 21 burgers. Rich LeFevre managed 18. The strength of the field makes conceivable that all four wild card entrants could come from Memphis.

updated – the full Memphis roster is now available

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IFOCE.com has a list of the expected out of town eaters at Sunday’s Krystal qualifier in Memphis which include:

Tim Janus
Rich LeFevre (will compete in 2 minute contest Sat.)
Seaver Miller
Sam Vise
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
Chris “the Mad Greek” Abatsas
Jim Hamrick

Updated krystalsquareoff.com has a preview mentioning Steakbellie and Wing Kong of Drexel Hill, PA

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(From krystal-lovers) Videos from the Chattanooga, Jacksonville and Nashville qualifiers are now available at krystalsquareoff.com The other qualifiers and Bob Shoudt’s 2 minute record attempt should be online in the near future. I am looking forward to seeing the end of the Atlanta qualifier.

Updated 12:30am – truefan has an Atlanta video and gallery – thanks steakbellie

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Be on the lookout for whaling boats on the Mississippi. IFOCE announces that Tim Janus will compete in the Memphis Krystal Square Off qualifier Sunday despite being virtually guaranteed a wild card entry into the finals.

IFOCE also warns that the 5 second dunking rule might be more strictly enforced in future Krystal contests.

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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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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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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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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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