EatFeats twitter page started
A page at http://twitter.com/eatfeats has been set up. The main purpose of the page is to provide status reports in case of eatfeats.com outages (Eatfeats was down from about 5am to 10am eastern on Friday due to server issues, three days after its web hosting account was extended ) I do not expect to make a twitter update for every eatfeats blog entry.
New Poll: Top CE rivalry of 2008?
The new poll asks what you think is the top competitive eating rivalry in 2008. Rivals had to compete against each other at least once in 2008 to be listed in the poll choices.
Polls archive link fixed
Results from previous polls in the sidebar can be seen at http://eatfeats.com/polls-archive Thanks for the bug report.
December 2008 new sidebar links
The links in the side bar of the main eatfeats page have been updated. The new links are:
- Major League Eating flickr gallery
- “Furious” Pete Czerwinski bodybuilding.com profile | myspace
- DeepDishEats.com
- Jo “Gavonne” Rose myspace
- Will Millender myspace
- “Wild” Bill Myers blog
- Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara’s blog
- WLOCE | WLOCE myspace
- List of 200+ challenges in eatfeats database
- The Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food home page | forum
- Roadfood
- Miss Busy Lady
- Val Bromann
Please comment or email if you have an unlisted competitive eating related link you would like to see in the sidebar.
A few defunct or inactive links were removed. I will restore an inactive link if requested.
New Poll: competitive eating meetup site
The purpose of the new poll is to see if there is any demand for a competitive eating / eating challenge get-together outside of New York and Pennsylvania. The choices in the list were based on known locations of readers/commenters. Other locations can be added to the poll if requested.
New Poll: Furious Pete in unified rankings
The new poll asks where you think “Furious” Pete Czerwinski should be ranked in a unified ranking of all North American competitive eaters.
User registration date added to comment threads
The registration date for logged in commenters has been added to comment threads to encourage commenters to register and prevent spoofing of registered users.
The modified wordpress file wp-includes/comment-template.php is available. The function comment_author_registration_date() has been added to this file.
New poll: allocation of contest slots
The new poll asks how you think contest slots should be allocated when the demand exceeds the supply.
New Poll: KSO V winner
The new poll asks who you think will win Sunday’s Krystal Square Off finals.
Paul Barlow predicts that Kobayashi will eat 110 burgers to edge Joey Chestnut by 3 in his myspace blog.
New Poll: second place in next IFOCE poll
The new poll asks who you think should be in second place in the next IFOCE poll. Some people think that Kobayashi was the rightful winner of Nathan’s, which could put Joey Chestnut in the second place position.
New poll: next eater autobiography
Today is the official release date of Gal Sone’s autobiography. The new poll asks what autobiography by an eater who debuted in 2003 or earlier would you be most interested in reading.
New Poll: 2008 IFOCE rookie of the year (take 2)
The new poll asks who you think is currently leading the IFOCE Rookie of the Year race. Patrick Vandam was added to the choices from the 2008 Rookie of the Year poll from several months ago and Brad Sciullo and Tim Brown (due to being a candidate for the 2007 award) were removed.
Sidebar updated with 2008 winnings
The sidebar has been updated with finalists for the upcoming Nathan’s finals and the total cash winnings for this year. Joe Menchetti is currently the leader in cash prizes (Joey Chestnut’s Wing Bowl prizes would make him the overall winner in total value won)
I do not have the prize breakdown for the pig skin eating contest after first place. Please inform me of any incorrect or missing prizes. Here are the current top 10 cash winners for 2008:
$6200 “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti $5250 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti $3000 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas $2500 Tim “Eater X” Janus $2500 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut $1000 Juliet Lee $1000 J. D. Castile $1000 Chris “The Big Cat” $1000 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski $1000 Erik “The Red” Denmark
New Poll: MLE game expansion pack
The new poll asks what expansion pack containing additional characters would you most like to see for the upcoming Major League Eating Video game.
Blog upgraded to WordPress 2.5
This blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.5. No differences should be visible in the main blog, but the login and user profile page are somewhat different.
New poll: eatfeats commenting policy
The new poll asks what commenting policy you would like to see on eatfeats. The results will be non-binding. Automatic approval of unregistered comments will not be implemented regardless of the results. Over 200,000 spam comments have been received by this website.
Eaters with most results in database
A listing of the 10 eaters with the most results in the eatfeats database is listed below. A list of all eaters with 10 or more results is available after the jump
New Poll: subject of “Stick to Blogging” track
The new poll asks what member of the current IFOCE top 25 would you most like to see a song about on “Stick to Blogging”, Beautiful Brian’s new CD. The desired song could contain either praise or criticism.
A fragment of a song called “Let Me Tell Ya” has been added to the CD website. The song makes accusations of steroid use, but the clip does not provide enough details to determine the identity of the alleged steroid user.
New Poll: # of top 10 sitting out Nathan’s
The new poll asks how many members of the current IFOCE top 10 will not participate in this year’s Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. The participation of several members in that list is in doubt. Sonya Thomas has stated that she will no longer participate in contests allowing dunking, which will result in her missing Nathan’s if she adheres to that restriction. Joey Chestnut has stated he is not sure if he will defend his title, and an item in Beautiful Brian’s Bits & Pieces said that Chip Simpson will miss all IFOCE contests in 2008. Kobayashi claims to still be suffering the effects of “jawthritis”.
The 2008 Nathan’s qualifier schedule will hopefully be released soon; last year’s slate was made public on March 1.
Eating challenges list created
update May 2010 Lists of eating challenges & contests for over 100 cities / metro areas have been compiled.
I have made a list of all the eating challenges listed in the database sorted by state at http://eatfeats.com/challenges.php There are now 96 challenges in that lists. I have included menu items that are abnormally large even if they do not have an award if they are finished in a certain time. I want to add the ability to search the list by food type.
New Poll: 2008 IFOCE rookie of the year
The new poll asks who you think is the leading candidate to be named the IFOCE rookie of the year at the 2008 Nathan’s finals. I am defining rookie as someone who emerged in 2007.
New Poll: greatest reversal in CE history
The new poll asks what you think is the greatest “reversal of fortune” in competitive eating history. Here is more information about some of the choices:
“Sloth” at the Wing Bowl video
Pat Philbin “Baby Bird video after the 2006 Opie & Anthony Egg Nog contest
Dale Boone at the 2004 jambalaya contest – a picture of the after effects is available
Kobayashi near the end of the 2007 Nathan’s finals video
Choose whatever criteria you want in ranking: contest significance, fame of reverser, amount of reversal, etc.
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