New Poll: top US IFOCE member at end of 2007
The new poll asks who you think will be the top ranked IFOCE member from the United States at the end of next year. The top 15 and Juliet Lee are listed. I will add any eaters to the poll you believe should be included.
New Poll: Brightest rising star?
The new poll asks which eater who emerged in the second half of 2006 do you think has the brightest future. I will add any names to the poll if there are omitted eaters you think should be listed.
New poll – top US state for competitive eating
The new poll asks what you think the top state in the US for competitive eating is. Use what ever basis you want, such as number of top ranked eaters, number of contests, amount of famous restaurant challenges, etc. Since the poll only allows 20 choices maximum, only the top 20 states in population are listed.
Comments back on – new moderation policy
Comments have been re-enabled. I have changed the moderation policy. All comments by registered users will no longer be automatically approved. Most users who have previously commented should have the majority of their comments instantly approved. Newly registered users must have created some comments that pass approval before their comments are immediately pass moderation. This was a major hole in the moderation system, and today’s activities have forced me to finally address it.
Commenting indefinitely suspended
I have turned off commenting on all posts since the discussion about Pat Philbin’s suspsension has devolved into extremely crude insults. If you would like to respond to Brian Seiken’s statements, the appropriate place to do this is Brian’s personal blog at http://beautifulbrian978.blogspot.com/
Commenting turned on
Comments have been turned back on. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.
No posting or comments remainder of week
The “Helen Haggerty” incident has made me realize that I have become way too wrapped up in this website and I need to spend the remainder of this week completely away from IFOCE competitive eating. There will be no posting about IFOCE events, comments by registered or unregistered users allowed or emails read until Sunday at the earliest. I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving.
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Wing Bowl # poll votes vs. poll comments
As of 12:20 am, there are more than twice as many comments in the Wing Bowl Poll thread (71) as there are votes in the poll itself (28)
New Poll: Actual number of 96er finishers
In a recent blog entry, Wing Tut is skeptical about the claims that Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to finish Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound 96er burger in under three hours. Neither woman has participated in any public eating contests or challenges outside Denny’s. The new poll asks how many people you think have actually finished the 96er in under three hours.
Site back up after 8 hours downtime
The site was down from about 2pm to 10pm eastern. My apologies for any inconvenience. Fortunately no comments or posts appear to have been lost as they were in the October crash.
Database improvements
The calendar now lists non contest events and competitive eating themed TV shows, so please send me any information about relevant upcoming events. Crazy Legs Conti on Eats of Strength will be rerun three times over the next three days. That is apparently the last rerun scheduled for Eats of Strength.
You can also enter a contest yourself by clicking on the “Add Contest” button in the sidebar or database query page. Contests require approval before they appear in the main database.
Click on “All 2006 Money Winners” to see everyone who has won a cash prize this year, not just the top 10.
Leading money winners added to sidebar
In a recent blog entry, megamunch had a list of suggestions for the MLE web site. One request was to keep track of the total money won for the year. It was not difficult to have the eatfeats database compute that automatically, so I have made a list of the top 10 money winners in the sidebar, based on the prize information I could find. Click on the name in the sidebar to see the breakdown. I have not been able to find prizes for all IFOCE and AICE contests. I only have the first place prize for the Fairfield rib contest and I can’t find any prize information for AICE Coney Island hamburgers or Italian sausage. You can modify the prizes in the database. The prizes do not take into account the list prices of non monetary prizes. If they did, Joey’s total would be about $20K higher due to the car he won at the Wing Bowl, and Burritos For Life winner Mike Shelley might be the overall leading money winner (the announced list price of the custom motorcycle he won is $62K)
New poll: KSO III winner
The new poll asks who you think will win the Krystal Square Off III final. Paul Barlow has his predictions on his myspace blog.
New poll: Most improved Krystal finals performance
The new poll asks who you think will improve the most in the Krystal finals over his or her qualifying performance.
Database crash last night – backup from Wed. restored
My web hosting company had a database crash last night, rendering this website unusable until they restored backups from Wednesday. I will try to restore the posts from the past two days, but the comments from that time are unfortunately lost in all probability.
updated I have restored what I can. The starts of the lost comments can be viewed with google blog search.
New poll: winning Krystal Square Off total
The new poll asks how many burgers the winner of Krystal Square Off III will eat. (There will be other Krystal polls before the contest)
Limited posting & comment moderation this weekend
Posting & comment moderation will be limited this weekend and I doubt I will be able to live blog the Jackson qualifier.
New poll: preferred team competition
The new poll asks what type of team eating contest you would most like to see.
New poll: grotesque eating contests
A midwestern theme park has received a lot of publicity recently for having a cockroach eating contest. I am not going to name the park or provide a link to the article because I think that grotesque eating contests, which are a segment in the show “Fear Factor”, makes competitive eating look like a circus side show and I do not want to see a “race to the bottom” in which contests keep offering more and more repulsive items. The new poll asks if you share that opinion.
User addition and modification of contest results enabled
Users can now add or modify results in the database. Click on the “Add Results” or “Edit Results” button on a contest’s page to add or modify results. Changes must be approved before they show up in the main database. I want to add the capability for users to add new contests and for registered users changes to not require approval in the near future.
If official contest records do not exist, I will generally record whatever an eater claims. Any controversy about a result will be listed in the results comment field.
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