Mouth by Southwest reports that Chiun "Jimmy" Peng won the first place prize of $500 by eating 16.25 slices of pizza in 15 minutes at a contest held at Flancer's in Gilbert, AZ. Only Arizona residents were allowed to compete in this year's contest.

April 17, 2011 at 11:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Phoenix, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (12)

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  1. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 12:19 am

    Total BS contest:

    “Jimmy Peng eats 16+ slices to recapture Flancer’s pizza-eating crown

    Jimmy Peng of Scottsdale devoured more than 16 slices of pizza in 15 minutes to win Flancer’s Pizza-Eating Contest for the second time in three years.

    Peng was the 2009 champion, but finished second to Thomas Gilbert of Las Vegas last year. The Gilbert restaurant barred non-Arizona residents from this year’s contest.”

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    I guess he needed the help of a rule change to “recapture” the crown. What a classy restaurant: they get mad because an out-of-stater wins the contest in 2010, so they change the rules to ban him the next year?! No wonder everyone hates Arizona.

  2. Cutter said (Registered November 9, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 2:26 am

    Peng is a solid competitor. He can’t be to blame for the situation, he just happens to be the benificiary. A restaurant in Gilbert barred out of state residents from competing, namely a Gilbert 🙂

  3. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 3:56 am

    It just bother me when restaurants do this, and then get upset when an out-of-towner or out-of-stater competitive eater comes in and wins. This has happened to me before and I was accused of being a pro eater after I won and somehow a cheater due to this. You end up getting a lot of grief for all your effort and hard work. The feeling sucks. And most of these places are oblivious that their contests are being picked up by EatFeats and attracting national attention from the eating circuit, so they don’t expect “ringers” to suddenly appear. I tell them about EatFeats and they claim they have never heard of the site and are shocked anyone but locals are interested.

    So I will come out and say it: Flancer’s in Gilbert, AZ screwed Tom Gilbert and other like-minded out-of-staters this year because they are cowards and feel their own eaters can’t put up. So they legislated their victory by allowing only AZ residents. My advice for them is to improve their own game rather than cheat.

    What if IFOCE had banned non-Americans after Kobayashi won Nathan’s for the first time???

  4. Anonymous said

    April 18, 2011 @ 5:04 am

    Stephanie what other non-American eaters are you talking about? Bad analogy. You sound prejudiced.

  5. Anonymous said

    April 18, 2011 @ 6:14 am

    Go open your own pizza place, start your own contest and then make your own stinkin rules. Nobody is crying about this but you Steph Bu Hu Wu.

    This is a time for Dr Suess

  6. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 8:59 am

    Alert! Some anonymous patients from the lunatic asylum have escaped. Please capture and sedate them ASAP.

  7. anonymous said

    April 18, 2011 @ 9:33 am

    anony 6;14 is correct. What is your obsession with rules and regulations of eating establishments when you yourself were not involved in the challenge?. So what if the owner accused you of being a pro eater. Did he raise the bar of the challenge without warning as soon as you got to the table? No so why do you moan and bitch about something as insignifigant as barring non hometown residents from competing? Then dont bother with the challenge to begin with instead of trying to correct it. Its his restaurant he can do what he wants. Go write to your congressman. Bob Shoudt and Tim Janus attempted the Paulisaurus 8lb pizza challenge in NJ several years ago . Since the owner became aware that both of them were on the verge of completing the challenge , he required that both drink a 3 liter bottle of soda . All this for a stinkin $300 . I bet you would be bitchin till hell froze over if it happened to you I would say dealing with minor grief as opposed to what they went through is no comparison,.

  8. I think said

    April 18, 2011 @ 10:39 am

    i think they should ban people over 150 lbs that way everyone would look good at trhe challange ( if ya must know that leave me out)

  9. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

    I stated my position. Let the anonymous clowns act like clowns lol.

  10. What? said

    April 18, 2011 @ 6:53 pm

    They screwed Gilbert? How? Restaurants are businesses and this is still America. They reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. On the flipside I can understand the frustration a local person feels when an out-of-towner comes in and lords over a contest. That feels terrible too.

  11. Al Sharpton Jr said

    April 18, 2011 @ 7:56 pm

    As long as they don’t refuse service to a black man then they can refuse anyone else

  12. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    April 18, 2011 @ 10:09 pm

    On the flipside I can understand the frustration a local person feels when an out-of-towner comes in and lords over a contest. That feels terrible too.

    Good point. I agree with this too. Analogously, how did America feel in 2001 when “out-of-towner” and Japanese citizen Takeru Kobayashi came here and won Nathan’s?? It was a horrible feeling. My point is though we didn’t act immaturely and retaliate by banning all foreigners like that restaurant in Arizona did. Instead we manned up and continued to let them in, while also challenging our own citizens to get better. Joey Chestnut accepted that challenge and eventually won the coveted Yellow Mustard Belt back for the United States, thus restoring our national pride.

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