Link Buffet: July 11, 2008
- Joey Chestnut on the Today Show after defending his Nathan’s title
- Short article about Hall Hunt on jacksonville.com
- Mini burger eating contest in Long Beach Monday. Purse is $600 in restaurant gift certificates.
- FCC affirms $4000 fine of WIP for not following listed rules in Wing Bowl 13.
- Parody about alleged performance enhancing drug use in the Nathan’s finals
- Southington, CT hot dog contest also goes into overtime
- Kobayashi has a blog entry about Hungry & Focused 4 showing Super Paul Barlow’s cover art
- Kobayashi also has a link to Erin Wigger’s gallery of competitive eaters
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Ethan Duclos said (Registered April 17, 2008)
July 11, 2008 @ 8:57 am
Why would Hall say he is disappointed with 6th place at Nathan’s? He finished 6th place. I know most competitive eaters would die to get 6th place at Nathan’s. What an ingrate.
chappy said
July 11, 2008 @ 11:11 am
Seriously? Ingracious?
Think he was going the route of he was looking to improve upon his qualifier totals, kinda like everyone else.
Cheers.
Rhonda Evans said
July 11, 2008 @ 11:41 am
I can understand Hall very easily. He, Sonya, Bob, Rich, and Pat all finished well off their 10-minute qualifier totals. I don’t know why, but I would say a good possibility was the extra pressure they likely put on themselves to finish closer to … or rather, not so far behind … the totals put up by Joey and Koby.
When you’re a world class, top 10 eater, it has got to be a pressure-cooker situation to at least come within 20 dogs of the winner, which not one person did except Tim, and he was still off by nearly a dozen-and-a-half. But that doesn’t mean most eaters didn’t do well—-25, or 29, or 30, or 34 HDBs is still 25 or 29, or 30, or 34 HDBs!
The results just underscore how magnificent Joey and Koby are in dogs and buns. After all, Koby and Joey’s margin (in regulation) over most of the competitors was greater than the total amount those competitors were able to eat individually. That’s dominance!
That’s why it would be crazy to even invest a second in the thought to rank anybody ahead of Koby except Joey, regardless of how often the man competes. But that’s another issue.
Carey said
July 11, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
nah, Hunt’s a class act. He was only dissappointed that he didn’t keep his normal pace.
Jon Bello said
July 11, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
He stated he was upset about his pace not his placing. There were quite a few people that didn’t get the numbers they wanted.
anonymous said
July 11, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
amazing all you need is to be a great eater and that gives you a ticket to make duimb remarks and get away with it. If you cant eat for shit and make stupid comments they pounce on you like there is no tommorow
crawfish said (Registered May 24, 2008)
July 11, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Ash Creek Saloon World Rib Eating Championship
http://www.ifoce.com/contests?action=detail&eventID=251
Myrtle Beach World BBQ Eating Championship
http://www.ifoce.com/contests?action=detail&eventID=252
KevinRoss said
July 11, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
More Ribs and BBQ. Veggie contest in Socal? Anyone? I still want there to be a sushi contest somewhere. I can’t believe that isn’t a major event considering the ever increasing popularity of sushi.
nic "TheIncredibleBulk" fry said
July 11, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
wait how can there be 2 world championships in one year for the same food?
Anonymous said
July 11, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Rhonda-
How can you say that it’s crazy to rank anybody but Joey ahead of Koby? Sure, Koby dominates in HBD’s, but that’s a bad event for Pat. Just because nobody but Joey contends with Koby on his BEST EVENT doesn’t mean that Koby is untouchable in anything else. Pat does better than Joey, or is virtually tied with him, in most other disciplines, which means it’s probably generous to say the same about his standings with Koby in all of the events that he doesn’t compete in. Anybody who says Koby is a better all-around eater than Pat needs to look at more than one or two events. Let’s see Koby challenge Pat in pies, then we’ll talk.
Analist said
July 11, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Ethan, you need to learn how to read, before you begin to analyze and criticize what you think you read. But, at least you put your name on your inane comment.