Minnesota funnel cake results thread

August 15, 2009 at 1:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Minneapolis, Tim "Eater X" Janus

Bryan Beard just posted funnel cake results:

1. Tim Janus
2. Hall Hunt
3. Bob Shoudt
4. Erik Denmark
5. Tim Brown
6. Bryan Beard

update CNN has a video and WCCO has a slide show (from A Bomb)

update #2 7th place finisher Jon Lapolla has posted full results and a contest report to a bodybuilding.com forum thread.

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  1. Big Sexy said

    August 15, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

    5th Gravy Brown. 6th Me

  2. Anonymous said

    August 15, 2009 @ 2:41 pm

    Joey and Pat should have entered this contest.

  3. funnel cake delite said

    August 15, 2009 @ 2:52 pm

    Tim Janus 5.68 lbs
    Hall Hunt 4.97 lbs
    Bob Shoudt 4.075 lbs
    Erik Denmark 3.844 lbs
    Gravy Brown in 5th

  4. Anonymous said

    August 15, 2009 @ 3:48 pm

    1st Tim Janus 5.68lbs
    2nd Hall Hunt 4.97
    3rd Bob Shoudt 4.075
    4th Erik Denmark 3.844
    5th Tim Brown

  5. Anonymous said

    August 15, 2009 @ 5:59 pm

    I was at this contest and witnessed something very peculiar. Why were some of the competitor’s totals weighed in plastic containers and others in metal pans? And why did some of the lower place finishers pick up their debris to be weighed and the top finishers walk away without cleaning up? Is this fair to all who compete? Is this how the IFOCE should treat their own? Maybe Mr. “We Need To Police Ourselves” now that he won, should try to split another payout amongst all who were in the money. Oh wait, that only happens when X doesn’t mark the spot. Comment on that one Rhonda X.

  6. Anonymous said

    August 15, 2009 @ 7:08 pm

    Ronda was right on this one i guess that Tim would win. Joey you were wrong.

  7. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    August 16, 2009 @ 12:42 am

    Slide show from the contest:

    http://wcco.com/slideshows/funnel.cake.valleyfair.20.1130070.html

  8. Debris sweeper said

    August 16, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

    Holy cow, did anybody else see any funnel cake being eatin? All I witnessed was some type of wet, slimy mess falling all over the place. If that was a bucket of water on the table, then this event should have had the Lovely Juliet Lee in it.

  9. Jon said

    August 16, 2009 @ 1:47 pm

    That shit was to hard to eat unless if was a slimy doughball. I was not expecting it to be that hard, and that was evident with my first bite, and subsequent 20 second attempt to choke it down.

  10. Humbly Speaking said

    August 16, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

    Just looking at the numbers, I don’t think you can compare funnel cake to crawfish. No negative totals in funnel cake or sub-1 lb. totals either. Plus the top 6 finishers yesterday look to be the top 6 present yesterday.

  11. Jon said

    August 16, 2009 @ 2:03 pm

    I agree with Bob(nice meeting you btw, you’re very humble). I think I could have pushed Bryan for 6th had I not run out of water at 4 minutes in.

  12. Anonymous said

    August 16, 2009 @ 4:16 pm

    Hey anon 559, I noticed that too. It seemed like they kinda shady when it came to weighing. I did notice they switched back and forth between the metal kitchen pans and the plastic Miller Lite buckets. No question the pans weigh a couple pounds more than the bucket. Maybe weighing shouldn’t be going on behind the scenes but at the table itself??

  13. The Icebox said (Registered August 16, 2009)

    August 16, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

    I’m not sure why they switched, but if they tared the scale each time, it should not matter.

  14. Anonymous said

    August 16, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

    You conspiracy theorists are too funny. The cakes were weighed by themselves prior to the contest and put into pans. Everyone had about 7 pounds of funnel cake, but their specific amount was labeled on their pan. Then after, the full cakes remaining were weighed on the scale by themselves and the partial cakes were weighed in buckets (with the scale zero’ed out for the bucket). If any pans were weighed, that too was zero’ed out. The remaining amounts were added and then subtracted from their specific starting total to produce the result. Anyone who thinks that some were weighed with the pan weight counted is crazy.

  15. Suspicious Minds said

    August 17, 2009 @ 8:10 am

    I saw Tim Brown pay off several judges, right after he spit on the other competitors plates, and three members of the audience. Unfortunetly, he also spit on two judges he paid off, and they quickly switched his funnel cake into a cast iron plate just before weighing it.
    Hall Hunt left quickly, so he could go eat an 11 lb. pizza afterwords, with no one knowing it. Tim Janus, realizing he had forgotten his facepaint, put it on after the contest, and wore it on the plane flight home.

  16. TSA said

    August 17, 2009 @ 9:14 am

    Suspicious Minds is right about the Tim Janus comment. Eater X passport picture has the facepaint and he had to have Helen Haggerty help fix his face before he could board the plane.

    Minnesota TSA Agent

  17. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 9:37 am

    Congratulations Tim! You may recall, I gave you a slight edge over Humble Bob to win the event. Congratulations to you too Hall.

    I’m at a loss however. There is no way that Hall’s total ended up being a pound more than Humble Bob. Something is definitely not right.

    I’m not knocking Hall, but there is no way in this world —- probably in the next one, however —- he can out-eat Humble Bob in any contest of 12 minutes or less unless Humble Bob was practically on his death bed, especially not by nearly an entire pound!

    Hall has been improving as of late, but not by THAT much, and Humble Bob’s coming off his best performance ever in HDBs, breaking the doble deuce..

    I need a Long Island Iced Tea!

  18. Hall of Fame said

    August 17, 2009 @ 10:04 am

    Get over it Rhonda – there is no “reversal of fortune” in finish results. Humble was humbled by America’s most constantly improving eater

  19. Joey said

    August 17, 2009 @ 11:54 am

    Tim and Hall, great job!!! Tim, I always enjoy eating next to you, you never any excuses, you just push as hard as you can… Now you are getting faster… I am scared to see what you are going to do in grits this year.

  20. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

    Hall of Fame, WTF are you talking about, with this ROF? I didn’t go there.

    I’ll give him this: He is indeed improving. Bob was humbled not by Hall, but by himself. Let’s see what the lad does in Chili Spaghetti, Grits, and Jalapenos.

    Hall can win jalapenos if Pat, Sonya, and Erik the Red don’t show, I suppose. And he’ll win grits if Tim, Pat, Joey, and Sonya, miss their planes.

    As far as Chili spaghetti, he’ll get smoked. Hall has no hand speed —- look at his oysters total.

    But Hall may well finish in the top five in the Krystal finals. That’s his strong point.

  21. Anonymous said

    August 17, 2009 @ 1:37 pm

    Rhonda, don’t bait Hall. This forum is nasty enough.

  22. Mega Munch said

    August 17, 2009 @ 1:40 pm

    lol….Anon416: They weighed the left over funnel cakes in “plastic Miller Lite buckets.”

    That’s classy. Unless Miller Lite was a sponsor. Then it’s marketing.

  23. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    August 17, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

    According to the bodybuilding.com thread, Bob was disappointed with other eaters’ debris and recorded some of the leftovers with a video camera.

  24. Two places at once?!!? said

    August 17, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

    Rhonda. Sometimes you make sense. This comment “As far as Chili spaghetti, he’ll get smoked. Hall has no hand speed —- look at his oysters total.” is not one of tose times.

    Chili Spaghetti and Krystals in Jacksonville are both on Sept 7. Which one do you think Hall Hunt, the boy from Jacksonville, will be at? If he eats spaghetti that day it may be at Olive Garden, not Kings Island.

  25. Big Sexy said

    August 17, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

    Yeah, Bob definately wasn’t happy. The plastic Miller Lite buckets were only there cause nobody could fit their hands in the Valleyfair cups provided.

  26. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 2:31 pm

    You’re right. Okay. Done.

  27. Hall of Fame said

    August 17, 2009 @ 2:39 pm

    Hall hates oysters, he said it before and after the contest. Otherwise, I look for many of your venomous predictions to be WRONG! Such sour grapes! Sorry to hit your hot button

  28. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 2:56 pm

    I don’t blame Bob. Bob is just about the cleanest eater on the tour. (That’s what it is, a tour.)

    The IFOCE needs to get a grip on this. I understand that judging and keeping up with everything is a tough job, and the limited number of judges / emcee have their hands full enough as it is. But when this crap is allowed to occur over and over—-it’s the norm, versus the exception—- it not only usurps eaters of the desire to eat neatly, it encourages sloppy eating. And if the IFOCE doesn’t stop the buck, who will?

    Frankly, I wouldn’t blame Bob if he went that (sloppy eating) route himself. There is no reward for tidy eating. But you get paid to “eat” dishonestly.

    What are they going to do, threaten “Yellow Card” action? Oh, what a deterrent that is! Like Alice Kramden used to say to Ralph, “Oh … from this blow I may NEVER recover!

  29. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

    He’ll hate grits and jalapeno peppers in a few weeks also. Perhaps he’ll make such an announcement both before and after each of those events.

  30. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    August 17, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

    My mistake —- see I admit when I make them, unlike many —- then he will surely be in Jacksonville.

  31. Nic Fry said

    August 17, 2009 @ 4:02 pm

    Rhonda… i am begginning to hate your commentary

  32. KevinRoss said

    August 17, 2009 @ 5:17 pm

    Sheesh Rhonda. . .Hall did a good job, why do you have to try to discredit that? I ate with Hall in oysters and he most definitely had an aversion to them and was unaccustomed to raw oysters. . .it had nothing to do with hand speed. . .but mostly it is lame to insinuate he was saying he didn’t like oysters just in case he didn’t do well and would do the same for grits/jalepenos. . .come on. . .there is indeed quite a few people who bend the rules and aren’t upfront/honest, but Hall is not one of them!

    BTW, funnelcake is probably the hardest food I’ve ever done in a contest (I did the first one in santa clara). Those darn crispy bits are a nightmare to chew and swallow. . .I cut up my mouth and was afraid I was going to cut up my throat every time I swallowed. I would never do that contest again and find it amazing someone can get 4 or 5lbs of it considering how evil it is to get down.

  33. Anonymous said

    August 17, 2009 @ 5:34 pm

    Nick I allways have.

  34. CPT Clarence, pilot said

    August 17, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

    You were right Rhonda. Hall will be like Phil Collins at Live Aid 1985. He is going to do one event, hop on the concord jet and zoom over to the next contest just in time to compete. Talk about a miracle.

  35. The Icebox said (Registered August 16, 2009)

    August 17, 2009 @ 6:36 pm

    Having taken 7th in the event, and actually turning around mid contest and watching hall/bob/tim eat…Hall definitely out ate Bob on Saturday, and I even viewed their finished trays post contest. I was suprised as well. Hall is very quiet and reserved, and equally as humble.

    The Miller Lite buckets were used, as Big Sexy said, because the glasses for water provided were very thin and tall, and also only filled half way with water.

    My mouth is still torn up from the FC. Next time a couple practice runs won’t hurt :p

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