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• Gallery of Famous Famiglia pizza contest with French captions
• Kobayashi meets fashion designer Diane von Furstenburg
• Student wins Don Lerman style hot dog hat after eating 9 HDB in 3 minutes
• Bubba Yarbrough leaves IFOCE for the WLOCE according to comment
• Dale Boone finishes unnamed 4 pound burger in Morganton, NC and names it “Dale’s Daniel Boone Burger” according to WLOCE.com
• BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on the new rankings
  
• Video of Cookie Jarvis at the WBAB studios last week

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In February, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick believed he was traded to Japan for “Kobayashi Iwamura” before he learned the transaction was fake. Kendrick’s Wikipedia page says that the names of the fabricated player came from Takeru Kobayashi and infielder Akinori Iwamura of the Tampa Bay Rays, who are currently opposing the Phillies in the World Series. Kendrick did not pitch effectively enough in the regular season to make the post season roster.

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The Taipei Times has sad news about a steamed bun eating contest:

An eating contest at a local university ended in tragedy on Wednesday when a graduate student died after participating in a steamed bun eating competition.

Huang Te-hsiang (黃德祥), dean of the student affairs office of Dayeh University in Changhua, said yesterday that a 23-year-old student, surnamed Chen, from the Graduate Institute of Bioindustry Technology could not stop vomiting and fell unconscious after he began to feel uncomfortable during the school’s eating competition on Wednesday.

update ETaiwanNews has more information. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

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• Santa Clarita, CA hard boilded egg eating contest Sunday, $250 first prize
• George Shea to be honored at Coney Island benefit November 3
• Mini-documentary about the Garlicky Greens contest
• Video of 3 pound burger attempt at the Cottage Cafe in Traverse City, MI
• Yogurt Eating contest for breast cancer research

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The Mouthpiece Sports blog has an interview with Brad Sciullo about his successful completion of the Belly Bruiser challenge. Brad finishes the interview in the following manner:

It’s opening some eyes. This is great for all competitive eaters. Everyone of us is going to benefit from this because this raises the bar. I’m guaranteeing you that from this day forward bigger numbers will be put up — numbers like no one’s ever seen. Things that make this look ridiculously easy because everyone’s going to realize that this is possible. That someone like myself — who isn’t as good as the top-ranked eaters — can do this this is going to send everyone into a frenzy. And it’s going to be great for the sport in general.

And what’s next:

I’m either going to go back to Denny’s and eat every one of their burgers on their menu in the same day, which will equal about what that burger weighed. I’ll eat the two-pounder, the three-pounder, and the Ye’ Olde 96er in the same day. Or I’m going to do a pizza competition.

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Nic Fry noticed that the IFOCE rankings have been updated. The previous rankings are still available in the Google cache. The top 8 remain almost the same. Tim Janus and Bob Shoudt are now tied at #4 and Rich LeFevre and Hall Hunt flip-flop at #7/#8. Brad Sciullo is not ranked despite winning the cannoli contest, so speculation that he has been suspended for doing the Belly Bruiser challenge might be correct. Patrick Vandam jumps to #11 from #45 and Dave “US Male” Goldstein ascends to #28 from #44. Some other changes:

New: Mike Fitzgerald (#24), Nic Fry (#30), Mike Springer (#40), Andrew McKirdy(#44), Cameron McKirdy(#45), Scott Zukowski(#46), Mike Landrich (#50)

Returning: Eric Booker (#13), Ron Koch (#35)

Dropping Out: Chip Simpson(#9), Justin Mih (#22), Marco Marquez (#23), Pat Bruss (#24), Loren Yarbrough (#33), Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane (#35), Pete Miernicki (#36), Jim Hamrick (#42), Kevin Carr (#43)

update Here is a link to the urbanhonking.com article about the IFOCE policy against restaurant eating challenges by Liz K from February 2007

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Two unaffiliated contests this Saturday will award $100 to the winner:

• Spaghetti Eating Contest, Arch Fest, Jesup Georgia, $200 total purse
• Hot Dog Eating Contest, New Martinsville, WV

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I will teleblog the competitive eating segment on the E:60 episode currently being broadcast. It appears the competitive eating segment will be the last to air and start around 7:40-7:45 pm eastern.

The episode will be rerun on ESPN2 at: 10/23 8:00 PM, 10/27 3:00 PM and 10/27 11:00 PM (all times eastern), but the segment will be available on e60.com.

update The competitive eating segment and the reporter roundtable are now available on ESPN.com. There is a also a page where viewers can submit videos to comment on the episode.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary on the personalities of the top 50 IFOCE members
• Furious Pete is seeking input about a 3 minute eating stunt
• Tonight’s E:60 episode to have footage from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Gallery of the recent Washington, DC cupcake eating contest
• Picture of Joey Chestnut at the Edmonton minor league hockey game
• Joey Chestnut to receive a commendation from the San Jose City Council
• Ukrainian salo (pork fat) eating contest
• Brad Sciullo’s Belly Bruiser completion makes the Japanese news
• Gal Sone’s television appearance where she sampled and ranked all the items on Saizeriya’s menu has boosted that restaurant’s business despite the recession

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Kobayshi has a blog entry congratulating the Tampa Rays on winning the American League pennant last night. In 2007, Kobayashi attended the Rays fan festival (then called the Devil Rays) and also recorded a commercial with infielder Akinori Iwamura.

Hall Hunt appeared at the 2008 Rays fan festival and did a hot dog eating exhibition.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary about Brad Sciullo
• Video of Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
• Joey Chestnut mentioned during San Jose city council meeting
• Picture of Badlands Booker and Erik Denmark at the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Boston area hot dog contest Oct 25 says it will offer $200 in cash prizes
• Report on Antioch, IL hot dog contest

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The BBC has an article and video about the creation of a 1500 meter long (.93 mile) sandwich in Tehran. The sandwich contained 1000 kg (2200 lbs.) of ostrich meat and was created to promote Iranian ostrich farming. Onlookers devoured the sandwich before it could be officially recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records, but the event organizers hope that video of the sandwich will result in it supplanting a 1378 meter long Italian ostrich sandwich in the official records.

FarsNews has a picture of Kobayashi in its article about the sandwich.

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ESPNMediaZone has a press release about Tuesday’s E:60 that will be televised on ESPN at 7pm eastern which will have a segment about competitive eating:

In a sport replete with colorful personalities, E:60 correspondent Jeremy Schaap takes an in-depth look at competitive eating and addresses some of the sport’s salient health and social issues. Highlights include interviews with some of the greatest eaters in the world such as Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Crazy Legs Conti and Tim “Eater X” Janus.

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Rich LeFevre reports in a comment that he successfully completed the 120 ounce steak challenge at the Brand Steakhouse in 40 minutes. The list price of the steak is $267. Video of his attempt will appear on rawvegas.tv.

update Some pictures have been emailed:

Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria has sent the following email: (pictures of his challenge can be seen below)

On sunday [October 11] I went to Thurmans in Columbus, They had a 3 pounder but that wasn’t enough. I had them make me a 4.5 pounder. She said if I finish it I could name it.
Its called “Pauls East Coast Pile”

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• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

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The prize breakdown for the Famous Famiglia pizza contest listed the 7th place prize as $500. Pat Philbin came in seventh and said he received $250 on a forum thread. Does anyone have the final list of prizes?

The only mention of the Famous Famiglia contest results on IFOCE.com appears to be the listing of winner on the contest calendar page.

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A list of contests in the eatfeats database this weekend follows after the jump.
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• BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee
• BeautifulBrian.com also has a poll on who should be the IFOCE commisioner
• George and Rich Shea highlight video clips
• The Brad Sciullo article is picked up by the Associated Press
• Quinnipiac University bans on-campus eating contests, citing the death of an unnamed student competitive eater (I am unaware of any deaths in collegiate eating contests)
• Cancelled lumberjack eating contest receives bad reviews from Jill Stoler and others.
• WalletPop on how buffets trick patrons into consuming less food
• David Letterman says the format of the next presidential debate will involve competitive eating in his monologue.
  Rich LeFevre to attempt 120 ounce steak today

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Cookie Jarvis’ home page announces that he will be on WBAB between 6am and 10am on October 17. The radio station has on-line streaming of its programming.

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The Carolina Packers Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held at the Brickdirt National Super Street Championship tomorrow at Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, North Carolina. The first prize will be $350 and the entry fee is $10. Rules – Event Information

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Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizza has a 54 inch square pizza available at its Hollywood Boulevard location. The pizza is listed as the largest delivered pizza in the world and the price is $199.99. The restaurant also has a 36 inch pizza available.

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Steakbellie announces that he will appear on BBC Radio 2 on Friday at 1:45 pm eastern to talk about setting the haggis record last week. The station can be listened to online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/.

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update Oct 2, 2009 A post about Brad Sciullo’s appearance on The Colbert Report has been made

(from Kelly Jordan email) Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s homepage reports that Brad Sciullo was the first person to complete the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser burger by himself. The burger is listed as having 15 pounds of meat and its total weight was 20.2 pounds. Sciullo’s time was 4 hours and 39 minutes, 21 minutes under the 5 hour limit.

update The burger Brad Sciullo finished was not the 9-11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger completed by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. It is the next larger size.

update #2 The Evening Sun has an article about Brad Sciullo completing the burger which says he won $400 and three T-shirts. He made three trips to the bathroom where he was accompanied by a cook to make sure he did not throw up.

update #3 Yahoo’s story about Brad Sciullo is currently the most-emailed article (from Steakbellie)

update #4 PittsburghLive has an article There is also a blog entry in an Indian language

update #5 The Herald Standard has an article about Brad Sciullo. He says his next contest will be Wing Bowl 17 and he will use his technique which involves eating part of the wing bones at that event.

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• A black & white gallery from this year’s Nathan’s finals
• Barlo’s Pizza in Indianapolis will award at least $300 to someone who finishes a 29 inch pizza in under 2 hours
• Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane wins Colorado Springs musubi contest
• A comparison of Krystal with White Castle. TN and KY have both restaurants.
• IHOP to offer all-you-can-eat pancakes for remainder of October (from Skinnyboy)
• Video from b.good’s Garlicky Greens contest
• Picture of Badlands Booker at Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Volunteers wanted to handle publicity, sponsorships, food safety
  and legal aspects of a Chicago hot dog eating contest
• Brenda Lashley, winner of a sauerkraut eating contest, makes “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” book for naming her son after her favorite brand of sauerkraut.

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