update The Dallas News has an article about the contest (from City of Lewisville)

A press release posted to the comments has the results from today’s tamale contest in Lewisville, TX. Patrick Vandam won his first non-qualifier contest by eating 44 tamales.

44 Patrick Vandam, Eagan, Minn., $1500
41 Tim Brown, Chicago, Ill. $1000
34.5 Eric “the Red” Denmark, Seattle, Wash., $500
34 Nate Biller, Briarwood, NY, $250
25.5 Kevin Ross, Temecula, Calif., $150
24 Bill Myers, Breinigsville, Penn., $100
23.5 Brent Ricord, Keller, Texas
20 Charles Johnson, Abilene, Texas
19 Frank Wach, Chicago, Ill.
18.5 Nic Fry, Grant Bend, Kan.
15.5 Jim Clawson, Addison, Texas
10.5 David Cagle, Houston, Texas
10.5 Patrick Owen, Corinth, Texas
5 Trey Beauregard, Moore, Okla.
5 David Marston, Frisco, Texas

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• Pat Bertoletti has a report on the Czech plum dumpling contest
• Rerun listing of the KSO V broadcast
• KSO V Press conference gallery and video
• Erik Denmark feels more positive about missing the Krystal finals
• Ginormous Burger Challenge finisher receives free T-shirt a year after completing the burger, along with some cookies to apologize for the delay
• Second Philadelphia Eagle ice cream qualifier report (from megamunch)

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AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.

The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com

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TheStreet.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he describes his training regimen and says that he has eaten 114 burgers in a Krystal practice session.

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Some competitors in the Krystal finals will sign autographs and pose for pictures at the Krystal in Hixson, TN tomorrow. Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Humble Bob Shoudt are expected to appear.

A list of the competitors in the Lewisville, TX tamale contest has been provided in a comment. It does not appear that anyone will compete in both the Krystal finals and the tamale contest. Expected entrants include: Nate Biller, Tim Brown, Erik Denmark, Nic Fry, Bill Myers, Brent Ricord, Kevin Ross, Damon Serignet, Patrick Vandam and Frank Wach.

A listing of all contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar is available after the jump.

update A press release with competitor profiles is available on the city of Lewisville’s website. It is interesting that the press release mentions Frank Wach competing in Bartolini’s meatball contest.

update #2 Pete Davekos’ appearance on Fox 25 this morning can be viewed online.

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• Ex-“Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
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• Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
• The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
• Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
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WDEF has a blog entry about Kobayashi’s appearance today at a Chattanooga Krystal. Kobayashi has a message for Joey Chestnut in an embedded video.

Bodog is taking bets on Krystal Square OFF V. In addition to betting on the winner (the amateur is available at 99 to 1 odds) there are several proposition bets.

In other local television news, Pete Davekos will appear on the Fox 25 morning news to promote the Garlicky Greens eating contest at b.good.

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The new poll asks who you think will win Sunday’s Krystal Square Off finals.

Paul Barlow predicts that Kobayashi will eat 110 burgers to edge Joey Chestnut by 3 in his myspace blog.

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• Kobayashi checks into a hospital, but recovers and practices with 100 burgers and plays the MLE video game
• Articles in the UAB and UTC student papers about the Krystal Square Off
• Home page for Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader, who has won several Chicago contests (from AICE news)
• Entry form for local competitors in the Garlicky Greens contest
• Competitive Eater Ben Griffith wins the trip to the Krystal finals
• Don Lerman is questioning his future in competitive eating

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Erik Denmark has a blog entry about the Memphis Krystal qualifier which concludes with his top 10 benefits of missing the Krystal Square Off finals. His final 3 items in the list:

3 – Not having to convince my friends and family to get in their car and drive 60 miles to the nearest bar that carries FSN South to watch me for a split second while the camera pans to the middle of the table
2 – Avoid the depressing realization that I won’t get the final burger count because I have to sprint off the stage and straight to the airport to catch the last flight back to Seattle because it is Sunday and I have to work tomorrow
1 – I still have a chance to win a contest and a title in Lewisville on Saturday!

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The Chicago Sun Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti and his first place finish in the recent jalapeno contest in Chicago.

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A bratwurst eating contest for four person teams will be held in the Washington, DC area over the next two weekends. The contest will be a relay in which each team member has to finish 4 brats before the next can start. Qualifiers will be held in 9 locations on Sunday and the finals will take place on October 5. The grand prize is $300 cash, four tickets to a Redskins home game, and a limo to the game. Qualifier winners will receive a $50 bar tab and a Beck’s shwag bag. The registration deadline is tomorrow.

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• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

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A listing of eaters who have competed in 5 or more Krystal Square Off finals qualifiers according to the eatfeats database follows:

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Sonya Thomas has updated her website to mention that she will not be competing in this year’s Krystal finals, but does not provide much information on the reasons for her absence.

Last year Sonya Thomas also reported that she would miss the KSO IV finals due to a work related schedule conflict, but that conflict was resolved.

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• Jill Stoler has reports on the bun & cheese and loukoumades eating contests she competed in this weekend.
• If you missed the update below, Sonya Thomas declined her wild card slot which will go to Crazy Legs Conti
• Krystal amateurs Info: Sackful challenge pregame contest for pairs ($500 $100 prize), finals slot registration
• Saint Louis Sushi gallery. The top 3 – last years winner did not repeat, the winner is not named
• Mount Union College hot dog contest
• Phoenix area hot dog contest with qualifiers for high school students
• “Furious” Pete to do eating contests at the Mr. Olympia expo this weekend

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Zap2It.com has broadcast information about the Krystal Square Off finals. It does not appear that the program will be rerun in the immediate future, but it will not be preceded by live programming that could pre-empt it.

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R Suzuki reports that a web page has been set up for this year’s edition of “Gluttonous King”, which will be televised on September 28. Four finalists are listed: Hatsuyo Sugawara, Takuya Yamamoto, Food Battle Club veteran Dr. Nishikawa and a rookie female. The final rounds will take place in Thailand.

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• Behind the scenes video at the gyoza contest
• Megamunch’s report from the whoopie pie contest. Ian Hickman threepeated.
• Article and video about the beanie burger eating contest at the Texas-Oklahoma fair
• Doc Chey’s noodle eating contest in Atlanta October 5. Dale Boone won last year’s contest
• Possible entrees for a restaurant specializing in competitive eating challenges.

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The results of today’s Memphis qualifier have kept two streaks alive. Rich Lefevre and Sonya Thomas are the only American eaters to have qualified for all five Krystal Square Off finals. A list of eaters who have qualified 3 or more times follows:

update IFOCE.com reports that Sonya Thomas has declined to attend the finals and that Crazy Legs Conti will take her slot.

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The Krystal Square Off twitter has the top 3 of this afternoon’s qualifier in Memphis:

1. Rich LeFevre 52 burgers
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Erik Denmark 50

If these are the official results the 3 wild cards will be:
1. Sonya Thomas 55
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Badlands Booker 51

If a fourth wild card is added Crazy Legs Conti or Erik Denmark would claim the slot with 50 burgers depending on whether Conti broke Denmark’s previous result of 43.

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The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of today’s qualifier in Memphis. Listed ranked entrants include Rich LeFevre, Crazy Legs Conti, Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark and Chris Abatsas, Damon Serignet. Juris Shibayama’s competing in a second qualifier will give him the tiebreaker over Badlands Booker regardless of how much he eats.

Sonya Thomas will get in unless the top four breaks 55. Booker will have to hope that the runner-up does not exceed his total of 51.

Erik Denmark has blog entries about last weekend’s jalapeno contest and Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He has the following account of the Krystal overtime in Memphis:

In the 10 burger overtime eat-off, Rich Shea announced clearly to keep the eating clean – Juliet did not, she continued to stuff multiple burgers in and around her mouth getting about half of them in and half of them on the table and ground. She raised her hands in the air when her 10 burgers were out of the boxes, the crowd booed and the judges told her to eat the mess she had made. She continued to sweep up the sloppy burgers from the table and with every sweep of burger mess in to her mouth she raised her hands again looking for victory and the crowd booed louder. This continued for about the next 60 seconds, the crowd was now hoping that either Badlands or Juris would get through their 10 burgers before Juliet was done cleaning her mess.

But it didn’t happen, Juliet finally ate enough of what she had spilled to get the decision. Not a popular decision at all.

Erik Denmark also says that Kobayashi’s bye slot in the Krystal finals will be filled by an amateur pulled from the crowd and not a fourth wild card entrant.

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Results from today’s Caribbean Food Delights-Royal Caribbean Bakery Eating Championship have been posted. The top 3:

1. Joe Menchetti
2. Will Millender
3. George Van Laar

Jill Stoler was 5th in the professional division and Joe “Gavone” Rose was fourth in the amateur category.

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update #5Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a trip report

update #4 The Krystal Square Off blog has a contest report which says that Kobayashi ate 100 burgers in 8 minutes the day before the contest. There is also a gallery in which Kobayashi shows off his post-contest stomach.

Al.com has another article

update #3 AL.com has a gallery

update #2 UAB student life has some short videos. The contest was not held inside the stadium

update Steve Ramirez was second w/24, the 3.5+ ratio might still be a record.

According to the Krystal Square Off twitter, Kobayashi ate 89 Krystals in Birmingham today, breaking Joey Chestnut’s qualifier record by 2. Super Paul ate 20. The 4+ ratio between first and second place might be an IFOCE record.

Here is a flashback to another famous international visitor to Alabama – a video of the Rolling Stones recording “Wild Horses” in Muscle Shoals before the infamous Altamont concert.

The most significant previous intersection of competitive eating and UAB athletics probably occurred when UAB soccer player Pam Cooney became half of the first all female pair to finish the Pointersaurus Pizza challenge.

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update #4 MaineToday.com has a blog entry

update #3 WMTV has an article and video

update #2 BeautifulBrian.com has more detailed results

update Results from IFOCE.com

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 10.33 burritios, ate 1.5 in overtime
2. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 10.33 burrritios, ate 1.0 in OT
3. Tim “Gravy” Brown, 9.5
4. Badlands Booker, 8
5. Nate Biller 6
6. Pete Davekos 4.75
7. Dave “US Male” Goldstein 4
8. Bill Myers 3.75

Janus and Shoudt went into overtime with Janus winning the eat-off

Bob Shoudt expects to eat 15 pounds of burritos according to his twitter

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