• Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery from the contest in which Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick Vandam competed against Jimmy John’s sandwich makers (Chicagoist report / preview)
• Dickey’s BBQ finals to be held in Dallas in January 2009. San Antonio and Lynchburg, VA qualifiers have been scheduled for September.
• Furious Pete profile (article scan) in the Toronto Sun (condolences to Pete on the recent loss of his grandparents)
• Columnist responds to Juris Shibayama’s letter
• Sonya Thomas lists her favorite bands (Thanks for the compliment Sonya)
• Don Lerman to judge upcoming cannoli eating contest (Also confirmation that Kevin Lipsitz received the Lifetime Achievement Award)
• Record set at Ballard, WA lutefisk eating contest
• Female division winner has best overall mark at Strasburg, OH Corn Festival
• West Virginia Hot Dog Festival report
• Article about Chris Kenney, 11th place finisher at Bartolini’s meatballs
• Statistics on the Dubuque Conuty Fair’s eating contests
• Preview of Sunday’s dumpling eating contests in Queens, NY
• Blog entry about Seattle doughnut eating contest / Saturday Knights concert
• Vineland, NJ pizza contest August 9, $50 gift certificate first prize
• Report about eating contest held at Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota’s restaurant
• Biryani eating contest for Indian familes
• Charlotte Dawson, a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model wins a celebrity meat pie eating contest

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(from comment) Full results of the finals of the hot dog eating contest held at Steve’s Snappin Dogs have been posted. The top 3:

1. Phil Soderborg – 13 in 8 minutes, 2nd eating contest after winning qualifier 2 weeks earlier
2. Mike McAvoy – 12.5
3. David Ruskjer – 10

The Denver Post has an article about the contest and Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a blog entry. Contest videos are also available.

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Denver.yourhub.com blog entry

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Jill Stoler has a blog entry about Saturday’s pizza eating contest at Dani’s pizza. The top 4:

1. Gentlemen Joe Menchetti – 9.125 slices in 10 minutes $500, second independent contest win in 2 days
2. William The Champ Milllender IV – 8 slices in 10 minutes $250
3. Joel The Cannon Podelsky – 7 slices in 10 minutes $100
4. Jill Stoler 5.5 slices

(Thanks also Joel Podelesky)

(from Crawfish comment) In other Joe Menchetti news, he is now listed in the WLOCE rankings and his profile page appears on the WLOCE website. THe last time Dale Boone and Joe Menchetti were in the same organization, Boone had Menchetti blocked from competing in the black and white cookie contest, which led to Boone’s expulsion from AICE

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Results of Sunday’s satay eating contest in Singapore from the Straits Times

1. Takeru Kobayashi 5.4 kg (first victory over Joey Chestnut in 4 contests)
2. Joey Chestnut 4.1 kg
3. Victor Lim 1.3 kg, top local contestant

Kobayashi dyed his hair blue for the contest.

Other coverage
China Daily article
Kobayashi has several blog entries about the contest

(Thanks Zack, Carey & Crawfish for comments)

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Asia1.com article
contest video (from comment)
psp3rdgen’s gallery

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MCall.com has a report on the competitive eating comedy “Nacho Mountain”, which began filming in the Allentown, PA area on July 19. The main eating contest scene was filmed on Friday. Joey Chestnut, listed as a co-star of the movie on IMDB.com, is not mentioned in the article, but it does report that the final food battle scene will be recorded in August, so he might appear in that scene.

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Takeru Kobayashi is not the only Japanese competitive eater visiting Southeast Asia this week. Macau.com has a blog entry about Gal Sone’s event at the MGM Grand Macau where she ate 11 Shark Fin Soups, 6 French courses and 10 desserts. Gal Sone will next travel to Thailand. A show about her trip will air on Japanese television on September 16.

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Results from the finals of Jakes burger eating contest held Friday from a Gabe Venit email:

1. Joe Menchetti 10 1/2 $1000 prize
2. Ian Hickman 10 1/4 $100 gift card prize
4. Gabe Venit, might have been DQed

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From a Nathan Biller comment:

1. Humble Bob Shoudt 34.5 or 34
2. Tim Janus 32
3. Sonya Thomas 29
4. Hall Hunt 28
5. Rich LeFevre
6. Erik Denmark
7. Nate Biller 13

update Top 4 amounts have been updated with information from SonyaTheBlackWidow.com

update #2 Tulsa World has a contest report.

update #3 Hall Hunt has a blog entry about the contest

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According to the online Wall of Fame, As the size of Denny’s Beer Barrel burger increases, the percentage of female finishers does as well:

2 pounds 3 female finishers (Coleen Kasanovich, Holly McCarty, Lori Weiss) / 295 total finishers (duplicates removed) = 1%

3 pounds 4 female finishers (Lori Weiss, Michelle Goldstein, Nichole Yankevich, Stacy Frantz) / 51 total finishers (duplicates removed) = 7.8%

6 pounds 2 female finishers (Lori Weiss & Kate Stelnick) / 2 total finishers = 100%

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According to the birthday in Eat This Book, today is Sonya Thomas’ 41st birthday.

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If you are sick of the summer heat, you might want to watch a video from last winter in which Tomoko Miyake went to live with a family in Hokkaido that owned a cabbage farm. Tomoko helped with the harvest by digging the cabbages out from the snow.

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Tara has a blog entry about the beet eating contest held in Scranton, PA last Saturday to promote the release of “The Office” DVD game. Actress/producer Mindy Kaling participated in the competition. The Ladys of 102 blog has a report about Mary’s belief that she is the rightful third place finisher in the contest.

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OnlineGamer.jp reports that a game called “Battle Eating Sushi Gal” will debut. Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s name is not mentioned in the article, so she probably does not endorse the game. The game will be free, but might be for cell phones only. No link is provided for online play.

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Erik Denmark has posted a review of the Major League Eating video game to his blog. He is satisfied with his character’s appearance in the game:

My character has a fun look. My hair is super spiked; the bandana is obviously a signature of mine that I am glad they captured well. I like that my character is recognizable as me, in that the features do somehow look like mine (so I have been told) but also, some features are exaggerated, such as my elongated chin in the pre-match screen. I would obviously like my character to have more muscle mass and more capacity but okay reality gets in the way again.

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Desiree, the only female entrant in the Singapore qualifiers, has a blog entry with videos about her contest experience. She wound up receiving a wild card slot in the finals this weekend.

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The website for the Buffalo Wing Festival has been set up with information about the eating contests that will take place. The wing eating contest will take place on August 30. The Buffalo Buffet Bowl contest will also return, but its date is not listed.

3update The buffet bowl date is August 31 and the time is 4pm (from US Male & Wild Bill)

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Here is the current top 10 in 2008 cash winnings based on information currently in the database. The database does not have the prize breakdown for the recent Boston Italian sausage or the Michigan Reuben contest after first place:

$15000 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
$12250 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
$8550 “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
$6000 Tim “Eater X” Janus
$5750 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
$5000 Takeru Kobayashi
$4500 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas
$1600 Ian “The Invader” Hickman
$1500 Russ “The Black Hole” Keeler
$1500 Erik “The Red” Denmark

The list does not include money from eating challenges. If it did, Dale Boone would be in 8th place with $1747.

All 2008 money winners

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Jill Stoler has a blog entry containing three videos about competing in the burger eating contest held during Sunday’s Bowie Baysox game. David Mitolo and Tim “Obi Wing Kenobi” Cain also have videos.

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The picnic style rankings have been updated after five contests this weekend. The new top 5:

1. Furious Pete Czerwinski, Canada (*Undefeated)
2. Tom “Goose” Gilbert MA
3. Gentleman Joe Menchetti CT
4. Ian “The Invader” Hickman VA
5. Elizabeth “Rubber-Gut” Canady OH

New entrants include Steven Dhoko (#20), Jon Taylor (#23), Justin Mih (#31), Brad Sciullo (#39), Zika “The Barbarian” Urosevic (#41) and Kara Walker (#44). The previous rankings are still available in the yahoo cache.

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The IFOCE contests page now lists the purse for Saturday’s pork barbecue sandwich eating contest at the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa at $10,000. The page also announces that registration is now closed, but slots appear to be available through Star 103 FM.

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• Video of the end of the Apple Ugly eating contest (the trophy was a mounted toilet seat)
• Ian Hickman beats Elizabeth Canady in overtime at Bowie burger contest
• Detailed review of MLE game by Platform Nation
• Skinnyboy eats 8/9 of Big Texan 72 ounce steak
• Gallery of 2008 Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier
• Picture of Samantha Brown at Italian sausage contest
• MissBusyLady describes her start in competitive eating fandom
• Juris Shibayama sends a letter to the editor about last week’s column (from Crawfish comment)
• Boston hot wing eating contest Thursday
• Donut eating contest in Pittsburgh Friday
• Full results for the Singapore qualifiers on MLE.asia
• Vietnamese sub eating contest in Ho Chi Minh City

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InChiCity’s calendar has the following entry for July 26:

Taste of Lincoln

You’ve probably seen the Major League Eaters gobbling down hot dogs and chicken wings on TV and wondered who in the world would ever challenge them. Well, Jimmy John’s, purveyor of all things freaky fast, is doing it. But, this is not just an eating competition. Jimmy John’s is betting that one team of their sandwich makers can make sandwiches faster than three World-Class Major League Eaters can eat them. Starting at 3:00pm on July 26th at Taste of Lincoln Avenue you can experience the Freaky Fast Sandwich Making and Eating Contest! Who will be freaky faster?

Pat Bertoletti said he would be one of the MLE team members on the Steve Dahl show.

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Badlands Booker has uploaded to his youtube page a clip from a segment the Canadian show Careers TV about his competitive eating career. Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti also appear.

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• Article about food waste at the MLE Singapore contest
• Bryan Miller wins Cape Coral, FL wing eating contest
• Pictures from the Myrtle Beach qualifier
• Astoria, NY burger contest Sunday, $100 first prize
• Rhode Island competitive eating training partner sought
• Kobayashi vs. bear video reaches 1 million views

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Peter Smith, who encountered Dale Boone on a trip to India, has returned to Seattle and reports on his myspace page that he is now the West Coast representative for Boone’s World League of Competitive Eating.

In other WLOCE news, Keatin Shelton, runner-up to Boone in the Apple Ugly eating contest, is now listed in the WLOCE rankings.

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