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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.
Pegasus News reports that the IFOCE tamale contest will return to the Lewisville, Texas Western Day festival on September 27, the same weekend as the Krystal Square Off finals. The first prize will be $1,500.
Results from this evening’s meatball eating contest sponsored by Bartolini’s from a bodybuilding.com forum thread
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 43 meatballs, $3000 prize
2) Tom “Goose” Gilbert 38 meatballs, $1000
3) Joe Menchetti 35 meatballs, $500
update
The Southtown Star has a report on the contest
update #2
Full results have been posted on Bartolini’s website
A video of a meatball contest on the local CBS morning news show is available (from Furious Pete comment)
Furious Pete also won the Reuben sandwich eating contest (and Ian Hickman won the Italian sausage contest)
update #3 The Battle Creek Enquirer has a contest report about the Reuben contest
Erik Denmark has posted a blog entry about Sunday’s rib eating contest at Chinook Winds casino on the Oregon coast which contains a picture of the official score sheet and a gallery. There is also a link to a a contest report by The News Guard.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article about Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, Larry McNeil and “Super” Paul Barlow’s practice session for Krystal Square Off V in which they try to eat 15 Krystal burgers as fast as possible. Qualifier dates for this years Square Off have yet to be announced.
The men try to avoid “reversals” because they don’t want their bodies to regularly respond that way when they compete. But sometimes it can’t be helped.
“If you don’t puke every now and then, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough,” Yarbrough said. “That’s just a fact of life.”
Jynx productions has uploaded a video to youtube about Pat Bertoletti’s victory in the 2007 Waffle House waffle eating contest at the Texas State Fair. Bertoletti wears a Steakbellie t-shirt during his training session at a Waffle House the day before the contest.
The database of challenge finishers on Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s website has been set up after being empty for over a year. There are still two listed finishers for the 6 pound burger.
The comments for the Baltimore Sun’s blog entry about the Bowie burrito contest has a link to another baseball themed eating contest. 999AllStar.com has been set up as the home of the 9 hot dogs & 9 beers in 9 innings challenge. Competitors can register on the website and an all star list has been set up.
Gal Sone’s most recent blog entry reports that her guest for today’s Wednesday morning contest was Keiko Masuda, one of the members of the duo Pink Lady. While Pink Lady had 9 consecutive #1 singles on the Japanese charts from 1976 to 1978, they are best known in the United States for their variety show on NBC in 1980, which is considered one of the least successful series in American television history.
Series DVD, youtube video of “UFO”
WiiWare World has the first detailed post-release review of the Major League Eating video game which concludes:
Many people no doubt will get a kick out of MLE’s light-hearted and vaguely adolescent approach to competitive gameplay. It offers a unique blend of concepts wrapped around a somewhat distasteful premise and vulgar humour. But, most importantly, the core design works. It is surprisingly fun challenging your friends to virtual eating contests and the additional strategy offered by the power-ups keeps things interesting when they aren’t driving you crazy. The ability to turn off specific power-ups in order to recreate a standard eating contest would have been a nice option to have, but this was not to be. As it stands, the developers decided it was best to leave everything on the plate and invite gamers to accept a meal with perhaps one too many flavours.
6/10
Hall Hunt has compiled the votes for his new poll taken after the Nathan’s finals. The new top 5:
1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (10) (292) [1]
2. Takeru Kobayashi (1) (279) [4]
3. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (1) (257) [2]
4. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (238) [5]
5. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (233) [7]
OregonLive has an article about competitive eating with quotes from Joey Chestnut and Carlene LeFevre. The quoted doctors are more positive about competitive eating than medical experts often are:
Patterson’s a fan of competitive eating. “I find those things fascinating to watch, actually,” she says. And gurgitators — competitive eaters’ chosen moniker — may have a healthier relationship with food than many jockeys, gymnasts and wrestlers, who can become anorexic or bulimic trying to keep their weight down.
Eating for contests is not a disorder, or “in any way contributory to any eating disorders,” says Dr. James Hancey, a psychiatrist at Oregon Health & Science University — though “to my mind, it’s the height of stupidity.”
OregonLive also has a video interview with Joey Chestnut.
Will Millender reports in his blog that he intends to audition for “The Biggest Loser” weight loss reality show. The next series will feature teams, so Will is looking for another competitive eater to pair with to record an application video.
The first episode of “Hurl” will be televised on the G4 cable channel tonight at 9pm eastern. The foods in the debut will be macaroni & cheese and pumpkin pie and the activity will be human bowling. The episode will be rerun several times over the next two weeks.
“Hurl” leads off Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 22 most appalling shows in television history.
Other review and coverage:
The new poll asks if you think whether the judges should have declared Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi the winner of the Nathan’s finals and whether the contest should have gone into overtime. If you think that Kobayashi and/or Chestnut should have been disqualified, that option is also available.
The top 2 finishers in yesterday’s beef patty eating contest at Meritone Family Festival in Connecticut can both be found in the bodybuilding.com forums. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski took first place by finishing 14 beef patties in 3 minutes and 14 seconds (video and pictures) and John Taylor, runner-up in the Nathan’s Hartford qualifier, was the only other competitor to finish his 14 patties in the 8 minute limit. Kara Walker won the amateur contest in her first competition.
I will place reviews and other information about the Wii Major League Eating game in this post as they become available. The release time is scheduled at noon eastern.
Please place your gamer tags in the comments if you are interested in playing over the internet.
update Serious Eats has challenged other food blogs to online play.
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