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| 2009 Apr 18 8 min IFOCE units: dozen oysters |
Acme World Oyster-Eating Championship
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Acme Oyster House acmeoyster.com New Orleans, LA http://ifoce.com/contests.php?action=detail&eventID=280 http://www.neworleans.com/new-gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=73 http://eatfeats.com/2009-acme-oyster-results-thread.html registration opens March 3 |
| 1st | 29 | $1,000.00 | Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas | Alexandria, VA | first finish ahead of Bertoletti since 2006; actual count of oysters: 357 |
| 2nd | 26 | $750.00 | Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti | Chicago, IL | actual count of oysters: 312 |
| 3rd | 22 | $500.00 | Tim "Eater X" Janus | New York City, NY | actual count of oysters: 266 |
| 4th | 19 | "The Lovely" Juliet Lee | Germantown, MD | actual count of oysters: 228 | |
| 5th | 18 | Crazy Legs Conti | New York City, NY | actual count of oysters: 216 | |
| 6th | 17 | "Nasty" Nathan Biller | Keller, TX | actual count of oysters: 212 | |
| 7th | 15 | Tim "Gravy" Brown | Chicago, IL | actual count of oysters: 188 | |
| 8th | 13 | Kevin Ross | Temecula, CA | actual count of oysters: 156 | |
| 9th | 11 | Hall "Hoover" Hunt | Jacksonville Beach, FL | actual count of oysters: 141 | |
| 10th | 10 | Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas | Cleveland, OH | actual count of oysters: 123 | |
| 11th | 8 | Jason "The Erbivore" Erb | Vancouver, WA | actual count of oysters: 98 | |
| 12th | 7 | William "Wild Bill" Myers | Breinigsville, PA | actual count of oysters: 86 | |
| 13th | 3 | Nick Aparicio | actual count of oysters: 36 |