SpeedingUptoStop said:But wait - in Manhattan, Kobayashi has eaten 69 hot dogs in ten minutes, tying the world record.
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/201...ontest-at-coney-island-live-blog/?mod=WSJBlog
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SpeedingUptoStop said:But wait - in Manhattan, Kobayashi has eaten 69 hot dogs in ten minutes, tying the world record.
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/201...ontest-at-coney-island-live-blog/?mod=WSJBlog
elrechazao said:Why? they're on video eating....do you think he's stuffing them in his pockets?
True. There was a short clip prior to the event of a competitive eater showing eating techniques.PotatoeMasher said:No, but it's not like we can objectively see each one and when it is counted. The judging is subjective and prone to human error. It'd be super easy to add in one extra every two minutes or not count one from another guy in that same time, even if unintentional.
woolley said:Why doesn't it count because Kobi isn't there? Chestnut already beat him like 2-3 times already, it's nobodies fault but Kobi's that he isn't there.
Can't tell if this is a joke post or not, but if not...really? This is a televised event with thousands of people spectating, being recorded on video, being judged, and it's the marquee event of the major league eating circuit. Even if they wanted to cheat it's impossible.goober said:True. There was a short clip prior to the event of a competitive eater showing eating techniques.
One of the techniques was throwing hot dogs over your shoulder, making them 'disappear.' therefore two hot dogs added to your total.
Serious post. They're replaying the event on espn2 so you might be able to catch it!elrechazao said:Can't tell if this is a joke post or not, but if not...really? This is a televised event with thousands of people spectating, being recorded on video, being judged, and it's the marquee event of the major league eating circuit. Even if they wanted to cheat it's impossible.
It's not like they could get away with that during the actual contestgoober said:Serious post. They're replaying the event on espn2 so you might be able to catch it!
Edit: they just showed it again its called "Juliet"ing
Bradlums said:It's not like they could get away with that during the actual contest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyLc3O_oioQbutzopower said:For those who have done some of these competitions, what's it like to uh... expel the contents later?
Why are you sure that's what it was?CriginsMcJuggs said:Im pretty sure the mohawk guy had pepto bismal in his water
CriginsMcJuggs said:Well there was a bottle in front of him and the color looked like pepto bismal
This cracks me up. Eating is pretty cutthroat game.JJDinomite said:It was actually fruit punch, from my understanding. A very intimidating tactic; it looked like blood was dripping from his mouth.
*sunglasses on* Justice is served.WSJ Blog said:But wait - in Manhattan, Kobayashi has eaten 69 hot dogs in ten minutes, tying the world record. Strike that - BREAKING the world record.
It's not that it doesn't count, it's that it's lame and not fun when the two best competitors are not there to face off each other. I wouldn't say that it's nobody's fault but his, with how they treated the guy.woolley said:Why doesn't it count because Kobi isn't there? Chestnut already beat him like 2-3 times already, it's nobodies fault but Kobi's that he isn't there.
New York (CNN) -- Competitive eater Joey "Jaws" Chestnut proved himself the official top dog of the hot dog-eating world when he ate 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Monday, but his archnemesis Takeru Kobayashi crushed Chestnut's world record at an off-site event where he pounded down 69 hot dogs and buns.
For the fifth year in a row, Chestnut beat the 17-man field at the 96th annual Major League Eating event at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
Kobayashi, who has been banned from the contest due to a contract dispute with Major League Eating, competed from afar: on the roof of a Manhattan bar, in unison with Chestnut and his fellow competitors.
Kobayashi polished off 69 hot dogs and buns to the tune of a crowd chanting "Kobi! Kobi!" and the official Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest playing on a television beside him. He beat Chestnut's 2009 world record of 68 hot dogs and buns.
But Chestnut brushed off the feat since Kobayashi was miles away from the cheering crowds in Brooklyn.
"It wasn't a competition," he said.
"It was no different than what I do at practice on my own and I'm able to break a record at my house," Chestnut added.
Event organizers agree, arguing that the record is not official if it's not broken at Coney Island.
"I don't know if it was a magic show or an eating contest," said Richard Shea, president of Major League Eating. "Not having been there, it seems like a bit of a farce. The hot dog eating contest is on Coney Island."
Major League Eating will not recognize Kobayashi's 69 hot dogs as a new world record, Shea said.
Kobayashi, who gained 18 pounds during the contest, said his makeshift competition was to remind the world "that I'm still good, that I'm still in the contest," he said through an interpreter.
"During practice, I had already broken the record, so I had enough confidence that I could beat that," he added.
Kobayashi took home six consecutive Nathan's contest titles from 2001 to 2006. Last year, he was arrested after rushing the stage at the Coney Island event.
But Chestnut remains the official champion, and he will share his official title with Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, who devoured 40 hot dogs and buns to beat eight other eaters in the first women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Thomas missed her own personal record by just one hot dog.
Event organizers split the contest into female and male competitions this year to give the ever-expanding female field of competitors a chance at the big prize.
Both Chestnut and Thomas were awarded $10,000. Chestnut took home the contest's signature Mustard belt -- a yellow championship belt -- while Thomas was the first recipient of a pink belt, meant to promote event sponsor Pepto Bismol.
lol SURE joey."It was no different than what I do at practice on my own and I'm able to break a record at my house," Chestnut added.
Event organizers agree, arguing that the record is not official if it's not broken at Coney Island.
Kobayashi, who gained 18 pounds during the contest
ajim said:lol SURE joey.
It sucks that Kobayashi wasn't at the event and the organizers are idiots for not doing everything they could to get him there so Chestnut could have some actual competition. But it's true athletes can break records away from the pressure of competition, and it doesn't really count unless your under the stress of being at the event with all the judging, rules, and protocol that goes along with that.benzy said:Lulz.
Clydefrog said:of course GAF is Kobi-biased.
jett said:GO KOBI
Eat shit and die Nathan's.