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• Superstan said July 04, 2008

  Unless I missed it somewhere, "All you need to know...." does not tell you what time the contest is held. It seems this is pretty important. I'd like to watch it on TV, so could you kindly let us know this important fact? Thanks for a great article! Superstan

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  • frillnygmail replied July 04, 2008

    It's on ESPN right now!!!!
  • pressnon replied July 04, 2008

    USA Wins 2008 Event. 5 Hot Dog eat off and Joey wins over the Tsunami again.
• pkbnyc said July 04, 2008

  Coney Island is not, in fact, an Island, it is part of Brooklyn, which is of course, attached to Queens and Long Island.

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  • jvsports replied July 08, 2008

    touche. I didn't think to check if Coney island was like Rhode Island. Thanks for the heads up.
    
    I think I was trying to make a point about the cruelty of humanity and the fact that in the end we are all just tiny islands floating around in space living useless, meaningless lives that are completely unconnected from history and our peers.
    
    OR
    
    I'm an idiot blogger.
• KatesIRATE said July 04, 2008

  No kidding, Superstan. I've been looking online for 30 minutes just trying to find the TIME it's on. My stupid paper doesn't have it listed. How are we supposed to watch it/place our bets??? UGH.

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• EmmyDoe said July 04, 2008

  I suppose you think Manhattan isn't really an island,too.

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• KatesIRATE said July 04, 2008

  Guys... Nathan's website is finally up (it's been crashed for over an hour). The contest is at Noon on ESPN. I figured it'd be later. Have a great day.

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• YouGaming said July 04, 2008

  "Official" lines from Faux Betting: :-)
  
  Propositions
  Over/Under - 68
  Number of Contestants who Vomit During Event - 2
  
  Event Winner
  USA - 150
  NonUSA + 130
  

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• kobayy said July 04, 2008

  not only was the 2007 hot dog contest RIGGED, 2008 justifies it. in 07 chestnut magically pulled 3 dogs ahead, and on top of that they already added hot dogs to his count prior to that. if they count if correctly and not cheated, kobayashi is the winner. in 08 around the 45+ mark there close, but after 50 kobayashi pulls away with about a three hot dog lead. theres two counters one on the screen and one on stage. both counters were different throughout the entire contest. towards the end you can see the ref coutners telling the counter on stage to flip the numbers for kobayashi, but they dont. so he is basically stuck at around 53 even after he is still eating. even in the tiebreaker, you can clearly see that chestnut mishandles a hot dog and it falls to the floor, and even the announcer is like pointing to the dog on the floor. towards the end the announcers even say kobayashi is in the lead with 1 hot dog to go. a slip second later, there like its over chestnut is the winner. i was like wtf. something is wrong with this contest for real. it is completely rigged and kobayashi was cheated. if i were him i would be pissed as fuk. he knos hes being cheated he should say somethin. and wtf is that moving the contest to 10 minutes, there like well we checked the rule book back in the day, and its supposed to be a 10 minute contest. THAT SHIET IS WRITTEN IN PENCIL FOR GODSAKE!

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• kobayy said July 04, 2008

  *split

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• oflarity said July 04, 2008

  oh snap, cheap shot at synchronized swimming

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• asldaw said July 05, 2008

  koby was cheated

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• rocquelle said July 07, 2008

  I guess nobody saw Kobay have a reversal of fortune last year and it wasn't called. Joey is the champ so get used to it.

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