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Surprised there is no thread on this.

Kobayashi vs. Chestnut.

12 PM EST.

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TV?

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ESPN.

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This rules. The announcer is awesome.

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Kobayashi really looks like he's hurting. Chestnut focused. This is going to be a blowout.

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Isn't Kobayashi "injured"?

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its sick how high the scores in this are now, vs pre-Kobayashi

Kobayashi looks to be in good enough shape to make this a contest

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Here comes Kobayashi!!!!!!!!

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"The greatest moment in the history of American sports"

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"This would be the greatest moment in the history of American sports..."

WTF?

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I LOLd

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wut happened

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"This would be the greatest moment in the history of American sports..."

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Kobayashi spit out his food during the last 2 seconds. They finished tied, but they might take awaay Kobayashis last hot dogs.

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GUYZ I HAVE NO TEEVEE WUT HAPPENED

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This is awesome.

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wowowow that was exciting! photo finish! I think Chestnut has it by 1 dog, 63 -62. but they both broke the previous wr. amazing.

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Kobayashi spit out his food during the last 2 seconds. They finished tied, but they might take awaay Kobayashis last hot dogs.

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It was a reversal not a spit up, these cats are high comedy.

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USA USA USA USA USA USA

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USA USA USA USA USA USA

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Screw Rocky Balboa!! GO JOEY CHESTNUT!!!

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I have never been more proud to be an American than I am right now. I will never forget where I was this day.

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Booooooooooo.

How can one not root for Kobayashi?

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Booooooooooo.

How can one not root for Kobayashi?

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Why do you hate freedom?

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Kobayashi's performance was probably the most courageous thing since Willis Reed in the 1970 NBA Finals.

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are you leveling or was this really that good? is there going to be a replay somewhere?

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long live kobayashi
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eu5WjAMg8vA
video from bbv

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Cool, Chestnut brings home the title.

Wasn't the record last year around 58-59 and now it's 66? Did these guys have stomach expansion surgery?

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Did these guys have stomach expansion surgery?

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This would be scandalous. And amazing.

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Screw Rocky Balboa!! GO JOEY CHESTNUT!!!

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http://enrico.blogs.com/photos/uncat...tkobayashi.jpg

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Kobayashi's performance was probably the most courageous thing since Willis Reed in the 1970 NBA Finals.

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are you leveling or was this really that good? is there going to be a replay somewhere?

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Obvious leveling, the Willis Reed performance is the most overrated in sports history.

Willis Reed scoring 4 points (all in the first quarter) don't come close to Kobayashi.

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GG Kobayashi

6 straight hot dog eating championships is pretty damn amazing

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i got kobayashi's autograph. <3 he's so my hero

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4...ayashi4pu8.jpg http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7...tographob8.jpg

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All I know is, I'd hate to be a toilet after one of those hotdog eating contests.

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I think they gave them smaller hot dogs and buns. Otherwise the sudden massive jumps make no sense.

Fixed!

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OMG STEROIDS

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i got kobayashi's autograph. <3 he's so my hero

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4...ayashi4pu8.jpg http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7...tographob8.jpg

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Are those slanty eyes on his autograph?

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Video for the last part of the contest http://www.yahoo.com/s/619493

F'ING UGLY GIRLS WHO DONT KNOW HOW TO FLIP A GOD DAMN COUNTER puts me on tilt

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"This would be the greatest moment in the history of American sports..."

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Yeah wtf indeed. Do people consider competitive gluttony a sport? It's the one "sport" where you don't have to be in good shape to win.

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Yeah wtf indeed. Do people consider competitive gluttony a sport? It's the one "sport" where you don't have to be in good shape to win.

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What a completely ignorant statement. Elite competitive eaters are incredible athletes and are in great shape. You would be lucky if you had one tenth of the heart and determination that is needed to make it on the competitive eating circuit. Look at Kobayashi, he is 5'6" 155 lbs. of pure muscle with at most 6% bodyfat. I guarantee that he is better shape than you and a lot of baseball players who are heralded as incredible athletes. The bottom line is that packing away as much food as these guys do is an amazing athletic achievement. There is nothing in the definition of sport that specifically disqualifies eating. If anything, competitive eating is more of a sport than swinging a metal club at a stationary ball.