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SAM BARCLAY: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
hello and welcome.
This is the Smoke's Poutinerie third annual World Poutine
Eating Championships.
There is no bigger stage in all of world sports.
No one denies this.
My name is Sam Barclay.
I'm from Major League Eating.
We are the world body that governs and sanctions all
stomach centric sports.
And coming up in a matter of moments, on that very stage,
is the Smoke's Poutinerie third annual World Poutine
Eating Championships.
There is no bigger stage in all of world sports.
TIM JANUS: My name is Tim Janus.
They call me Eater X. I'm the number three ranked
competitive eater on the planet, and I'm here for the
Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship.
I didn't do a lot for this contest, mainly because we
don't have a Smoke's Poutinerie in New York City.
If you're going to practice, which we don't do very much
anyways, it really helps to have the exact food you're
going to be eating in the contest.
I think we're going to be duking it out.
It's a capacity contest, but speed is the name of the game.
It's a very quick food, so at the end it's going to come
down to who has more room left.
And we're all pretty big eaters in that sense.
JIM REEVES: Hi.
My name is Jim Reeves from Buffalo, New York.
They just call me Buffalo Jim Reeves.
I love this contest.
I've done it all three years.
This will be my third year doing it.
I'm currently ranked number 18 in the world.
I'm the current world record holder over watermelon.
I've eaten 13.22 pounds of watermelon in 15 minutes.
I'm pork rind eating champion of the world, 50 hamburgers in
8 minutes and 100 whole jalapenos in 8 minutes.
The first National Buffalo Wing Festival, 10 years ago,
my brother-in-law was in from out of town, he
dared me to do it.
I did it.
I did pretty well.
Poutine is one of the most difficult foods to eat,
absolutely.
People don't think so, because everybody loves french fries,
but the reality of it is they're really pasty.
And when you try eating them fast, all that dryness and all
that pastiness starts to gum up your mouth, just like
peanut butter does.
So it's actually more difficult than eating hot dogs
or hamburgers.
BOB SHOUDT: My name's Bob Shoudt, Notorious BOB.
Most people go for the gold stuff.
This is real pine, though, I went for pine.
I've always been eating in eating contests all my life.
I'm 45 years old.
Once you start getting money to eat, you keep eating and
keep getting money.
This is a cool trophy here.
So you want to get your picture
taken with that trophy.
It kicks ***.
You've seen the trophy, you know it kicks ***.
LARELL MARIE MELE: My name is Larell Marie
The Real Deal Mele.
I'm ranked number 30 in the world of MLE.
I think now that women are more aware of competitive
eating it's becoming a lot more equal field.
It's not just the men anymore.
The women are having equal opportunity and awareness.
So it's not become disgusting anymore.
It's something cool to be doing.
And especially if you can beat some of the
guys, it's even better.
MICAH COLLINS: They call me Wing Kong, or the Candyman.
I am from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I'm 13th in the world right now.
It started as a bad joke and a lot of beer.
I actually hold the world baked bean record--
5 pounds, 4 ounces in 58 seconds.
This morning I did about nine pounds of cabbage with about a
gallon of water, so that flushed everything through and
I feel great.
I'm ready to go.
I'm stretched out and ready.
SAM BARCLAY: Let the contest begin.
TIM JANUS: I tied for second today.
I'm happy.
I feel like I could eat more.
It's great poutine.
I was a little conservative with the water, so I have a
lot of space left.
But I'm happy with the results.
It was a good contest.
BOB SHOUDT: Second place.
I'm proud of that.
It's a good contest.
I really wanted to be next to that trophy at the end, but
it's something to shoot for next year year.
I have to stay hungry and focused and come
back strong next year.
JOEY CHESTNUT: I'm Joey Chestnut, world champion
competitive eater, ranked number one in the world.
Today I was able to come out champion of the poutine eating
championships and dominate the field and take home the
poutine eating title to California.
Today I was just eating with my left hand.
If I had to drink something I would drink with my right.
But I'm left handed, so I was doing all my real eating work
with my left hand.
And I just try to get into a rhythm.
You get into a rhythm, breathe, swallow, do the same
thing over and over again.
I had somebody behind me, yelling at me, coaching me,
yelling at me every time I slowed down,
which always helps.
Besides some awesome trophies, I'm walking away with two
grand cash.
Even if there was no cash involved, I'd love to come
here and win it again.