Location: Toronto, Canada
Another contest and another victory for the world's #2-ranked eater Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti. The Chicago native is putting together a case for being the best in the world and he showed his versatility north of the border on September 24th after eating 9.75 lbs of poutine at the 2nd Annual Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship.
Earning the event's inaugural title last year, Bertoletti couldn't sit back and watch someone else steak the retro championship trophy, complete with atari and nintendo artifacts mounted throughout.
The Notorious B.O.B. Bob Shoudt appeared to challenge early in the 10-minute contest before eventually giving way for the champ to have his day.
Canadian world record holder Ben Do had another heroic effort amongst the hometown crowd, eating 6 lbs and taking third place over many MLE pros.
Prior to the World Championship a 6-minute Amateur Championship was held which saw rocket scientist-to-be Aabid Patel eat 2.5 lbs to win the crown.
Smoke's delighted the crowd by offering free poutine during the event from it's mobile truck that was set-up outside the Rogers Centre.
FULL RESULTS 1-Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, 9.75 lbs in 10 mins ($1,500) 2-Bob "Notorious B.O.B" Shoudt, 7 lbs ($800) 3-Ben Do, 4.75 lbs ($600) 4-Meredith Boxberger, 4.1 lbs ($500) T5-"Buffalo" Jim Reeves, 4 lbs ($300) T5-Mat Dwyer, 4 lbs ($300) 7-"Wild" Bill Myers, 2.6 lbs ($150) 8-Andrew "The Bear" Kogutkiewicz, 2.25 lbs ($150)
Smoke's Poutinerie Amateur Championship 1-Aabid Patel, 2.5 lbs in 6 mins 2-Josh Askett, 2.3 lbs 3-Joel Merritt, 2.25 lbs
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