DENNY'S PRELIMINARY RESULTS

I'm helping a friend move today and will back to post more pictures and details, but in the interest of getting the news out there, here's a preliminary report about the UEPa's trip to Denny's.

The burger was amazing (123 pounds, easily topping the 105-pound record). For the two pounder contest, Ian "The Invader" Hickman won handily and SET A NEW RECORD for the fastest time to complete the two-pounder (5lb 9oz total) with a time of 14 minutes 45 seconds (previous record 15 minutes). Someone said Bob Shoudt held the 15 minute record, but I wasn't aware that he ever made it up to Denny's and that remains unconfirmed.

The German TV crew asked Mark "The Human Vacuum" Lyle to eat his two-pounder separately, with a fixed camera which they planned to use to create a sped up montage of him eating. He dug in immediately after our contest ended giving us an opportunity to cheer him on. His burger came out 15 ounces lighter than Hickman's (having allergies, he ordered his without tomatoes but with extra onions to compensate, but it was still light). Extra onions or not, he displayed awesome technique and devoured it in 13 minutes 30 seconds.

A new record? Who knows.

Wing Tut crunched the numbers and found that Hickman ate 6.03 ounces per minute (or 9.83 seconds per ounce) and Mark ate 5.48 ounces per minute (10.95 seconds per ounce). Using those rates, had Mark's burger been equal in weight to Hickman's, he would have finished with a time of 16 minutes, 14 seconds. I hate reducing it to a numbers games, which is why I think both records should stand -- one as the "with everything" record, and one as the "one item held" record.

Check back later today for pictures and more results, including a standout performance by the newest member of the UEPa.

UPDATE: I forgot to subtract the weight of the plate in my calculations. The real numbers should be:

Ian Hickman - 76 oz./11.64 seconds per ounce/5.15 ounces per minute
Mark Lyle - 61 oz./13.28 seconds per ounce/4.52 ounces per minute