Dale Boone and Tim Janus put on the show of all shows battling to the end in a 14 minute pasta contest to determine who goes to the final eight in the U.S open of competitive eating. Boone fresh off his wipeout of Donavan Busta , came charging in with positive momentum while the mild mannered Tim Janus waited patiently to have his day against the bully big mouth. Midway into the contest , Boone tried to intimidate Janus but Janus just stared him down and even did a ghost dance while Boone was still eating pasta. Without a doubt this seemed to have rattled Boone for a moment as Janus knew he was winning towards the end as Boone refused to give up and gave Eater X a run for his money. Ed Jarvis tried to break his 2003 pasta record going against Levi Oliver in the second rd. Although fans were hoping for a Goldstein Jarvis 2003 pasta rematch it wasnt to be as Levi proved not much of a challenge for the Brooklyn Pasta King. At times Levi looked lost eating the pasta, almost as if he just saw a ghost. Either that or they just dont eat pasta up in the hills. Jarvis even topped off his victory with a Ralph Kramden tango dance with seconds remaining. Eric Booker and his old 1999 Oceanside hot dog nemesis, Leon Feingold went head to head in pasta with Badlands coming out the victor. Even though Badlands wore the Beautiful Brian good luck hat (the director pictured in third pic from top with black hat) insisted Booker remove the hat while competing and during the post interview . Booker decided to wear the hat for the interview which didnt air and eventually ended up in the cutting room .Quite obvious that Beautiful Brian was blackballed from eating as well as airtime on ESPN. In other pasta contests, Jed Donahue played you go first with Takero Kobayashi which proved to be rather fatal as Kobe crushed him into a Jalapeno pepper by consuming an all time record of 13 lbs of pasta in 14 minutes. Kobe appeared to be consuming the pasta like he was drinking water. Ironic that 4 different pasta records were made and broken in just one hour as Ron Koch beat Carlene Lefevre with 8lbs only to be broken by husband Rich over Big Brian Subich with 9lbs which was then broken by Sonya Thomas's 10lbs over Oleg Zhornitsky which led to Kobe's 13 lbs over Donahue. Quite amazing indeed. Sam Vise continued to impress beating the heavy favorite Joey Chestnut and then defeated Jammin Joe Larue in an equally impressive victory in Pasta. Now its on to rd 3 Potato skins