May 24, 2013
  • Today: Major League Eating at Rock Center

    Photo credit: Urbanite

    If you really like watermelon - or if you really like the Wii, today's your lucky day.

    From noon to 3 p.m. today, there's a watermelon eating contest to boost Nintendo's new speed-eating video game for the Wii: Major League Eating.

    The game includes moves like the cram and the toss, and even burp-off challenges.

    We can only hope/assume these virtual moves will be re-enacted at today's watermelon showdown -- with perhaps the apropos addition of distance seed-spitting.

    The gluttonous contest goes down at 10 Rockefeller Center at the Nintendo World Store. No word yet on whether hot dog eating champs Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi will be present.

    Just for fun: See Kobayashi face off with a bear:

    -- Lauren Johnston

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